"We're just young kids baby, frontrunners on a backroad," Shane Longoria sings on the band's debut single. On the surface it's a song about being young, broke, and moving too fast to be scared. Listen closer and it's about survival. Figuring it out as you go and moving anyway.

That's the whole band in one song. Lead lines that cut, rhythm guitar that drives, bass and drums that don't let go. Longoria's voice sits right in the middle of all of it, raw and unguarded.

Shane Longoria and the 171 are four guys from North Louisiana who built their show the hard way. Playing festivals, earning rooms they didn't already own, and writing songs honest enough to stick around after the night's over. Frontrunners, their debut single, is out now.