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Tuesday, September 18 |
Alpine, Texas |
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Austin, Texas |
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Austin, Texas |
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Alpine, Texas |
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Lake Charles, LA |
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Lafayette, LA |
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New Orleans, LA |
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Houston, Texas |
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News:
NEW! NEW! NEW! VISIT DOYLE ON
myspace.com/doylebramhall1
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YEP ROC RECORDS TO RELEASE
DOYLE BRAMHALL’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED
IS IT NEWS
SEPTEMBER 18
For more information, please contact Mary Moyer or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co: 212.741.1000
Or email:
mary@sacksco.com
carla@sacksco.com
or
Bill Bentley bill.bentley@yahoo.com
DOYLE BRAMHALL, IS IT NEWS
“[Doyle Bramhall] is as influential as he is influenced...”—Austin Chronicle
Legendary Texas singer, songwriter and drummer, Doyle Bramhall returns with the long awaited Is It News, his first collection of original material. Yep Roc Records releases the album on September 18.
“I wanted to make an all-original record that was big, energetic, intimate, and unpredictable,” Bramhall states. To co-produce the album, he chose longtime friend and collaborator Louisiana swamp-rocker Charles “C.C.” Adcock. Adcock describes, “When Doyle asked me to co-produce this with him, I thought about him as a human being and what is the perfect portrait of this man I know pretty well and love dearly. Him as a songwriter, as a great singer and deliverer of those songs, a consummate drummer and beat man, and someone who’s always surrounded himself with amazing guitar players.”
Appearing on Is It News are Bramhall’s son and guitar master Doyle II, bandmates from the past Denny Freeman and Jimmie Vaughan as well as Adcock, Mike Keller, Mato Nanji, bassist Scott Nelson, keyboardist Billy Etheridge among others.
Is It News features 12 songs written over the course of Doyle Bramhall’s personal and musical life. “Chateau Strut,” was originally constructed in 1974 when Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan and keyboardist Billy Etheridge were warming up at Club Chateau in East Texas, and “Cryin’,” written in 2005, was recorded in post-Katrina New Orleans at The Nappy Dugout & Up with Mike Napolitano.
Doyle Bramhall has been an integral part of the Texas music scene for over 40 years beginning with his first band The Chessmen, who opened for Jimi Hendrix in 1968 when Bramhall was still in his teens. Following the success of his acclaimed solo debut Bird Nest On The Ground (1994), Bramhall went on to produce critically acclaimed albums by Marcia Ball, Indigenous, and Chris Duarte. He released his Yep Roc debut, Fitchburg Street—a heartfelt ode to the blues and R&B—in 2003.
A national tour in support of the album will be announced shortly.
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Update
3/7/2007
Doyle at SXSW!
March 15--3:20PM-Catch Doyle's interview on
KLBJ 93.7
www.klbjfm.com/sxsw/index_broadcast.aspx
SXSW Showcase
10PM Thursday, March 15
Continental Club/Austin
Yep Roc's SXSW showcase will feature Doyle performing songs from his new all-original CD for the first time!
yeproc.com
More on Tour Dates page
tinyurl.com/4kw6t
Scheduled release September 2007
ON THE AIR!
Tune in to hear Doyle-online or on the air
Online from the Blues Quest
Kansas City flagship station KTBG-FM
www.ktbg.fm/bluesquest.html
NEW! DOYLE ON BLUES QUEST RADIO SHOW!
In 2005, Doyle was a special guest on the Legendary R&B cruise. During this time, Doyle interviewed with Mike Sanders, host of a syndicated radio show, Blues Quest. The first show featuring this interview is scheduled to air on WEVL- FM in Memphis, Thursday, Dec. 6th at 9 a.m. CST.
For future airings please check with local stations.
It will air on High Plains Public Radio and Mississippi Public Broadcasting for the first time in the summer of 2007. Each show is aired twice on each station.
