A former fry cook, oil field operator, concrete surface decorator and kids’ baseball coach met up in a small town in West Texas and started playing country western music together (as one does in small town West Texas). But something didn’t feel right – so their roots in country began to cross-pollinate with the rock and grunge music they heard their parents playing at home.
Meanwhile, as they honed their identity as a band, their drummer, Fox, (the baseball coach) took the helm of their social media, exponentially growing their followers. But they quickly proved they weren’t just building a passive online community: their streams started to sharply increase, and their shows started selling out. Curious followers became fans of the music. Two years later, with 675,000 TikTok followers and more than 50 million streams, Dexter and the Moonrocks have become something none of them ever, in a million years, dreamed possible.
A former fry cook, oil field operator, concrete surface decorator and kids’ baseball coach met up in a small town in West Texas and started playing country western music together (as one does in small town West Texas). But something didn’t feel right – so their roots in country began to cross-pollinate with the rock and grunge music they heard their parents playing at home.
Meanwhile, as they honed their identity as a band, their drummer, Fox, (the baseball coach) took the helm of their social media, exponentially growing their followers. But they quickly proved they weren’t just building a passive online community: their streams started to sharply increase, and their shows started selling out. Curious followers became fans of the music. Two years later, with 675,000 TikTok followers and more than 50 million streams, Dexter and the Moonrocks have become something none of them ever, in a million years, dreamed possible.
