Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Tree Machines writes ode to apathy that can’t exist with any other title. See the video for Kansas-based duo’s epic “F***ing Off Today.”

Called “best new rock song of the year so far,” track slated to appear on Lawrence, Kansas-based duo’s debut EP, arriving March 31st.

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Tree Machines (L-R): Douglas Wooldridge & Patrick Aubry. Photo by Phil Peterson.

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Tree Machines – In The Press

“Best new rock song of the year so far.” – Luke O’ Neil, BULLETT

“This is the best thing I’ve heard all week. So amazing.” – Sean Moeller, Daytrotter

“I’ve been unable to stop listening.” – Tom Johnson, Gold Flake Paint (UK)

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 “F***ing Off Today” is the first video from Tree Machines. See it via The Wild or at the links below! NSFW and CLEAN versions available.



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Lawrence, Kansas-based duo, Tree Machines, comprised of Patrick Aubry and Douglas Wooldridge, is set to release its debut self-titled EP on March 31st, preceded by the provocatively titled single “F***ing Off Today.”  See the recent premiere of the music video for the track via The Wild here.

While it may be considered risky for a new band to title its very first single “F***ing Off Today” (the only reason the title is censored here is to ensure safe passage through your e-mail filter), this song couldn’t exist with any other name.  The tune is an ode to apathy of epic proportions, lyrically capturing the idea of not caring in a way no artist has before.

“With open mouths to feed, we’re f***ing off today,” Wooldridge sings with ultimate conviction, adding an ironic touch that gives the song even more potency.  The anthemic aspects of this message were borne of Wooldridge and Aubry’s observations of the on-off, blissed-out-but-strung-out club kids they’d see during their gigs as lighting designers.

For the song’s music video, the duo headed to (not so) glamourous Los Angeles.

“Culver City’s a hell of a place to find yourself on a Tuesday morning,” says Wooldridge. “Run down warehouses and littered streets – I guess we didn’t really know what to expect beyond the fact that we were shooting our first music video.”

The band arrived to find on set to find a “magical forest” of metal stands with dead limbs attached, small potted trees, leaves covering the ground, and a palm tree strung with Christmas lights.

“It was perfect,” Wooldridge remembers.

The ability to grasp the confusing feelings of youth, and longing for something so much bigger than what they refer to as “the Midwest lifestyle,” is in Tree Machines’ DNA.  It explains why we haven’t heard a song about apathy delivered in such blunt terms until now.  For it to work, it’d have to be a tune with a title hook as believable (and necessary) as this one.

The self-titled debut EP by Tree Machines arrives March 31st.  Patrick Aubry and Douglas Wooldridge of Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tree Machines
S/T EP
(Self-Released)
March 31st, 2015


Track Listing:

01. F***ing Off Today (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Late Snow
03. Misunderstood
04. At the Wheel
05. The Fire
06. Black and Blue
07. Man at the Door

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Tree Machines Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

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Monday, March 23, 2015

See puppeteer get what’s coming to him at felt-covered hands of his “friends” in new Nick Lutsko music video.

“Music is my first love, but puppetry is a close second,” says Chattanooga-based artist of his “backing band.”

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Nick Lutsko as photographed by Harris Oates

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Nick Lutsko – In The Press

“A colorful mélange of noise.” – Popmatters

“Nick Lutsko has a new video that will undoubtedly trip you out.” – Yahoo!

Read the Chattanooga Times Free Press cover story on Nick Lutsko here

Check out the track premiere of “ALL SHOOK UP” via Relix!

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 “Predator” is the latest music video from Etc. by Nick Lutsko.  See the premiere via Yahoo! or at the link below!


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In college, my roommates and I stayed up making puppets,” says Chattanooga-based musician, Nick Lutsko about a late-night college activity that most students probably can’t relate to. “Music is my first love, but puppetry is a close second.”

Lutsko’s parents were gracious enough to let their son destroy the family garage while building the set for his “Predator” music video, recently premiered via Yahoo! Music.  The song is the first single from Lutsko’s newly-released sophomore album Etc.

The video for the track depicts a sunshine-y children’s show featuring a puppet-band, but the story behind the scenes is something much different.  We find out that the puppeteer is a real meanie, but ultimately he gets what’s coming to him at the felt-covered hands of his “friends.”

