By all accounts, Treaty Oak Revival is doing a lot of things right. Over the past five years, the Odessa, Texas-based “rock band with a country accent” has issued two self-released, Gold-certified albums (2021’s No Vacancy and 2023’s Have a Nice Day), a host of Gold and Platinum singles, racked up over 1.4 billion global streams, and have played both the Grand Ole Opry and Lollapalooza.
Last October, the band made its first trip outside the United States on their four-stop “Treaty Oak Revival Takes Australia” headline run of dates Down Under. But what lead guitarist Jeremiah Vanley wants to talk about isn’t how the group sold out Melbourne’s 5,000-seat Hordern Pavilion; instead, he’s psyched about the time they played for 30 people in a Sydney bar.
“It was this girl’s birthday, and as it turned out, everybody in the place was a big fan of ours,” Jeremiah says. “They had a drum set and a sound system, so we just said, ‘Okay, we’ll get our guitars and play.’ It turned into our first pop-up show, and it was great. More and more we’re playing big places, but I still love a good club feel.”…