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2023-07-17T13:29:23-04:00
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2023-07-17T13:29:23-04:00
2023-10-16T10:48:03-04:00
2023 CANVAS REBEL INTERVIEW
<p>New 2023 Interview with Canvas Rebel:<br><br><span style="color:rgb(47,51,55);"><i>“Happiness comes from within, and as a creative person, sadness and suffering are just par for the course. Almost a prerequisite for the job. Look at it this way: All great modern music started with the blues. You can draw a straight line from rock, country, rap, all of it, right to the blues, and blues came from suffering and the need for salvation through creativity.”</i></span><br><br>Read More here:<br>https://canvasrebel.com/meet-james-bullard/?fbclid=IwAR2W4WqTesycdaRyYoQaSbCasrethTisqX6pmfj8YfD57D0_TnJ52OmRoF8</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/6937350
2022-03-31T18:16:37-04:00
2022-03-31T19:15:12-04:00
James Scott Bullard Says: “No ‘More’ Country For Old Men”
<p><a contents="No More Country For Old Men" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://americananews208408446.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/james-scott-bullard-says-no-more-country-for-old-men/" target="_blank">No More Country For Old Men</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/6937351
2022-03-31T18:10:17-04:00
2022-03-31T19:15:12-04:00
The Many Lives of James Scott Bullard
<p><a contents="The L.A. Note" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://thelanote.com/get-to-know-the-many-lives-of-james-bullard-and-the-experiences-that-shaped-him/?fbclid=IwAR3ruEy7U4SyY0v6Tvup2VmiBd1vot9zPqZIhZeDNA7iXEjfLN73eLixJ2w" target="_blank">The Many Lives of James Scott Bullard</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5648293
2019-02-18T02:54:40-05:00
2019-02-18T05:15:25-05:00
Full Tilt Bio.
<p>By: Sloane Spencer<br><br>James Scott Bullard is an “all or nothing” guy. Full Tilt Boogie releases Friday, 27 April 2018, on Big Mavis Music. Recorded with his long-time collaborators at Southern Harmony Studio in Florence, South Carolina, Bullard’s newest album will also be available on vinyl. </p>
<p>Bullard developed a regional cult following through touring and expanded his reach in 2017 with a series of successful Midwest runs, connecting with devoted fans from his Facebook and Instagram following. Full Tilt Boogie slides into the speakers like James Scott Bullard himself: ambitious, unexpected, and just slightly over the edge. </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard saunters onto the stage, casually cracking jokes with his country band while they sound check. Later, Bullard talks about his horror film he’s been crafting for a couple years, at breakneck speed, zipping from related topics like his favorite movies to properly lighting make-up to heavy metal mood music, like a Southern Rob Zombie. This contrast encapsulates James Scott Bullard, a guy who seems to be simultaneously at opposite ends of the spectrum of any subject, but he’s so genuine, that it works. </p>
<p>After a brief stint in rehab several years ago, James Scott Bullard declared himself substance-free, yet it took him longer to accept responsibility for the rest of his life’s decisions. That process led to fan-favorite lovelorn songs from his previous albums. Full Tilt Boogie jumps forward to where Bullard is now, owning his bad choices and sometimes reveling in them, while not giving up vices altogether, as his string of exes will attest. Bullard’s honesty about his flaws endears him to his fans, who find broken pieces of themselves in the lyrics. </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5562290
2018-12-19T23:55:00-05:00
2018-12-20T01:45:30-05:00
Full Tilt Boogie makes the cut on Lyndon Bolton’s Best of 2018 Americana
<p>Lyndon Bolton’s Best of 2018 in Americana Music </p>
<p>Best of’s can raise as many hackles as they do curiosity or even interest. But if by any chance someone asked me to name my top ten for this year I’d reply with these (in no particular order). </p>
<p>1. Trampled By Turtles - Life Is Good On The Open Road </p>
<p>This blend of full throttle and reflection shows TBT are completely recharged after a four year hiatus. </p>
<p>2. Steep Canyon Rangers - Out in the Open </p>
<p>Individual bluegrass virtuosity and cohesion from far more than Steve Matin’s backing band. </p>
<p>3. Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son </p>
<p>The long awaited return of the slide master whose playing and social commentary are as sharp as ever. </p>
<p>4. Donna The Buffalo - Dance in the Street </p>
<p>Their mix of country, folk rock, bluegrass, Cajun and zydeco retains all its potency that paints a vivid picture of today’s Americana. </p>
<p>5. Rod Picott - Out Past The Wires </p>
<p>An artist for our times Picott paints an often bleak but always vivid, picture of heartbreak, hardship and small victories as lived by so many people. </p>
<p>6. Dean Owens - Southern Wind </p>
<p>‘Celtic Spirit, country soul’ from a Scottish singer-songwriter who keeps the good company of Messrs. Hubbard and Kimbrough. </p>
<p>7. Ben Glover - Shorebound </p>
<p>More collaboration, this time between Ireland and Nashville but provenance takes second place to the sense of belonging evoked by these songs. </p>
<p><strong>8. James Scott Bullard - Full Tilt Boogie </strong></p>
<p><strong>The title says it all. This is a blend of country, blues, rock or rolled into one; the real deal of rocking Americana. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Preview Full Tilt Boogie by James Scott Bullard </strong></p>
<p>9. Johnny Cash - Forever Words </p>
<p>John Carter Cash has matched 16 poems and songs left by his father, some never before published or performed, with 16 artists for their interpretation. Each is a heartfelt tribute to the Man in Black. </p>
<p>10. I’m With Her - See You Around </p>
<p>Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, all established artists in their own right, harmonise their individual talents into a unique rootsy fusion of bluegrass, folk and country. </p>
<p>About Lyndon Bolton: Lyndon Bolton is a reviewer for the Americana Music Show. You can read his other reviews on No Depression at http://nodepression.com/users/lyndon-bolton.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://americanamusicshow.com/lyndon-boltons-best-of-2018-americana/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5562291
2018-12-15T00:15:00-05:00
2018-12-20T01:45:30-05:00
Honky Tonk Heroes host fourth annual toy drive, Christmas concert, JSB Performing
<p>By DAVE LAVENDER</p>
<p>HUNTINGTON — Santa Claus is coming to town and he is ready to go honky tonking for a good cause. </p>
<p>For the fourth year, The Honky Tonk Heroes are presenting Honky Tonk Holidays, a Christmas concert fundraiser and toy drive for the local group, Kids Need Christmas. </p>
