Duncan Coker is ready for a rebrand. The musician has been crafting country-flavored roots music under his own name for years, but as he and his band became closer, they settled on a new moniker.
“We’re going on our second year, and we just feel like a band,” he explains. “We want to have a band name, and that’s what we are now: Flattop Rider.“
The band’s last album under the name Duncan Coker, Roadside Attractions, was released in the fall and has received some radio airplay on KGNU in Boulder and KRFC in Fort Collins. “We’re still promoting it,” Coker says. “You know, we’re an independent band [and] the record was produced all here in Colorado, so we’re just doing it ourselves to get the word out.”…