The Mother Truckers playing Dynamite at Plush in Tucson, Arizona
MOTHER TRUCKERS, Let’s All Go To Bed (Funzalo)
Official Site | MySpace | Samples
What’s not to love about Austin’s Mother Truckers? Find them somewhere comfortable nestled among the Drive-by Truckers, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles and Southern Culture on the Skids. Its Texas-style countrified rock and blues delivered the way we here at Twangville like it… jacked up! Crack back a Shiner and get lost in it. File under: Rock / Country / Alternative
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Official Site | MySpace | Samples
Her seventh solo album includes all new material by the singer-songwriter including a collaboration with Grant Lee Phillips - CENTRO-MATIC/SOUTH SAN GABRIEL, Dual Hawks (Misra)
Official Site | MySpace | Samples | “I, The Kite” (MP3)* | “Trust to Lose” (MP3)*
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[audio:http://www.misrarecords.com/MP3s/Trust_To_Lose.mp3]
Two bands, two discs and a whole lotta indie rock from the great state of Texas. - ED HARCOURT, The Beautiful Lie (Dovecote)
Official Site | MySpace - JESSE MALIN, Mercury Retrograde (Adeline)
Official Site | MySpace
Recorded live in NYC.
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* Source: MisraRecords.com
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