<p>Organized and run by Derrick Bishop, (http://kidsneedchristmas.tumblr.com) Kids Need Christmas has for the past seven years provided Christmas gifts, from toys to coats, shoes, socks, underwear and blankets, to area kids in need with The Honky Tonk Heroes, a Facebook music appreciation group, helping raise money each Christmas. </p>
<p>This year's concert is set for 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15 with a host of regionally traveling country and Americana acts including: Laid Back Country Picker, Flat Tracker, The Local Honeys, Sean Whiting, Westwood Troubadours, and all the way from South Carolina, James Scott Bullard. </p>
<p>Admission is $10 or more donation and an unwrapped toy of $10 or more value. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. The event is free for first responders and for members of the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Works (IBEW, Local 317). </p>
<p>J.J. Waters, a local artist and well-known bartender, who founded Honky Tonk Heroes with a handful of hard-core country music loving friends, said it wasn't long after the group formed that he found out about his buddy Derrick Bishop's Kids Need Christmas efforts, and knew they had to throw their hat in the ring to help. </p>
<p>"The Honky Tonk Heroes had been around for about a year and had been going to a lot of shows and we had thrown some shows and kind of hung out but wanted to get more involved in the community and give back a bit. A friend had started his Kids Need Christmas charity and was looking for a way to raise funds and it seemed like a natural fit." </p>
<p>With more than 3,000 members, The Honky Tonk Heroes (https://www.facebook.com/realhonkytonk/) has never had to ask twice for anyone to play the show. In fact, such members, and friends, as Saskatchewan, native and red-hot touring artist Colter Wall have played the show non-gratis to help the cause. Wall played the upstairs of the original Black Sheep at the 2016 Christmas party, a bill that Waters laughs about having to turn down their good buddy Tyler Childers, who tried to hop onto the bill that was already filled. </p>
<p>"We've always had a strong media presence so when I originally posted asking for acts people overwhelmingly responded," Waters said. "I couldn't fit everybody on the bill so this year I asked in our group for suggestions as to who they would like to see play and then tag those people and see if they responded, and to see what would be a good fit and see what we could work out with everybody's schedules. We have been extremely lucky with amount of talent in the past and this year is no different." </p>
<p>Just a stone's skip across the Big Sandy River from Kentucky and its famed Country Music Highway, The Honky Tonk Heroes, based out of Huntington, have always operated with no borders, and have increasingly expanded their scope of influence into the Commonwealth and this year beyond. </p>
<p>Four of the six acts (Local Honeys, Laidback Country Picker, Westwood Troubadours and Sean Whiting) all hail from the Commonwealth, while Bullard gets the award for farthest traveled, rolling up from South Carolina to share such tunes as "Jesus, Jail or Texas." </p>
<p>This year, Honky Tonk Heroes' Honky Tonk Christmas concerts spread to Lake Lotawana, Missouri, where a similar country appreciation group, Honky Tonk Hotel, (founded by Jim and Victoria Guthrie) hosted a Honky Tonk Holiday on Dec. 1. </p>
<p>This weekend, the popular music venue, The Burl in Lexington, will host a Honky Tonk Holidays concert on Sunday, Dec. 16 with seven regional acts including Huntington's own DJ Charlie Brown Superstar. </p>
<p>On Monday, Caldwell Farms, in eastern Cabell County is hosting a Honky Tonk Holidays House Show with Tony Harrah, Zach Sovine, and Mobile, Alabama, Americana artist, Abe Partridge. Cost for that house is $12 or $8 if you bring a covered dish with all proceeds to Kids Need Christmas. Hit up PayPal with your contact info at https://www.paypal.me/tonyharrahmusic for more info. </p>
<p>"We had such an outpouring this year that we've split into multiple events showing Kentucky and Missouri some love," Waters said. "We started here with local Huntington talent, but through the power of social media you can see musicians you wouldn't see otherwise, and a lot of them are coming out of Kentucky, so it was natural for us to share those artists with as many people as we can. Through events like Kicking It On the Creek, we got adopted into that family, one of those families we met this year was Jim and Victoria Guthrie who run Honky Tonk Hotel in Missouri. We discovered we had a mutual admiration for the same thing and he liked what we were doing and decided to throw an event down their way They have an amazing array of talent that way. So we took some of the artists we loved and learned about the artists that they have there." </p>
<p>For the Missouri show, the Honky Tonk Heroes sent over Aaron Boyd, Eric Bolander and Sean Whiting, who has been sharing some new tunes off of his upcoming sophomore record, "High Expectations"due out in 2019. </p>
<p>Whiting, who currently has a crowdfunding campaign for the record, said their mini tour out to Missouri that included stops in Irvine, Kentucky, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri, was a great success sharing their tunes and love of country music, and spreading Christmas cheer. </p>
<p>"It makes me want to keep doing what I am doing," said Whiting, a former coal truck driver who has been playing music full time for the past 2 1/2 years. "It is good to know there are people that feel the same way. It is all over the place and not here and that is what is great. Jim and Victoria and their friends are really trying to get us out that way and spread some of that Kentucky and West Virginia love and it is really uplifting. I feel good about it that we have a new area now and can keep branching out from there... To me it's all about being a good person and being good to people and making friends - that is the absolute most important thing. It made us feel great to be able to meet so many new friends and to get to help raise money and presents for kids who are less fortunate." </p>
<p>In addition to the music, the HTH Concert features a 50/50 raffle, as well as a raffle of a Fender guitar (from Mountain Music Exchange) that not only has been autographed by Tyler Childers but also by songwriting legend John Prine - thanks to Ian Thornton, of Whizzbang BAM. Wheeler Walker, Jr., has also sent autographed merch. </p>
<p>"It has been super surreal to be a part of this scene, the past year especially with Tyler taking off the way that he has," Waters said. "We were an early supporter of his and he of us. The things that all our musician friends are accomplishing that we would have never dreamed of has made it nice to be a small part of it. We are seeing many friends playing Mountain Stage and Red Barn Radio and playing huge shows in Nashville and going to Europe and the music they are putting out is just some of the best you will ever hear. I have been a music fan all of my life and the things my friends are putting out now are my favorites." </p>
