It took over a year to surface, but the Ryan Montbleau Band's 2008 peformance of Honeymoon Eyes at Memphis's legendary Sun Studios (the hallowed ground where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis helped define rock and roll) is online now at Sun Studio Sessions.
Check it out:
The Sun Studio Sessions are also aired on a national PBS station feed, currently hitting 50+ markets around the country. Previously featured Sun Studio artists include Grace Potter, Amy Lavere and Backyard Tire Fire.
525 Worldwide is excited to announce the addition of the Ryan Montbleau Band to its artist management roster.
Ryan Montbleau's songs reveal the eye of a novelist and the lyricism of a poet. Having begun his career playing small New England venues as a solo artist with an infectious, percussive guitar style and soul-fired vocals, Ryan has evolved into the front man for the Ryan Montbleau Band, which spins a tapestry of folk, Americana, r&b, country, gypsy jazz and psychedelia. The band is powered by Matt Gianarros (acoustic upright bass, electric bass, vocals), Laurence Scudder (viola, vocals), Jason Cohen (keys) and James Cohen (drums).
Click the player to listen to 'Maybe Today' from the band's most recent self-release, 2007's Patience on Friday.
Closing out 2008 with two back-to-back sold out nights at Boston's Paradise Rock Club, the band is poised to export that success to other markets. Over the last five years, the band has kept up a blistering pace of over 200 shows a year. Playing from coast-to-coast, in Canada and through the Caribbean, they've built a dedicated fanbase along the way--the band's Top 6 Achive.org live recordings have been downloaded over 100,000 times and they've streamed over 1 million song plays from their MySpace page. When the band's first group album One Fine Color was self-released in 2006, the CD quickly sold 10,000 copies.
The band is shooting to get back into the studio in 2009 to record the follow-up to Patience--it's just a matter of finding the time. "My touring’s not going to slow down any time soon," vows Montbleau. "My favorite thing in the world is looking out from the stage and seeing smiling faces."
Click here to read a recent show preview that appeared in The Washington Post in advance of the band's sold-out Iota show in January, one night before their sold-out World Cafe Live show in Philadelphia.
Give a listen to a track from Potato Hole, Booker's first solo record in two decades on Pitchfork--click here for their exclusive stream, on which Booker is rocking with the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young.
As Steven A. Deusner puts it: "Despite the high-profile support players, Booker T. clearly takes the lead, opening with gigantic chords before coaxing out a surprisingly catchy melody from his organ. He gets so much texture and nuance out of his instrument that it sounds like it's actually forming words."
Potato Hole (ANTI- Records) will be available April 21, the same week Booker and the Truckers (as Booker T. and the DBT's) play an Acura Stage set at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The group's Jazzfest date is preceded by three dates in Australia and an April 18 set at Coachella, and followed by an appearance at Bonnaroo the weekend of June 11 to 14, 2009.
525 Worldwide Music Co. offers artist management, music marketing and consulting, royalty/publishing administration, and internet presence services. Based in metro-Boston, the company was founded by Dave Bartlett and Matt Cornell.
