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For Immediate Release
September 24, 2007
The Texas Sapphires Austin CD Release Show
Midnight Friday, October 12
The Continental Club, 1315 S. Congress Ave.
Cover: $8; Information: 512.441.2444
www.thetexassapphires.com
THE TEXAS SAPPHIRES
ON TEXAS TOUR AS NEW CD IS RELEASED
ROADHOUSE GEMS LIVE Features Boy-Girl Harmonies,
Fine Musicianship and Original Songs that Beguile Fans
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Sapphires, the five-piece alt-country-hillbilly-bluegrass combo, is set to release its ROADHOUSE GEMS LIVE @ John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes (Stag Records; October. 16, 2007), and is touring behind the new recording, with a show in Austin, more across Texas and a showcase at the Americana Conference in Nashville.
The Texas Sapphires play at midnight Friday, October 12, at The Continental Club, 1315 S. Congress Ave. Cover is $8; information: 512.441.2444.
ROADHOUSE GEMS LIVE, recorded in the famous Texas country store of John T. Floore, corrals new songs, songs that have become fan favorites, songs like “Stunt Double” and “Cold Silver Ring” — all featuring the Sapphire philosophy of great lyrics, great harmonies and great singing and playing, and capturing the electricity of a live performance.
Calling the band “a breath of fresh air,” Americana singer-songwriter Jesse Dayton of Austin blessed The Sapphires for “bucking the trend of the ultra conservative/safe Texas Music scene.” It spent the summer touring the Southwest, with shows in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, even Wyoming. It will start November playing a showcase at the Americana Music Association Conference in Nashville.
The band’s debut album on Stag (label co-owner Gary Moore says the combo fits the label’s sound “like a well-worn vintage boot”) was VALLEY SO STEEP, with a dozen songs like the swing-rocker “The Emerald Outlaw” that feature a classic twang and keen and clear harmonies by band front man Billy Brent Malkus and Rebecca Lucille Cannon, who “together make formidable duet partners.”
Dirty Linen magazine continued:“… While the band’s overall accomplished playing is enough to draw the listener in, The Sapphires’ real beauty lies with Malkus’ lyrics, which possess a poetic prose atypical of [roots-centric bluegrass, honky-tonk-country and singer-songwriter-folk]. Occasionally subtle metaphysical imagery seeps through, and many tunes are centered on quirky, humorous derelicts… Somehow it all works, and this disc can be treasured by those craving sharp steel guitar, fiddle and guitar flat-picking playing or those salivating for thought-provoking lyrics.”
In addition to Malkus (guitar, Dobro and piano) and co-lead vocalist Cannon, The Texas Sapphires are Bobby Daniel on bass guitar and Bob “Slim Bawb” Pearce on banjo, mandolin, Dobro and steel guitar. Honorary Sapphires include Lloyd Maines (Dobro, pedal steel), Kim Deschamps (pedal and lap steel, Dobro, banjo), Nathan Fleming (pedal steel, Dobro), Scotty Mathews (drums) and Justin Kolb (bass).
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/thesapphires/sapphires.htm
Also see www.thetexassapphires.com.
Contact: McGuckin Entertainment PR
Heidi Labensart, 512.478.0578 p; heidi@mcguckinpr.com
