KALYN BEASLEY

Born and raised in Wyoming, Kalyn Beasley is the product of rural upbringing that

included rodeo, horses, hunting, fishing, and wide, wide open spaces. “You don’t get

any more rural than Wyoming, if that’s what you mean by country”, says Beasley. While

attending Montana State University, “on a recreational basis” as he likes to tell it, he

found his passion in music and a gift for songwriting. He formed his first band with

rodeo teammates and began writing and playing around Montana and Wyoming.

A move to Austin to explore a larger music scene ultimately resulted in the breakup of

the band and Kalyn began writing more extensively and playing solo and songwriter

shows. 

 

Recognized as a true lyricist in his songwriting as well as for his entertaining

performances, he’s able to draw the listener in with the humor and truth of his stories.

Kalyn’s songs are meticulously crafted with clever and infectious ideas, melodies and

hooks. “I write my own songs and tell my own stories. As a musician, poet, adventurer

and outdoorsman my goal is for you to find a little bit of yourself in the songs I sing and

the stories I tell”.

 

Kalyn Beasley now performs both solo and with his band, “The Honky Tonk Arcade”

across the upper Mountain west. He’s opened for Chase Rice, Chancey Williams and

Josh Turner and shared the stage with songwriting legends Kostas, Skip Ewing, and James Dean

Hicks. His tour schedule includes appearances at both songwriter shows and larger regional

festivals such as Red Ants Pants, Forget Me Knot and Harlow Music Fest.

 

Kalyn is set to release the first single off his fourth studio album, both titled ‘Ranchin’ Rich’,

recorded early in 2025 in Austin and produced by Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly. “It was an

absolute dream to work with Cody Braun and have some of the Reckless guys play on the record,

I’ve been a huge fan of that band for a long time” says Beasley. Reckless Kelly has served as an

influence for Beasley’s music not only in their unique adaptation of country and rock, but the

very place they hail from, eastern Idaho, is not far from where Beasley lives.

 

Kalyn’s music is inspired by a patchwork quilt of influences ranging from the ever-present 90’s

country of his childhood, to the singer/songwriter’s he came to know of his early 20’s. In college

Kalyn started to dig into Texas troubadours like Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Rodney

Crowell, and Steve Earle. Ultimately the great Guy Clark became Kalyn’s biggest influence.

“Guy Clark is my yard stick. He treated songwriting like a craft, like something to be worked on

daily without concern for anything but the highest articulation of verse and melody”. With an eclectic and broad interest in genre, Kalyn’s original music can range from traditional country and western to rock, rhythm, and blues.

 

His 2022 album, ‘A Matter of Time’, was nominated for All Genre Album of the Year at

the 2023 Josie Music Awards and he earned a nomination for a Josie Country

Performer of the Year in 2024. The Wyoming Arts Council selected Kalyn as a recipient

of the 2023 Performing Arts Fellowship.

 

An authentic Westerner, his life as a cowboy, rodeo hand, pilot, bookseller and outdoorsman has

furnished him with a novel palate from which to color his works. “I see inspiration every

direction I look. I grew up at the doorstep of Yellowstone National Park in the Rocky Mountains

and I don’t suppose I’m moving anywhere anytime soon. I’m a westerner and the west is where I belong.” Kalyn makes his home in the high, dry mountains of Northern Wyoming, land of geysers and grizzlies.