“There’s lots of creepy guys doing creepy things under the guise of family values out there,” Lutsko says of his inspiration behind the song. “Those are the worst kind of predators in my book.

The “Predator” video was in the already deep in production when Lutsko decided to make spend $20 making an off-the-cuff music video for another Etc. track.

“We bought as many hotdogs as $20 could buy,” he says of the clip for “ALL SHOOK UP” which has Lutsko’s father, girlfriend, and friends off screen throwing hot dogs at him as he attempts to perform the song. The video received a quick 20,000 views after being posted on Reddit on the same weekend that it was completed.  “It was a genuinely irritating five minutes,” Lutsko jokes of the shoot.

In these two songs, new fans of Nick Lutsko will hear the sound that curiously, but accurately, designates him as the only musician on Facebook listing his genre as “Folk/Funk/Blues.”

Etc., the new album from Nick Lutsko, is out now. Lutsko is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Nick Lutsko – Live


04/10 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia Record Release Show
06/13 Chattanooga, TN @ Riverbend Festival Chevy Truck Corral Stage, 6PM

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 See Nick Lutsko get pelted with hot dogs in the music video for “ALL SHOOK UP” via BLURT!


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Nick Lutsko
Etc.
(S/R – Out Now)


Track Listing:

01. Cherry Red Medicine
02. Okay
03. Predator (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
04. ALL SHOOK UP (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
05. Dreaming of Medusa
06. Geranium Thief
07. By & By
08. (You Aren’t So) Beautiful
09. Thanks to Uncle Stacy
10. Remember Me
11. Morning Star

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Nick Lutsko Links

ASSETS : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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Monday, March 16, 2015

Brooklyn-based songwriter Jeremy Bass emerges from difficult period of self-imposed isolation with two new albums.

Musical director of OBIE Award-winning Secret City to release Haggard, Waits-influenced “Winter Bare” on April 14th.

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Jeremy Bass as photographed by Robyn Hasty

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“Lift Me Up” is the first single from Winter Bare by Jeremy Bass.  Hear it via Guitar World or at the links below!





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“Wrapped up in a warmth that put a smile on my face. It’s daring and simple all at the same time.” – Guitar World

“‘Lift Me Up’ is the first song I wrote after months of not writing,” says Brooklyn’s Jeremy Bass of his isolated existence in the winter of 2013 when he began working on Winter Bare, the first of his two upcoming albums.  The track can be heard here via an exclusive premiere at Guitar World.  “It was on one of those dark nights when it was all I could do to keep myself from going crazy,” he remembers. “Winter has always been tough for me, and the winter of 2013 was especially hard.”

He isn’t kidding.

Just prior to the creation of Winter Bare, Bass was splitting up with his wife, selling the house they shared together, and toiling away for the third year straight on a debut album that he had become disconnected with by the time it was finally released late last year. Returning to single living in Brooklyn during the intense New York winter of 2013, Bass found himself secluded in an empty house, sifting through his memories.

“I was drinking, I had run out of money, I was nearly unemployed, and certainly unemployable,” he confesses. “But, I had a fireplace and my guitars.”  Though Bass was in the grip of despair, he thought that maybe he could write his way out of it and actually change the course of his life in the process.

He has.

“By the end of the winter, I’d fallen in love again, and had a set of songs that wove their way through loneliness, despair and near-insanity, to love and longing, and ultimately hope,” he says.

Unlike Bass’ labored-over debut album, Winter Bare – which arrives on April 14th and will be followed up by an album of Bossa nova-inspired tunes called New York in Spring on June 2nd – is pure and to the point. Musically, the album bares the influence of musical outlaws such as Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits, artists Bass was listening to as he taught himself to play mandolin and banjo, his “divorce gifts” to himself.

“I suppose it’s fitting that the songs on Winter Bare came out after a period of intense suffering in my personal life, followed by unexpected and incredibly joyful personal freedom, and musical exploration,” Bass concludes.

Winter Bare arrives on April 14th to be followed up by New York in Spring on June 2nd. Jeremy Bass is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Jeremy Bass – Live

03/21 Los Angeles, CA @ Room 5 7PM
03/29 New York, NY @ Dixon Place The Secret City, 1130AM
04/06 New York, NY @ Bowery Electric 6PM

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Jeremy Bass
Winter Bare
(Self-Released)
April 14th, 2015
  

Track Listing:

01. Introduction (Shoreline)
02. Lift Me Up (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
03. Winter Bare
04. One More Cigarette
05. Coming Back Home
06. Red Tailed Hawk
07. Winterlude (Banjo for Annie)
08. Counting
9. (Lookin’ For) The Heart of Saturday Night (Vinyl-Only Bonus Track)

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Jeremy Bass Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Nick Lutsko shreds while being pelted with hot dogs in music video for Chattanooga-based musician’s “ALL SHOOK UP.”

“A genuinely irritating five minutes,” he says of shoot for Zappa-influenced tune from upcoming “Etc.” Hear it now via Relix.

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Nick Lutsko as photographed by Harris Oates

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Nick Lutsko – In The Press

“A colorful mélange of noise.” – Popmatters

Read the Chattanooga Times Free Press cover story on Nick Lutsko here

Check out the premieres of “ALL SHOOK UP” via Relix and BLURT!

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“ALL SHOOK UP” is the latest single + video by Nick Lutsko


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Ever seen a wicked solo performed by a guitarist being pelted with hot dogs?  Skip straight to the shredding here!

“We bought as many hotdogs as $20 could buy, which happened to be about 200 hot dogs,” says Chattanooga-based musician Nick Lutsko about the off-the-cuff video for “ALL SHOOK UP,” the latest single from his upcoming Etc. album.

In the clip, Lutsko’s father, girlfriend, and friends joined in on throwing hot dogs at him as he attempted to perform the song. A friend of Lutsko’s cousin also got into the act, posting a link on Reddit which helped the video gain 17,000 views over the weekend. “It was a genuinely irritating five minutes,” Lutsko jokes of the shoot.

The song itself is a commentary on “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll” that was inspired by Frank Zappa. 

“There’s a quote from Gustave Flaubert that I saw in Zappa’s autobiography,” Lutsko says. “It reads, ‘Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.’” He continues, explaining “I see a lot of guys who are trying to complete their rock n’ roll checklist and end up losing themselves entirely.”

“ALL SHOOK UP” appears on Etc., Lutsko’s upcoming sophomore album.  While his debut was a decidedly folk record, Etc. is decidedly not.  The shift in sonic style on Etc. actually represents Lutsko’s newfound ability to realize a sound that he was logistically unable to record during his initial dip in the waters of record-making.

This time around, Lutsko has captured a sound that curiously, but accurately, designates him one of the few musicians on Facebook listing their genre as “Folk/Funk/Blues.”  Loud drums, crazy bass, and dirty guitar solos are all in the mix on Etc., an ambitious album that never sacrifices a hummable melody or clever turn of phrase to simply stand out as eclectic.

Etc., the new album from Nick Lutsko, arrives on March 17th, 2015.  Lutsko is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Nick Lutsko – Live

03/20 Knoxville, TN @ Preservation Pub
04/10 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ's Bohemia Record Release Show
06/13 Chattanooga, TN @ Riverbend Festival Chevy Truck Corral Stage, 6PM

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Nick Lutsko
Etc.
(S/R – March 17th, 2015)
  

Track Listing:

01. Cherry Red Medicine
02. Okay
03. Predator (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
04. ALL SHOOK UP (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
05. Dreaming of Medusa
06. Geranium Thief
07. By & By
08. (You Aren’t So) Beautiful
09. Thanks to Uncle Stacy
10. Remember Me
11. Morning Star

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Nick Lutsko Links

ASSETS : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : BANDCAMP

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : TUMBLR : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : LAST.FM : BLOG : E-MAIL
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Monday, March 9, 2015

Lawrence, Kansas-based duo Tree Machines journeys to a magical forest constructed in Los Angeles for new music video.

Inspired by observations of club kid culture, duo’s single with NSFW title is called “best new rock song of the year so far.”

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Tree Machines (L-R): Douglas Wooldridge & Patrick Aubry. Photo by Phil Peterson.

