Gas Station Baby is a backroad oddity. Rooted in small-town weirdness with a touch of cosmic charm. Our songs feel like late-night diner conversations, song lyrics scrawled on receipts, and roadside signs that make you turn around for another look. Approachable but smart, heartfelt but never sappy, always honest.

Led by musicians Casey Smith (vocals, guitar, bass), Amanda Putnam (percussion, guitar, vocals), and Sean Hare (guitar vibe genius, vocals), Gas Station Baby is a genre-fluid trio crafting all-original music rooted in feeling over formula. Unbound by category, but always recognizable by vibe.

In answer to the question, “What kinda music do y’all play?” the answer is: “Rock, question mark?” It’s a borderless, non-binary world out here. Why play by any rules when you can do a little bit of everything?

“‘Sounds good’ is the genre I’m going for.” — Sean

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we take the music seriously. Our tone is storyteller-meets-side-eye: part road-worn Americana, part indie garage grit, always grounded in honesty. We’re dryly funny, weirdly wise, roadside poets — like if Tom Petty and Patsy Cline started a band and played a show at a haunted diner in Appalachia.

Psychedelic, but not the kind where you’re lickin’ the couch. More like a summer cookout when the fireflies are out and you can’t decide whether to stare at the bugs, the fire, or the stars while the music wraps around you like a well-worn blanket.

And we’re not here to play at you — we want to bring you into the music. Our guiding light is simple: music is a communal experience. If it sounds good, feels good, and brings the vibes, we’re in.

If you want to define it, you’ll have to catch us live. You’ll hear shades of rock, folk, blues, classic country, and more; all woven together with honesty, curiosity, and the occasional howl. We call it Vibe Rock: sometimes dreamy, always warm, always authentic. You can call it whatever you like. When in doubt, we sound like ourselves.

And no, we weren’t found at a gas station as babies, and no, we’re not dropping any off. “Gas Station Baby” is what lead singer Casey Smith was called growing up. Why? Because she really was born at a gas station in Middleport, Ohio. Smith was the only baby born in Meigs County that year, mostly because the rest weren’t delivered by a police officer in the front seat of a Datsun at a Super America. (All those other non-gas-station babies were (lamely) born at hospitals in counties that have those sorts of things.)

Watch & Listen

Live

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@gasstationbaby

Listen

For demo tapes of Gas Station Baby songs, hit up Smith’s Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/ohiocasey/

Watch

To check out videos of Smith doing some covers, check out Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/ohiocasey/reels/

Previously on Tiduckger

Ever wonder what it would look like if you crossed a tiger with a duck?

Gas Station Baby once performed under the name “Tiduckger.” The rebrand came after loyal fans kept thinking it had something to do with “turducken.” (It didn’t.) The name actually referred to a brand-new creature born from the love between a tiger and a duck. Or maybe a rogue science experiment. We may never know.

RIP Tiduckger. You were too weird and wonderful for this world.

Check out Tiduckger’s live recording
at the Armstrong Press Room Recordings: