But, according to the frontman, no matter where they go they often see their fans busting a move. "When you come to a Josh Abbott concert you come to enjoy the music, drink a couple beers and do some two-stepping," he says. "That's part of what we do and we embrace that."

Abbott would like to clear up a few misconceptions about his home state of Texas and their dancing habits. Contrary to popular belief, line dancing isn't the most popular thing in the Longhorn state, it's actually two-step or the half-step. "Line dancing is something that's more popular in dance halls on the West Coast and East Coast because that's what everyone thinks is country," Abbott says.

It was in Texas that Josh Abbott Band made a name for themselves, getting some major radio airplay long before they even had a van or trailer to hit dance halls around the United States. A local radio station played their song "Taste" in 2007 and it became the most requested song for over two months, beating out the likes of George Strait and Alan Jackson.

"That's literally what made me go, 'Okay. We should definitely try to start touring and getting some other radio stations to play us,'" Abbott says. "If it works this well in Lubbock, it's gotta work in other places."

"Taste," which Abbott sites as "the most underground hit" they've had, continues to be a fan favorite at their live show. Songs like "Oh, Tonight" which features fellow Texan Kacey Musgraves, and "Touch" broke the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts, no doubt an impressive feat for an unsigned act.

"We always said we weren't going to sign with a label. We embrace the independent thing, the DIY approach," Abbott says. "We loved being the underdog. We loved the fact that we were in Texas, didn't have a label, drew really big crowds and we could hang with a lot of the big national bands."

But the right deal came along and now they're celebrating their major label debut, the Tuesday Night EP, (out Sept. 23). The five-song release is just a taste of what's to come on the band's full length debut due out next year. But Abbott hopes their current single "Hangin' Around," which he wrote with country hit makers, Shane McAnally ("American Kids," "Mama's Broken Heart," "Better Dig Two,") and Josh Osborne ("Chainsaw," "We Are Tonight," "Merry Go Round"), will be their breakout song.

The track, which seems tailor made for country radio, urges a girl who's bored at home - nothing's on TV or the radio - to come on over to drink some beer, get a buzz and make their own fun. "Immediately when you hear that melody, it's an upbeat fun song," Abbott says of the fiddle-driven song. "We wanted to embrace that. It's very singy-songy, it flows really well."