LUCKY TOMBLIN BAND IS “RED HOT FROM BLUE ROCK”

LUCKY TOMBLIN BAND IS “RED HOT FROM BLUE ROCK”

NEW CD DUE SEPTEMBER 12 INCLUDES SPECIAL BONUS DVD

CD RELEASE SHOW AT THE BROKEN SPOKE IN AUSTIN

AUSTIN, TX – Texas World Records announces a September 12 release for Red Hot From Blue Rock, the latest album from the Lucky Tomblin Band, which is distributed nationally by Burnside Distribution. In addition to the 13-song disc, the package includes a special bonus 35-minute DVD of the making of the album, which includes interviews with the band, as well as performances in the studio of seven songs from the CD.

The Lucky Tomblin Band will celebrate Red Hot From Blue Rock with a special CD release party show on September 12 at Austin’s legendary dancehall, The Broken Spoke.

The Lucky Tomblin band is a true all-star group consisting of some of the best players in roots music today: Lucky Tomblin (lead vocals), Redd Volkaert (lead guitar and lead vocals), Earl Poole Ball (piano and lead vocals), John X. Reed (lead guitar and lead vocals), Sarah Brown (bass and lead vocals), Bobby Arnold (rhythm guitar and lead vocals) and Jon Hahn on drums.

Produced by Casper Rawls (who also contributes some guitar work), Red Hot from Blue Rock is an apt description for this sizzling collection of songs delivered by Austin’s purveyors of homegrown Texas honky-tonk music. With two previous albums of critically-acclaimed roadhouse music under its collective belt, The Lucky Tomblin Band returns with yet another dance floor mix of both originals and well-chosen covers by such classic writers as Hank Williams (“Howlin’ at the Moon”), Jerry Lee Lewis (“End of the Road”), Moon Mullican (“Sundown Blues”), Mel Tillis (“Honky Tonk Song”), Buddy Knox (“Party Doll”), Tommy Duncan (“Time Changes Everything”) and Billy “The Kid” Emerson (“Red Hot”), among others. Of the originals, two were written by Sarah Brown (one co-written with Rosie Flores), and one was co-written by Earl Poole Ball and country Cajun Jo-el Sonnier.

The new album takes its title from the studio in the Wimberley, Texas, “hill country” just outside Austin where the tracks were recorded, Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studios, whose ambience and beautiful natural surroundings are perfectly captured in the accompanying DVD. The album was recorded and engineered by Keith Gary.

Bandleader Lucky Tomblin takes the lead vocals for four songs on Red Hot from Blue Rock, and also showcases the lead singing strengths of the rest of the group’s members throughout the rest of the tracks, with Redd Volkaert, Earl Poole Ball, John X. Reed and Sarah Brown each singing on two songs and Bobby Arnold making his singing debut on the Floyd Tillman classic, “I’ll Keep On Loving You.”

The Lucky Tomblin Band’s two previous CDs, the self-tiled debut in 2003 and In A Honky-Tonk Mood (2006), showcased a killer band in its true element: Texas roadhouse honky-tonk music perfect for listening and dancing. “If the Lucky Tomblin Band doesn't put you in a honky-tonk mood, there's either something wrong with you, or you're not really listening,” said one reviewer about the band’s sound. “This is classic honky-tonk as it was meant to be played,” said another. Perhaps yet a third reviewer may have had the best description yet of this music when he wrote: “Tomblin and crew deliver what a good time Luckenbach honky-tonk Saturday night must have felt like back when the earth was cooling. A real party on a platter for anyone with homegrown tastes.”
For more information, visit www.luckytomblinband.com or the band’s other site at www.myspace.com/luckytomblinband

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