<p>Waters, who has done art work this year for a bunch of artists such as Dwight Yoakam, Tyler Childers, Colter Wall, and Ona, said it feels great to be a part of the scene and to celebrate the success of the past year. </p>
<p>"I feel really blessed, the Honky Tonk Heroes has been the hub of it all for me and I have been able to on the regular put out posters for Colter and Ona and Dwight Yoakam and Tyler," Waters said. "To be able to make art and get paid for it is one thing. To get paid for it and support your friends is a whole other thing." </p>
<p>If you go </p>
<p>WHAT: The Honky Tonk Heroes present Honky Tonk Holidays, a Christmas concert fundraiser and toy drive for the local group, Kids Need Christmas. </p>
<p>WHAT GROUPS: Laid Back Country Picker, Flat Tracker, The Local Honeys, Sean Whiting, Westwood Troubadours, and South Carolina honky tonk artist, James Scott Bullard </p>
<p>WHERE: Black Sheep Stage at Black Sheep Burritos and Brew, 279 9th St., at Pullman Square </p>
<p>WHEN: Doors at 6 p.m. Show 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15. </p>
<p>HOW MUCH: $10 or more donation and an unwrapped toy of $10 or more value. Free for first responders and for members of the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Works (IBEW, Local 317).</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/honky-tonk-heroes-host-fourth-annual-toy-drive-christmas-concert/article_3614e956-0466-545a-a421-0b567d747e0f.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5562292
2018-12-07T00:30:00-05:00
2018-12-20T01:45:30-05:00
"Hey, Hey Mama" named in 2018 E2TG Earie Awards - # 3 - Recap March 2018
<p>Last night was the first ever WXNA Holiday Party - it was a swell affair and affirmed how lucky I am to be a part of this amazing group of people. </p>
<p>After that, I headed to The Basement for The Big Dumb CD Release Party. It is hard for me to relate how much I love this amazingly talented group of musicians. In addition, not one, not two, but three past E2TG Artists of the Year were special guests for the show. Rayvon Pettis, Darrin Bradbury, and Jon Latham. I would put good money that this will not be the last you've heard about The Big Dumb this "Earie" season. </p>
<p>It's the end of the first full-week of December, and it is Day 3 of the 2018 Earie Awards. The Earies are kind of like the Grammys - except they are nothing like the Grammys. </p>
<p>Today for our shuffle, we journal back to a more innocent time - March 2018...... </p>
<p>"Raggedy Andy Williams" by Benjamin Jason Douglas </p>
<p>One of the most anticipated albums for me, became one of my favorite albums of 2018. First World Blues is the name of the album. You may recall that we got to premiere one song from the album. Ben Douglas can be spare and moving when playing solo, and he can rock your socks off when he plays with a band. When he is not making brilliant music, he can sometimes be found manning the front door at The 5 Spot in East Nashville. While doing that job, he has been known to do some amazing sketches of the musicians playing and other things. So, for his Earie award, I am going to steal his Instagram handle and give Ben Douglas the Doodling Doormando award for 2018. </p>
<p>"You" by Lobelia </p>
<p>A hold over from an album we featured heavily in 2017. Lobelia Lawson was born in the U.S. but is based in the U.K. - where she hosts a songwriting series. She won an Earie last year for her album, Love or Something Like It. </p>
<p>"Good Day" by Renfree Isaacs </p>
<p>Yet another 2017 holdover - remember, E2TG features albums over several months, so in March, we still had a lot of 2017 albums being featured. In 2018, The Renfrees and Dave Isaacs went back to their separate careers, but while together they made a lovely album and picked up a coveted "Earie Award". </p>
<p>"My Wallet is a House of Cards" by Ajay Mathur </p>
<p>2018 has been a great year for "discovering" new-to-me artists, and among my favorites in that category is Ajay Mathur. This was our first listen - back in March to his album Little Boats. Mathur was born in India and is based in Switzerland, and his truly global music includes elements of Americana infused with music from all over the world. Playing off his album title, I am giving Ajay Mathur, the "Captain, My Captain Award" (get it, Little Boat, Captain, boat captain....) </p>
<p><strong>"Hey, Hey Mama" by James Scott Bullard </strong></p>
<p><strong>A highlight of the year was getting to meet James Scott Bullard and </strong><strong>co.,</strong><strong> and to see him perform. Another highlight was getting to check out his album Full Tilt Boogie. It is an, at times, raucous music - but it is raucous music with a heart. I am giving James Scott Bullard the "Who the Fuck is James Scott Bullard" Award (hey it's from a t-shirt he had at one time). </strong></p>
<p>"Feather and Down" by Boris Garia </p>
<p>Yet another hold over from 2017. Boris Garcia's album Around Some Corner was produced by Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth. Boris Garcia are based in New York, and their music is inventive and fun. I realized that I failed to give them an "Earie" last year, so I offer up the "Nobody Puts Boris in a Corner" award for 2018, to Boris Garcia. </p>
<p>"The Bottle Let Me Down" (Live) by Buck n Stuff </p>
<p>Buck n Stuff have already won two Earie Awards - which they accomplished before releasing any recorded music. In 2016, they won the "Please, Please, Please, Please Award" (give or take some please's). Last year, they shared the "Keep Nashville Cool and Interesting and Original and/or Funny and/or Wild and/or (fill in the blank with a word or phrase that means something good) - Band" Award with Microwave Mountain, and The Big Dumb (quite a great group of bands). Well, in 2018, Buck n Stuff finally did put some music out into the world in the form of Saviors of Country Music: Live at American Legion Post 82." They played a super fun release show at said American Legion Post 82, and they spent most of the rest of the year being the busy and amazing sidemen that they are. So, in light of the busy 2018. Buck n Stuff do not need to share an Earie - they are the outright winners of the #AndaBucknStufftoYouAsWell Earie Award.</p>
<p><a contents="READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ear2theground-music.blogspot.com/2018/12/2018-e2tg-earie-awards-3-recap-march.html#more" target="_blank">READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5502555
2018-11-06T15:07:24-05:00
2018-11-06T20:15:18-05:00
Full Tilt Glowing Review by the guys over at Take Effect Reviews!
