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TRENT SUMMAR & THE NEW ROW MOB

Trent Summar & the Media

“High point [of his set during Palo Duro Records’ SXSW Showcase at Broken Spoke]: Images of a blond Elvis in his Louisiana Hayride days, legs spread wide and a red jacket flapping before going down on his knees and shaking off his straw cowboy hat. Songs about horseshoes, hand grenades, St. Peter and needing ‘a gooseneck trailer to haul your love.’ … Afterthoughts: Palo Duro Records should keep pushing this 40-year-old speed country artist because he writes songs that Jack Ingram and Pat Green will — and, in fact, did — cover.”
— Ed Crowell, Austin American-Statesman (3-19-07)

“Folks along Music Row keep rummaging through demo CDs hoping to find the kind of
whiskey-soaked songs that fall naturally from Summar’s pen and sound natural in Summar’s voice. Onstage, he’s a frenetic terror. On this album, he’s the embodiment of everything that all those chin-out, tough-guy country young-uns on CMT would try to become if they borrowed a clue from Hank Jr. or any of the other real dudes.”
— Peter Cooper, The (Nashville) Tennessean, when naming HORSESHOES & HAND GRENADES (Palo Duro, October 10) one of the best country albums of 2006

“[The album] is a rough-hewn, shit-kicker’s delight, an effort that mocks the sterile country confines of Nashville and revels in the Hill Country Americana spirit embodied in the likes of Doug Sahm and Jerry Jeff Walker. Sounding like Paul Westerberg fronting the Supersuckers, songs such as ‘Really Never Loved Her Anyway’ and ‘Guys Like Me’ reveal Summar as a keen observer of the darker side of rural romance.”
— Darryl Smyers, Dallas Observer (1-19-07)

“He’s called the King of Redneck Rock. He wears red pants. He’s labeled the electrified, wordplay-happy songs he writes farm rock. But for all his studied distinctiveness, Summar clearly wants to be accepted by the Nashville establishment. The tracks on ‘H&HG’ are uniformly more country radio-friendly than his more snarling, meth-paced earlier work. That noted, tunes such as the Buffet-esque title cut, ‘Pink John Deere’ and a punked-up ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ are stronger than 90 percent of anything else you'll hear on the AM.”
— Bob Strauss, LA Daily News (10-19-06)

“The rampaging title tune to Trent’s CD is a take-off on that old adage that close only counts in horseshoes. He drawls it with a grin in his voice, and the band cooks it with the gas blazing hot. This rocks my world.”
— Music Row’s Robert K. Oermann (9-08-06)

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/trentsummar/trentsummar.htm
Also see www.trentsummarmusic.com.

Contact: McGuckin Entertainment PR
Heidi Labensart, 512.478.0578; heidi@mcguckinpr.com
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com
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Artist Information:
Bio
Fact Sheet

Press Releases:
Jun. 8, 2007
Jan. 4, 2007
Nov. 13, 2006
Oct. 2, 2006

Press Coverage:
Jul. 10, 2007
May 2007
Mar. 19, 2007
March 2007
Feb. 12, 2007
Jan. 29, 2007
Jan. 26, 2007
Jan. 19, 2007
Jan. 12, 2007
Jan. 12, 2007
Jan. 1, 2007
January/February 2007
Dec. 10, 2006
Dec. 7, 2006
Dec. 4, 2006
December 2006
Nov. 13, 2006
November 2006
Oct. 19, 2006
Oct. 13, 2006
Oct. 13, 2006
Sep. 8, 2006