Bloodshot Records 2007 Release Update

Press release
Source: Bloodshot Records

Steel Guitar Heart Attack

THE SILOS COME ON LIKE THE FAST LANE IN STORES 2/20/07
“The band’s austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons…”
- The New York Times

After 20 years as the leader of The Silos, it would be easy for Walter Salas-Humara to sink into a creative comfort-zone, turning out likable, catchy tunes with zero edge. Not so. Come On Like The Fast Lane buzzes with rock energy reminiscent of the proto-punk lower East Side legends like The Velvet Underground and Television, punched up with pop melodies that resuscitates a sound that never went out of style. The songs on Come On Like The Fast Lane play out like minimalist short stories framed by the spacious, guitar-heavy arrangements the band is known for.

On Come On Like The Fast Lane, recorded in Phillip Glass’s Looking Glass Studios, The Silos put their power-trio to the test. The band employs layered guitars to add depth and transcendence to the album’s introspective tracks, switching to ferocious, hook-laden rock to part the clouds and land back on terra firma. It will come as no surprise that early in their career, The Silos were named “Best New American Band” by Rolling Stone magazine.

GRAHAM PARKER DON’T TELL COLUMBUS 3/13/07
“Parker can still channel his youthful indignation into sharp shocks to the system – literate songs that dissolve bitterness into sweet melodies.”
- Entertainment Weekly

Sometimes an artist is anointed a “legend.” Sometimes this artist’s body of work is so consistently lauded, of such ongoing interest and creativity, people take the level of craft for granted. Sometimes such an artist, after a time of flying beneath the radar, emerges with a run of stunning material ascending beyond time and genre. Sometimes this artist casts a shadow large enough they are known by just their initials. GP is such an artist and this is his time.

30 years into a storied career in rock ‘n’ roll that started in the mid-70’s with his band the Rumour (pre-saging new wave, pub rock, and punk) Graham Parker finds himself at the absolute top of his game. Hot on the heels of Your Country (2004), Songs of No Consequence (2005) and the blistering live album 103 Degrees in June (2006), Don’t Tell Columbus crackles with desperation and redemption sung with rich, complicated emotional power. And hooks. Lots and lots of hooks. It is unhealthy, perhaps even obscene, that someone should be able to come up with an album this good this far into their career.

JON RAUHOUSE STEEL GUITAR HEART ATTACK IN STORES 3/13/07
“…zippy instrumentals and lovelorn ballads that rather wonderfully walk the hitherto undiscovered middle ground between SpongeBob SquarePants and Patsy Cline. “
- DIW Magazine

JON RAUHOUSE, the pedal steel and Hawaiian guitar whiz behind the recordings of Neko Case, Calexico, Kelly Hogan and many others, as well as two solo records, continues his Quixotic quest to keep instrumental music alive. Backed by Calexico, Steel Guitar Heart Attack is woozy, it’s swinging, it’s mournful, it’s joyful. You don’t need words, man, you just need a good rhythm while you’ve got the gin in the shaker. If you are a fusspot that needs some singing, there’s a few tracks sung by Neko Case, Sally Timms , Kelly Hogan and Rachel Flotard (Visqueen). These ladies will melt the ice in ANYONE’S punchbowl ...

DETROIT COBRAS TIED AND TRUE IN STORES APRIL 2007
"There's retro, and there's old-fashioned gut-busting rock and roll. The Cobras, our greatest current party band, define the latter category. Singer Rachel Nagy has Patsy Clines's pipes and Courtney Love's attitude. The band is raucous and raw. The songs are saucy classics. Hot damn!"
- Tim Mohr, Playboy

Crawling out from the weed-choked lots of the once proud town, The Detroit Cobras whip out ass-shaking anthems to good times, wild times, and the high and lows of L-U-V; you best believe it and you best not mess with it. Singer Rachel Nagy and guitarist Mary Ramirez are the bad girls by the exit doors at the school dance, all leather and heels, sneaking smokes and passing the flask. They have no time for dewy-eyed love songs or girl group decorum; they’ll take care of business themselves with a bat of the eye or an elbow to the kidney. Rachel’s "warm as the bourbon under the seat of your car" voice can boom to the back pews (Did we say "pews?" We meant "barstools") and Mary’s riffs let you know that love and good times can be found in the tilt of a hip or at the end of a fist.

2007 NEW RELEASES
BS 137 The Silos "Come On Like The Fast Lane" – February, 20, 2007
BS 140 Graham Parker “Don’t Tell Columbus ” – March 13, 2007
BS 133 Jon Rauhouse “Steel Guitar Heart Attack – March 13, 2007
BS 139 Detroit Cobras “Tied and True” – April, 2007

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