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Category: Albums

0 What We’ve Been Up To Lately

07/10/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · General · Live Shows · Louisiana · New Orleans · North Carolina · On The Road · Video

Good times in Jackson, MS last night. But so much has happened since then and when we last talked. Hmm, let’s see… where to begin?

The six of us (Me’n’Charlie’n’Bootsy’n’Jimmy’n’Matt & Clay) arrived homeless back in New Orleans at the end of June from our S/SE tour. Bootsy left for Europe for a month, and the remaining five of us found a nice, cheap, big place in the Marigny to lay low for a while. We now live at 1234 Fake St:

We’ve been getting by, hustlin’, bustlin’ & busking (catch us today in Jackson Square and on Frenchmen late afternoonish, getting a slow start) & playing club gigs when we can pick up a drummer (Dave Shirley from E Company has been a godsend ringer). Catch us at Moe’s BBQ in Daphne, AL this Friday, and at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street this Saturday with E Company and the Alex McMurray Band. This show is going to kill…

Also, we’ve picked up a manager – the venerable miss Jaime Coggins. From Holy Ghost Tent Revival (of whom she also manages) to P-funk to Jaco Pastorius to Roberta Fleck, her taste is direct and without falter, and her judgment – keen and sharp like Japanese folded steel. She’ll be handling most of our business end from now on, I’ve updated our contact section should you need to contact her regarding gigs, private parties for the Queen of Atlantis, etc. Here’s a little Leonard Cohen / Dr. Dog mash-up to honor our new union:

Looking forward, we’ve got some big things planned for the rest of the summer. Bootsy gets back from Europe at the beginning of next month, and then the 6 of us will be hitting the road hard (check the sidebar for dates ->) – got another South/Southeast tour (TX, LA, MS, AL, TN, FL, SC, NC, VA) this August, then, come September, we’re headed to Colorado…

Big things in the horizon my friends…

It’s a funny thing, how life moves at such an incredible pace.

Your Friend,

~ Noah Adams

P.S. Our 4th album is fully recorded and currently being mastered by Bhob Rainey (who also did Volume Two, a true gentlemen of sound). Me’n’Charlie just finished hand-drawing the cover art ourselves this weekend. Peep it:

0 Vol. II Album Review in StereoGumbo

04/09/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums

Vol. II Album Review in StereoGumbo – Click the picture above.

0 What’s Going On

04/07/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · General · Live Shows · Louisiana · On The Road · Recording

Man, still resting up after this past weekend’s CD release run. Had so much fun, met some new people, and saw some old friends. Have you checked out the new record yet? It’s available pretty much everywhere for only $9.99:

iTunes

Amazon

Bandcamp

bing!!! — Man, look at that Bassface. CD Release party, 4/2 @ the Blue Nile

Tell your friends, tell your mama, we’re real proud of this one. We’ll be touring it all around America this summer, which I’ll tell you about in the minute.

In the meantime, what’s going on for Dirty Bourbon? What are we up to as of late? What’ve we got for that big ol’ horizon up ahead? Well, I’ll tell ya:

For the rest of this month we won’t be playing any shows. We’ll be training our new bari sax player – Matt “Slyfox” Thomas – and finish writing the songs for Volume III (our next album – the Old-Timey Afropop Gibberish Junction – is already written & tracked, just finishing up overdubs & mixing). Then, in May, we’ll kick off on the 5th for a super duper Cinco de Mayo partay with Glasgow & Vox & the Hound, followed by a month long tour on the eastern seaboard to support the release of Volume II – catch us with Blair Cimmins, Megan Jean & Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Then, come summertime, nother big NOLA show, then back to the east coast for another month. Then, this fall, we’ll be heading west to Colorado for another month tour! And then, we’ll come back home & release our 4th album – Old-Timey Afropop Gibberish Junction. Expect Volume III sometime around spring 2012.

So yup, we’ve got a lot of big things planned for the future.

And don’t forget – tell everyone you know about the new album! This beast’s spreading like wildfire, let’s keep that fire hot.

Aight? Aight.

~ DBRS

4 Album Review: Danger Painter’s IV

Album review of the Danger Painter's IV

04/05/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums

In the cosmos of music and art, the Danger Painter’s newest album, IV, is pretty insignificant. It’s no mega record like Zeppelin IV, it will probably never be toured, and not more than a few thousand people will listen to it, if that.

