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"Sweet Freedom" CD News - Released January 17, 2009:

"The 7th project from this award winning indie singer/songwriter is colored by themes of freedom, faith, love, and challenging the status quo - it is like Ben Harper, Dylan & Springsteen all shaking hands."

CD packaging is environmentally friendly.

Official CD release concert for "Sweet Freedom" at Earth House at 237 N. East Street, Indpls., IN on January 17, 2009 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

Go to the following link for concert pics - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=60600&l=673a5&id=603953300

Pre-release concert was on Friday, October 17th, at Claddagh Downtown Indy from 10:00pm - Midnight. This was done for the Heartland Film Festivals filmmakers reception. "Sweet Freedom" was included in the VIP Gift Bag for the top 100 filmmakers attending the film festival.

"Sweet Freedom" CD song list:

1. Faith & Fingertips

2. Sweet Freedom

3. Chicago For the 1st Time Again

4. Afghanistan

5. Chapter Five

6. Hello America, I'm Here

7. I Don't Want You for a Friend

8. Trying Time Blues

9. Attica Girl

10. One Blood

Check out www.cdbaby.com/cd/ladaugherty for other song clips and to purchase digital downloads and the album. Digital downloads also available to purchase on Itunes.

January 19, 2009 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day- Check out "One Blood" video from the CD Release concert on Jan. 17th.

November 11, 2008 - Veterans Day 2008 - "Afghanistan" song added in honor of our troops. Go to www.youtube.com/lukeaustindaugherty for "Afghanistan" video.

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More News:

Luke is the anchor performing artist and the co-founder of the "Robbing the Bank" art series that is an annual event at the Art Bank at 811 Mass. Ave., Indpls., IN. In 2008 there were 3 dates and 3 are also scheduled for 2009. These events showcase visual & performing arts along with spoken word and poetry in a Bohemian-style...i.e., sharing of art to create new art during the evening. Contact Luke if you would like to be involved. Go to the link below under top friends. 2009 event dates - May 1, July 3, Sept. 4 - go to www.myspace.com/robbingthebank for more info.

A mini-"Robbing the Bank" (RTB) is joining the Roots & Rhythm Fest in Mooresville, IN. Luke will perform from 11am-noon with music all day. BOKU Gallery will host the mini-RTB from 10am - 4pm...many Art Bank artists creating art!

Tenderness Tour "Give a Girl a Chance" CD Release Party June 14, 2009. Luke along with 18 other singer/songwriters and bands donated a song to this fundraiser to support agencies who help the mission of "A Peaceful Home for Every Child." go to www.tendernesstour.com . An end of Tenderness Tour (i.e., Richard Propes wheel chair tour from Terre Haute to Richmond, IN) concert scheduled for October 18th at Earth House in Indianapolis.

Luke won the top 3 singer/songwriter competition sponsored by Faith, Hope and Love International. He performed on Monument Circle and Conseco Fieldhouse along with headlining a 2008 tour with 6 other artists on the Breathe compilation CD that was recorded as a result of the competition.

Luke won the 2007 Momentum Award for "Blues Artist of the Year" in Franklin, Tennessee. This is an international competition.

Biography:

"All real and mostly true." This is how Luke Austin Daugherty describes his songs of love, faith, war, human nature and just plain tellin' stories. "I feel that my lot in this big music machine is to be a real artist singing real songs that matter. If I never hit it big (whatever that means), I just want to make some difference to the people I'm in front of. I've made a lot of sacrifices to do this and I don't plan to give up any time soon."

Not only a singer/songwriter, but a poet and painter, Luke Austin Daugherty pours the stuff of life into whatever vessel he is comfortable with. "There's something about being captured by a thought, feeling or moment when you can't hardly breathe until you've taken it captive in return. It's usually unexpected and happens in the strangest places. But if you don't respond, you've done humanity at least a small disservice. Everyone should have the opportunity to share in it. As for me, I try to put the cookies on the bottom shelf as much as possible and try not to make art, in whatever form, something for 'the elite'."

As an indie artist, Luke keeps a busy performing schedule along with being a crew leader for a international relocation company. "Hey, I just feel like a lot of the old blues-men of the last century. They would labor in the fields and then they would go burn down the juke joints at night or lift the rafters at church, because they couldn't not do it. It was in them. They stewed down the hardships and victories of life into songs and gave them to their small world. Music done that way comes from a more pure place in the heart. One that the industry's greed hasn't corrupted yet. I guess the only difference between them and me is I carry furniture and move folks for part of my living. I've had a lot of songs come from my travels, seeing the country, the people, missing my wife and kids and being so worn down I would have cried if no one was looking. I sometimes say it builds character in a joking way, but a lot of truth is spoken in jest."

Luke is an artist who deeply loves performing and puts his heart into sharing his music. As one who believes in collaboration and improvisation, he likes to keep things interesting for his audience. Playing acoustic and electric guitars, with harmonica and live loops, it makes for a great show.

As a 2005 Pulitzer nominated poet, Momentum award winner and other songwriting award winner, he has release 6 indie label CDs and published 3 books of poetry. He has played from Indianapolis to Nashville, TN and back again. He's been from the coffee house to Conseco Fieldhouse and played from venues that featured other indie's to Bruce Springsteen. He has come a long way, but there is still work to do. And he has more in his heart that has to get out.

For Management, Bookings & Merchandise: call Bella Louisa 317-887-1768 or email at bellalouisa@sbcglobal.net

You can order CDs and listen to more of Luke's songs at www.indieheaven.com/artists/luke

Go to www.cdbaby.com/cd/ladaugherty or Itunes to order "Sweet Freedom" CDs or digital downloads.

Luke covering Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" in Broad Ripple (Indianapolis, IN) at the Corner Wine Bar on Thursday, May 15, 2008. Dylan wrote and released this amazing song in 1963.

The last song performed at the Tenderness Tour's "Give a Girl a Chance" CD Release Party. This was a group song performed by those artists remaining at the event (Luke Austin Daugherty w/ Brian Borders, Jennie Devoe, Frank Bradford, Soulshine, Jeff DeHerdt).

Luke covered the song "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's during his Borders Tour (December 2007) for the release of his "Love, War & Metaphor" CD.

Luke Austin Daugherty at Cafe' Agape' in Carmel, IN on February 7, 2009 covering The Fray's "How to Save a Life."

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