One of our favorite local bands, the Bearfoot Hookers have a new CD out entitled “Beer Drinkin Gospel revival”!!! we think it is their best piece of work to date!   If you’re looking for a good CD to party with.

Join Hounddogradio on Saturday, August 14, as the Hookers take over Saturday Night Jam!  They’ll be playing cuts from their new CD, and probably some of your old faves too!!!  So tune in and check it out!!!  We’ll see ya at the bar-I mean the doghouse beginning at 8 PM ET!!!

This is going to be a great show, and if you like some good hell-raising honky-tonk, you definitely need to join us on the 14th!

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The Grant and Moe Show stopped by during the birthday bash to share the love.  Grant has co-hosted a couple of Saturday Night shows with Frank, and we’ve dubbed them the Hounddog House Band.  Here’s the first song they performed at the 2010 Hounddog Radio Birthday Bash.

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Photo taken @ a previous Birthday Bash

The Grant and Moe Show

The Silver Rock Band came ready to rock at the birthday bash on June 6th, 2010, and we managed to capture their first song on video.  Make sure to stay tuned to find out how you can get a CD with all the bands from Birthday Bash 2010

Hello Hounddog listeners and supporters,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your support and loyalty over the last 10 years. For those of you who have been with us from the beginning, you know we have had a lot of ups and downs, especially during the last year. We’re still here and howlin’, though, and we have many of you to thank for that.

We first took the air on June 6, 2000, so we’re coming up on the 10-year anniversary in just a few days! This is also the time of year when we have our annual “Birthday Bash” show to mark the occasion, and this year is no exception. However, we are going to put a twist on it this time around and do something we have not been able to do before. Instead of YOU coming to our birthday show, we’re bringing the “Bash” TO YOU!

We cordially invite you to tune in on Sunday, June 6, starting around 2 pm and join us for a great line-up of live music – direct from the Hounddog Radio studio. We are expecting extraordinary talent such as: Kristin Tinsley, Silver Rock Band, Three-Legged Booze Hounds

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So be sure and tune in and be part of all the festivities. We plan to party until we run out of music or the neighbors call the cops…whichever comes first.

With warmest regards,

Frank Coon
Owner, Hounddog Radio

The show returns on June 7th, and I hope to see you in the chat room then.

The first hour of the show always features a spotlight-artist segment called “The Nixter Six-Pack,” in which I play 6 songs of my choosing from a single artist or band. Hour 2 is the retro-hour, and you’re welcomed to make requests via the chat room. The third and final hour is “anything goes,” and we always have a lot of fun.

Have a great Memorial Day, and join me for my next show on June 7th. (If I’ve recovered from Hounddog Radio’s 10th Birthday Bash on June 6th, that is. LOL)

I first herd about Jill in the hounddogradio chat during Friday night freedom. Her friend was in the chat and tuned in to the show and said she had a friend that had a cd out and how good it was. So I told her to send a copy to the station. She then told me she did already. So while the cowboy way show was on the next morning I looked at the last batch of cds I had received and sure enough there it was. So I thought what the hell lets check it out, and boy was I glad I did. After checking it out I put it on the server and proceeded to contact Carri. Then I thought why not profile it on the jam that night. So I played “burn baby burn, fast moving train, tumbleweed and tides.” again boy am I glad I did. This blend of blues, country with a dash of folk and a pinch of back bone rock gives her an Americana sound that she can call her own. One listen to this cd will leave you wanting more. The thing this dj was most impressed with is that it was an intimate recording that is live so you really get a feel for her and her music. Add Jill Jack to your collection and you will be glad to! For more info on Jill check out her web site at
www.jilljack.com and keep a check on the hounddogradio page.

Jill Jack

The Bearfoot Hookers are a favorite around Hounddog Radio, and when they come in the studio, they always bring the party.  They’re also some of the nicest guys you could ever meet.

That’s why when we got this request from The Hookers, we couldn’t help but see what we could do to help The BearFoot Hookers raise a little dough to get their new album pressed.

Usually we don’t just forward emails to the website, but there’s no way we could duplicate the energy (and some comedy) oozing from the email, so we’re just going to repost it as is, so you can see who you’d be helping:

Hey y’all,

I know, it’s been a long time. I’ve grown older, you’ve grown wiser, and some of us (Ty) have just grown. But the important thing is that we’re all here now, in this new and brave electric world where though we wade through threats of fire, famine and flood, there is no news so important as a new Bearfoot Hookers record.

What?

Did you read that right? Has it been five years? Are they all out of jail? I thought the guitar player had herpes? Didn’t they break up?

And the answer to at least three of those questions is a resounding, “No.” Yes, yes, friends and family, members of the congregation and unrepentant sinners, The Bearfoot Hookers do indeed have a new album that is in the damn can. Meaning we wrapped the recording sessions Saturday when none other than the legendary Fat Bottom Horns came in and laid some sweet soul butter on top of this deep-fried Southern soiree.

But like any news that gets you thinking, “This is too good to be true. The recession truly is over!” there is a caveat. And if any of you know this band, you can probably see it coming. It’s like that time that you ran into one of the guys in the band in a bar and y’all got to talking, threw back a few shots and one thing leads to another and suddenly there’s 10 folks crowded around chanting your name, some are shirts and some are skins, things get a little sketchy after that and suddenly you wake up the next day in some stranger’s attic clutching a guitar with a receipt in your pocket for a $400 bar tab run up in an hour and a half. I know, it happened once to me too.  How do you think I got involved in this outfit in the first place?

