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EXCLUSIVE: Crucial Leisure, the corporate in the back of the Boomtown podcast, which is being tailored right into a Billy Bob Thornton-fronted sequence from Taylor Sheridan, has set its newest Texas podcast.
The corporate has teamed with Wes Ferguson on Standoff, a chain about Fred Gomez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, jail siege.
Ferguson, whose Texas Per thirty days article “When ‘Angels in The us’ Got here to East Texas” is being evolved as a restricted sequence for HBO Max, is the writer and host of the podcast, which explores the siege that used to be probably the most notorious hostage crises in American historical past and performed out in dramatic type over 11 days, all in entrance of a terrified nationwide target audience.
The ten-part sequence, which launches March 21, will function 100 hours of audio containing the real hostage negotiations and the fatal shoot-out.
Produced by way of Crucial, it’s exec produced by way of the corporate’s President of Podcasts Jason Hoch. Shaine Freeman is Sound Engineer. It’ll release weekly on all podcast platforms and can also be to be had to binge, ad-free at the Crucial Leisure Top rate Channel on Apple Podcast Subscriptions.
Standoff additionally options Grammy-winning artists Max Baca, who created the unique rating for the sequence; Flaco Jimenez, who performs accordion; and Ray Benson, who sings the primary theme, “Huntsville,” which used to be at the start launched by way of Merle Haggard and the Strangers in 1971. 4 unique Seventies corridos about Fred Carrasco are featured within the sequence.
Crucial Leisure’s podcast department is in the back of sequence together with The Comeback that includes Sylvester Stallone, American Skyjacker: The Ultimate Flight of Martin McNally and The Baron of Botox in addition to Boomtown.
