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No Justice is a Red Dirt
Red Dirt (music)
Red Dirt Music is a music genre that gets its name from the color of soil found in Oklahoma. Although Stillwater, Oklahoma is considered to be the epicenter of Red Dirt music, there's a Texas Red Dirt sound as well. Outlaws Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson are associated with that distinctive...

/Texas Country
Texas Country
Texas country music is a rapidly growing sub-genre of American country music. Texas country is known for fusing traditionalist root sounds with the outspoken, care-free views of outlaw country...

 band which is originally from Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...

. Stillwater has also produced musical talents such as Jimmy LaFave
Jimmy LaFave
Jimmy LaFave is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point, Texas, a small farming community located near Dallas. At a young age, LaFave's family moved to the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas where he attended junior high and high school. By the early teens LaFave was...

, Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

, The Great Divide
The Great Divide (band)
The Great Divide was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country music group, originally from Stillwater, Oklahoma. The Great Divide formed its own record label, publishing company and operating company, and began recording. The group's first two albums, Goin' For Broke and Break In The Storm, were...

, Cross Canadian Ragweed
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country/Country rock band. The name of the band came from the combination of three band members' names, Grady Cross , Cody Canada , and Randy Ragsdale . Jeremy Plato's name was not involved in the band naming...

, Stoney LaRue
Stoney Larue
Stoney LaRue is a Texas Country/Red Dirt artist. Born in Taft, Texas, LaRue was raised in Southeastern Oklahoma and began playing country music at a young age....

, Mike McClure
Mike McClure
Mike McClure is a singer/songwriter/producer from Tecumseh, Oklahoma. He is currently the frontman for the Mike McClure Band. McClure is a founding member of The Great Divide, and was a member until he and the band parted ways in 2002...

 and Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers are an American Texas Country/Red Dirt group featuring Harrah, Oklahoma native Jason Boland , Roger Ray , Brad Rice , and Grant Tracy...

. Having been a fixture in Stillwater since 2001, No Justice developed a large following across Oklahoma and Texas, averaging more than 200 shows a year, all leading to the band's signing in 2010 by Carved Records.

No Justice is singer/guitarist Steve Rice, guitarist Jerry Payne, bassist Joey Treviño, drummer Armando Lopez and lead guitarist Cody Patton. They have released two studio albums, Far From Everything, and their self-titled effort, No Justice. In September 2007, No Justice released their first live album, Live at Billy Bob's CD/DVD, joining a long list of artists in the Live at Billy Bob's
Billy Bob's
Billy Bob's Texas is a popular country & western nightclub in the Fort Worth Stockyards, Texas, United States. It promotes itself as "The World's Largest Honky Tonk" with 127,000 square feet . Billy Bob's opened April 1, 1981 to national attention with Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers as the...

 series.

By late 2009, the group had landed a new record deal with Carved Records, partnered with a veteran artist manager and made the decision to record their next project, called Second Avenue, in Nashville, TN. The No Justice sound had developed over the years into a balanced compound of roots, red dirt, country and blues. The project is the third studio album from No Justice with the third different band lineup. The album is entitled Second Avenue and was released on July 6, 2010 by Carved Records.

The new album, produced by Dexter Green (Collective Soul), is their first studio effort in several years. Rice wrote or co-writing eight of the tracks selected for the final album, often collaborating with Nashville songwriters like Clint Ingersoll, Derek Hoke and Danny Green. The album also features special guest appearances by Rebecca Lynn Howard and Johnny Cooper.

Albums

Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country US Heat
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...

Far from Everything
Far from Everything
Far From Everything is No Justice's first album. It was released in the spring of 2003.-Track listing:#"Twenty Four Days" - 2:58#"Only You" - 3:27#"The Toast" - 3:51#"House of Pain" - 2:40...

  • Release date: May 7, 2003
  • Label: BMI
No Justice
No Justice (album)
No Justice is No Justice's second album. It was released in March of 2006. The song "Way Down" was written and by Bobby Pinson recorded on his 2005 album, Man Like Me...

  • Release date: March 7, 2006
  • Label: Smith Music Group
  • Live at Billy Bob's Texas
    Live at Billy Bob's Texas (No Justice album)
    Live at Billy Bob's Texas is No Justice's third album. They are one of many bands to record a "Live at Billy Bob's Texas" album at the Fort Worth honky-tonk. It is the band's first live album. It was originally released in September 2007 as a limited edition CD/DVD combo. It was re-released in 2008...

  • Release date: April 29, 2008
  • Label: Smith Music Group
  • 2nd Avenue
    2nd Avenue (album)
    2nd Avenue is No Justice's third studio album and fourth overall. It was released on July 6, 2010 and features the third different band lineup.-Track listing:- Personnel :*Armando Lopez – drums*Johnny Cooper – backing vocals...

  • Release date: July 6, 2010
  • Label: Carved Records
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    "—" denotes releases that did not chart

    Music videos

    Year Video Director
    2010 "Just Get Going" Charlie Stout
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