![]() The guys hammered out ideas that they had and then slowly started putting together a song. “We came up with a lot of the ideas with riffs. Taking a communal approach to writing songs, the band first began work on Right On in 2018, doing much of their writing and brainstorming in Salter’s garage. “We're excited about getting her out there,” Richardson says of Right On. It’s been a long time for the prolific, energetic band to sit on new material, but that passing time has only served to underscore just how special this music is. The band - Mary Beth Richardson (vocals), Corey Parsons (vocals, guitar), Randy Wade (drums), Jeffery Salter (guitar) and Stephen Pierce (vocals, banjo, bass) - wrote and recorded Right On with producer Jordan Lehning (Caitlin Rose, Joshua Hedley) in late 2019, wrapping up the project barely a month before the COVID-19 pandemic ground the music industry to a screeching halt. In a way, Right On is the final piece of one hell of an introductory trilogy, one that shows just how far the band has come since forming while signaling a dynamic, exciting future. Right On is the third studio album from Banditos, following 2017’s ambitious, kaleidoscopic Visionland, an album that signaled a greater well of potential from Banditos and their chameleonic, ever-evolving sound. But she gets at the core of what makes Banditos so special, the secret sauce that built a rabid following for the Nashville-based, Birmingham, AL-born quintet, who first burst on the scene with their acclaimed self-titled Bloodshot Records debut in 2015. ![]() She’s talking about the song “On My Way,” a standout track off the band’s genre-defying new album Right On, on Egghunt Records. That’s Mary Beth Richardson, lead vocalist of the beloved roots rock outfit Banditos. I think the undertone of most of the music we write is inclusivity. ![]() ![]() “Everything we write is from the point of view of the every person. ![]()
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