About
Righteous Intonation : a 4-piece, San Antonio based, Country Western String Band band with a bluegrass skeleton, western guts, angelic voices, and fingers of white lightning. Their songs of westward expansion, riverboat tragedies, and gold-mining ghost towns are woven in a pure tapestry of warm harmonies, intertwining melody lines, and hearts that glitter more than Fort Knox gold. Righteous Intonation will make you sit up and say “Gawd damn who are those boys”?
Born out of friendships forged in the open mic scenes of the Texas Hill Country, the band got its start when Nick Spyker (songwriter, guitarist, lead vocals) and Tal Spackman (fiddle, vocals) began to play 1800’s parlor music gathered from the dusty boxes of San Antonio estate sales. Forming the original duo “Grandma’s Favorites”, they traveled the streets of San Antonio performing songs not even your grandparents remember. In time, they came to love and focus on the songs of Texas greats Marty Robbins and Townes Van Zandt.