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Tree Machines – In The Press

“My favorite new rock song I’ve heard so far this year.” – Luke O'Neil, BULLETT

“This is the best thing I’ve heard all week. So amazing.” – Sean Moeller, Daytrotter

“I’ve been unable to stop listening.” – Tom Johnson, Gold Flake Paint (UK)

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 “Fucking Off Today” is the first video from Tree Machines. See it via The Wild or at the links below!


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Lawrence, Kansas-based duo, Tree Machines, comprised of Patrick Aubry and Douglas Wooldridge, is set to release its debut self-titled EP on March 31st, preceded by the provocatively titled single “Fucking Off Today.”  See the premiere of the music video for the track via The Wild here.

The new EP opens with this giant-sounding track, running without the bother of learning to crawl, and lyrically capturing the idea of not caring in a way no artist has before.  “With open mouths to feed, we’re fucking off today,” Wooldridge sings with ultimate conviction, adding an ironic touch that gives the song even more potency.  The anthemic aspects of this message were borne of Wooldridge and Aubry’s observations of the on-off, blissed-out-but-strung-out club kids they’d see during their gigs as lighting designers.

For the song’s music video, the duo headed to (not so) glamourous Los Angeles.

“Culver City’s a hell of a place to find yourself on a Tuesday morning,” says Wooldridge. “Run down warehouses and littered streets – I guess we didn’t really know what to expect beyond the fact that we were shooting our first music video.”  The band arrived to find on set to find a “magical forest” of metal stands with dead limbs attached, small potted trees, leaves covering the ground, and a palm tree strung with Christmas lights.

“It was perfect,” Wooldridge says. “Any trepidation Patrick and I had went away as soon as we were greeted by the crew, and once we loosened up a bit, we got a kick out of talking to them about tornados and all the things people from the Midwest do to pass the time.”

“I sometimes forget how talented the company I keep can be,” says Aubry of Wooldridge’s performance in the clip. “As for me, I’m still pretty new to cameras, but the whole day was an adventure.”

Capturing the confusing feelings of youth, and longing for something so much bigger than what they refer to as “the Midwest lifestyle,” is in Tree Machines’ DNA, which could be why we haven’t heard a song about apathy delivered in such blunt terms until now.  For it to work, it’d have to be a tune with a melody and hook as strong as found here to be believable (especially for a debut single with “fucking” in the title!)

Tree Machines pulls it off.

The self-titled debut EP by Tree Machines arrives March 31st.  Patrick Aubry and Douglas Wooldridge of Tree Machines are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tree Machines
S/T EP
(Self-Released)
March 31st, 2015
  

Track Listing:

01. Fucking Off Today (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Late Snow
03. Misunderstood
04. At the Wheel
05. The Fire
06. Black and Blue
07. Man at the Door

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Tree Machines Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : YOUTUBE : INSTAGRAM : SOUNDCLOUD  

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

San Francisco-based duo Tidelands returns with a revitalized organic sound on new EP “Old Mill Park,” out today.

Hear “Dog Named Bart” now, feat. contributions from John Vanderslice, Debbie Neigher, Magik*Magik Orchestra.

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Tidelands (L-R): Gabriel Leis, Mie Araki. Photo credit: Elliot Jaramillo.

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See Tidelands live on Sat., March 7th performing a record release show in Oakland, CA @ Underwood Cafe

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Hear “Dog Named Bart” from the new Tidelands EP “Old Mill Park” via The Bay Bridged or the links below!





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“Refreshing, stimulating, and likely to induce daydreaming. It doesn’t sound much like anything else.” – My Old Kentucky Blog

Bay area-based duo Tidelands, comprised of guitarist and vocalist Gabriel Leis and drummer Mie Araki, returns today with a new EP “Old Mill Park,” the follow-up to its 2012 sophomore full-length album We’ve Got A Map.

The release of the new EP is preceded by the single “Dog Named Bart,” which includes vocal contributions from John Vanderslice and frequent Tidelands collaborator Debbie Neigher. Suckers for handclaps will revel in the new single, which also features the fantastic drumming of Araki, the trumpet of John Freeman, and arrangements by Minna Choi of Magik*Magik Orchestra.