<p><a contents="Full Tilt Takes Effect!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://takeeffectreviews.com/?fbclid=IwAR3EJ59ZgxHMuOLZk9KxeSFylt7Aq0bntuf4jaqEVD7DKZrw6gsj-RrwY00#/jamesscottbullardfulltiltboogie/" target="_blank">Full Tilt Takes Effect!</a><br> </p>
<p>"Country music comes in many forms these days, but few are as exciting, unpredictable and ragged as South Carolina’s James Scott Bullard."<br> </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5278491
2018-06-06T04:05:10-04:00
2018-06-06T04:15:30-04:00
Alternate Root Review of "Full Tilt Boogie"
<p> In the write what you know style, James Scott Bullard has found a muse for his recent release, Full Tilt Boogie. The South Carolina musician claims that ‘all my songs are about bad decisions’, using the line as a mantra and a template for the stories. Once the mood is set, Full Tilt Boogie takes off running, pulling out the tale of “Evil Lovin’” from clouds of distorted guitar chords, closing the door on bad love and heading for an exit pointing a finger as he leaves a lover who ‘sees her double at the bottom of a whiskey glass’. A rumbling beat pounds a path to the pulpit for James Scott Bullard as he lists his “Wicked Ways” while Full Tilt Boogie promises “The Next Tear” will find love gone by the time it hits the floor, asks “Lord, Have Mercy” to handle a restless lover, and counts three options as a relationship exit strategy with “Jesus, Jail, or Texas”. <br>The album title of Full Tilt Boogie represents its artist well, James Scott Bullard wearing the skin of an all-or-nothing guy. He gets lost in the headlights, opening his heart as every city exit sign namechecked reminds him of the love at home coming a little closer with each tire slap in “Back to You”. Full Tilt Boogie bares its teeth, confessing that the whiskey, cocaine, pills, and heroin did not come close to taking their toll as the love of a woman that put JSB into action mode on “Warpath”. The beat makes a valiant effort to hammer the love in “All to Pieces” into a form that fits as James Scott Bullard offers a hand for a night out with “Hey, Hey Mama”.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5278492
2018-06-06T04:01:29-04:00
2018-06-06T04:15:31-04:00
JSB on Kentucky Seven Podcast!
<p><a contents="Click here for Podcast!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.kentuckyseven.se/blogg/kentuckyseven-summer/" target="_blank">Click here for Podcast!</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5260874
2018-05-27T18:35:00-04:00
2018-05-27T23:30:31-04:00
Jesus Jail or Texas/Leavin On My Mind featured on "Blue Moon Kentucky" Show, La Aventura Americana Radio (Spain)
<p>LISTEN HERE:</p>
<p><a contents="IVOOX:&nbsp;https://www.ivoox.com/26198125&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.ivoox.com/26198125" target="_blank">IVOOX:&nbsp;https://www.ivoox.com/26198125&nbsp;</a><br><a contents="MIXCLOUD:&nbsp;https://www.mixcloud.com/aventuradio/142-blue-moon-kentucky-27-mayo-2018/&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/aventuradio/142-blue-moon-kentucky-27-mayo-2018/" target="_blank">MIXCLOUD:&nbsp;https://www.mixcloud.com/aventuradio/142-blue-moon-kentucky-27-mayo-2018/&nbsp;</a><br><a contents="WEB:&nbsp;http://www.albertobasarte.net/2018/05/blue-moon-kentucky-n-142-programa-del.html&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.albertobasarte.net/2018/05/blue-moon-kentucky-n-142-programa-del.html" target="_blank">WEB: http://www.albertobasarte.net/2018/05/blue-moon-kentucky-n-142-programa-del.html </a></p>
<p>Hello, my last radio show on 27th. May, BLUE MOON KENTUCKY, your radio show of real country, western swing and honky tonk, greetings. Warning, the language is Spanish. <br>***** <br>Mi ultimo programa BLUE MOON KENTUCKY del domingo 27 de Mayo, tu programa de country tradicional, western swing y honky tonk. Saludos. </p>
<p>www.albertobasarte.net </p>
<p>JOHNNY PAYCHECK - MODERN TIMES (1987) <br>Modern Times </p>
<p>HEARTS GONE SOUTH - LITTLE THINGS (2018) <br>Low Down Dirty Man / You Don't Love Me Back / You Ain't Sleeping Here Tonight </p>
<p>TIM CULPEPPER - DRINKIN' UNDER THE INFLUENCE (2018) <br>Under The Influence / Daddy's Old Guitar </p>
<p>STONY LONER AND HIS RHYTHM ROUNDERS - LONG GONE SESSION (2018) <br>Bring It On Down To My House / Don't Fuck Around With Love </p>
<p>JAMES SCOTT BULLARD - FULL TILT BOOGIE (2018) <br>Jesus Jail or Texas / Leavin On My Mind </p>
<p>WEBB PIERCE - KING OF HONKY TONK (1994) <br>In The Jailhouse Now / Love, Love, Love </p>
<p>FOREST BLACK - I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW (2018) <br>A World of Neon Lights / All My Friends Come Out / County Road 3800 </p>
<p>LOS HERMANOS CUBERO - QUIQUE DIBUJA LA TRISTEZA (2018) <br>Quisiera Poder Rezar / Me Quedo Con Lo Bueno</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5258613
2018-05-25T21:55:05-04:00
2018-05-26T02:15:30-04:00
"Lord, Have Mercy" featured on Roots Highway (Italy) Playlist
<p>Thanks to our friends at Roots Highway out of Italy for featuring "Lord, Have Mercy" on their Spotify Playlist.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON SPOTIFY" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/user/21ow3uleoeji45gpqn3lau7yq/playlist/23kTOI9CW3HoeV8WmKoPRL" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON SPOTIFY</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5257995
2018-05-23T15:50:00-04:00
2018-05-25T19:45:27-04:00
Music Mix Daily Interviews JSB in Nashville! (Video)
<p>Watch here!</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5245833
2018-05-20T18:17:46-04:00
2018-05-20T19:15:25-04:00
Top Country Hits adds JSB to playlist for the week of 5/21/18!
