Austin 360
When guitarist Sophia Johnson and steel guitarist Rose Sinclair teamed up to lead the backing band for a tribute to legendary Texas songwriter Cindy Walker at the Ameripolitan Music Awards in February 2019, they didn’t expect to be forming their own band a short while later. But the formation of Ida Red turned out to be a natural outgrowth from that night.
The awards show performance “was a real success,” Sinclair recalled on a recent sunny Sunday afternoon at Sam’s Town Point, which has become Ida Red’s home base as a live act. “And I m not just saying that; everybody loved it. It was a highlight.”