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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DELBERT MCCLINTON AND FRIENDS ARE “ROCKING THE BOAT”

DELBERT MCCLINTON AND FRIENDS ARE “ROCKING THE BOAT”

NEW FILM DOCUMENTARY CAPTURES ESSENCE OF GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING PERFORMER ON HIS “SANDY BEACHES” CRUISE

AUGUST 1ST SCREENING SET AT WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL

KEAAU, HI – Every year since 1995, three-time Grammy-winner Delbert McClinton, known for his special brand of Texas roadhouse roots-rock, gathers together a bunch of his favorite musical friends and - along with 1,200 fans - boards a ship for a week-long voyage of non-stop music and fun in the Caribbean dubbed the “Sandy Beaches Cruise.” Now, filmmaker Jay Curlee has captured the essence of a showman’s life, what makes McClinton’s music so special, and why this cruise has been a perennial sellout in his new concert film and music documentary, Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey.

Rocking the Boat: a Musical Conversation and Journey has been selected by the 16th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It will screen at 7 p.m., August 1st at the Redfield Auditorium of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The festival is an eight-day showcase of independent film, featuring daily screenings, workshops, panel discussions and special events. For more information on the festival, visit www.woodsholefilmfestival.com. Jay Curlee will attend the screening, which will be the east coast premiere of the film. Curlee will also be on-hand for a Q&A session and panels at the festival. Rocking the Boat was the opening night feature of the 37th Annual USA Film Festival, and was also shown at the 27th Breckenridge Festival of Film.

Music performances were culled from over 150 hours of footage shot in high-definition aboard the 2006 Sand Beaches Cruise. In addition to a number of high-energy performances by McClinton, the film also includes (mostly original) standout songs from Rodney Crowell, Marcia Ball, Stephen Bruton, Wayne Toups, Jimmy Hall, Al Anderson, Tommy Castro, Paul Thorn, and Teresa James. The result is a shipboard musical gumbo of rock, blues, country, funk, zydeco and rhythm & blues. The film’s excellent sound was recorded and mixed by Chet Himes, a Grammy-nominated Austin engineer, who is currently re-mastering the library of the critically acclaimed music series “Austin City Limits” for release on DVD.

In addition to the music, the film includes interviews with McClinton and friends with stories about the joys – and rigors – of the road. Also included are vintage photos and video of McClinton during his over 40 years in music. Another Texas music icon, Kinky Friedman, makes a special appearance, giving his unique spin on Texas musicians and the culture itself.

Though long admired for his exceptional body of recorded work as well as his legendary live shows, Delbert McClinton really started appearing on the American mainstream radar in the late 1970s. He was one of the inspirations for the Blues Brothers, who covered his “B-Movie Boxcar Blues” on their first album. In 1980, he had a Top 40 hit with “Givin’ It Up for Your Love,” and later that decade wrote and sang “Weatherman,” the opening theme for the hit movie, “Groundhog Day.”

McClinton received his first Grammy in 1991 for a duet he sang with Bonnie Raitt, “Good Man, Good Woman,” which won the award as Best Rock Vocal. He has since won Grammy Awards for two of his own albums, Nothing Personal, released in 2001, and Cost of Living, released in 2005.

Rocking the Boat: a Musical Conversation and Journey is a production of JC Communications and is director Jay Curlee’s first feature. He has made more than 2,000 commercials and 200 programs while living his entire professional life in Hawaii. Executive producers of the film are Susan James and Arthur James. Rocking the Boat was produced by Yuri Biersach, Wendy Goldstein, Page Hite, Jim Friscia, W.T. Little, Lewis Stephens, and Gary Turlington. Director of photography is Ken Libby and film editor is Keoni Alvarez.

