Out Friday: Guts Club – Trench Foot

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Guts Club, a dark country band based out of New Orleans, will release their third LP, and first fully electric album, Trench Foot, this Friday July 6th.  Listen To The First Single, “Mustard Tears”. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBu8GlebBk[/embedyt] Performing under the Guts Club moniker, musician and visual artist Lindsey Bakerself-released her solo debut album, The Arm Wrestling Tournament, in February 2015, resulting in favorable feedback from press. In a review from Tiny Mix Tapesthey said “Baker carries a guitar the way Robert Frost carried a hatchet: as a tool through which tension and rage can be released,” and Paste said “The Brooklyn singer and songwriter behind Guts Club sings with piercing emotional intensity.” She’s since moved from the northeast to New Orleans, where she recorded her second album Shit Bug, released on Moderate Fidelity Records on July 1, 2016. Baker brought along a band for Shit Bug and has since preformed with a rotating cast of musicians and friends.While The Arm Wrestling Tournament dealt mostly with dark, obsessive love, the themes of Shit Bug further define Baker’s ongoing narrative about coming to terms with otherness and alienation via her own brand of cosmic gloom. On March 2, 2018 RIP Records released a new single, “Mustard Tears” as part of their RIP Introduces series. The track is the first to be heard from Guts Club’s fully electric album, Trench Foot, which will be self-released on July 6, 2018. Trench Foot marks a thoughtful deviation from the characteristically shaky Guts Club to one more deliberate in composition and voice. Upon going electric, Baker developed a new command and agency over her songwriting unheard in previous recordings. The album maintains Baker’s violent and dark undertones, this time with increasingly pointed observations on regret, privilege, and retribution.  

Faith Hill, Dolly Parton, Others To Receive Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star

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HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME’s Class Of 2019 has been revealed. Joining the Class of 2019 are FAITH HILL, DOLLY PARTON, EMMYLOU HARRIS, and LINDA RONSTADT along with fellow musicians and industry members MICHAEL BUBLE, CYPRESS HILL, THE LETTERMEN, TOMMY MOTTOLA, P!NK, TEDDY RILEY, JACKIE WILSON, IDINA MENZEL, CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER, JUDITH LIGHT, and PAUL SORVINO. Dates will be announced at a later time.

ICYMI: Jason Charles Miller – In The Wasteland

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Southern Rock renegade JASON CHARLES MILLER is proud to announce the release of his new solo album, “In The Wasteland”, out today via RED MUSIC / SONY. Lauded as “a dark and gritty yet modern country album” that is a “memorable and sonic journey” (Rock and Roll Fables), “In The Wasteland” draws from MILLER‘s extensive career in the worlds of rock, country and Americana to present an all-encompassing outlook on his musicianship and life. Mixed and produced by Grammy Award-winner Matt Hyde (Jonny Lang, No Doubt, Deftones) and featuring drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellenamp, John Fogerty), “In The Wasteland” also includes guest performances from the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke and keyboardist Peter Keys, legendary Soul vocalist Brenda Lee Eager (Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Diana Ross), Blackberry Smoke vocalist Charlie Starr, King’s X frontman Dug Pinnick, guitarist Duane Betts(son of founding Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts), guitarist Adam Shoenfeld (Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean) and  ‘Cowboy’ Eddie Long (Jamey Johnson). “IN THE WASTELAND” Track Listing 1. Hundred Pound Hammer (feat ‘Cowboy’ Eddie Long) 2. In The Wasteland (WATCH) 3. No Bridge Left Unburned 4. Get Thee Behind Me (feat. Dug Pinnick, & ‘Cowboy’ Eddie Long & Duane Betts) 5. Trunk Full Of Bibles 6. Riverbank 7. Old Scarecrow (feat. Charlie Starr & Rickey Medlocke) 8. The Line 9. Running 10. No More Reasons 11. Finding My Way In The Dark (feat. Peter Keys, Brenda Lee Eager & Adam Shoenfeld) Get “In The Wasteland” today on CD or digital download! Physical CD: http://bit.ly/JCMitwCD Digital/Streaming: https://RED.lnk.to/InTheWasteland Watch the official music video for the album’s title track, featuring live footage from MILLER‘s headlining performance at Wasteland Weekend, below!

Watch Now: Cole Swindell – Reason To Drink

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Country superstar Cole Swindell just dropped his latest song, “Reason to Drink.” You can check out his live video for the track here. The infectious song is a preview for his latest album, All of It, which drops on August 17. The talented singer/songwriter’s lead single from the album, “Break Up in the End,” is climbing up the radio charts and already has over 17 million Spotify streams. Like and share Cole’s Facebook post here. Like and RT Cole’s tweet here. Check out Cole’s Instagram post here.

