Americana / Alt-Country • West Texas • 2021–Present
ROAD DUST & GHOSTS
EAST TEXAS – 2021
Beau Riker & The Dustwalkers

The Band

Beau Riker
Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar

Beau grew up working cattle, fixing fences, and learning the hard way that nobody hands you a damn thing. His voice carries that history—low, worn-in, and unfiltered.

After a ranch accident sidelined him and painkillers nearly took him under, music became the rope he pulled himself back with. Beau writes like a man sorting through his past in real time, turning the rough edges into something other people can hang onto.

Onstage, he's calm, steady, and dead honest.

Casey "Redline" Mercer
Electric Guitar

Redline didn't earn his nickname; he burned it onto himself. A gearhead turned guitarist, he plays like an engine about to overheat—fast runs, snarling bends, and slide work that feels one wrong note away from catching fire.

He met Beau during a busted-amp night in a dive bar, stepped in with a beat-to-hell Telecaster, and never left. Redline brings the grit and danger that gives the Dustwalkers their edge.

Lula Hawthorn
Fiddle & Harmony Vocals

Lula is the heart. A classically trained violinist who walked away from the orchestra world, she found more truth in dusty bars than she ever did on polished stages.

Her fiddle can soothe or cut depending on the song, and her harmonies anchor Beau's gravel with something warm and steady. She's the emotional counterweight to the band's rowdiest instincts, and the one who keeps everyone from running completely off the rails.

Jax Calderón
Bass

Jax is quiet, observant, and built from the same steel as the long-haul highways he grew up around. His bass lines don't just fill the low end—they shape the storytelling, laying down the foundation Beau builds his narratives on.

Before the Dustwalkers, he played in everything from Tejano groups to blues trios, which explains his uncanny ability to morph into whatever the song needs. He's the grounding force in a band full of storms.

Miles Hargreeve
Drums & Percussion

Miles plays with a dusty swagger—part railroad rhythm, part barroom heartbeat. He learned drums in church, abandoned them for rock, then circled back to Americana when he realized groove matters more than volume.

His train-beat shuffle is a Dustwalkers signature, and he's the guy who can read Beau's phrasing like a map. Offstage, he's the band's chaos manager: the one who pulls Redline out of bar fights and keeps the van running.

Griff Sloan
Pedal Steel & Lap Steel

Griff showed up one night with a pedal steel and no real introduction, and somehow it felt like he'd always been part of the band. His playing is atmospheric—ghost trails, desert wind, and long notes that feel like memory.

Griff doesn't talk much about his past, and the rest of the band doesn't push. What he brings is simple: mood, space, and the haunting shimmer that gives the Dustwalkers their desert-soul sound.

The Dustwalkers