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Thirty Tigers collaborates with Shooter Jennings and family on Black Country Rock

Releases from: Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter.

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When Shooter Jennings left Universal South, he first created Black Country Rock, to brand the projects he was involved in and own the music he created. But now, nearly 6 years later, the label has expanded into Nashville and Los Angeles, both of which are working in sync together to create some of the wildest projects to come down the pike in a long time.

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Shooter Jennings – The Other Live CD + LP
In Store: 31/03/2014
Genre: Country

Recorded over the summer and fall of 2013, “The Other Live” is Shooter Jennings’ sophomore live album. This time he and his band find themselves honed, lock and loaded and in top form. An incredible performance from top to bottom, “The Other Live” really showcases Jennings’ entire career with songs spanning across his 6 expansive albums, as well as his growth with new songs and songs from his critically acclaimed 2010 concept album “Black Ribbons”.

Tracklisting

1. A Hard Lesson to Learn
2. Isis
3. The Low Road
4. Mama, It’s Just My Medicine
5. Old Friend
6. Outlaw You
7. Solid Country Gold / The Outsider
8. The White Trash Song
9. Something in the Way
10. All of This Could Have Been Yours
11. The Gunslinger

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Waylon Jennings – Right For The Time (Remembered) CD + LP
In Store: 31/03/2014
Genre: Country

This is a remastering of Waylon’s 1996 Justice Records release “Right for the Time”. In a unique pairing, Justice records and BCR Nashville have teamed up to re-release this memorable album of the late great Waylon Jennings. Transferred from the original 1/2″ reel-to-reel tapes, remastered directly for vinyl by Pete Lyman, this pure analog version of the record really pursues the methods and morals that producer Randall Jamail was after when he first recorded it.

Tracklisting

1. WBPT
2. Cactus Texas
3. The Most Sensible Thing
4. The Boxer
5. Hittin’ The Bottle Again
6. Wastin’ Time
7. Kissing You Goodbye
8. Carnival Song
9. Out of Jail
10. Lines
11. Deep In The West
12. Right for the Time
13. Living Legends, Pt. 2

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Shooter Jennings, Twiggy Ramirez & Jamey Johnson – You Are My Sunshine LP
In Store: 31/03/2014
Genre: Country

Something dreadful happened with Jamey Johnson, Twiggy Ramirez & Shooter Jennings created this piece of music.  It can only be described as a sonic journey, the first of which takes one of the most well-known songs and reinvents it to possibly it’s true meaning using much ritual when it comes to the creation and conjuration of the music.  Side B is a mystical sound collage that takes the listener on a dark ride into the subconscious using many methods of sub sonic sound synthesis.

Tracklisting

Side A – You Are My Sunshine
Side B – There Is No Sunshine

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Jessi Colter – Live From Cains CD + LP
In Store: 31/03/2014
Genre: Country

Recorded September 19th, 2013 at “The Event” at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this live album shows that soul never fades. From the first note the first lady of Outlaw Country strikes on her grand piano to the last bombastic chord of her electric band, Jessi Colter shines, overflowing with charm and charisma, and not to mention a few very personal moments. This is the first and only live record Ms. Colter has recorded and such a rare treat wouldn’t be complete with it’s own twists and turns. Jessi is joined by her son, Shooter, on a few of the tunes, such a humble performance really makes you feel lucky to be able to be there… or simulate being there by listening along.

Tracklisting

1. Intro
2. Mystery Train
3. Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus
4. Interlude 1
5. Without You
6. Interlude 2
7. What’s Happened To Blue Eyes (with David Chernicky)
8. You Can Pick ‘Em Baby
9. Interlude 3
10. You Were My Mountain
11. I’m Not Lisa
12. Interlude 4
13. Out of the Rain (with Shooter Jennings)
14. Please Carry Me Home (with Shooter Jennings)
15. Interlude 5
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Interlude 6
18. Storms Never Last

For more information, please contact Sara Silver
sara@thirtytigers.com +44 (0)20 8265 0772
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Jonny Two Bags (aka Wickersham from Social Distortion) delivers blinding solo debut release!

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Digital Single, ‘One Foot In The Gutter,’ released on 24th February
Digital Album, ‘Salvation Town,’ released on 31st March

Before joining Social Distortion in 2000 after his long-time friend’s, Dennis Danell, untimely death, Jonny Two Bags (Jonny Wickersham) had already put together a formidable punk rock resume. He co-founded and cut three albums with the Cadillac Tramps, and subsequently recorded and toured with L.A punk unit Youth Brigade, as well as pro skateboarder Duane Peters’ hard-edged U.S Bombs.

Wickersham, who co-wrote several songs with Ness for Social Distortion’s albums Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll (2004) and Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (2011), was also penning songs of his own during that time. He says, “I’ve always been a sideman, so I usually write songs with the hope that the singer will like what I’ve written, take it, tweak it and maybe add some verses of his own.”

After taking producer, David Kalish’s advice, Jonny Two Bags began working on his own record; ‘Salvation Town.’

