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Michael Martin Murphey To Release Austinology: Alleys of Austin in October

Artist: Michael Martin Murphey
Album: Austinology: Alleys of Austin
Label: Soundly Music
Release date: October 5, 2018

Fifty years after Murphey helped pioneer the Austin Music Scene (along with Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn and more) , his latest offering is a look at the seminal period of Austin’s music history that set the stage for the “Outlaw” movement with Nelson and Waylon Jennings, among others, and the live music scene that is still thriving there.

“Murphey was a key player in the Austin, TX phenomenon,” wrote noted journalist Craig Havighurst for WMOT — The String. “He was a regular at the Armadillo World Headquarters, the iconic venue at the heart of the live scene, where a diverse audience heard a diverse array of roots music, from hard country to traditional blues. Murphey, along with Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker and others forged a country-rock hybrid that became the foundation for the progressive folk music field we now call Americana.”

For Austinology, Murphey chose songs — including some by the likes of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Jerry Jeff Walker — that were important to the late 1960s and 1970s when he lived in Austin and created the “Cosmic Cowboy” era.

Murphey is joined on the project by several artists who were integral to that era as well as those influenced by the work they created.

The songs are given a fresh reading by Murphey and his special guests, including Willie Nelson (on “Alleys of Austin” and “Cosmic Cowboy”), Steve Earle (on “Geronimo’s Cadillac”), Lyle Lovett (on “Alleys of Austin,” “Cosmic Cowboy” and “Drunken Lady of the Morning”), Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison (on “Little Bird”), Jerry Jeff Walker (on “Cosmic Cowboy”), Amy Grant (on “Wildfire”), Randy Rogers (“Backslider’s Wine”), The Last Bandoleros (on Guy Clark’s “LA Freeway”) and more.

Murphey, who plays and sounds better than ever, also enlisted some of the finest players in the world, including guitarist Kenny Greenberg (Nelson, Bob Seger, Etta James), dobroist Rob Ickes (Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill), keyboardist Tim Akers (Dolly Parton, Bruce Hornsby, Jimmy Webb) and more. The album is co-produced with Christopher Harris (CeCe Winans, Amy Grant). 

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That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes- New Music Videos & New Releases

We're playing catch-up this weekend with lots and lots of new music videos and a handful of new album introductions. TNS would love to hear from you- what's your favorite off of the list below?

- Union Station member Dan Tyminski has an album coming out just under his surname on October 20 called Southern Gothic. The album will be released by Mercury Nashville.

- In September of 2016, Luck Reunion and Third Man Records took over a mansion in East Nashville creating an analogue studio space with the goal of inspiring collaboration. Artists were invited to perform live and record 2 songs as part of a series called the “Luck Mansion Sessions." The video of the collaboration between Rodney Crowell and John Paul White (The Civil Wars) has just been released.

- Jana Kramer released new music. The new track "I've Done Love" has been released via her own Sophie Dog Records.

- Old Dominion released the new music video for "Not Everything's About You" from their upcoming album Happy Endings- out August 25th.

- The intriguing The Last Bandoleros released the new music video for "River Man."

- Anderson East released his new music video for "All On My Mind." 

- Kip Moore released his new music video for "Blonde." 

- A Dr. Ralph Stanley Forever: A Tribute Concert is set to include performances from Dierks Bentley, Heidi Newfield, Daryl Worley, T. Graham Brown, Ralph Stanley II, T. Bone Burnett and Doug Supernaw along with many others. The concert will be at The Grand Ole Opry House on October 19.

- Hoping to perhaps to repeat the Taylor Swift phenomenon, Warner Music Nashville has signed 13-year-old Tegan Marie to a record deal.

- Lucinda Williams has re-recorded her 1992 album Sweet Old World and plans a September 29 release of the new/old project via Thirty Tigers.

- Former Hot Chelle Rae lead singer Ryan Follese dropped a surprise self-titled album via Big Machine Records yesterday.

- Stephanie Quayle ("Drinking with Dolly" & "Winnebago") will have her new album Love The Way You See Me drop on September 8.

The Last Bandoleros Release New Self-Titled EP This Week

Artist: The Last Bandoleros
Album: Self-Titled EP
Label: Warner Nashville
Release date: 9/23/16

The Last Bandoleros, the pop country band featuring Tejano star Emilio Navaira's sons Diego and Emilio IV, just announced the release of their debut EP. The six-track record, on Warner Bros. Records/Warner Music Nashville, is streaming now on Spotify.

The Last Bandoleros -- Jerry Fuentes, guitar and vocals; Derek James, guitar and vocals; Emilio Navaira IV, drums and vocals; and Diego Navaira, bass and vocals -- is being marketed as a country act, but the songs on their debut EP play in the shadow of The Mavericks, drawing from all kinds of different influences including Tex-Mex, country, rock and pop. 

“When we originally started we were looking for a name that had a little bit of Spanish or Mexican sort of flare … Every single word that we came up with that had a little bit of that twist to it was already taken. Finding a band name is so ridiculously difficult,” they collectively explain.
 

“We were like, ‘Well we’re not the first Bandoleros because there’s already one so we might as well be the Last Bandoleros.’ The Last Bandoleros is cooler in hindsight, anyway.”

Track listing:
 Maria
Adios
Where Do You Go?
Get Down
I Don't Want to Know
Take Me to It

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