<p>(Top Country Hits a weekly Country Music show which is aired on FM and internet radio stations in Uruguay, Argentna, Mexico and Spain.<br>You can listen to the show at any time online and/or download the free, mp3 version. Just go to www.topcountryhits.net)<br><br><a contents="Click here to check it out!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.topcountryhits.net" target="_blank">Click here to check it out!</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5245215
2018-05-20T04:53:57-04:00
2018-05-20T06:00:55-04:00
JSB named cadidate for 'disc of the year' by Spain's own: Dirty Works Editorial
<p>Loose paraphrased translation:<br><br>"...This glorious Full Tilt Boogie. "All my songs try to make bad decisions," says Bullard. There has been rehabilitation in between (he thought that sobriety would end his creativity, but not), and a long list of aggravated ex-offenders who find bits and pieces of their lives in their lyrics. This new disc emphasizes the acceptance of the old demons and the responsibility for bad decisions. Pure country outlaw, after all, because the thing is about that, a deliberate resignation of the material "poor me" from his previous works. No more crying. The broken heart has given rise to a meditative demon. More power and much more rock ("too rock and roll" for mainstream country and "too country" for mainstream rock and roll, fuck it). A dirtier ride, more daring, more intoxicating, without concessions to the gallery. "I grew up in the rural South," he explains. And I do not pretend it sounds arrogant at all, but there is something about being from the South that makes you "know". There is something in the rivers and on the earth that exudes artistic expression. Here the blues was born, it was transformed into country and bluegrass, and it was interwoven with gospel. Hank Williams, Little Richard, Elvis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and Tom Petty are Southern. What more evidence is needed? " Lyrics populated by marginal characters, bikers, rodeo cowboys and renegades. "When you sing you have to know what you're talking about, otherwise people will notice." Candidate, from now, to disc of the year at Rancho Dirty.<br><br><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.dirtyworkseditorial.com/blog/2018/5/20/james-scott-bullard" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5236281
2018-05-15T16:15:15-04:00
2018-05-15T19:00:49-04:00
Another outta the park review by the U.K.'s Whiskey Preachin'!
<p>The adage would have us believe that a leopard never changes his spots. So, I guess, James Scott Bullard must be some other kind of cat altogether. A collection of his earlier tracks titled The Rise and Fall of… (recently released on Big Mavis, remastered and repackaged) presents tracks from his first four albums, all now out of print. The music on The Rise and Fall… would never knowingly upset the neighbours in the way that Full Tilt Boogie promises to do. The Rise and Fall… is a strong collection of songs, showing influences from the classic country rock of Gram Parsons and the Rolling Stones to modern Americana singer-songwriters such as Justin Townes Earle and Ryan Adams. In fact, Bullard released an EP titled Oh This Land (A Tribute to Gram Parsons) in 2015, which may see its way to being reissued at some point, but listening to Full Tilt Boogie for the umpteenth time, the same question arises again and again; just what happened to this guy in the intervening years between his first records and this new one? The love songs have soured, the gentle country rockers have become distorted and amped up, the general vibe is far greasier and hungover. In short, the new album has got a whole lot more Whiskey Preachin. I worry that Bullard may have started carrying a flick knife instead of a comb. </p>
<p>Full Tilt Boogie kicks in from the very first distorted guitar chord of Lord, Have Mercy, like a heavy country gospel tune gone to the dark side, a cry for a soul to be saved before it’s too late. When the second track, Wicked Ways, kicks in, we know it’s already too late. The guitars are still distorted but the drums are pounding a much faster tempo and the organ is squeaking out all that damn honky tonk rock and roll. Then you get to the breakdown you know you’re in for a real good time! All to Pieces lays off a little, but only a little, allowing you to regroup before the Chuck-Berry-on-steroids of Hey Hey Mama kicks in, with lyrics like “I’m gonna love you mama like it’s against the law” stoking the fires. Track six, Jesus, Jail or Texas, has to be my favourite, possibly the most country track on the album, with a nice shuffle beat and fantastic lyrics telling of the different ways that women have managed to escape our protagonist: “One girl she went to Texas, two that went to jail, there or four found Jesus and the rest can go straight to hell”. The guitars are still distorted and there’s plenty of nice slide action, like ZZ Top fronted by Kinky Friedman. Leavin’ on My Mind ramps up the tempo to a furious, demented, pace, taking us on a break-neck tour through Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Carolina, anywhere but here. </p>
<p>Is this a country album with pretentions towards being a rock record, or a rock album masquerading as a country record? Isn’t that just a stupid question? Does is really matter, if it sounds this good? At Whiskey Preachin, this is what we would describe as 100% bona fide Gumbo Rock, music that mashes up its influences and comes out with something fresh, a new sound made up of recognisable parts but for which no one signifier is sufficient to describe it. Bullard was raised up in South Carolina with a country and bluegrass musician for a father. As a kid, he grew up loving heavy rock but was surrounded by the music that later influenced him to start making the music on Full Tilt Boogie; the Southern rock of Lynyrd Skynrd, Tom Petty and The Allman Brothers (whose influence shines on the album’s closing track, Back to You), the classic rock and roll of Little Richard and Elvis and pure honky tonk of the world’s first punk rocker, Hank Williams; all these influences can be heard when listening to Full Tilt Boogie, so it’s little surprise that we love it at Whiskey Preachin. After all, these are the same artists that form the bedrock on which we built our shack. Why would we want to hear anything else? </p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5232739
2018-05-14T01:58:49-04:00
2018-05-14T02:30:33-04:00
Great Review from Italy's Roots Highway!