Salvation Town defies expectations at every turn.The album reflects a multiplicity of music styles and influences. Wickersham’s father, a professional musician who played folk, rock n’ roll and country-rock, instilled in him a love of Southern California musicians like Warren Zevon and Linda Ronstadt. This mixed with his own taste in contemporary performers runs the gamut from Ryan Adams to Calexico, led to the soundings of ‘Salvation Town.’

The combination of Wickersham’s roots-music orientation and his dark, hyper-realistic compositions made for a stylistic shift that even the musician himself didn’t anticipate. “The finished product is not necessarily what I set out to do,” he says. ”It’s not a guitar record, and that’s something that I wouldn’t have expected.”

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Produced by David Kalish, noted for his long association with Rickie Lee Jones, at his Redstar Studio in Los Angeles, the album has a diverse array of talent including Revered singer-songwriter Jackson Browne who shares vocals with Wickersham on “Then You Stand Alone,” David Lindley on four tracks, whose guitar work graced several of Browne’s classic ’70s albums, Los Lobos’ multi-instrumentalist David Hidalgo and his sons David Jr. and Vincent on “Wayward Cain” and sideman Greg Leisz (Lucinda Williams, Eric Clapton, k.d. lang, Dave Alvin) also appears on guitar. On drums is Pete Thomas, a mainstay of Elvis Costello’s bands . Guest vocalist Gaby Moreno (recent Latin Grammy Award winner as Best New Artist) sings on “Avenues” and backup singers Terry Evans and Arnold McCuller, best known for their work with Ry Cooder and James Taylor, contribute harmonies. Wickersham’s colleagues in Social Distortion, keyboardist Danny McGough and bassist Brent Harding, join on a few tracks while Austin accordion luminary Joel Guzman and bassist/punk kingpin Zander Schloss (Weirdos, Circle Jerks, Thelonious Monster) round out the lineup.

For many, the greatest revelation of Salvation Town will be Wickersham’s accomplished, fully-realized songwriting, which grew out of his tumultuous youth in the L.A. and Orange County music scenes. Writing and recording this album of streetwise and sometimes painfully frank songs about a life lived with “one foot in the gutter and one foot kicking in the door to Heaven” proved to be somewhat of a cathartic experience.

He notes, “As I was making this record, I realized that in some of these songs I’m singing about things that happened a lifetime ago for me and that was challenging. I just accepted the fact that I needed to purge myself on this record. I wrote about things that happened when I was growing up, feelings and experiences that I have had … stuff that I have never been that open about. Even though my life is different now all of those experiences are still hanging there, just below the surface. I guess it never really goes away … those that have lived it know.”

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Tracklisting
1. One Foot In The Gutter
2. Avenues
3. Then You Stand Alone
4. Clay Wheels
5. Forlorn Walls
6. Wayward Cain
7. Ghosts
8. Hope Dies Hard
9. Alone Tonight
10. The Way It Goes

Listen to Salvation Town on Soundcloud HERE

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The digital single ‘One Foot In The Gutter‘ released 24th February 2014

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Find out more about Jonny Two Bags HERE

For more information about the Thirty Tigers roster, including Jonny Two Bags, contact Sara Silver
sara@thirtytigers.com +44 (0)20 8265 0772

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The Tragically Hip “Now For Plan A”

The Tragically Hip
Now For Plan A
Release Date: November 12th 2012

The Energy of Connectivity
Written by: Gavin Brown

It started making sense the night of the Bobcaygeon show last summer.

The Tragically Hip and I had already recorded 4-songs that spring at their studio in Kingston, a bit piecemeal, a little slow off the start and I was still looking for the magic, that something extra to make the new record special…

But that night as they hit the stage and hit their stride it became clear to me….they are a killer live band…

I’m overstating the obvious but I guess spending so much time tucked away in the studio trying to perfect the “unperfectable” (not a word) I think I lost sight of what the essence of this band is…The energy of connectivity…the five of them together…each providing his pulse to the flow…each playing off the other as no other band can.

The Tragically Hip have made great records their whole career and they’ve made many memories on nights like this….the moon shining, the crowd screaming, the songs one after the other, familiar yet reborn in the moment…

I hadn’t seen the Hip since their run at Massey Hall in Toronto a few years ago and maybe I had forgotten this while we were tracking each of them separately at the Bathouse that spring…

But now my job was clear…..channel this energy…let them play together…a living organism honed by the years.

We changed tack and retooled and found a studio able to house the five guys with their inimitable style and blasted through 14-songs in two weeks….there was the magic, there was the essence, every moment charged with the energy of connectivity no chance to over-think or worse….with a few finishing touches back at the Bathouse and a mix week in NYC the record was done….

Now For Plan A is the new Tragically Hip record due out November 12th 2012.

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The Tragically Hip were formed in 1984 by five friends from Kingston ON – Rob Baker, Gordon Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois and Gord Sinclair.

The Hip have sold millions of records worldwide, managing to enjoy both mass popularity and critical acclaim.

The group released their first album, The Tragically Hip, in 1987 and have since released thirteen studio albums, earning two diamond certifications and over twenty #1 hits.