James Dunning vocals, guitar Sean Isbell guitar, vocals Michael Scudiero bass Robert Anderson drums
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Influences
Son Volt, Johnny Cash, Three Dog Night, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Cormac McCarthy, The Luxury Liners, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Waylon Jennings, John Cougar Mellancamp, REM, Pearl Jam, Randy Rogers Band, James Joyce, Allison Krause and Union Station, The Jayhawks, Wilco, Van Morrison, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, our moms, George Jones, "The Magnificent Seven", John Wayne, Martin Luther King Jr., Blues Traveler, "The Muppet Show", Evangeline Lilly, Slaid Cleaves, Brad Miles and so many more...
One of my albums of the year. ... This has some of the most wonderful guitar playing I've heard all year, never overstated but matching perfectly the catchy melodic songs, with some great vocals and harmonies. Gets better and better with every play.
--Roger Proud (Remedyman)
With a sound heavy on electric guitar, light on Dobro and fiddle (also on drawl, yodels and references to cattle, cheatin' and George Jones), Lost Immigrants take their place, with their debut disc, on the New Texas landscape. It's a sound typified by Charlie Robison and Jack Ingram. But where Robison seems at home singing about throwing a few back and finding oneself at the wrong address when necessary, Lost Immigrants tend more toward yearning, hopeful songs about love and life choices.
-- Don Armstrong, CountryStandardTime.com
L’album comunque gode di una grande forza espressiva e di una coesione degna di band molto più note e rodate e conferma la validità di una proposta che raccomando caldamente.
-- Remo Ricaldone, LoneStarTime.com
The album bears repeated listening...their songs have got those great hooks that bring you back for more.
-- Cybermusic.com
A glorious and vivid testimony of coolness and integrity.
-- Ray Wylie Hubbard
Keep in mind that this is a live record, and as such it rocks sufficiently one minute while swaying sweetly the next…all the while maintaining the rough hewn textures one expects from an authentic live album. [...]
Dunning’s songwriting has as much in common with Rob Thomas and Adam Duritz as it does Van Zandt and Keen. That unique take on Texas music allows this band to stand out. Lost Immigrants create a version of Americana music that subdued without lacking intensity, a hard combination to pull of…but they do. This entire album is solid, but some of the songs I keep going back to listen to again are “Genevieve”, “Circle In My Hand”, and “Something Better”.
-- Brad Beheler, Lone Star Music Magazine (Apr/May 2009)
From a tradition of music rooted in heritage and home, honesty and hurt, sorrow and sunsets, emerge Lost Immigrants.
They are country music. They are rock.
They are saints. They are sinners.
They are idiots, and they are fools.
They are Texas Music.
This is their story. These are their songs.
The Lost Immigrants formed in fall 2004 with the birth of small collection of songs and an Americana music project. That collaboration led to weekly rehearsals, monthly gigs and frequent trips down Texas highways.
And victory in the second Shiner Rising Star competition in 2005.
Having heard the gospel of music since birth the Lost Immigrants became true believers at the altar call of the release of the first Lost Immigrants album Waiting On Judgment Day, produced by the high-priest of Texas music himself, Ray Wylie Hubbard.
In the two years that followed the album’s fall 2006 release, the band played almost constantly around Texas, while venturing into the Red Dirt country of Oklahoma and beyond to the hills of Tennessee and the mesas of Utah to play…not to mention embarking on an AFE Asian tour supporting American troops throughout Korea, Okinawa and Japan.
In the words of co-founder Craig Hinkle:
.."The Immigrants joined together on a journey... a journey that, without knowing, would take them through nearly every stage of life and places in between. And somewhere along they way, they lost themselves."..
In other words, they were baptized.
Baptized By Texas and the Texas music circuit. Over the course of those two years, the Immigrants encountered many changes. Anchored throughout by front-man and principal songwriter James Dunning and lead guitarist and harmony vocalist Sean Isbell, the band encountered many changes in the rhythm section, from a nearly revolving door behind the drum kit and the departure of Craig, the original bassist. Over time, a new lineup emerged, including Robert Anderson, recently departed from the nationally touring alternative rock band Deathray Davies on drums and Michael Scudiero on bass.
As with all believers emerging from the baptismal waters, the Immigrants have been reborn.
This new album, Baptized: Live In The Hill Country celebrates that rebirth. Recorded live from iconic Texas venues Gruene Hall and Luckenbach, TX over a single weekend in November, 2008. It features two new original studio tracks, “Get Lost” and “Baptized By Texas” along with twelve live tracks from those shows, including another new original, “Genevieve” that is only available live, two cover songs that are perpetual crowd-pleasers, and new arrangements of many of your favorites from the first album.
So join the Immigrants in celebration and let the cold water wash all your cares away to nada and get Baptized By Texas tonight.
i love your song "waiting on judgement day', i put it on my profile. it rocks. a new fan. thanks for the add. i look forward to the friendship. have a great one. Linda
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