8 Ball (album)

Burden Brothers
Burden Brothers performing at Dia De Los Toadies in September 2015.
Background information
Origin	Dallas, Texas
Genres	Hard rock, grunge,arena rock
Years active	2002–2007
Labels	Kirtland, Last Beat
Associated acts	Toadies, Reverend Horton Heat, Tenderloin, Izzy Stradlin, Doosu, Jump Rope Girls, Clumsy, GWAR, Ministry, Adalene
Website	http://www.theburdenbrothers.com/
Members	Vaden Todd Lewis Patrick "Taz" Bentley Casey Hess
Past members	Corey Rozzoni Zack Busby Casey Orr Zach Blair

Burden Brothers are a hard rock band formed in Dallas, Texas, by Toadies lead singer/songwriter Vaden Todd Lewis and Reverend Horton Heat/Izzy Stradlin drummer Taz Bentley. The band currently consists of Lewis (Vocals/Guitar), Bentley (Drums/Vocals), and Casey Hess (Guitar/Vocals). The band went on indefinite hiatus since 2006, due to the Toadies reunion and other interests, but reunited to perform at the Dia De Los Toadies music festival in September 2015.

Lead singer/songwriter for the band, Vaden Todd Lewis was recently coming off of a short-lived reunion of his platinum-selling 90s band Toadies, and after an unsuccessful album release and tour, the band once again broke up. Main members Taz Bentley and Vaden Todd Lewis were both residents of Dallas, and had met on tours, in which the Toadies and Reverend Horton Heat often played together. The two began jamming together, and eventually decided to start a band in 2002. They took their name from a sign on the side of a building in Dallas, with Lewis explaining "I Just like the connection of family and guilt associated together. It also kind of makes me think of brothers - like me and Taz doing it as a team". After bad experiences with record labels, they decided to keep the band low-key, making tracks available via the internet, but soon received interest from local record labels.

The band released three EPs which were recorded by Lewis and Bentley as well as a revolving door of other musicians. The EPs, titled 8 Ball, Queen O' Spades, and "Beautiful Night", were released on Last Beat Records. After warm reception to these EPs, and radio play of their promotional single "Beautiful Night" in Tulsa, Dallas, and Houston areas in heavy rotation, the band decided to release a full-length album. Thus, the band ended up keeping Corey Rozzoni who worked with Clumsy, and Casey Orr who was famous for his work with GWAR.