“Out in the Parkin’ Lot” now in heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction
Booneville, KY, October 02, 2015 —
The guys in Shotgun Holler aren’t given to sporting retro-rustic looks
featuring suspenders, vests or bowler derbies. They feel no need to
dress a part; that’s for actors. As soon as these five players start
plucking their instruments and merging their voices in close harmony,
they provide all the evidence necessary to establish their bluegrass
bona-fides.
Besides, as they make clear on their debut
album, Loaded, they like to go where tradition meets authenticity — and
jump right over that intersection to head in their own direction.
Releasing Sept. 18 on Lonesome Day Records’ new Dry Lightning imprint
(with Sony RED distribution), the album is already earning serious
attention. SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction has been spinning Shotgun
Holler’s version of the Guy Clark/Darrell Scott tune “Out in the Parkin’
Lot,” an ode to what goes on outside those honky-tonks, in heavy
rotation since June. Since the beginning of September, the band has
joined program director/host Kyle Cantrell in the studio for a “track by
track” discussion, which started airing on September 25th, several
times a week.
“Shotgun
Holler is bringing bluegrass a freshness I haven't heard in a long
time,” says Cantrell. ”This is the sound that will help take the music
to the next level.”
In July, they appeared on CMT’s
Josh Wolf Show, where they delivered a masterful rendition of the
“guilty pleasure” song: Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.” The fact that
their version of the pop hit brought a totally new dynamic to the
original speaks to the depth of this band’s talent — not to mention
their propensity for tweaking conventional notions of bluegrass while
having a little fun.
As for those “bona-fides,” this
band’s got too many to list. Mandolinist Shawn Brock, born and raised in
the Appalachian hills of Harlan County, Ky., has performed with some of
the top names in country and bluegrass. He’s also a jazz player. His
Shotgun Holler co-founder, guitarist/lead vocalist Matt Jones, is an
Indiana native who grew up hanging out with, and learning from, many
bluegrass greats. They’re supported by bassist/harmony vocalist Rod
Lunger (another Kentuckian), banjo player Nathan Treadway (an Indiana
farm boy) and fiddler/harmony vocalist Alex Benefiel (an Indiana state
fiddling champion).
With producer Jim Van Cleve,
they’ve crafted a knockout inaugural that is indeed loaded. On three
Jones-penned originals (“I've Got Ramblin’ On My Mind,” “Miners Grave”
and “One Lone Tree”) and eight other carefully chosen snapshots of life,
they enter rich emotional territory, bringing to life an array of
all-too-real characters: truckers, coal diggers, dirt farmers, men
facing assembly-line futures … some of whom go off to serve their
country — or serve time. The band gets poignant in the waltz-tempo “This
Side of the Grass,” a heart-tugging tale of a mourning husband and
father, and “One Lone Tree,” reflects on a life that didn’t end up as
glamorous as it once looked from a simple Kentucky home.
In
songs such as Son Volt’s “Methamphetamine,” Jason Isbell’s “Relatively
Easy,” “Clovis Johnson’s Old Red GMC” and the ever-evolving classic, “My
Bucket’s Got a Hole in It,” they sing of addicts, suicides,
moonshine-making reprobates and lonely, hooker-loving men with regrets.
Oh, and romancing one moonshine-maker’s daughter. You’ve gotta have a
love song, after all even if the title does reference a truck.
With the release of Loaded, Shotgun Holler is ready to fire away.
Loaded track list
“Out In The Parkin' Lot”
“I Hope Heaven Has a Holler”
“My Bucket's Got A Hole In It”
“Methamphetamine”
“Clovis Johnson's Old Red GMC”
“Relatively Easy”
“I've Got Ramblin On My Mind”
“This Side Of The Grass”
“Miners Grave”
“One Lone Tree”
“I Should Have Started Yesterday”
Shotgun Holler on tour
October 17 – Proud Mary Honky Tonk BBQ, Lexington, KY
October 31 – VFW Post 1108, Richmond, IN
November 27 – Roberts Park, Connersville, IN
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About Dry Lightning Records
Dry
Lightning Records was established to give a broader range of Lonesome
Day Records artists their own home while allowing the original label to
continue building on its 12-year history in the bluegrass market Founder
Randall Deaton now puts as much passion and energy into Dry Lightning
Records as he still devotes to the label he founded in 2002. In
partnership with Sony/RED Distribution, the label also includes the
critically acclaimed acts Girls Guns and Glory and Sarah Borges. Both
Dry Lightning and Lonesome Day, incidentally, take their names from the
titles of Bruce Springsteen songs.
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