<p>Here's a rough translation:</p>
<p>Fresh from the press in April, Full Tilt Boogie is the mighty last piece for James Scott Bullard, a boy from the rural south of the United States, born in South Carolina from a mixed-blood family (Irish, German, and Native Americans), where he breathed obviously the fumes of alcohol, eavesdropped bluegrass, country and blues, and strengthened the character with the classics of the south (Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty). After an adolescence passed to give vent to the juvenile acne with the hard rock of the Sabbath and Iron Maiden, James has put his head in place by starting to think music fishing in the unconscious, and paying attention to the father, who did not miss opportunity to reiterate what were its roots and the music that naturally flowed from his brain veins. In 2016 he published the ep Box of Letters, a work full of rock'n'roll and declared and perhaps misplaced love. And in recent years he shares the stage with artists such as David Allan Coe, Butch Walker, Dex Romweber, Steel Woods, collecting stories and experiences of real life, made of booze, drugs, disappointments and joys, concerts throughout the Midwest.</p>
<p>And here we are to tell a new work for James Scott Bullard, really tough and exciting, that should be put in the same row of the famous Blackberry Smoke to which -secondo me- approaches both from a stylistic and cultural point of view. Loan production of Missy Davis Jones and Ken "Dakota" Jones, recorded at the Southern Harmony Studio of Florence, SC, for Big Mavis Records, with the help of Kevin Singleton (bass), Mike Knight (drums), Justin Banks (keyboards) ) and Jeff Springs (guitars), and the choirs of Rebecca Morning and Jordan Adams. "These are the words carved on his website, and listening to his music, but not being a native English speaker, I do not really have the immediate juxtaposition of his sentence, but I can certainly say that there is hot blood and sweat in every track, and that the sacred laws of southern rock transpire from every song, as there is all the classic kit of southern rocker: jeans, mirrored sunglasses, hair cowboy jackets, black leather waistcoats, and motorcyclist tattoos.</p>
<p>Lord Have Mercy is a slap of guitars to open the dance, with beautiful melody and ballad cadence typical of the aforementioned Blackberry Smoke. Wicked Ways will probably be one of the single hits (see also the video), as the equally catchy The Next Tear, tracks that lend themselves to the company of the truck drivers who travel with the local FM radio through the southern states. All To The Pieces and Hey Hey Mama, are written with skill and passion, with well-defined stylistic references and referable to the various Petty, Allman, Steve Earle and the most recent US Rails. Surprising arrangements, of great vintage taste, are appreciated in Warpath, where an erotic and soft electric piano supports the skeleton of this wonderful Southern ballad, as well as another distinctive element of the Southern blues, the slide, embroideres the free-range Leavin On My Mind, which sounds almost like a One Way Out by Allmanian memory. There is room for the dancing country Jesus Jail Or Texas and the rocking Evil Lovin, to make this work really enjoyable and entertaining, that never ceases to excite me until the final Back to You, with the Hammond organ and the electric guitars that harmonize and they flow smoothly. A real surprise, James Scott Bullard, who will not fail to surprise even all Rootshighway readers, habitual consumers of American rock.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5225154
2018-05-09T12:13:57-04:00
2018-05-09T15:45:31-04:00
Full Tilt Boogie reviewed as tribute to the Americana Music Show!
<p>Full Tilt Boogie by James Scott Bullard<br>by Lyndon Bolton </p>
<p>Tribute bands there are aplenty but I’m not so sure about tribute album reviews. Well, here’s one; a tribute to the Americana Music Show. I understand and respect Calvin’s news in what he said would be his final podcast (April 24). But I’m in no doubt how much I shall miss the rich seam of new, exciting artists and records Calvin has been unearthing since he started the show. As a listener for many years and reviewer since Calvin started including reviews on the site, I’d like to dedicate this review of Full Tilt Boogie by James Scott Bullard as a tribute to the Americana Music Show. -- Aww thanks Lyndon! -- Calvin </p>
<p>I’ve chosen Full Tilt Boogie because it is a perfect example of the many discoveries I’ve come to associate with the AMS, namely a blend of country, blues, rock or rolled into one; the real deal of Americana. James Scott Bullard may be new to me, but this is his sixth studio album. Either way, by his own admission it represents a change of direction lyrically away from as he put it, “a deliberate step-down from the ‘poor-me stuff”. He recognises his faults but doesn’t seek to hide or excuse these. Instead, lyrically, he still draws from a life led for much of the time on the edge. </p>
<p>This is southern rock, but the album’s title, while wonderful, doesn’t really tell the whole story. Bullard blends the full range of southern influences, so there’s country, blues, a hint of bluegrass and gospel as well. On first hearing this I immediately thought of Skynyrd. </p>
<p>To start the album, ‘Lord, Have Mercy’ opens with a crashing chord sequence, a prowling slide and Bullard pleading for mercy in a drawl redolent of the great Van Zant himself. The chorus reverberates with backing singers and keys. To gain attention Bullard doesn’t cough politely but delivers a full blown punch fright between the eyes. </p>
<p>Upping the pace, ‘Wicked Ways’ is a frenetic confession of having lived fast and loose like his dad “until one morning, the preacher told me/boy, you’re going straight to hell”. Bullard’s response? “I said preacher, when you get to heaven/ have the good lord forward my mail”. Yet around a brief solo from each of his band, Bullard admits that one day he might “give up my wicked ways”. </p>
<p>A languid slide is such a hallmark of the southern sound and that comes out deliciously on ‘All To Pieces’ courtesy of guitarist, Jeff Springs. ‘Hey, Hey, Mama’ is where the boogie kicks in, this time with slide weaving in and out of the thumping rhythmn. Bullard notches up a gear mid-song in ‘Warpath’, as he reflects, “there ain’t no rest for the wicked with that mean old woman in my head”. </p>
<p>Can there be a better titled song for this album than, ‘Jesus, Jail, or Texas’? The heavier guitars are given a rest which allows more room for Bullard’s voice which he harmonises to great effect with his backing singers. </p>
<p>Harking back to southern heroes, ‘The Next Year’ is pure Marshall Tucker Band (‘Blue Ridge Mountain Sky’). This is my pick of the album, its brisk pace sends Bullard on his way after another break-up. “I’ll be gone before the next tear hits the ground”. Running that a close second is is ‘Back to You’ which continuing that MTB vibe, finishes this fine record. Bullard’s fabulously rich musicians gather round him as they head off down the highway. This is definitely driving music. </p>
<p>Waving flags is a hazardous business these days but James Scott Bullard is a deserved standard bearer of the southern rock tradition. Drawing on impeccable sources he has created his own original, authentic style that flies high above some very pale imitations of one of music’s finest genres. </p>
<p>Full Tilt Boogie is a perfect example of everything the Americana Music Show has meant to me. Thanks Calvin. -- Thank YOU for all your insightful reviews.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5214661
2018-05-02T21:16:41-04:00
2018-05-03T01:01:12-04:00
L.A. INDIE VOICE BLOG REVIEW
<p>This is upbeat Americana/Country music with a Southern Rock edge, perfect for summer parties. It is guaranteed to get you on the dance floor, especially “Wicked Ways” and “All to Pieces.” The good times keep coming with “Hey, Hey Mama” (with its funky organ), “Jesus, Jail, or Texas,” “Evil Lovin” (with its amazing blues vibe), “Leavin’ on my Mind” (a driving two-step), ” The Next Year” (a fun two-step in the style of Clint Black’s “Nothing but the Taillights”), and “Back to You” (with its Allman Brothers band feel. This album is great from start to finish and this artist belongs on country radio. <br>Recommendation: Don’t think twice. Get this one now.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5214072
2018-05-02T13:15:15-04:00
2018-05-02T18:15:34-04:00
JSB in Alternate Root's Top 10!
