Chase Hamblin had nearly sold out the 1,000 copy print run of his independently released EP, A Fine Time, with minimal promotion, mostly selling them at shows or online. He was close to having another pressing made when Houston native and Austin-based musician label guy Freddie Krc offered to release the CD on his Steady Boy label. Now A Fine Time, a radiant set of classic ’60s- and ’70s-influenced pop, is getting a new release — two years after it was first issued — and better distribution.

From left: Chase Hamblin, piano, stuff on wall

“I need to get it out past Houston,” Hamblin says. “I’ve been here 11 years now, but I’ve gotten orders for this album in the U.K. and South America, which is really cool. It makes me realize I need to get out more. The style of music I’m doing is popular there.”

This weekend he’ll play two Steady Boy shows with Al Staehely and Mitch Jacobs, who both have new titles available on the label. And while A Fine Time finds more places to go Hamblin is at work on his full-length record.

Hamblin has about half of the new songs recorded and says the new material “is a lot rootsier and more rock ’n’ roll.”

Where A Fine Time featured Hamblin on most of the instrumentation with assists by producer and multi-instrumentalist Derek Dunivan, the new songs feature his band — guitarist Cory Power, bassist Geoffrey Muller, pianist Jeremy Neufeld and drummer Robert Ellis.

“We’re cutting a lot of the tracks live to tape,” he says, “so it sounds a little more Stones-y or Kinks circa Muswell Hillbillies. It’s still my style, but maybe a little more of a Texas thing going on. And we take it to church on a couple with some cool organ parts. It’s a pretty diverse record. It’s the record I wanted to make the first time, but couldn’t afford to make.”

steady boy records showcase
with Chase Hamblin, Al Staehely and Mitch Jacobs
when 9 p.m. Saturday
where Continental Club, 3700 Main
tickets $10; 713-533-9525 or www.continentalclub.com

when 1 p.m. Saturday
where Cactus Music, 2110 Portsmouth
free