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News Flash!
ABKCO Records ready to release the new Charlie Gracie Cd.
The worlds largest independent record company, ABKCO Records, home of the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Sam Cooke, The Animals and soundtracks like Californication, Our Idiot Brother, and The Darjeeling Limited, is all set to release the new Charlie Gracie CD “For the Love of Charlie” around the globe in October.
Quentin Jones, long time Gracie producer and sideman, co produced 10 of the 12 tracks with Al Kooper, who is known for his work with Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Among the many guest performers on “For the Love of Charlie” are Graham Nash, of C.S.N., Herman’s Hermits singer Peter Noone, Conan O’Brien’s band leader, Jimmy Vivino, Lenny Kravitz guitar ace Craig Ross, and Los Straight Jacket guitarist Eddie Angel. Jones, who wrote half the album and plays bass and guitar on many of the tracks shares co producing duties on the remaining two tracks with Tom T-bone Edmonds. Edmonds is well known to the Lanark family as the co producer of the Reach Around Rodeo Clowns.
“For the Love of Charlie” marks Gracie’s return to a major record company and firmly re-establishes him as a force in the music world!
Gracie is remember as the first artist on the famed Cameo- Parkway label and is loved for his early hits “Butterfly”, “99 ways” and “Fabulous”, which was most recently covered by none other then Paul McCartney!
New Clowns Video:
OutStanding reviews keep coming in for Dark Days Dark Nights:
Big Wheel Magazine
April 28, 2011
Wow! Could there be a more perverse psycho Billy band to hail from Pennsylvania? Probably not! Thankfully where most psycho Billy bands end up sounding stale and all too alike, The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns venture off in their own unique Americana filled direction on “Dark Days, Dark Nights“.
Certainly not in the same vein as the Tiger Boys, the Reach Arounds are paying homage musically to Elvis, channeling the guitar riffage of Roy Orbison and borrowing some Dave Vanian ala Phantom Chords atmosphere for some good ol dirty Psychobilly by way of country, 60’s surf rock, punk and hillbilly b movie trash.
The 19 songs available for eargasmic pleasure are all worthy of the finest praise, and that is what I’m giving this record, my seal of approval. If you enjoy songs about Jesus, Satan, drugs, pawn shops and Cadillac’s then this will be your favorite album of the year.
Louie B.-
Big Wheel Staff Reporter
Fangoria reviews new clowns disc!
It’s hard to ignore the most important aspect of The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns, their original music, which could not be duplicated by another band in either studio or the live show aspect. Out of the chock-full 19-song CD, there is truly not a bad song on the disc and it can be listened to in its entirety, from song one, straight through to song 19. I can totally hear their songs included in an upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, and The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns would fit the background application perfectly!
Things are really cookin’ at Lanark Records ! Highly anticipated, back-to-back releases of the label’s premiere artists, Charlie Gracie and The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns are in the works. 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.
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. Al Kooper (Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd) is co-producing along with Quentin Jones. Guest include, Graham Nash of C.S.N, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, Dennis Diken of The Smithereens, Eddie Angel of Los Straight Jackets, and the Lanark house band, Diamond Sands and the Glass Cutters.
Look out for the three songs on this soon to be released project that are co produced by world class engineer, Tom “T Bone Edmonds”. “T Bone” has worked with Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, the Isley Brothers, Patty Smith and on and on!
As for the Clowns, what more needs to be said? Fresh off the heels of four blistering Californian tours in the six months, the band has once again become the juggernaut that dropped East Coast psychobilly jaws throughout the Nineties and into the next century.
The Reach Around Rodeo Clowns new project, Dark Days, Dark Nights, is already being heralded as the most anticipated rock opus since The Who’s Tommy. Loaded with great art work by Jim Smith, co creator of Ren and Stimpy, and co-produced by Tom “T Bone Edmonds”, Dark Days, Dark Nights is entertaining in every way!
And just to take it to the nest level, Lanark is releasing a companion comic to Dark Days, Dark Nights, drawn by Smith and co written with Quentin Jones and Robert Rhine. Look for new videos and blogs to tell the story in new detail, the story of Bob, the un friendly Rodeo Clown.
