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Things are really cookin’ at Lanark Records in 2010. Highly anticipated, back-to-back releases of the label’s premiere Rock ‘N’ pioneers Charlie Gracie and The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns are scheduled for this summer. Sales of The Rodeo Clowns’ Greatest Hits! have been brisk and have surprised everyone in the industry. Fans have surfaced worldwide and reclaimed what they have known to be true since the Nineties: The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns are Rock ‘N’ Roll’s true saviors.
This fiercely independent label is proud to announce increased involvement with its distributor Inner Knot/ADA to continue worldwide product availability. This development is key in that it allows Lanark to continue to provide quality, uncompromising Rock ‘N’ Roll in an age that seems to have lost it nerve.
Further evidence of just how red hot the Lancaster-based label is right now can be found in the Who’s Who of Rock Legends involved with the Charlie Gracie’s project, aptly named Rock ‘N’ Roll Party. Al Kooper (Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd) is producing and has arranged the horns. Guest vocalists included Graham Nash of C.S.N. and Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits. Dennis Diken of The Smithereens plays drums on the title track.
As for the Clowns, what more needs to be said? Fresh off the heels of four blistering Californian tours in the last six months, the band has once again become the juggernaut that dropped East Coast psychobilly jaws throughout the Nineties and into the next century.
Having miraculously protected the Clown flame along a rocky, decade-long road, Founder Quentin Jones shook things up when he called singer Ace Filipini (200 Lbs. Of Swingin’ Hound, The Goddamn Kingpins) in the winter of 2009. Thus, The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns were reborn and are more dangerous than ever. The upcoming Dark Days, Dark Nights is already being heralded as the most anticipated rock opus since The Who’s Tommy. A Spring feature in Girls and Corpses magazine and the use of the Clowns’ music during L.A. Kings radio broadcasts have dramatically increased the band’s exposure and garnered more and more fans.
Last but not least in the Lanark stable of artists is the Grammy-winner Nick Kane. Formerly of The Mavericks, Mr. Kane is currently in pre-production for an all-new release with this new band, Nick Kane and The Lanark Kings. The album is guaranteed to be another Lanark home run, so stay tuned!