Friday, January 25, 2019

Texas soul mixes with soul of Alex Chilton on upcoming full-length from Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers.


Denton-based band’s “Shook” arrives Feb. 22nd. See comedic music video for album track “Shoenapper” now!

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers (L-R): Clint Sawyer, Holly Manning, Dave Huff, Patrick Newkirk, Chris Welch, Kelly Evans. Photo by Aubrey Mortensen.

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“Shoenapper” by Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers



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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers – Live

01/31/2019: Austin, TX @ Hole In The Wall
02/01/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Beethoven Maennerchor
02/23/2019: Denton, TX @ Dan’s Silver Leaf (Record Release Show)

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 “Welch straddles the line between country and soul in a similar vein to how Mr. Orbison did it.” – Ghost of Blind Lemon

Denton, Texas is the home of Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers, introduced as the “fabulous Cicada Killers” on “Cicada Sweat,” the James Brown-inspired opening track of Shook, the north Texas band’s upcoming sophomore album, which follows-up its 2017 debut Faded & Frayed.

The pronouncement is the only vocal on the song, an improvisational moment that the band loved and kept, but it’s all that’s needed: The Cicada Killers’ unique brand of soul, shimmy, and shake speaks for itself.

Welch’s influences aren’t rooted only in Otis Redding, he also brings plenty of Alex Chilton, and even The Replacements“Alex Chilton” to the party, fronting an indie-rock rave-up sound with the lived-in voice of a guy who went to one-too-many parties. Additional influences on the band include the Stax and Hitsville label rosters, along with Kris Kristofferson, Lou Reed, and Afghan Whigs.

Unlike the band’s debut album, The Cicada Killers approached the songwriting on Shook as a fully collaborative effort, recording in a marathon five-day session in early 2018 at Cool Devices Studio with Jeff Burke and Mark Ryan of legendary pop-punk band The Marked Men.

Five days to make an album could have been a luxury, as the band is used to grinding it out. An early album track, “Shoenapper” details one of those bleary-eyed road stories, in fact.

As band member Kelly Evans (Vocals, Saxophone) explains, “Maybe we’d imbibed just a bit too much, but the day that we came up with this song was a little rough. We had to get back to Denton that morning, and our bass player (Dave Huff) headed out early, only to discover when he was stopped for gas that he wasn’t wearing his own shoes. He’d stolen our drummer’s (Clint Sawyer) shoes! We gave him a hard time for that one and this song was born.”

Shook by Chris Welch & The Cicada Killers arrives on Feb. 22, 2019. Chris Welch is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers
Shook
Goliad Media Group
(Feb. 22nd, 2019)


Track Listing:

01. Cicada Sweat
02. Want You Back
03. Ill-Dealt Hand
04. Shoenapper (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
05. Knockin’
06. Black Dress
07. Borrowed Repertoire
08. Lie To Me
09. Stumbled
10. Objectify My Love
11. Shake ‘Em Down
12. Leaving Today

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Chris Welch and The Cicada Killers Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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