For Immediate Release
July 18, 2006

Roots Rockers Reckless Kelly
Pre-release Show & Party
10:30 p.m. Friday, August 4
Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth
Tickets: $12 reserved, $9 general admission
Information: 817.624.7117
www.recklesskelly.com

RECKLESS KELLY MARKS RELEASE
OF CD/DVD RECKLESS KELLY WAS HERE
WITH SPECIAL PRE-RELEASE PARTY AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS

6th Album Moves Roots Rockers Forward in Direction, Sound

Austin, TX — The sixth album by roots rockin’ Reckless Kelly, the long-awaited RECKLESS KELLY WAS HERE (Sugar Hill Records; street date: August 8), is continuing to earn airplay, and the band is in the midst of marking its release, including with a performance at Fort Worth’s most famous music venue.

The band plays at 10:30 p.m. Friday, August 4, at the landmark Billy Bob’s Texas, 2520 Rodeo Plaza. Tickets are $12 reserved, $9 general admission; info at 817.624.7117.

RECKLESS KELLY WAS HERE is a three-disc DVD/CD package of kick-ass live performances — tight musicianship, harmonies and all — of the band’s best songs. The first single, “Break My Heart Tonight,” has already had early adds on and is climbing The Texas Music Chart.

The band’s hot-licks guitarist and album co-producer David Abeyta talks about the release. “On this live record there’s songs like ‘Hey Say May’ and things that people associate with the fun, party side of the band,” he says, “but you've also got songs like ‘Break My Heart Tonight’ that are a little darker, with a more somber theme. That sort of sums up Reckless Kelly in a way…”

In fact, RECKLESS KELLY WAS HERE shows off a subtle evolution in sound for the band. Mandolin and fiddle player and harmonies vocalist Cody Braun, who also co-produced the album, elaborates. “We started out as a country band trying to be a little edgier with the rock ’n’ roll stuff… That was the direction we wanted to go, and we did, and we’ve almost gotten beyond that point now, where we have to rein it in to keep some of the country in there. … Musically right now, we’re sitting at a place where we really want to try to build on the songs and set the bar a little bit higher with every record.”

The recording includes fan-fave covers “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” by Richard Thompson and Texas Tornado’s “Guacamole” (sung by Abeyta; watch the DVD to see the party song physicality performed by the entire band it). The whole enchilada was helmed by award-winning music video director Peter Zavadil and mixed in 5.1 surround sound by Grammy winner Elliot Scheiner, who has produced and engineered the likes of B.B. King, Aerosmith and The Eagles.

Besides a lot of explosive rock ’n’ roll, the 30-minute-plus bonus feature “Reckless Kelly Was Here, But They’re Not all There” includes a hilarious look at the band on tour with “Tips from the Road” and “The Art of the Deal.”

For Reckless Kelly’s itinerary, visit www.recklesskelly.com
Interview times are available as well as press kits and review CDs.
To listen to MP3s and to download hi-res images, album art and more, visit: http://www.sugarhillrecords.com/pub/publicity.cgi?Reckless+Kelly
DVD footage also available online
More fun footage that band members call RKTV can be viewed at the band’s Web site, www.recklesskelly.com.

Media contacts:
McGuckin Entertainment PR
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com

Sugar Hill Records
Kim Fowler, 612.297.6890; kimf@sugarhillrecords.com

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