NEW LIVE CHIP TAYLOR/CARRIE RODRIGUEZ CD SET FOR OCTOBER 2

NEW LIVE CHIP TAYLOR/CARRIE RODRIGUEZ CD SET FOR OCTOBER 2

RECORDED IN GERMANY IN 2005, CD FEATURES BILL FRISELL AND GREG LEISZ, WITH SPECIAL GUEST BUDDY MILLER


NEW YORK, NY – Train Wreck Records announces an October 2nd release date for Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Live from the Ruhr Triennale – October 2005, a very special live recording of the Americana music duo the Austin Chronicle called “the queen of hearts with a Texas accent and the jack of diamonds with the King Midas touch.” On the new live album, Taylor and Rodriguez, whose music Rolling Stone dubbed “by turns cosmic, whimsical and tender,” are backed by a band that includes guitar genius Bill Frisell, master instrumentalist Greg Leisz and special guest Buddy Miller. Train Wreck Records is distributed in the U.S. by RED Distribution.

The special circumstances that came about to create this magical recording occurred in October 2005 when Ruhr Triennale Festival curator Bill Frisell invited Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez to perform on their “Century of Song Series,” which celebrates the history of popular song as it came into prominence in the 20th century. In addition to their own songs, participating artists were asked to also feature their favorite songs from other songwriters of the past century.

The result is an album that includes not only a batch of songs Chip and Carrie recorded together, such as “Let’s Leave this Town,” “Laredo” and “Red Dog Tracks” (off their three studio albums), but also a number of Chip Taylor-penned classics regularly performed at their live shows (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning,” “The Real Thing”), and energized performances of such classics as “Today I Started Loving You Again,” “Long Black Veil,” “Big River” and “Maybellene.”

“My entire music career has been guided by physical sensations,” says Chip Taylor in the album’s liner notes. “That ‘chill factor’ was never more in evidence than at the Ruhr Triennale, in the Ruhr District part of Germany, on the evenings of October 11th and 13th of October, 2005. Surrounded by the magnetic sounds of Bill Frisell and the boys, Carrie and I rocked and floated in musical places we had never been.”

Accompanied Bill Frisell on electric guitar and loops, Greg Leisz on steel guitar and mandolin, David Piltch on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez reached creative musical heights those nights that permeate every track on the new live CD, imbuing new sparks not only into Taylor’s seminal compositions, but staples such as “Maybellene,” where the ensemble of guitars, fiddle, pedal steel and mandolin turn the Chuck Berry classic into a Western Swing hoedown. For the album’s closer, they’re joined by another superstar guitarist, Buddy Miller, for a rowdy rendition of Taylor’s seminal crowd-pleaser, “Wild Thing,” which the band proceeds to turn inside out, upside down and every which way but loose.

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Live from the Ruhr Triennale – October 2005 was produced by Lee Townsend and Chip Taylor and recorded with an ambience that brings the listening audience right into the mix of the songs with the performers on stage.

For more information on this CD and the other Train Wreck releases, please visit www.trainwreckrecords.com

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