Then, you put fame and recognition aside, and if you are one of those few lucky wild at heart and weird on top-type people who have stumbled upon this unlikely record, you are left with a great feeling when you finish.

It makes you go Fuck Yeah.

The Danger Painters is comprised of longtime friends Bob Boilen and Michael Barron, formally of the DC band Tiny Desk Unit. IV, their 4^th album, was written and recorded in a single month for the RPM Challenge, a yearly music industry tradition created in 2006 to help foster greater levels of productivity among musicians. The result is a true gem.

In this record you hear influences from all across the board. It is a record that echoes all sorts of great things – primary vocalist/songwriter Barron weaves through the tracks like a starker Stuart Staples – walking on Ostinato Black Keys-styled riffs and crunchy Oreos of aural accoutrements courtesy of his friend Mr. Boilen. The 7^th track – Made on Earth (written by their bassist William X Harvey) – brings to mind Bowie and Radiohead. The 9^th track, Power Off, rides on an Edward Sharpe-like sensibility, throwing in a little hootenanny and Zeppelin III-style rústico in the mix. In this record you hear the influence of many artists. Yet no part of this record is imitative.

It is instead universal.

IV is stitched together with great ambition, considering the time crunch it was produced in. It is presented very well. Occasionally the musicianship wobbles, but not awkwardly; instead it feels almost necessary at times, reminding you that the album you are listening to did not come from some mega band like Zeppelin or the Talking Heads or the Decemberists – but that it was made by two everyday guit’n’gear slingers like you or I, just doing what we like, without regard for fame or glory.

IV is do-it-yourself self-driven music appreciation at its finest.

It is also slightly autistic in this celebration, like a good 80’s Daniel Johnston tape. It touches you in darkly places, like a good Tindersticks or Scott Walker song. It is also strangely spirited and cheerful. And it is sometimes downright weird (my favorite track, When the Saints, is just fucking out there, in the best way possible – you blip and blop around, groove-hopping on bubbles and sonic zaps – dig it). IV is, from a mass taste perspective – a big no no. Yet, at the same time, it is entirely human. Any of us could have made this record. We just didn’t take the time to.

Give it a listen, and then go out and make your own record. Next year I invite all you fellow songwriters to enter the RPM challenge – if anything, it’ll keep your chops up and yield fodder for a future project. And, if you’re lucky, it may even produce a gem like the Danger Painter’s IV.

Download the full record for free from the Danger Painter’s website.

0 An Incredible Weekend

04/04/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · General · Live Shows · Louisiana · On The Road · Photos · Recording

Thank you Baton Rouge, Mobile, Lafayette and New Orleans for giving us & Holy Ghost Tent Revival such an incredible weekend. Thank you Tin Men & Chubby Carrier for joining in on the festivities. Thank you everyone who came out and supported us. Man, this weekend was something else.

192179_641340521748_45702446_34038432_6870313_o — CD Release Party @ the Blue Nile. Photo by Josh Bradsted.

If you haven’t yet, check out the new album. It’s on Bandcamp, iTunes & Amazon now for only $9.99. And for everybody outside of this deep south bubble Dirty Bourb was born in, we will be coming to your city soon. We’ve got a whole host of dates on the Eastern Seaboard this May & June & some westward dates to follow in the Fall.

And once again, thank you. We hope you enjoy the new record.

~ The Dirty Bourbon River Show

0 Lafayette Tonight!

04/03/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · General · Live Shows · Louisiana · On The Road

Come see day 4/4 of Dirty Bourbon’s Vol II Gulf Coast tour w/ Holy Ghost Tent Revival. Tonight will feature 2011 Grammy winner Chubby Carrier and his Bayou Swamp Band:

0 Volume Two Gulf Tour Starts Tonight!

03/31/2011
by grainbeltthunk
· Albums · Live Shows · On The Road

Yes, yes good people, the weekend we have preping and preening for has finally arrived. To celebrate the release of ‘Volume Two’, we are doin a quick jaunt throught the Gulf that starts TONIGHT! in Baton Rouge with our friends Holy Ghost Tent Revival.

