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Muscle Shoals, AL - Lightning Rod Records will release Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit's eponymous album on February 17, 2009.


"...confident, charismatic songwriting that just can't be taught." - Pitchfork


"...a gorgeously whisky-soaked country-soul masterpiece." -Spin Magazine

  Isbell is a former member of the Drive-By Truckers and this is his second solo release isbell(his first release with his band The 400 Unit). The 400 Unit is Derry deBorja (keyboards), Jimbo Hart (bass) and Browan Lollar (guitar). Matt Pence (Centro-matic/South San Gabriel) lends his talents as co-producer, drummer and engineer.

The album was co-produced by Isbell and The 400 Unit with Matt Pence. "I want it to be known that it's a band record," says Isbell. "I want it to be known that it's something we all did together. Even though I wrote the songs, it was a very inclusive project." Isbell has posted the new track, "Seven-Mile Island," on the band's MySpace site.

The album was recorded at the renowned FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. Isbell, who Details Magazine calls "one of America's best young songwriters," is following in the tradition of American songwriters who have recorded in North Alabama. Much like Arthur Alexander, Eddie Hinton and Spooner Oldham, Isbell mixes a soulful vocal style with songs that are passionate and unrepentant in their sense of place and direct in their stubborn Southerness.

Isbell and The 400 Unit have played over 200 dates since the release of Sirens Of The Ditch  (including All Points West, Voodoo Music Experience and WXPN Freedom Fest) and will announce the first round of their 2009 dates soon.

 This is the second release for Nashville-based Lightning Rod Records whose US distribution and marketing is handled by Thirty Tigers/RED.

TRACKLIST

1.  Seven-Mile Island                       
2.  Sunstroke
3.  Good
4.  Cigarettes and Wine
5.  However Long
6.  Coda
7.  The Blue
8.  No Choice in the Matter
9.  Soldiers Get Strange
10. Streetlights
11.  The Last Song I Will Write

http://www.myspace.com/jasonisbellmusic

http://www.lightningrodrecords.com

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2008 Loki Festival

Posted by: Robie | October 31st, 2008

The first ever Loki Festival dawned on the scenic Deerfields Camp Grounds of Asheville, NC to ideal weather and colorful hints of autumn along the forest skyline. For a start up Loki’s musical line-up boasted one of the heftiest funk forecasts all season and the colorfully adorned campers in attendance seemed antsy to groove. With funk heavy weights like Lettuce, Porter Batiste and Stoltz (PBS), and George Clinton on board, there was undeniable sense of boogie in step.

Words & Photos by Brian Zickafoose

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SeepeopleS front man Will Bradford, and SeepeopleS front of house engineer Brooke Binion are unveiling their new project, Freepeoples Frequency

 

peepssideSeepeopleS front man Will Bradford, and SeepeopleS front of house engineer Brooke Binion are unveiling their new project, Freepeoples Frequency (www.freepeoplesfrequency.com, myspace.com/freepeoplesfrequency),

in the coming months and are announcing the release of their debut album, "Small Pills to Swallow," which is tentatively scheduled for release in the Spring of 2009 on Bradford's own imprint label, Rascalz Recordz.  The project, a true live PA in the spirit of early 90's big beat electro akin to Crystal Method, the Chemical Brothers and the Orb, made their live debut at the Root Down Family Festival in North Carolina this summer.  Currently the duo will be opening two shows for Lotus on their Hammerstrike Tour, November 2 in Richmond, VA at the National and November 3 at the Shaftman Performing Arts Center in Roanoke, before SeepeopleS joins the tour from November 5th through November 15th.

Freepeoples Frequency will also team up with Matt McDonald's new electronica project, My Subversive Media (www.mysubversivemedia.com), for two shows, December 5th at the Emerald Lounge in Asheville, NC and January 31st at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro, NC.  McDonald, the former keyboardist for Perpetual Groove will also be joining SeepeopleS when they open for Lotus at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC on November 7th.

Bradford and Binion have also enlisted the help of long time SeepeopleS' producer, Will Holland (Pixies, Fall Out Boy, Dead Can Dance), and are recording "Small Pills to Swallow" at Chillhouse Studios in Boston, where the last two SeepeopleS albums
were recorded.  Aside from working on their own debut, the three of them have been co-producing a new project by
ex- Green Lemon front man, Wayne Allen entitled the Skyes  and are be producing a track for Laura Reed (Laura Reed and Deep Pocket), due for release next year.  Also, be on the lookout for some Freepeoples Frequency remixes of Lotus and other acts in the coming months.

www.freepeoplesfrequency.com
www.myspace.com/freepeoplesfrequency

www.seepeoples.com
www.myspace.com/seepeoples

FFQ TOUR DATES

Nov. 2   The National                                     Richmond, VA  opening for Lotus
Nov. 3   Shaftman Performing Arts Center       Roanoke, VA  opening for Lotus
Dec. 5   Emerald Lounge                                Asheville, NC  w/ My Subversive Media
Jan. 31  Blind Tiger                                        Greensboro, NC  w/My Subversive Media

SeepeopleS TOUR DATES

Nov. 5   Neighborhood Theatre                         Charlotte, NC opening for Lotus
Nov. 6   Cat's Cradle                                       Carborro, NC opening for Lotus
Nov. 7   Orange Peel                                       Asheville, NC  w/ special guest Matt McDonald
Nov. 8   Georgia Theatre                                  Athens, GA opening for Lotus    
Nov. 9   Music Farm                                        Charleston, SC opening for Lotus
Nov. 11 Freebird Live                                      Jacksonville Beach, FL  opening for Lotus
Nov. 12 Beta Bar                                            Tallahassee, FL opening for Lotus
Nov. 13 Proud Larry's                                      Oxford, MS  opening for Lotus
Nov. 14 Tipitina's Uptown                                 New Orleans, LA  opening for Lotus
Nov. 15 Antone's                                             Austin, TX opening for Lotus         

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