The Scrips — Archive

The Scrips standing in a barren landscape near a damaged futuristic vehicle and building

Public engagements East Texas

On the calendar

Upcoming

The next places to hear or find The Scrips. Confirmed details are filed here; older dates move into the band history.

Oct 10 2026

Festival set

Edom Art Festival

3:15 4:45 PM

Edom Art Festival Grounds · 8287 FM 279, Edom, Texas

Festival details

Oct 10 2026

Outdoor set

The Forge — Outdoor Stage

5:45 7:15 PM

The Forge Bar & Grill · 1589 FM 279, Ben Wheeler, Texas

Venue updates

Music

The songbook

Songs to read, play, and follow through the archive, with lyrics, chords, recordings, and set-list traces.

History

Band history

Shows, recordings, posters, photographs, and the ephemera left behind by an East Texas string band.

Field Notes

Everything else

Stories, observations, social fragments, and other trails worth following deeper into the archive.

Release register

01 / 05

Live single · 2019

Time

This 2019 single preserves an original song from a live KSIJ performance. Rather than polishing away the setting, the release keeps the radio-session character intact: a compact document of the repertoire as it sounded in the room and in that particular moment.

Spotify Apple Music Song notes

Time live from KSIJ single cover art — REL-2019 · Time (Live from KSIJ)

Live single · 2019

Ships

A maritime folk tale of pursuit, storm, and Jonah-like wreckage, captured live and released in 2019. The catalog files it under its original title, “Ship and Anchor”: a storm-tossed story carried by fiddle, dark water, and a narrator already wrecked before he leaves.

Spotify Apple Music Song notes

Ships live single cover art — REL-2019 · Ships (Live)

Single · 2018

Marybelle

Written like an old-time fiddle tune, “Marybelle” tells a story that could be true but is not: she leaves town, her boyfriend goes to prison for a crime he did not commit, and years later they meet again at the county fair. Mixed and mastered at Yellow Dog Studios in Austin.

Spotify Apple Music Song notes

Marybelle single cover art — REL-2018 · Marybelle

Single · 2018

Rice Queen

A small-town song drawn from Brad’s childhood in Bay City, where the Matagorda County Rice Festival crowned a Rice Queen each year. The single turns pageant lights, hometown ritual, and the pull of leaving into a compact folk story. Mixed and mastered at Yellow Dog Studios in Austin.

Spotify Apple Music Watch video Song notes

Rice Queen single cover art — REL-2018 · Rice Queen

EP · 2011

Chapel Sessions

Recorded completely live in six quiet hours on a bright fall day in a small chapel in the woods near Flint. The room, rough edges, and stripped-down arrangements became the band’s first document; several of these songs remain in the set, changed by years of playing.