LYNDA KAY PARKER: Vocals, Tenor guitar, Suitcase kickdrum DANNY B. HARVEY: Electric Guitar, background vocals, loud Foot Stompin'
THE LONESOME SPURS ARE A TRUE DUO IN THE SENSE THAT THEIR RECORDINGS ARE MADE LIVE IN THE STUDIO WITH JUST THE TWO OF THEM PERFORMING.
NO PERCUSSION OVERDUBS, NO GUITAR OVERDUBS, NO BASS OVERDUBS and NO VOCAL OVERDUBS
WHAT YOU HEAR IS WHAT YOU GET. HOPE YOU LIKE EM'.
Influences
Loretta Lynn, Pasty Cline, Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Flat Duo Jets, White Stripes, Clash, Elvis Presley, Wanda Jackson, Johnny Horton, Gene Vincent, Collins Kids
Lynda Kay Parker (from Dallas, Texas) and Danny B. Harvey (from Copperas Cove, Texas), first met in the back hills wilderness country of New Zealand while they were there with their local 4H club studying the art of sheep-herding. Their studies turned out to be a very important, but extremely boring, so to pass the time, Lynda Kay and Danny B. entertained the sheep, other US national 4H members, local shepherds and the town folk by playing their odd mixture of honky-tonk, rockabilly and garage music. Being as there were no drummers in the 4H class that year and longing for the clickety-clack of a train, Lynda Kay took her raggedy old suitcase, found in a second hand store outside of Austin, rigged up a dried out gourd with some bailing wire and, before long, turned her suitcase into a bona fide drum. By the time their summer program came to an end, they had forged their own unique, original sound, and had penned over 50 original compositions. They called themselves The New Zealand, Honky-Tonk Sheep Herding Garage Duo of Outrageously Clever 4-H Students Realizing that this name was somewhat long, they later would be become the LONESOME SPURS.
When they arrived back in the states, life took them off into their separate directions, but now they were both more determined then ever to become professional musicians and entertainers and to it on a personal mission to change the archaic musical landscape of America (and the world for that matter.) Of course it is well documented that they both had very successful careers in both the music and entertainment fields as individuals and members of successful groups, (note: use google if your curiosity is getting the best of you.)
In 2005, sensing the world was now ready for their musical vision, although the music industry was still chasing it's tail around, they reformed their combo The New Zealand, Honky-Tonk Sheep Herding Garage Duo of Outrageously Clever 4-H Students that they had started years earlier, renaming it to the much shorter, catchier and more appropriate name, LONESOME SPURS.
The rest of the story is soon to be history, because Lynda Kay and Danny B. are currently recording their first CD for CLEOPATRA RECORDS and will be starting their first major tour shortly after it's release.
Announcing DEMON STINK The new album from The Jooks of Kent
"Sounds like it was not only recorded live, but recorded live down a tin can to a tape recorder at the other end of a phone, and sounding great for it!" - Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
To purchase your very own copy (CD or download) go to CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/JooksofKent Or contact The Jooks of Kent directly (CD only) http://www.myspace.com/thejooksofkent Or buy from the Dirty Bobbers UK shop: http://www.dirtybobbers.co.uk/shop/index.php?cPath=27
FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
London-born with a heritage both European and Ghanaian, LEILA ADU was brought up in New Zealand, and is now based in Rome
She has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, the post-rock textures of Slint and Tortoise, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
Download from http://itunes.apple.com LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com
Stopping by to wish you a fantastic week!!! Hope all is going great with you!!! Check out my newest single Whipping Post on Texas radio NOW!!! I also hope to see you out at Armadillo Palace Wednesday November 11th @ 12:00pm for my interview and acoustic performance with 740 KTRH's Michael Berry (Texas Music Show) See you there!!! Love, ~Susan Hickman www.susanhickman.com www.reverbnation.com/susanhickman www.twitter.com/susanhickman