"It was a long time ago," says David Nichols over the phone. "I was playing in a band called Time to Fly, and I started writing songs that didn't really fit with that band. When I left that band, Tex started, because it was a way of getting those songs out there."

Nichols has been involved in more or less direct ways with the local indie-rock scene for almost a decade. Time to Fly, the band he was in before Tex, achieved a certain degree of notoriety in these parts for a sound that fit neatly into the pocket of emotionally-direct indie rock that had really begun to blossom. Beds of driving guitars supported sensitive vocals; in retrospect, Time to Fly's early '00s timestamp is very evident. Nichols found that the folk-inflected, downcast pop songs he was writing on his own couldn't quite fit into that mold.

In 2006, Nichols released his first album as Tex, The Angels Came to Take Me Home.

To read Rev. Adam McKinney's full story on Tex, click here.

Tex

with Canon Canyon, Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray, Library
Thursday, Oct. 6, 9 p.m., $5
The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25^th St., Tacoma
253.572.4020