“There’s so much style in playing blues. The new blues scene is kind of like guitar teachers. They’re great players, but it’s a different thing”: How the triple-guitar threat of the Texas Headhunters is keeping a Lone Star tradition alive

Texas Headhunters photographed with their guitars in front of. a red brick wall: [from left] Johnny Moeller, Ian Moore and Jesse Dayton.

There’s a moment that happens between seasoned players when the song stops being a structure and starts being a language.

For Austin-bred guitarists Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore and Johnny Moeller, that moment came not at a rehearsed gig but inside a recording studio – Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studio, in fact – where the three longtime friends threw down a few tracks with no real plan.