Roger Clyne On Founding Canción Tequila, Future Plans For The Peacemakers, His Introduction To Tequila, Sammy Hagar & More

Created by Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Canción Tequila is made with 100 percent Blue Agave from private farms in the valleys of Jalisco, Mexico. It is distilled twice and then filtered 3 times to clean out the fusil oils, aldehydes and ketones natural in the distillation process, but guilty of contributing to that nasty headache procured the next day from cheap, less filtered tequilas. The filtration is just enough to keep the American White Oak charred bourbon barrel aging notes in the personality of their Reposado, Añejo, and Extra Añejo for tequila lovers to sip, savor and smile by enjoying neat, on the rocks or in a favorite cocktail. Canción Tequila is currently sold online and in over 10 states.

In case the name “Roger Clyne” sounds ultra-familiar beyond The Peacemakers and Canción Tequila, it may be because you knew of his work with the band The Refreshments. 1996’s Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy album yielded radio hits with “Banditos” and “Down Together.” Just a few years later, The Refreshments’ song “Yahoos And Triangles” would serve as the long-standing theme song to the hit animated TV show King Of The Hill. Clyne and Refreshments drummer Paul “P.H.” Naffah started up The Peacemakers in the late 1990s, and the quartet’s lineup is rounded out by bassist Nick Scropos and lead guitarist Jim Dalton. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers were inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall Of Fame in 2019, the same year the group hosted the 20th edition of its Circus Mexicus festival. Its latest studio effort is 2017’s very-acclaimed full-length Native Heart.

On July 28, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Roger Clyne himself via Zoom, as embedded below. Besides Canción Tequila, we talked about The Refreshments, musical influences, his history as a tequila-drinker, musical influences, and whether or not he knows fellow tequila-maker Sammy Hagar. More on Clyne and Canción Tequila can be found here, here, here, here, here and here.

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