Isaac Hoskins plays a Sunday afternoon at Dan's Silverleaf

The Denton songwriter, whose songs have turned up on 'Yellowstone' and 'Landman,' plays a 3 p.m. show on Industrial Street this Sunday, Nov 8, with Simon Flory and Stefan Prigmore.

A Sunday-afternoon show at Dan's Silverleaf has its own feel: daylight through the door, a beer that doesn't have to be the last one, and a room full of people who came to listen. This Sunday, one of Denton's own gets that slot.

Isaac Hoskins plays Dan's Silverleaf this Sunday, Nov 8, at 3 p.m., with Simon Flory and Stefan Prigmore on the bill. Tickets run $12 to $75 through Prekindle. The room holds 245, so a hometown draw on a weekend afternoon is the kind of show worth buying ahead for.

Hoskins is a Denton-based singer-songwriter who came to Texas from Kansas. The Kerrville Folk Festival, which has featured him, says he grew up there before heading south to make his name as a Texas songwriter, and the Dallas Observer once summed up his move with a headline calling Denton "a songwriter's Shangri-La."

His records have built steadily. There was the *This Town* EP in 2020 and *Ghost Stories* on Red House Records in January 2022, according to his Bandcamp. Then came *Bender*, released Nov. 18, 2022 — an independent record that Americana Highways described as steeped in a deep country tradition. Hoskins wrote it after getting sober during a retreat at Bryce Canyon, as Wide Open Country reported, and that backstory sits under the songs. Twangville has since premiered music from his later album *Sell the Farm*.

His songs have also traveled well past the Square. Through a connection with Taylor Sheridan, his music has been featured on *Yellowstone* and *Landman*, according to the Dallas Observer. That is a bigger audience than most Denton songwriters get, and it makes a 245-capacity afternoon show that much more of a local's privilege.

A 245-capacity afternoon show is that much more of a local's privilege.

Dan's is the right room for it. Dan Mojica and Harold Loy opened the original Dan's Bar in 1995 in the building that now houses Dusty's; it closed in 2001, and Mojica opened the current venue on Industrial Street in 2002, when the block was still feed stores and fields, according to Denton County Magazine. "We literally were the first guys on the block," Mojica told the magazine. Touring names like Leon Russell and Johnny Winter have played it, but Mojica credits local acts such as Brave Combo with first drawing attention to the place. WXPN's World Cafe has since featured it in its Sense of Place series on Denton.

Simon Flory and Stefan Prigmore share the bill. Get there by three, find a seat, and let Sunday run long.

Sources: Isaac Hoskins — Kerrville Folk Festival (kerrvillefolkfestival.org); Isaak Hoskins Found Denton to be a Songwriter’s Shangri-La — Dallas Observer (dallasobserver.com); Isaac Hoskins — Bandcamp (isaachoskins1.bandcamp.com); Review: Isaac Hoskins ‘Bender’ — Americana Highways (americanahighways.org); Isaac Hoskins — Wide Open Country (wideopencountry.com); It's Alright Just To Be: a premiere from Isaac Hoskins — Twangville (twangville.com); Taylor Sheridan features local musicians in Landman — Dallas Observer (dallasobserver.com); Dan’s Silverleaf: a live music staple — Denton County Magazine (dentonrc.com); Sense of Place: Step inside Dan’s Silverleaf — WXPN (xpn.org); Isaac Hoskins at Dan's Silverleaf — Prekindle (prekindle.com)