For more information or to purchase a pre-release limited edition DVD of the film, visit www.rockingtheboatmovie.com

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OMAR KENT DYKES AND JIMMIE VAUGHAN ARE RIDING ON THE JIMMY REED HIGHWAY

NEW RUF RECORDS CD DUE AUGUST 21

SPECIAL GUESTS ALONG FOR THE RIDE INCLUDE KIM WILSON, LOU ANN BARTON, DELBERT MCCLINTON AND JAMES COTTON

AUSTIN, TX – Ruf Records announces the August 21 release of one of the most exciting and anticipated musical collaborations of the year, On the Jimmy Reed Highway, an all-star, Texas-sized salute to the blues master from two of the Lone Star State’s most prized musicians, singer/guitarist Omar Kent Dykes and guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. Joining Dykes and Vaughan for the ride is a celebrated list of musical guests, including Kim Wilson, Lou Ann Barton, Delbert McClinton and James Cotton.

In addition to a number of festival and special performances throughout the summer to promote the new CD, the core band – Dykes, Vaughan, Wilson and Barton – along with some special guests, will tape a segment of the critically-acclaimed television series, “Austin City Limits,” on August 22. Other shows already booked include the Notodden Blues Festival in Norway on August 4; Blues on the Green in Austin on August 8; Antone’s in Austin on August 24; House of Blues in Dallas on August 26; and the Long Beach Blues Festival in Long Beach, California on September 2.

Known for such classic blues staples as “Big Boss Man,” “Baby What You Want Me to Do” and “Bright Lights, Big City,” among many others, Jimmy Reed continues to be a huge influence on blues and roots music fans over 30 years since his death. He certainly was to a young Omar Kent Dykes growing up in McComb, Mississippi and Jimmie Vaughan in Dallas, Texas.

“‘Baby What You Want Me to Do’ and ‘Big Boss Man’ were allover Top 40 radio,” remembers Dykes. And when Omar played his first guitar, the initial chords he played came from a Reed song. “Jimmy Reed was huge in Dallas,” adds Jimmie Vaughan. “I learned how to play him by listening to the radio.”

Mississippi born and raised Omar Kent Dykes grew up on Jimmy Reed’s music and has honed that influence and others into a three-decade-long career as leader of one of the hottest blues bands anywhere, Omar and the Howlers.

Jimmie Vaughan is a Texas icon, a world-renown guitarist and founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the great roots band that led the vanguard of the blues explosion in the 1980s and helped put Austin on the musical map.

On the Jimmy Reed Highway began as an Omar Kent Dykes album, but once Jimmie Vaughan came into the studio “the songs took on their own life,” remembers Omar. “I figured Jimmie would come in and play a couple of solos, but he got so excited about it he stayed for the rest.”

That fever spread to anyone within earshot of the project, drawing a star-studded list of guests, eager to join in on the fun. They included another Austin legend, singer Lou Ann Barton, whose soulful vocals are featured throughout the new album, and who often tours with Vaughan. Not far behind was another original member of the T-Birds, harmonica master Kim Wilson, who reunites with his former band mate Vaughan on three songs. This marks the first time since Vaughan left the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1990 that he and Wilson have recorded together on disc. Three-time GRAMMY winner Delbert McClinton also guests on harp and joins Dykes on lead vocals for another Reed chestnut, “Hush Hush.” And another blues great, James Cotton, lends his distinctive harp sound to the sexy, pleading lyrics of “Caress Me Baby.”

Backing these stars On the Jimmy Reed Highway is an all-star crew, including guitarists Derek O’Brien and Gary Clark, Jr., harmonica player Gary Primich, bassists Ronnie James and Barry Bihm, and drummers Wes Starr, George Rains, Jay Moeller and Omar’s son, Jake Dykes.

Ten great Jimmy Reed songs are book-ended by two original songs that fit like a glove with the others: the opening track, “Jimmy Reed Highway,” and the closing, “You Made Me Laugh,” both written by Dykes and Steve Callif.

“Jimmy Reed’s music is sexy and smooth, and no one’s in a hurry. It’s flat-out cool,” says Jimmie Vaughan. Or as Omar Kent Dykes proudly states in his trademark growl on the first song: “The big boss man is still the man today!”

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On the Jimmy Reed Highway Song List

1. Jimmy Reed Highway 2. Baby What You Want Me To Do/ Bright Lights Big City
3. Big Boss Man
4. Good Lover 5. Caress Me Baby
6. Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth
7. You Upset My Mind
8. I'll Change My Style
9. Bad Boy
10. Baby, What's Wrong11. Hush Hush
12. You Made Me Laugh