“I gotta give a shout out to JV for altering the phrasing and delivery of the vocals that we all sung together,” acknowledges Leis of Vanderslice’s essential contributions.  Tidelands is a duo by circumstance instead of design.  Teaming up amid the ashes of a previous band, the pair started using loops to fill out its sound.

“That created a sound of its own, and directed my songwriting for the first couple years of the band,” says Leis.  “What I didn’t count on was becoming reliant on it.”  There’s a fine line between a tool and a crutch, and the songs on “Old Mill Park” are responses to the band’s acknowledgement of this fact.

“I wanted to write and record songs that would stand on their own with just an acoustic guitar and my voice,” Leis explains.  This time around, the basic guitar, upright bass, drum, and vocal tracks were all recorded live in the studio as full takes.  Only later did the band “get all Tidelands” with the songs, building them up with strings (once again collaborating with the Magik*Magik Orchestra), keys, horns and harmonies to create the most realized and memorable Tidelands tunes to date.

“It’s an actual place in Mill Valley where I spent part of my childhood,” Leis goes on to say of the location deep in the California Redwoods that inspired the title of the EP.  “It’s a magical place with a creek that runs down a small canyon to a classic three-tiered swimming hole, and then under the skeleton of the original old mill that the town was named for.”

“Old Mill Park,” the new EP by Tidelands, is out now.  Gabriel Leis of Tidelands is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Tidelands
“Old Mill Park” EP
(Redgummy Records – Out Now)
  

Track Listing:

01. Old Mill Park
02. Dog Named Bart (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
03. Four Strings and a Wooden Box
04. Hole in the Ceiling
05. Brown Eyes
06. Low Roller

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Tidelands Links

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Monday, March 2, 2015

First solo album in 18 years by Texas music veteran Stephen Doster hailed as “masterpiece” by Austin Chronicle.

“Arizona” released on Nov. 4th as tribute to Doster’s late collaborator, The Pretenders guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott.

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Stephen Doster as photographed by Melinda Doster

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Hear the title track from “Arizona” by Stephen Doster via Guitar World or at the links below!





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“Stephen Doster should get the recognition he deserves, finally, with this masterpiece.” – Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle

“One of the best records our city has produced this year.” – Peter Blackstock, Austin American-Statesman (Nov. 2014)

“My name’s on the back of many more records than on the front,” says Austin-based producer, songwriter and guitarist, Stephen Doster, whose name has appeared on dozens of records, including credits with Willie Nelson, Dr. John, and Double Trouble. “Arizona is only my fourth record as an artist,” he says, “But it’s the record I always hoped I would make.”

Since the late 2014 release of Arizona, Doster’s first solo album in 18 years, the record has established a substantial foothold in his home base of Austin.  The recognition has been a long time coming for this songwriter, producer, and guitarist, whose musical story starts in 1982, when he was a young man on top of the world, recording his debut album with James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders producing it.

“During the sessions, Jimmy was called back to London to cut a new Pretenders single,” Doster remembers. “He was coming right back to Texas as soon as he was done.”  The rest of the story is a public and sad event in music history.  For Doster, it was very personal.

“A friend entered my room about 48 hours after Jimmy left,” Doster says. “Jimmy’s wife Peggy Sue sent him over to tell me that Jimmy had died because she didn’t want me to hear about it on the radio first.  He was a great mentor to me and it was a horrific loss for the music world.”

In a funk, Doster put the recordings on hold and headed to Nashville with Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett to play guitar on Griffith’s Once In A Very Blue Moon album. It was there that Doster decided to put what he had learned from Honeyman-Scott to use, embarking on a career as a record producer.  Since that time, Doster has helmed over 70 albums by mostly Texas-based acts, while continuing to make a living by writing songs for others and performing hundreds of shows a year.

Doster paid tribute to his friend by releasing Arizona on November 4th, the day that would have been Honeyman-Scott’s 58th birthday.

Stephen Doster is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Stephen Doster
Arizona
(Atticus Records – Out Now)
  

Track Listing:

01. Arizona (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
02. River From A Dream (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
03. Your Simple Mind
04. I Found You
05. Second Story Balcony
06. Enough For Everyone
07. Baby There’s No One Like You
08. Pistol Pete
09. Throwin’ The Ball
10. Into The Night

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Stephen Doster Links

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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