Forget that craziness, though. I know I have. In fact, I don’t think I ever really remembered it in the first place. As a friend of mine once told me, the past is not dead, it’s not even past. Gospel truth, that. Which brings me back to this record, aptly named Beer Drinkin’ Gospel Revival. You see brothers and sisters, the Building Fund is a little short as usual and what with the price of gas and the cost of inflation and six months of supporting the various habits of a top-notch engineer, we find ourselves in need of a little help from our friends to bring this thing on in.

Let me emphasize that we are finished recording this album. What we need is some financial assistance in order to mix, master and press this sucker into that lovely and swiftly decaying physical format of modern music, the CD. But we find ourselves in an age where these types of modern day miracles are possible. Through the assistance of www.kickstarter.com, the Bearfoot Hookers are running a pledge drive/pre-sale/all-hands-out fundraiser to bring in the last of this roughly $2,000 we’re short. We want this thing in hand by June and we need your help to do it. I can see that look in your eye and yes, this is a legitimate business with legitimate partnerships and protections for your online funds.

Here’s how it works. Kickstarter is partnered with Amazon.com, the largest behemoth of online sales in the world. (They eat little independent bookstores like mine for breakfast.) You know you’ve ordered something throughAmazon in the past. (Probably books, but that’s ok, too. I still love you.) If so, you’ve already got an account with them. You pledge money through Kickstarter and it’s charged through the financially reputable Amazon.com. And here’s the kicker: if we fail to get pledges in the amount of our goal of $2,000, then nobody is charged anything and it was all for nought. I think we can do this, though. You can donate as little as $1 or as much as you’d like. We’re offering different incentives for different pledge amounts as you can read here or see in a video here. Let me emphasize that any amount helps. If you can only donate $1, then please do because that stuff adds up.  You can just look at this as a pre-sale also and just go ahead and purchase your copy of the album in advance.

So please, please go here…

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

…now and help get this album out. (The video is pretty funny, too.) If by some miracle we go over the amount, for God’s sake keep pledging because we’re really in hock on this thing anyway. Also, if we get a good bit more, then I’m making a push to have this thing pressed in vinyl, so we might make another goal for that if the project takes off.

So again – and as always – we’ll send peace, love, good music and questionable moral decisions your way if you’ll send a little cash ours. Email me with any questions at thebearfoothookers@yahoo.com.

Seriously y’all, we need the money.

See y’all at the revival,

Jon

Here’s that link again in case you missed it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearfoothookers/mix-master-and-press-the-bearfoot-hookers-new-reco

Review by Amy Blizzard

In her new album The Age of Miracles, Mary Chapin Carpenter opens up her soul and showcases a shameless vulnerability while traveling through the peaks and valleys of personal exploration. Back in the summer of 2007, the song-writing process began for the new release after Carpenter was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism that brought an immediate halt to all of her touring and performing plans for a year.

To pass time during the lengthy recovery, she engrossed herself in the writing process and drew inspiration from the myriad of phases in life and how they can vary and transfrom from person-to-person. While focusing on deep personal reflection for The Age of Miracles to pen lyrics that at times

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sound like poetic journal entries and prose during ‘We Have Traveled So Far’ and ‘I Have a Need For Solitude’;  Carpenter also invoked a polarizing challenge and drifted away from herself and fearlessly attempted to slip into the minds and thought processes of others.

Through that empathic gesture, she created ‘Mrs. Hemingway’ and ‘4 June 1989.’ While innately obscure, the songs are two of the album’s strongest and most creative pieces. Carpenter sings hauntingly through the voice of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife on the dawn of their relationship falling into shambles. Then, she spins a different take on the historic protest in Tienanmen Square, told through the eyes of a young solider.

She also tackles more traditional themes such as relationships, love and marriage in ‘The Way I Feel’ and ‘I Put My Ring Back On’ (with backing vocals from Vince Gill), which pay homage to her mainstream country days. Bluegrass favorite Alison Krauss also joins in on the more subdued ‘I Was a Bird’.

Overall, ‘The Age of Miracles’ is a musical piece of art.  Mary Chapin Carpenter bravely steps away from the pressures of commericalism that frequently embrace quantity over quality and instead aims to create an album encapsulated with cumbersome ballads sprinkled with an underlining layer of hope, rich vocals that are pleasant and comforting and a collection of literary-based lyrics that highlight the deft artistry and unique prowess she possesses as a world-reknown songwriter.

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The Age Of Miracles Tracklisting

• 1 We Traveled So Far
  2 Zephyr
  3 I Put My Ring Back On
  4 Holding Up The Sky
  5 4 June 1989
  6 I Was A Bird
  7 Mrs. Hemingway
  8 I Have A Need For Solitude
  9 What You Look For
  10 Iceland
  11 The Age Of Miracles
  12 The Way I Feel

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an Icon of Americana, and we’re honored to give away a few copies of her new CD The Age Of Miracles to our loyal Hounddog Radio customers.  If you’d like to be entered for a chance to win one of several copies of Carpenter’s new CD, simply sign-up for the mailing list and you’ll be automatically entered to win a copy.

The winners will be drawn, at random from the mailing list, and we’ll send the copy to you as soon as we announce. Remember, you have  to be a member of the Hounddog Radio Mailing list to win.

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Why wait to see if you’ll win the CD, when you can go ahead and buy a copy.  Any lover of Americana Music would love to add this to his or her collection.

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