With Cooder Graw ending its nearly decade-long run last month, we've lost one of Texas Music's best bands — and best band names.

Matt Martindale (vocals), Kelly Turner (guitar), and Paul Baker (bass) helped form the band — originally Coup de Grace, but Texanized when a Minnesota band claimed prior use — in Amarillo in 1998. Ray Benson produced their self-titled debut album in 2000, and the band gained a national profile when Dodge licensed "Llano Estacado" for its truck commercials. Extensive touring followed, with Cooder Graw taking its "loud country" sound on the road 200 days a year to support Segundo (2001), Shifting Gears (2001), Live at Billy Bob's Texas (2002), and Wake Up (2004).

But last fall the band decided to end its run, and a New Year's Eve show at The Horseman Club in Fort Worth marked the end of the line. Photographer Jonni Jewell has posted several photo galleries from Cooder Graw's final shows.

While Cooder Graw may be no more, frontman (and attorney) Matt Martindale is hitting the road with his own band and plans a studio album later this year.