Southern Backtones was an American Southwestern rock band from Houston, Texas composed of Hank Schyma, Todd Sommer, and John Griffin.

Their unruly behavior across a number of Texas and Louisiana venues allegedly led to instances where they regained entry to bars on the promise of “that guy’s not in the band anymore.” The offending member was apparently almost always in attendance at the time.

The phase would continue until a conversation with Workman would later convince them that “that stuff only works when you’re famous.” The band would live to shake off their formerly rambunctious ways, but not before circulating word of an incident[5] that happened while headlining a show in New Orleans.

When the band returned to SugarHill Recording Studios, they were joined for the first time by Grammy winning Engineer Steve Christensen (who in addition to Workman would be involved with each successive release).

The results found “Forever” included in regular rotation on MTV2, the Canadian network Much Music, and was later tapped for use by the CNBC program American Made.

The increased attention from the Northeast and Midwest resulted in an extensive national touring schedule, as well as radio promotion focusing heavily on responsive areas.

Some percussion was recorded by Josh Applebee at his own Chateau de Rosewood, it featured a remix of ‘Dirty’ (originally from the self-titled album) by Sugarhill’s Chris Longwood.

Schyma and drummer Todd Sommer co-wrote the stringed arrangements, played live by Jo Bird of stringed-quartet Two Star Symphony.

[citation needed] Hank Schyma spends a portion of each year archiving tornadoes and other inclement weather footage by a series of trips across Central America.