For those who lost track, here is the nitty gritty for the whole weekend:

Thursday, March 31st:

Baton Rouge, LA

Red Star Bar

222 Laurel Street

Doors @ 9pm Show @ 10pm

Friday, April 1st :

Mobile, AL

Callaghan’s Irish Social Club

916 Charleston St

Doors @ 6pm Show @ 7pm

Saturday, April 2nd:

New Orleans, LA

Blue Nile

Also w/ The Tin Men

532 Frenchman St

$10 cover, Show @ 10pm

Sunday, April 3rd:

Lafayette, LA

Blue Moon Saloon

Also w/ Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band

215 East Convent Street

Doors @ 6pm Show @ 7pm

We sincerely hope y’all can make it out, we’ve been working on this one for awhile and the excitement is like that of a child on Christmas morning (for real!). See you lovely people out there on the road.

0 One Week Until The Greatest Fxxking Show Ever!

April 2nd, 2011 - A day to be remembered...

03/27/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · General · Live Shows · Louisiana · On The Road · Recording

Only one week to go until our greatest fxxking show yet. Yessiree ladies and gentlemen, we haven’t been this excited in a while – got a huge one planned for you ~ its going down like this:

Saturday, April 2nd

The Blue Nile on Frenchmen

Show kicks off at 10pm with our dear friends from Greensboro, NC, the one and only Holy Ghost Tent Revival. This 6 piece string/brass extravaganza is the perfect mixture of foot-stompin’ love makin’ folk/roots/blues/dixieland/rock and more. Say hello:

Then, at 11pm, yours truly will be taking the stage, performing for you our newest album – Volume Two. Songs you’ve never heard, old familiars, and everything in between. Good friends, bourbon pours, fireballs and more. So excited to be sharing this newest one with you. We sincerely believe it is our greatest work yet:

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, guess who’ll be closing out the evening? None other than New Orleans’ own the Tin Men. Washboard Chaz, Matt Perrine, Alex McMurray – these cats kill:

Tickets are $10, $8 if you click “attending” on the Facebook event, and free for those who pre-purchase the album on our Bandcamp site.

If you can’t make the New Orleans Show (which you should, even if you live 300 miles away) you can catch us and Holy Ghost in Baton Rouge on Thursday, Mobile on Friday, and Lafayette an Sunday with Chubby Carrier.

Don’t miss this one. It is going to be our greatest fxxking show yet.

1 Two New Records!

Two new records from the Dirty Bourbon River Show

02/28/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · Recording

0 Volume Two is Here!!!

The Dirty Bourbon River Show released their 3rd studio album, Volume Two

02/27/2011
by dirtybourbonrivershow
· Albums · Live Shows · Recording

We just couldn’t wait. We began allowing worldwide digital download of Volume Two tonight at 12:01 AM CST on dbrs.bandcamp.com

We priced the album – temporarily in this unannounced early interim period – at $20. We did this because the last one (Free Love) was completely free, and this new online bundle includes some sweet extra goodies ~ in addition to the full-quality download you get a special digisheet of the artwork, liner notes & lyrics + your choice of either:

(a) a spot on the guest list at our CD release party in New Orleans and a free, reserved, and autographed physical copy of the album waiting for you at the merch table that night

or, for you out-of-town-folks:

(b) an autographed copy mailed to your house free-of-charge on the day of the CD release party + a sticker and a personalized note from the band.

Ya, that’s a whole lot of stuff packed up in this sweet little baby:

Then, on April 2nd (Volume Two’s official release date) the album will drop to $9.99 for digital download (without the extra goodies) and will be available on iTunes and Amazon as well.

That night we will be performing our new album at the Blue Nile on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. Musical guests will include:

—- The Tin Men and Holy Ghost Tent Revival —-

Both of these bands are incredible, and we are extremely lucky to have them play with us.

This unprecedented 3 ring circus will start at 10pm and will be $10 at the door for those who did not pre-purchase the album. The Blue Nile only holds 300 people, so I’d grab your goodies and get your spot while they last.

For those in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Mobile, we’ve got shows in your town that weekend with Holy Ghost Tent Revival as well – check our sidebar.

Whether you live in or around New Orleans and plan on attending the live show, or you live somewhere else and plan on just listening to or downloading the album, we hope that you enjoy this new piece of art as much as we did making it.

We are extremely proud to bring these new sounds to your ears, and anxious for your feedback.

Enjoy!
Sincerely,

~ The Dirty Bourbon River Show

P.S. Also, apparently, there are some golden tickets floating around…

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