Reckless Kelly at SXSW Music Festival 2008:
11:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, BMI Showcase
Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces St.
Information: www.sxsw.com/music
www.recklesskelly.com
ROOTS ROCKERS RECKLESS KELLY TO PREVIEW UPCOMING ALBUM IN SHOWS DURING SXSW MUSIC 2008
Special Appearances Include BMI’s Austin Music Hall Showcase
Austin, TX — Reckless Kelly will be all over South By Southwest 2008 with performances of its hard-line, broad-shouldered Americana roots rock, special promotions and parties, and multi-media interviews including in Studio SX at the Conference trade show.
Reckless Kelly plays at 11:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, during the BMI Showcase at Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces St., with cuts from its new studio album, BULLETPROOF (slated for June), that give listeners more of the band’s rock side. Band member Cody Braun described recent shows this way: “It’s pretty fun, high-energy, kind of rock ’n’ roll with a fiddle. … There [aren’t] any teddy bears or roses onstage.”
Reckless Kelly — lead singer-songwriter-guitarist Willy Braun, brother Cody on fiddle, mandolin, harmonica and vocals, lead guitarist David Abeyta, bassist Jimmy McFeeley and drummer Jay Nazz — is also part of the Yep Roc Day Party, set for Friday, March 14, at Dirty Dog Bar, 505 E. Sixth St., and will play 6-6:30 p.m.
The day before, at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, March 13, the wildly funny, ad-lib-mad members of Reckless Kelly are scheduled to do an interview in the laid-back Studio SX, at the trade show in the Austin Convention Center, where the brains of Festival artists and speakers and music, movie and interactive industry leaders are picked and registrants can watch. Most interviews will be posted at www.sxsw.com.
The band will log its time at SXSW with a video blog — taping its own performances, interactions with fans, downtime and more — to be posted at CMT.com, which wants to give Reckless Kelly and country/alt-country/bluegrass music lovers a virtual backstage pass during the Festival.
Also during SXSW and its regional promotion with Dr Pepper and Wendy’s restaurants, Reckless Kelly and other showcasing artists will appear on their own drink cups with the SXSW logo and a coded tear-off coupon for prizes and MP3 “song of the day” downloads from a special Web site that will also include links to artists’ Web or MySpace pages.
Spring will find Reckless Kelly continuing its national touring as it puts the finishing touches on the upcoming release, its seventh album, with dates in the East and Midwest, including shows in Nashville, Atlanta and Chicago.
Upcoming Reckless Kelly shows include:
March 8, Luckenbach Dance Hall, Luckenbach, Texas (Sorry for Partying)
March 14, Dirty Dog Bar, Austin (Yep Roc Day Party)
March 14, Austin Music Hall (BMI Showcase)
April 5, Floores Country Store, Helotes, Texas
April 12, Galveston County Fair & Rodeo, Jack Brooks Park, Hitchcock, Texas
April 14, Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, N.C.
April 17, Exit/In, Nashville
April 18, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta
April 19, The Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, N.C.
April 23, Varsity Theatre, Baton Rouge, La.
April 25, Melody Mountain Ranch, Stephenville, Texas
April 26, Duck Jam 2008, Wolf Pen Creek, College Station, Texas
May 8, Longhorn’s, Manhattan, Kans.
May 9, Granada Theatre, Lawrence, Kans.
May 10, Joe’s, Chicago
June 7, Copperas Branch Park, Highland Village, Texas
June 10, Joe’s, Chicago
June 28, House Pasture Cattle Co., Concan, Texas
July 3, Dude Bra Brew Fest, Jackson, Wyo.
July 4, 4th on Fourth Street Party, Ketchum, Idaho
July 5, Tamarack Pavilion, Donnelly, Idaho
July 17-21, Cross Canadian Ragweed-Carnival Cruise
August 29, Sam Houston Race Park, Houston
Interview times are available as well as press kits.
To listen to MP3s and to download hi-res images and more, visit:
http://www.mcguckinpr.com/mcguckin/recklesskelly/recklesskelly.htm
Also see www.recklesskelly.com.
