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The Road Hammers: General Info

Member Since	3/10/2005
Band Website	www.theroadhammers.com
Band Members	Clayton Bellamy Jason McCoy Chris Byrne Management/Media/Interview inquiries please contact airstripmusic@gmail.com
Influences	The trucker greats, from Del Reeves to Red Sovine
Record Label	Montage Music Group
Type of Label	Indie

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Jul 9 2009

8:00P

Ottawa Blues Festival

Ottawa, Ontario

Jul 10 2009

8:00P

Stockey Centre

Parry Sound, Ontario

Jul 11 2009

11:00P

Holstein Rodeo

Holstein, Ontario

Jul 13 2009

7:00P

NEMO Fairgrounds

Kirksville, Missouri

Jul 18 2009

10:00P

Rotary Festival

Sault Ste Marie, Ontario

Jul 25 2009

8:00P

Gateway Festival, Bengough Park

Bengough, Saskatchewan

Aug 1 2009

8:00P

Boothill Jamboree

Muirkirk, Ontario

Aug 14 2009

8:00P

Havelock Country Jamboree

Havelock, Ontario

Aug 15 2009

8:00P

Rusk County Fair

Ladysmith, Wisconsin

Aug 22 2009

8:00P

Eagle Village Country Fest

Kipawa, Quebec

Sep 6 2009

8:00P

Shawville Fair

Shawville, Quebec

Sep 11 2009

8:00P

Johnson County Old Settlers

Olathe, Kansas

Sep 12 2009

8:00P

CCMAs

Vancouver, British Columbia

Sep 25 2009

8:00P

Casino Niagara

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Oct 10 2009

8:00P

Chrome Shop Mafia

Joplin, Missouri

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About The Road Hammers

“It doesn’t matter if you drive a car or a Harley… a mini-van or an 18-wheeler – it all comes down to basic human nature,” says Jason McCoy. “There’s a bit of Jekyll and Hyde inside all of us. We want to be domestic animals, but on the other hand we have this natural urge to set out and conquer new worlds. You’ll find this in the heart of the highway.”

That’s exactly where McCoy, and fellow Road Hammers Clayton Bellamy (vocals/guitar) and Chris Byrne (Bass and Backing Vocals) found inspiration for their new record, The Road Hammers II. Equal parts blazing southern fried rock and deep country soul, The Road Hammers II has all the ingredients that made their debut the perfect driving record. Born on the road, forged in blood, sweat, concrete and steel, the new album features 11 no-nonsense tracks that are sure to cement the Hammer’s reputation as one of Canada’s most compelling country acts.

Road Hammers II finds McCoy and company stretching out some. It’s sonic and lyrical depth built on a solid, four-year foundation of writing, recording and rolling down the highways together.

Where their first record featured trucking favourites like Jerry Reed’s “Eastbound and Down” and Del Reeves', “Girl On the Billboard,” (which hit 1 at CMT Canada), with the exception of a signature Hammer take on the John Martin Summers’ classic, “Thank God I'm a Country Boy,” the new record is weighted heavily in favour of original material. The Road Hammers II features raw, riff-heavy anthems like “Cowboy ‘Til I Die,” “No Time for Long Goodbyes” and “Freewheelin’,” complete with Skynyrdesque dueling guitars, wailing Hammonds and the band’s signature harmonies; McCoy’s deep country drawl speaking from the heartland, Bellamy’s trademark urgency bringing the rock, and Byrne’s sky-high harmonies soaring above. There’s ample wry humour, too - songs that find the Hammers cracking wise about everything from “Getting Screwed” by the taxman to the joy of finally finding “A Girl Who Loves To Truck.”

Recorded in Nashville’s Sound Emporium, Airstrip Studios and the Electric Sandbox with McCoy’s long time producer and sonic midwife, Scott Baggett, at the wheel, this second trip down the highway is an even stronger take on what the Hammers do best. It’s a no holds barred, rough and tumble ode to the road that walks the line between celebrating life working the highway and straight talk about the damage done along the way.

"We're not all 19-years-old and leaving nothing behind,” Bellamy says. “You're trying to keep the band going and make sure your wife's happy and the kids are looked after.”

Correspondingly, the record spends as much time on the rewards of tearing a strip off the highway as it does the risks of holding two separate lives together, ‘one to make a living and one to make it all worthwhile.’ Tallying up the wounds on songs like “I’ve Got the Scars To Prove It,” and taking a longing, if tongue in cheek, look back home on “Workin’ Hard At Lovin’ You” and lead single “Homegrown.”

Still, there’s not much call for staying at home if you want to play 6 nights out of 7 – “Touring,” says McCoy, “that's where music comes alive.” Especially for a band that routinely leaves everything on stage, night after night after night. “Coming off a solo career, working with a band really energizes you,” McCoy says, by way of explanation. "All of a sudden you’re starting from the bottom again. It reminds you why you got into this in the first place.” That may be, but it hasn’t taken long for The Road Hammers to rise to the top.

