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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
YEP ROC RECORDS TO RELEASE
DOYLE BRAMHALL’S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED
IS IT NEWS SEPTEMBER 18
“[Doyle Bramhall] is as influential as he is influenced...”—Austin Chronicle
Legendary Texas singer, songwriter and drummer, Doyle Bramhall returns with the long awaited Is It News, his first collection of original material. Yep Roc Records releases the album on September 18.
“I wanted to make an all-original record that was big, energetic, intimate, and unpredictable,” Bramhall states. To co-produce the album, he chose longtime friend and collaborator Louisiana swamp-rocker Charles “C.C.” Adcock. Adcock describes, “When Doyle asked me to co-produce this with him, I thought about him as a human being and what is the perfect portrait of this man I know pretty well and love dearly. Him as a songwriter, as a great singer and deliverer of those songs, a consummate drummer and beat man, and someone who’s always surrounded himself with amazing guitar players.”
Appearing on Is It News are Bramhall’s son and guitar master Doyle II, bandmates from the past Denny Freeman and Jimmie Vaughan as well as Adcock, Mike Keller, Mato Nanji, bassist Scott Nelson, keyboardist Billy Etheridge among others.
Is It News features 12 songs written over the course of Doyle Bramhall’s personal and musical life. “Chateau Strut,” was originally constructed in 1974 when Bramhall, Stevie Ray Vaughan and keyboardist Billy Etheridge were warming up at Club Chateau in East Texas, and “Cryin’,” written in 2005, was recorded in post-Katrina New Orleans at The Nappy Dugout & Up with Mike Napolitano.
Doyle Bramhall has been an integral part of the Texas music scene for over 40 years beginning with his first band The Chessmen, who opened for Jimi Hendrix in 1968 when Bramhall was still in his teens. Following the success of his acclaimed solo debut Bird Nest On The Ground (1994), Bramhall went on to produce critically acclaimed albums by Marcia Ball, Indigenous, and Chris Duarte. He released his Yep Roc debut, Fitchburg Street—a heartfelt ode to the blues and R&B—in 2003.
A national tour in support of the album will be announced shortly.
For more information, please contact Mary Moyer or Carla Sacks
at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000, mary@sacksco.com or carla@sacksco.com or Bill Bentley at bill.bentley@yahoo.com
We hope you come back to Houston soon! We'll be there if you do! We really enjoyed yall's set with Nick Curran and Casper Rawls on guitar! Thanks for letting us open the show that time!
WE HAVE FINALLY COMPLETED FOUR ALBUMS FOR OUR FOUNDATION TO HELP THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS IN NEED FEATURING LOUIE BELLSON, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, EARL PALMER, HUBERT SUMLIN, LEVON HELM, DR. LONNIE SMITH, JIMMY COBB, CHUCK E. WEISS, JAVON JACKSON, CLEM BURKE, LARRY CAMPBELL, AIRTO MOREIRA, COUGAR & RUBEN ESTRADA, WASHBOARD CHAZ, MIKE WATT, STEVE JORDAN, DANNY 'KOOTCH' KORTCHMAR, JOHN BOUDREAUX, JAMES GADSON, TANMOY BOSE, CLIVE BUNKER, IRA COLEMAN, PETER ERSKINE, JERRY JUMONVILLE, PETE LOCKETT, SANTA DAVIS, JOHNNY VIDACOVICH, SAM CARR, BILL BRUFORD, KEITH CARLOCK, STANTON MOORE, SOUHAIL KASPAR, AFRICAN MUSICIANS, NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, GOSPEL CHOIRS, CLASSICAL ENSEMBLES, TAP DANCING, LATIN ENSEMBLES, MARDI GRASS INDIANS, STREET MUSICIANS, DJ RE-MIXES, ETC. . . Currently looking for the right record company to release these wonderful gems. Please, help us support thee cradle of modern music!!! Regards, Fabian Jolivet
Hi, Big Doyle!!! Look at it!!! DBII & Band @ Antone's~ Jan,9-2009... From my gorgeous friend Abbie... "So You Want It To Rain" is a pretty amazing song!!! The record is sharp and wonderful... Beautiful shot... Baby Doyle rules with his awesome band!!! Cheers...
..::A Wish for a Friend::.. ...:::Irish Blessing:::.... Wishing you a rainbow For sunlight after showers— Miles and miles of Irish smiles For golden happy hours— Shamrocks at your doorway For luck and laughter too, And a host of friends that never ends Each day your whole life through!!!
Hope you had a great Mardi Gras ... It is "Carnival" in Brazil, a very popular party ... I think visit New Orleans or Louisiana would be beautiful and funny today!!!
According to Steven Thomas, it's your b'day! so....Happy Birthday! I met you @ the Eric Clapton's Crossroad festival,Dallas...I was the one driving the golf cart. I took you & a friend to your car or somebody's car!lol take care. God Bless
A little bird in Dallas, TX, said it was your birthday....so in my best Texas accent.... HaPpY BiRtHdAy to you ~ ~ HaPpY BiRtHdAy to you ~ ~ happy birthday ~ ~ Doyle....happy birthday to YOOOUUUU. Now aren't you glad that wasn't done in person...
Hi Doyle- Listening to Sirius/XM Bluesville the other day; heard your live version of "Life By The Drop." Most excellent! Come back to Houston soon- AmyJo
Happy New Year, mate. Just thinking about a trip we took to K.C. in an old Ford station wagon-no heater. Musos are not mechanics!! One of my favorite memories. Love you and your work. dj
