The Company Car

A month after Nashville, TN native Beau Williams christened his newly formed band “The Company Car” in 2024, an actual company car crashed into the house he was renting. He was cooking dinner in the kitchen when it happened and was standing about 5 feet away from where it hit. What was once conceived as a playful reference to the Bluth family stair car in the cult-classic show Arrested Development, began to take on a new and real meaning. The results are in: be careful what you speak out loud.

Twitter friendship, a move to Tennessee, and a love of The Beatles brought songwriters Beau Williams and Andrew Stevenson together. A year before that, Beau had showed a song he’d written called “Sideways” to drummer James Goodwin. That song would become the foundation of the project. Grant Alan was first pick for bass and rounding things out, they enlisted Lexi Jackson to play and help arrange horns—predominately saxophone.

The Company Car is an alternative rock band in the most general of senses. If you listen hard enough, you can find strains of Americana, yacht rock, and psychedelic folk blended together in a most accessible fashion. It’s like if The Silver Jews were trying to play sophistipop; it’s like if the Grateful Dead were on K Records; it’s like if the Eagles played slacker rock. There are songs about hope, there are songs about love, there are songs about Vice Presidents, and yes, of course, there are songs about cars.