From the Desk of...Captain
Catfish
October 16, 2012
Dear
Trotline,
I am
pleased to present to you the following press release, artwork and first MP3
release from our forthcoming CD/LP, "WHITE BUFFALO."
You are the
first in the nation to receive this! Thanks to our Kickstarter donors and fans
for making this happen. Thanks also to our good friend and amazing artist,
Chach (ChachCo. in Little Rock) for the artwork assist.
Please tell
your friends & family about upcoming tour dates (below), and stay tuned for
the 2013 White Buffalo tour. We need warm bodies at all our live shows! Please
help spread the word.
'Bout to
do the damn thang, so stay with us--
Your
pal,
Jimmo
JIMBO
MATHUS & THE TRI-STATE COALITION
Sign to Fat Possum Records "WHITE BUFFALO," SET FOR RELEASE ON JANUARY 22, 2013 Stream the first single, "In the Garden," HERE |
October
16, 2012: In
his native Mississippi and throughout the South, Jimbo Mathus
is recognized as the prolific songwriter of born-in-the-bone American
music, the torchbearer for Deep South mythology and culture. The lifelong
musician, co-founder of the hyper ragtime outfit Squirrel Nut
Zippers, has signed to Oxford, MS label Fat Possum
Records and will release White Buffalo,
produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, on January 22,
2012. Opening with the mandolin-driven Southern Gothic fable "In the
Garden," Mathus and his band, the Tri-State Coalition, deliver
an emotional, honest batch of songs that embrace the richness of American music
- gospel, country, blues and folk. Mathus'
"tri-state" band, a handpicked group of like-minded players who
make up his formidable live band, includes
Matt Pierce (Arkansas), Terrence Bishop (Tennessee), and fellow Mississippians
Eric Carlton and Ryan Rogers. There's a rich sense of region and history in his music. "I was born into the nexus of Southern/American culture, from Elvis to William Faulkner," he says of his Mississippi upbringing. "I'm continually amazed that these great accomplishments in the arts were somehow achieved in this unlikely location. This state is revered by many worldwide for its arts, culture, cuisine, letters and athletic heroes and abhorred for its cruelty and racism. You can find the depths of ignorance and the loftiest of thinking." White Buffalo is a tribute to Mathus' love of true American music. "I want to know American music from the inside out, from top to bottom," he says. "I instinctively knew that there was no fast track to get where I wanted to go to learn what I wanted to know. I came to discover that American music started with the people that came here from somewhere else, with all these cultures contributing something. W.C. Handy, Jimmy Rogers, Charley Patton, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, Phil Spector, and the Ramones. They all made American music and all it led somewhere - I was determined to find out where." White Buffalo track listing:
In The
Garden
(I
Wanna Be Your) Satellite
Tennessee
Walker Mare
White
Buffalo
Hatchie
Bottom
Fake
Hex
Poor
Lost Souls
Self
Run
Devil Run
Useless
Heart
JIMBO
MATHUS & THE TRI-STATE COALITION
WE
10/17 NASHVILLE, TN - LOVELESS CAFE (Music City Roots show and
broadcast)
TH
10/18 CLEVELAND, MS - DOCKERY FARMS
SA 10/20 NEW ORLEANS, LA - CHICKIE WAH WAH
TH
10/25 HOPSON, MS - HOPSON PLANTATION COMMISARY
SA 10/27 FAYETTEVILLE, AR - SMOKE & BARREL TAVERN
WE 11/07 OXFORD, MS - SNACKBAR
FR 11/09 OXFORD, MS - THE LIBRARY, 5 PM FR 11/09 OXFORD, MS - PROUD LARRY'S, 9 PM |
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