Leon Bridges is arguably Fort Worth’s pre-eminent cultural ambassador of the moment.
After his single “Chrome Cowgirl” appeared on the soundtrack to summer blockbuster film “Twisters,” Bridges is back with his fourth album, “Leon,” teased on Instagram over the last several weeks.
The full album will be available on Friday, Oct. 4, but we already know some Fort Worthian elements of it. The first song, “Peaceful Place,” was released Thursday.
Keep an ear out for some of these Cowtown references.
- Bridges mentions the east Fort Worth neighborhood Riverside on the track “Laredo.”
- Bridges filmed one music video at the historic Sinclair gas station on McCart Avenue in Rosemont.
- He references “summertime on the Southside” in a teaser song.
- In the song “Panther City,” Bridges references his time playing Nintendo 64 at local community centers.
- On one song, he sings, “On Rosedale my father said go straight home or I’d catch hell.”