With their undeniable chemistry; their high-octane live show energizing a growing fan base across North America (and prompting an on-the-spot invitation for second play at the Grand Ole Opry, before the sweat even cooled from their first one); their self-titled 2004 debut yielding 4 Top 10 hits, including the 1 Country Radio smash, “East Bound and Down,” and domestic sales in excess of 80,000 records; sharing the stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Roy Clark; inking a US deal with Montage Records; filming back to back seasons of their hit TV series (which air repeatedly on GAC-TV in the US and returns to CMT for another run in February ’09); and picking up an unholy head of steam and their fair share of hardware along the way (including CCMA’s for Best Group or Duo two years running in 2005-06, best video for 2006’s “East Bound and Down” and the 2006 Juno for Country Recording of the year) - The Road Hammers have put some serious miles between themselves and the bottom.

Not bad for a band that McCoy started as a bridge between his own solo efforts. Still, he’s frustrated by the time it’s taken for the band to get a follow up record into Canadian hands. “The wheels were moving so slow. We’ve been sitting down in Nashville, writing songs and being ready for this record for two years.” In the end though, "We got more in the can because we were sitting on our cans,” he adds, laughing.

That said, make no mistake, The Road Hammers have lived every mile of this record personally – McCoy, hitting the road at 18, and racking up a mess of CCMA’s and Junos as a successful recording artist in his own right; Byrne, ditching high school at the eleventh hour to take an out of town recording gig, and Bellamy, a self-described motor head, hitting the road, first as motocross racer, and then with his own project for several years. While it was toss up between racing and music for Bellamy, just like the rest of the band, it’s in his blood to be on the road. “It has to be torn from the flesh,” he says. “You have to live it, or have lived it, to be real.”

That’s what The Road Hammers bring to the stage and the studio, a realness and rawness stemming from a long, steady love affair with the highway and a willingness to bet the farm on it, repeatedly, to see what’s around the next corner.

Not to say it’s always a smooth ride. “We call it the blessed union,” McCoy says. “We can hate each other all we want on a Tuesday and by that night it's like ‘oh yeah, that's why we're here.”

“It's like a gang,” Bellamy adds. “We can mess with each other…”

“But,” says Byrne, “try and stand in between us and there's hell to pay.”

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Paul Tolle	Jul 5 2009 4:10 PM Just stopped by to say thanks for the add!
jezebel	Jul 6 2009 6:38 AM yahhh!!! can i say i love your gal truckin' song......
Red Yeoman	Jul 1 2009 4:42 PM I hope you all have a Great 4th of July this year. !!!
sexything26	Jul 2 2009 4:28 PM Hey,how's it going? Just dropping by to say hi and to tell you guy's that you rocked Medicine Hat,AB lastnight,Awesome Show. Keep on ROCKIN guy's.
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Tex Glitter Online Now!	Jun 28 2009 9:21 AM Thanx to you!!! LoveAlWays.... Tex Glitter
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Robert Burgeis	Jun 30 2009 3:40 PM How the heck have you been. Havent heard from you in a while so thought i say hello..We just finished filming my new GAC-CMT music video, very exciting. So what have you been up to? I wrote a blog with all the details about my new music video, you should come check it out would love to hear your comments..Thanks and keep in touch. -RB-
Steve Oliver	Jun 30 2009 11:32 PM Thanks for the friendship, I really appreciate it. Stop by anytime to listen to my music or to say hi!
RNA project	Jul 1 2009 9:38 AM Hey there The Road Hammers Just popped in to say hi and to stay in touch. Cheers RNA Project Hugs from me XXXXXXXXXXX Ronni, Vocals for RNA Project, Sydney Australia.
Nancy	Jul 1 2009 3:52 PM Hi Road Hammers...have a HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! L~nancy
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Huey Stark	Jun 24 2009 3:12 AM im supporting the Road hammers in the back window of my mini Pete, hope yall come back to Texas soon
darlene	Jun 25 2009 12:53 AM just showing some love. i hope the rest of your week is good.
::KELLI::	Jun 25 2009 2:25 AM For goodness sake, don't let me forgot to come see the show July 13th...I'd just be a mess if I missed a show so close to home ;-)
TruckingSpace	Jun 18 2009 1:05 PM Thanks for adding us :) TruckingSpace - The online community where truckers can speak their mind.
Mark Slaughter	Jun 20 2009 7:13 AM Thanks for your friendship and support! Hope all is rockin' in your world! Have a blessed week, Mark
The Traceys	Jun 13 2009 5:30 PM Thank you so much for honoring us with your precious friendship.... Love your sound! We hope that you have are having a wonderful morning and that the adventures of your Life feel like a ride on the mystery train of Pure Joy.....Thanks again....
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