Cactus Lee

"Cactus Lee is the project of Austin songwriter Kevin Dehan - a musician operating at his own pace, on his own terms, in one of American music's richest traditions. Steeped in the classic sounds of Texas country and folk, Dehan draws on a lineage that runs from Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark to John Prine and Tom T. Hall, filtering those influences through a sensibility that is entirely his own: childlike and dreamy, sharply witty, and quietly profound. Since 2019, Cactus Lee has released with a relentless and rare creative momentum - six albums, two EPs, and a live record, self-written and self-recorded on a four-track before being brought to life with rotating Austin musicians. It is the output of a songwriter who writes because he has to, not because the industry demands it.His latest album Lee's Dream, released in 2026 on Western Vinyl, is his most fully realised work yet - communal, lived-in, joyous and melancholy in equal measure. Conceived on a month-long solo tour and recorded with producer Billy Horton, it is an album steeped in Texas mythology: Lone Star beer, the Armadillo World Headquarters, the wide open roads between one small town and the next. Dehan writes like a historian and a dreamer simultaneously, crafting melodic fever dreams that feel instantly familiar. In a music landscape obsessed with novelty, Cactus Lee is something rarer - an artist building a body of work that will only deepen with time."