To download the new 3-song EP "I Can't Make You Happy" from itunes, click here:
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To download the new 6-song EP "New Songs For The Old Frontier Volume One" from itunes, click here:
Or to purchase the hard copy of "New Songs For The Old Frontier Volume One", click here:
Or you can buy it at Amazon.
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PRESS:
"A wonderfully gritty ramble through the peaks and valleys of love, letting harmonica, pedal steel and acoustic guitar buoy his lamentations"
- DFW.com, 6/3/09
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"One of the best Americana singer/songwriters in the game"
- Five Tunes, 6/17/09
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"One of 2009’s finest and most promising debuts so far, by quite some distance."
- Americana UK, 6/29/09
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"The genuine article...heartfelt and earnest with a smidge of sardonic wit"
- The Squawker, 6/12/09
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"These are alt country keepers from the Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt/Wilco branch of the tree.....Ronnie's raggedy raspy voice works perfectly with these honest story songs. I know I'm looking forward to “Vol II”."
- Hickory Wind, 4/30/09
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"Upon listening to the first song of the EP (New Songs for the Old Frontier - Vol 1), I was hooked. This is classic singer-songwriter gold..."
- The Gobblers Knob, 4/12/09
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"Last year, around this same time, I was delighted to listen to another EP from a gifted folk singer-songwriter, Joe Pug....Fauss shows an equal amount of promise and flair for simply telling a story that would likely be sterile and mundane in another’s hands."
- Twangville, 4/22/09
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"I think the biggest thing that really drew me into his music is the subtle hopeful quality that each song has underneath the sad, lonely veneer."
- Bona Fide Darling, 5/26/09
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"Fauss' mini-album is full of memory-inducing, twang-inspired americana. The simple production (courtesy of Brent Best of The Drams/Slobberbone fame) accentuates the old-time feel in a contemporary setting. The folky tunes are good by the themselves, however it's the inclusion of some simple colourings (harmonica, pedal-steel, mandolin) that take the tunes down the dusty roads and into the bar-rooms of Dallas where Fauss resides."
- High Noon Saloon, 5/17/09
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"For fans of laid-back, real deal country, this is an artist worth checking out. "
- Ghost Of Blind Lemon, 5/29/09
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"Gegarandeerd dat het een kanshebber was geworden voor cd van het jaar in mijn jaarlijstje. De invloeden van Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt/Hank Williams en Woody Guthrie zijn goed terug te horen in Ronnie’s zelfsgeschreven liedjes. Duidelijk aanwezig is de inbreng van Brent Best, mede door de gedrevenheid hoe Ronnie zijn liefdesliedjes en/of drinkliederen vertolkt. Ook is de tracklisting zorgvuldig gekozen. Afwisseling alom: Een nummer met pianobegleiding volgt een banjonummer op, dan weer een guitaarnummer. Muziekdia’s die na ieder nummer blijven wisselen."
- Alt Country Forum, 5/7/09
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All good music will take you somewhere and before I know it With Love has taken me to the bench back seat of a forest green 1971 VW van. My dad is driving while whistling to a Hank Williams song on the radio and my jackass brother is hogging way too much of my portion of rump support. This song is not good because it allows me to escape to a simple memory but because I know the writer went somewhere to write it. A place that is vacuous and yet robust with meaning. No one should be cheated of a Fathers presence so early.
Now before you remove the razor from your wrist we must cover what may be the two best songs on Ronnie Fauss’ new album "New Songs for the Old Frontier Volume 1". "The Saddest Love That’s Ever Been Made" is haunted with steel guitar tones from Dallas genius Joe Butcher and will make you wish for or grateful for the real love of another. It’s a pure nod to John Prine in classic country pain. The track "The Night Before the War" reminds you of the early alt country greatness of Uncle Tupelo and will make any fighting Irishman appreciate his last lovers quarrel.
The truly endearing side of Ronnie’s writing is not just embedded in the sad human condition but in the margins of the ridiculous. Monkeys are great attention magnets in public and have the same affect in two different tracks on "New Songs for the Old Frontier Volume 1". Happiness has a way of changing, inspiring and yet not ruining a songwriter. "The Last", "Hold On To Me", and "Pistols in the Air" provide a fun mid album respite from the heavy. Kick your feet up, shove that lime into your Dos Equis, throw the tennis ball for your dog and realize that life is grand and love is real.
New Songs for the Old Frontier Volume 1 is gritty, based in the real, will make you smile. Produced by Brent Best (of Slobberbone and the Drams) and full of an all-star lineup of great Dallas musicians, it is proof that determination and honesty still makes for great narrative.
Jason Mitchell
Dallas, TX
February 2009
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