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Thursday, November 30
Richard Skelly's
Low-Budget Blues Program
Thursday, 8-10 p.m. EST
WRSU, 88.7 FM
www.nj.com/wrsu
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THIS FRIDAY-DECEMBER 1
DOYLE IN NYC--First time in 14 years!
Come join us in New York
at the Knitting Factory
Denny Freeman, Mike Keller & Jim Milan will unite with Doyle for for this show--see tour dates page for details.
tinyurl.com/4kw6t
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All show dates are posted as they are confirmed.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
8/11/06
What a special night it was at the Granada Theater in Dallas! Bugs Henderson and his great band, then Doyle, Mike Keller and Jim Milan took the stage and rocked the house-and if that wasn't enough, longtime friends, Anson Funderburgh and Smokin' Joe Kubek, joined Doyle onstage to finish out the set.
Doyle and Anson backed up Lightnin' Hopkins more than 30 years ago at the Granada and this month the newest owners, Mike & Mike are celebrating their 2nd anniversary with the Granada-so visit
tinyurl.com/m7r6f
and see what great music is on their calendar.
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June 17, 2006
Railroad Blues
Another great time at Railroad Blues! A hearty Thank You to all who turned out and to Richard, RC and staff for helping make it a memorable night..we love Alpine, Texas.
Recording Update
Doyle continues working on his latest recording and the projected release is Feb/Mar 2007. Keep tuned in for lastest news.
Austin City Limits Festival, 2004
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DOYLE BRAMHALL
Anyone seeking the finest Texas blues and soul need look no further than Doyle Bramhall. The singer, drummer and songwriter has been at the heart of the new Texas blues scene since its birth in his native Dallas in the 1960s. He and Jimmie Vaughan transplanted that renaissance to Austin in the early ‘70s with the band Storm, and Bramhall later wrote a number of signature songs for and with Stevie Ray Vaughan, including “Change It,” “Tightrope” and “Life By The Drop.” And, yes, he is the father of Doyle Bramhall II.
His own albums place him in the same artistic pantheon as the luminaries he has worked with. His 1994 debut, Bird Nest On The Ground, featuring both Vaughans and his son on guitar as well as the Memphis Horns, was a masterwork of grooving Texas blue-flame soul that spotlighted Bramhall’s hearty shout of a voice. Last year’s Fitchburg Street paid tribute to some of the influences on his singing and style and included a restored version of his original demo of “Life By The Drop."
Austin City Limits Festival
Austin City Limits festival is great--we had a lot of fun. Music lovers , if you have never attended, make plans to go...just a great festival.
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From the Austin-American Statesman
May 2004: Music
Bramhall's bond with old friend went far beyond writing
By Brad Buchholz
May 6, 2004
Follow the link to the article --> tinyurl.com/5rvhs
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HAPPY BLUES YEAR:
2003 produced some of the best
From the Asbury Park Press 1/02/04
By Richard Skelly
Through an act of Congress on February 1, 2003 was declared “the year of the blues.” One hundred years have passed since W.C. Handy first heard a man “playing the weirdest music I ever heard” in a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi.
A few years later, he decided to try his own hand at writing blues songs. “St. Louis Blues” followed in 1914, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Here in no particular order, are the best recordings I’ve heard in 2003, all released by contemporary, living artists.
Doyle Bramhall “Fitchburg Street” (YepRoc Records)
The drummer and singer who wrote songs with Stevie Ray Vaughan through his glory days in the 1980s is back on the scene with a powerful album. Though only one of these songs is from Bramhall’s pen, the production values on the album are excellent. Bramhall and his band also are one of the most powerful blues acts you’ll ever see live. Unfortunately, their touring has been concentrated around Texas and Louisiana. Here’s hoping that changes in the New Year, and Bramhall and company bring their unique roadhouse blues stylings to clubs and festivals in New Jersey and New York.
more-tinyurl.com/4r868
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