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.thealternateroot.com/topten050218.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5214073
2018-05-02T13:08:24-04:00
2018-05-02T18:15:34-04:00
Blazing Hot Elmore Magazine Review!
<p>If ever a title typified an album, Full Tilt Boogie does a decent job. This is unrelenting, full throttle outlaw country assault with screaming guitars and riffs that sound at times like the Allman Brothers on steroids. James Scott Bullard’s ninth album has been compared to a modern day Smoky and the Banditsoundtrack, and Bullard is just fine with that description. Bullard is no newcomer and judging by the names of those he’s hung with, like David Allan Coe, Butch Walker, Dex Romweber and the Steel Woods, it’s not surprising to find this to be a raucous, beer drinking, rambunctious ride. The South Carolinian put together a kickass band, especially with Jeff Springs on the raging guitar and lap steel, who seems to propel Bullard into overdrive. </p>
<p>Bullard claims he’s taken a step down from the “poor me” stuff and replaced it with a brooding demon who owns his faults. He’s conquered his substance abuse and—a surprise to him—finds that he’s even more creative now. It’s his combination of outlaw country and Southern rock that makes him too over the top in terms of rock ‘n’ roll for mainstream country and a bit too country for your basic rock radio station. Yet, he fits in fine with that outlaw country sound. His characters are bikers, rodeo riders, and renegades, but his audience encompasses bankers, lawyers, and grandmothers. </p>
<p>Growing up a heavy metal fan who looked at his dad’s country/bluegrass musicianship disdainfully, Bullard moved from metal to rock and now country. He claims that his dad predicted it. Some would argue he hasn’t moved all the way toward country yet, given the blaring rock and slashing guitars backing him. In any case, Bullard is intent on carving out his own niche. </p>
<p>The song titles will give you an idea of the sound too. Rather than highlighting specific tracks, let’s just say that if you like the first two or three, you’ll be hooked for all ten. As mentioned, this is an unrelenting ride as evidenced by “Lord, Have Mercy,” “Wicked Ways,” “Warpath,” “Jesus, Jail, or Texas,” and “Leavin’ on My Mind.” You get the idea. Now, slip in the CD and crank it up. </p>
<p>—Jim Hynes</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5214074
2018-05-02T12:55:32-04:00
2018-05-02T18:15:35-04:00
JSB NAMED AS ONE OF 5 COUNTRY ARTISTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW BUT SHOULD!
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.raisedrowdy.com/2018/05/02/5-country-artists-you-may-not-know-but-should-april-may-2018/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5214075
2018-05-02T12:50:38-04:00
2018-05-02T18:15:35-04:00
Full Tilt Review from the Netherlands!
<p>There are currently so many records that I can not listen to everything that comes in here. If I'm already listening to a record, this album usually does not get much more than a few minutes to impress and to make an impression, the album just has to fit my mood of that moment. Just when I was ready for a nice and strong roots rock without too many pretensions and fuss, Full Tilt Boogie of James Scott Bullard passed by. A record that probably would not have noticed me at any other time made an impression and since then the new album of the musician from South Carolina has only become tastier and more irresistible. The name James Scott Bullard became familiar to me and deep digging gave me an EP on which Stephanie Fagan was to be heard as a guest singer. That tasted like that at the time and that more is there now (and was already there because James Scott Bullard has been recording records for almost 15 years). In his own web store, Full Tilt Boogie is described as follows: "If Waylon Jennings had a pet eagle, named Evel Knievel, who liked to sit on furniture with a guitar, carried two revolvers in a tiny shoulder holster under each wing, had a homemade Smokey & The Bandit tattoo on it's chest, a Skynyrd tattoo on it's middle talon, Keith Richards 'blood in it's veins, Johnny Rotten's cocked eye and John Oates' mustache, that MIGHT come close to a description of James Scott Bullard's new record, Full Tilt Boogie. " It is a description that says a lot about the music of the musician from South Carolina. James Scott Bullard is of the 'rough bolster, white pit' type. He grew up with the traditional country of the South of the United States, but also embraced the Southern Rock from these regions. Full Tilt Boogie is full of up-tempo songs that combine influences from country rock, blues rock and Southern rock, combining a traditionally sounding roots sound with wonderfully teasing guitars. Especially the guitar work on the new James Scott Bullard album is very nice, but also the American voice is very appealing. The same goes for the nice songs in the audience, which also tell beautiful stories about the seamy side of American society. Full Tilt Boogie has two legs in American roots music, but occasionally reminds me of the early records of R.E.M., which were much more rootsier than the most successful records of the band. All in all a nice plate. A very nice plate even.<br>-Erwin Zijleman</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5211389
2018-05-01T03:31:06-04:00
2018-05-01T09:30:25-04:00
JSB Featured on Americana Music Show's Best of 2018 (so far)!
