For Immediate Release
Aug. 11, 2006

RUBY DEE AND THE SNAKEHANDLERS WIN
BEST BAND HONORS FOR SECOND YEAR

Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers, the high-energy alt-country combo born in the Pacific Northwest, has won Best Band honors for a second year in a row in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's NWsource People's Picks 2006: this year, Favorite Signed Band.

Announcing the wins, NWsource said: "When this rock-solid Americana outfit won 'Favorite local band or artist? last year, we wrote: 'Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers make a sweet honky-tonk country racket that?s perfect for long road trips, lazy afternoons and jumpin? and jivin' at the corner bar.' Today, we believe may have underestimated the band a bit. Judging from the fervent anticipation that the band?s Conrad Uno-produced debut album NORTH OF BAKERSFIELD is generating, Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers may soon leap from the corner bar to the national stage."

The band's first full-length CD was released July 25 by Dionysus Records. It's currently finishing up the Washington leg of its CD release tour ? a tour that continues through California, the Southwest and Texas.

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://mcguckinpr.com/mcguckin/rubydee/rubydee.htm
Also see
www.rubydeemusic.com

Media Contact: McGuckin Entertainment PR
Heidi Labensart, 512.478.0578 p; heidi@mcguckinpr.com
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404 p; jill@mcguckinpr.com

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