Watch Now: Kelsea Ballerini – I Hate Love Songs Official Video

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Black River Entertainment’s KELSEA BALLERINI is steering clear of romantic clichés in her playful new music video for chart-climbing single “I Hate Love Songs.” Slated to make its sneak peek debut on the big screens of CMA Fest 2018 during tonight’s concert at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, the full video will be available to watch on Vevo immediately following the world premiere. Filmed on a local soundstage, director Traci Goudie captured Ballerini pulling out all the stops to avoid the trappings of love from an interrupted proposal and failed kiss in the rain, to a Matrix-moment to narrowly escape a tossed bouquet from a bride. Leading up to the premiere, fans can get an inside first look at the behind-the-scenes making of the video exclusively on People.com and iHeartRadio.com. Returning to host the 3-hour CMA Fest special on ABC (airing 8/8 at 8/7c) for her second year alongside former tourmate Thomas Rhett, the showstopper will take the stage tomorrow night (6/9), for a vibrant set of fan-favorites from her acclaimed sophomore album, UNAPOLOGETICALLY, including “I Hate Love Songs” – which Billboard claims “has all the makings of a career hit for Ballerini” – plus the history-making GOLD-certified, #1 “Legends.” On Sunday (6/10), Ballerini will participate in Xfinity Fan Fair X as the Artist of the Day from the CMA Close Up Stage before wrapping a jam-packed festival week of epic appearances. The bona fide trailblazer will then gear up to hit the road as Keith Urban’s special guest on the GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR, following her sold-out headlining THE UNAPOLOGETICALLY TOUR. Beginning on June 15 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO, the anticipated trek runs through November 3 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX. After a stirring stripped-down performance of the cheeky ode (penned by Ballerini, Shane McAnally, and Trevor Rosen), which Rolling Stone praised as “marvelous” during the 2018 CMT Music Awards on Wednesday (6/6), she is next up for three nods at the 2018 Radio Disney Music Awards: The Bestest – Radio Disney Country Favorite Artist, Play It Again! – Radio Disney Country Favorite Song(“Legends”), and all-genre XOXO – Best Crush Song (“Legends”). The sixth annual event will take place at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA, and air on the Disney Channel, as well as additional Disney-branded platforms, on June 23. For more information on KELSEA BALLERINI, visit KelseaBallerini.com and reach out to her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Buck Owens’ Final Capitol Records Never-Released Album Due Out August 17th.

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 Omnivore Recordings, in conjunction with the Buck Owens Estate, will release Country Singer’s Prayer, Buck Owens’ final Capitol album from 1975, which has remained unissued until now. Street date for CD and Digital isAugust 17, 2018. By late 1975, Buck’s unequaled success at Capitol Records was finally winding down. His singles were no longer topping the charts, and after the untimely death of bandmate Don Rich the year before, Buck was starting to lose the fire that drove him through an unprecedented run of groundbreaking hits in the ’60s and early ’70s. His contract with Capitol was due to expire at the end of the year, and he and the Buckaroos readied one final album for the label in November 1975.  While several of Buck’s later Capitol recordings had not been topping the charts as before, his last single for them, “Country Singer’s Prayer,” failed to even make a showing.  Likely due to the indifference shown to that last single, the decision was made to shelve this final album, and assign the selection number to what was ultimately Buck’s last Capitol release, Best of Buck Owens, Vol. 6, which did include the last two singles originally intended for Country Singer’s Prayer: “Battle of New Orleans” and the title track.  While Buck would revisit some of these songs with producer Norro Wilson in Nashville after signing to Warner Bros. Records, the original recordings produced at Buck’s Bakersfield studio with the Buckaroos remained in the vault.  Country Singer’s Prayer will finally receive its release some 43 years late, taken from the original LP master tapes, in what was the intended sequence. Also included are the B-sides to Buck’s final two singles from the unissued album.  With new liner notes by Scott B. Bomar featuring interviews with longtime Buckaroos piano playerJim Shaw and Robert John Jones (a.k.a. Rocky Topp), who co-wrote “Country Singer’s Prayer,” this is a fascinating chance to experience Buck’s last intended Capitol album.  Track Listing: 1. John Law 2. Love Don’t Make The Bars 3. He Ain’t Been Out Bowling With The Boys 4. Drifting Away
 5. The Battle Of New Orleans 6. Country Singer’s Prayer
 7. California Okie
 8. A Different Kind Of Sad
 9. It’s Been A Long, Long Time 10. How’s Everything   Bonus Tracks: 11. Run Him To The Round House Nellie (You Might Corner Him There) 12. Meanwhile Back At The Ranch ] Produced at Buck Owens Studios in Bakersfield, California