KALYN BEASLEY

   Born and raised in Wyoming, Kalyn Beasley is the product of a rural, western upbringing in the least populated state in   the U.S. “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 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 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 released his fourth studio album, titled ‘Rancin’ Rich’, in October of 2025. The album was 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”.

 

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.” Kalyn makes his home in the high, dry mountains of Northern Wyoming, land of geysers and grizzlies.