Guitar / arrangements / vocals
Shooter Jennings & the .357s
Core-band years, from the outlaw-country foundation through the early records.
2005–07Transmission 01 / California → Nashville, Tennessee
Leroy
Powell
Singer. Songwriter. Guitarist. Producer. The cosmic cowboy who kept the country stories, turned the guitar toward the stars, and never asked either one to behave.
OUTNOW
New album / 2026
Shoot
the Moon
The rock record you never asked for.
Nine songs. Forty-three minutes. Leroy Powell at full voltage—guitars up, wheels down, and no interest in taking the straight road home.
09 / 30 / 20269 songs43 minutes
Official liner notes / 09 tracksEvery player. Every song. →- 01Shoot the Moon
- 02Contact High
- 03Pickin'
- 04Good Times
- 05Long Way Home
- 06No More Mind Left to Lose
- 07Good Time Man
- 08It's About Time
- 09Reckless
Back-to-back release / 2026
The
Vault
New record. Old songs. Every one with a story.
The other half of Leroy’s 2026 one-two punch: a record of songs pulled out of the archive and put back in the room where they can breathe again.
I Put It All On BlackRiver in the RainTellurideGeronimo
THEOTHER
SIDE
Two records. One year. No leftovers.
2026 / archive opened
The Messengers / 2015
The Overlords
of the Cosmic Revelation
The cosmic big bang.
The record where the big strange universe locked into orbit: country bones, space-rock nerve, and a full-band invitation to leave the map behind.
COSMIC
REVELATION
/ 2015
REVELATION
/ 2015
Every era, every signal
All the tunes. Two ways in.
From the earliest Leroy Powell records through the Messengers, Stone Jack Ballers, Whiskey Wolves, The Vault, and Shoot the Moon, the full living catalog is waiting on the official artist channels.
Chapter 01 / The origin
The road starts before the stars.
Before Nashville, there was California—campfire guitar, folk and country songs, and the raw beginning of a player who would grow up listening to Waylon Jennings, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Gram Parsons, and whatever else opened the next door.
That is why the catalog doesn’t make sense as a single genre. It is supposed to feel like a night drive where the radio keeps finding stranger stations.
Roots / CaliforniaSignal / Nashville, TennesseeInstrument / Guitar first
Read the full story →2015 / The Messengers
King Kong
From The Overlords of the Cosmic Revelation—the cosmic big bang in the Leroy Powell catalog.
The road atlas
This is not a career timeline. It’s a flight path.
A player comes through the .357s. A bandleader builds the Messengers. A concept record finds the edge of the universe. The work keeps moving—into studios, other artists’ records, Whiskey Wolves of the West, and the next transmission.
Stop 01Campfire / California
Stop 02Nashville / .357s
Stop 03Messengers / myth-making
Stop 04Whiskey Wolves / sessions / now
LEROYPOWELL
The player
The story
starts with
the guitar.
Before the mythology, there is still the player in the room: a guitar in hand, a song on the way, and another signal waiting to go somewhere.
The player’s constellation
When you follow the lines, the names light up.
The credits are the proof: not a pile of famous names, but real instruments, real roles, and years in the work.
Producer / instruments
Whiskey Myers
Firewater—a record shaped by the room as well as the control board.
2011Mountain steel guitar
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain, selected tracks with another color on the horizon.
2013Guitar / harmonica / pedal steel
Travis Tritt
Set in Stone, a role that needs more than one instrument to explain.
2021The deep archive
Every record is a new planet.
Leroy’s covers aren’t decoration. They are the field notes: hand-drawn outlaw visions, Atlantis tridents, deathrides, and a cosmic revelation waiting to be opened.
Enter the complete archive →
2010 / The Messengers
Atlantis
A trident-deep broadcast where the world-building gets louder.
2011 / The Messengers
The Snowblind Moonshine Deathride
Engine noise, bones, and stories built to leave a little dirt on the needle.
2013 / The Messengers
Life and Death
Black-and-white smoke, outlaw hymns, and another Messengers chapter.
2015 / The Messengers
The Overlords of the Cosmic Revelation
The big door. Space-rock mythology with real country bones underneath it.
2016 / Leroy Powell
Super Country Hits & Super Rock Hits
23 songs. One hour forty minutes. Hard country, hard rock, and no genre fence.
Official store signal
The Vault
A new record of old songs, ready to listen to or take home.
Cosmic side trip / 2011
The Snowblind Moonshine Deathride
Watch the transmission
Turn it up. Let it get weird.
Songs and performances from the official archive—made for the part of the night where the map quits being useful.
Leroy Powell & the Messengers · 2009
I Ain’t Human
The Messengers’ video from the Atlantis era.
Leroy Powell & the Messengers · 2011
Lovin’ Machine
A live Messengers clip from the Snowblind era.
The Messengers
Cannonball
Big guitars, big momentum, and no reason to polish the edges.
The cosmic era
King Kong
A direct link into the rockier end of the archive.
✦ Archived signalSun
Oct 4Undiefest
release show
Oct 4Undiefest
release show
Road log
The radar logged a real signal.
Shoot the Moon landed at Undiefest / The Underdog on October 4. That release show is now part of the road log; the next coordinate is inbound.