Catching up with New Braunfels’ Austin Meade ahead of his two-night stand at Whitewater Amphitheater

One constant in New Braunfels-based singer-songwriter Austin Meade’s music is evolution. The son of a Baptist preacher, Meade started playing guitar in church and eventually released the 2014 album Chief of the Sinners, which showcased an Americana-based sound. Over subsequent releases, he’s added crunchy classic hard rock to the mix (2021’s Black Sheep) and simultaneously dabbled in pop and more edgy flavors (2022’s Abstract Art of an Unstable Mind).