<p><a contents="JSB Featured on Americana Music Show's Best of 2018 (so far) Episode!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://americanamusicshow.com/ep401-best-of-2018-so-far/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR EPISODE LINK</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5211390
2018-05-01T03:24:15-04:00
2018-05-01T09:30:25-04:00
Twangsville Revisited "Full Tilt Boogie" Release Coverage
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twangsvillerevisited.blogspot.com/2018/04/james-scott-bullard-to-release-full.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5211391
2018-05-01T03:13:49-04:00
2018-05-01T09:30:26-04:00
JSB Proudly Featured on W.B. Walker's (Award Winning) Old Soul Radio Show
<p><a contents="JSB Featured on W.B. Walker's Old Soul Radio Sow" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://wbwalker.com/archives/tag/james-scott-bullard" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR PODCAST LINK</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209371
2018-04-30T04:48:13-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:31-04:00
JSB Featured in Americana Music Association's This Week in Americana!!
<p><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/115077/9a2fc527abe23383e55befc7acab86400c469e7f/original/31466872-1625430800844552-7799682929135566900-n.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209372
2018-04-30T04:40:20-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:32-04:00
Gary Hayes Country Magnolia Roads Anniversary Show Review
<p>Mr. James Scott Bullard is dropping his new album tonight called Full Tilt Boogie and you can read more about that HERE. Several websites have given Mr. James a lot of attention lately in the local scenes, and he has been out on the road working relentlessly. He opened with “Lord Have Mercy” from the new album, along with the next song “Heartless Woman”. Mr. James has self admittedly proclaimed most of his songs are of the jaded type of love gone wrong, like the song “Warpath”. Now mind you, acoustic they sound a little different than on the album with a full band..but that’s alright.Both times I went to see him play here he did a truly fine job up there, especially on songs like “Wicked Ways” tonight, hell it got an applause two separate times. More heavier tunes like “Evil Lovin” that had the different guitar tones made them sound different just acoustic.“Voo Doo” was one I never heard live before and after that he played “The Next Tear” and “Hey hey Mama” both offerings from Full Tilt Boogie, I thought his set list here tonight promoted the album well. He played a few more before playing “Back To You”. I particularly enjoyed his closing of the set when he played my favorite song called “Jesus,Jail Or Texas”. I have a pretty good feeling you’ll be hearing many more great things to come from this man.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209373
2018-04-30T04:36:16-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:32-04:00
The Daily Country Plugged In Album Review
<p>While he's not yet a household name, James Scott Bullard has shared his music with many, playing stages with David Allan Coe, Butch Walker, Dex Romweber, and The Steel Woods, among others. On April 27th, the singer-songwriter released his sixth full-length (and ninth overall), Full Tilt Boogie,whose ten original tracks mightily blend rock, country, and blues in a rollicking trip that's edgy, honest, and invigorating. </p>
<p>A solid listen front to back, Full Tilt Boogie includes the rip-roaring, bluesy "Hey, Hey Mama," the shuffling kiss-off "Jesus, Jail, or Texas", and the carefree closer "Back To You" which mines a dreamy roots rock jam-band feel. With Full Tilt Boogie, Bullard plows his own path and it's full steam ahead.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209374
2018-04-30T04:32:08-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:32-04:00
WONO Magazine Rave Review!
<p>In 2016 I wrote a review of the EP 'Box Of Letters' by James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts. A band that I had never heard music from before. It was just a name I had ran into once, because of the label. The post invoked a response from Bullard: </p>
<p>""Netherlands based review of the E.P. ...Not bad at all, but the person who wrote it is damn near a prophet!!! ...Without speaking to me, the label, or my manager personally, they 110% predicted that the E.P. was a departure from my 'softer' side and (without hearing a note of it) that the forthcoming full length record takes a definitive darker, grittier turn at the wheel...No official release date set on that yet, but hang tight folks, you're in for a treat!"" </p>
<p>I do not know about being a prophet, though it does seem you are about to find out about that treat, as that release date is finally upon us all: 27 April 2018. This may have been a bit longer than Bullard had hoped for at the time, but the waiting was worth it. Double and then some. </p>
<p>Let's start with the cover. The hippie age has reached the Carolinas it seems. It is in a way provocative but at the same time holds a tongue in cheek element as well, by depicting Bullard in a not too serious drawing. The cover can also be seen as a warning: expect the unexpected. The title in the right hand corner is nothing but a statement, full disclosure. Brace yourself to rock! </p>
<p>And does Full Tilt Boogie? You are about to find out. The very first chords are deep, dark, heavy set guitar chords strummed full on. "Lord, have mercy on me", Bullard sings. Well it seems his prayer has been heard, as this song really rocks out. Shining a light of providence over it all. The deep, dark accents of the distorted guitar paves the way for a fiery slide guitar solo and a warm sounding Hammond organ, placing some fine accents in the deeper layers of the sound. </p>
<p>'Lord Have Mercy', is only the kick off of the album. The boogie really starts in the second song. 'Wicked Ways', no, it's not a cover of the Waylon song (who released a country rock album last week, I haven't had the chance to listen to yet), is full tilt boogie to the max. A rollicking, whopping kind of song as if riding a horse at full speed across the desert. A song about a son living the life his dad lived, against all the warnings of his dear mother. If James Scott Bullard's wicked ways lead to songs like this, there's no need for forgiveness. The lord already has shown his mercy, James. A song like this does nothing then bring huge smiles to the faces of the people listening to it, bringing happiness and joy. If I could write and play songs like these, I wouldn't give those ways up for nothing and nobody, mate. </p>
<p>And that's just where the fun begins. Just listen to that intro of 'All To Pieces'. Something many artist would kill for, and now that would be sinning. Full Tilt Boogie is getting into its groove and is outpacing many albums in its sort I've heard recently as is competing full on with my favourites in the genre. Just listen to that guitar solo going at it. This is as good as the very best songs of The Black Crowes and outpacing anything Lynyrd Skynyrd did in the past 30 years. Better than anything by ZZ Top (o.k., barred 'Tush'). </p>
<p>On Full Tilt Boogie a few worlds come together. There certainly is a country/roots element hidden in all the rock. Blues rock comes in strong. Rock and roll takes its part, while the attack of classic rock rears it rocking head. For me its a match made in heaven, to stick to religious metaphors. Bullard chose to make his sound rough and loud. It leads to an album that is made for dancing at shows. Live this has to downright fantastic. Time to come over some time soon, Mr. Bullard. There's a market for your music here. </p>
<p>By using dynamics within the songs and changing the lead instruments between guitar and piano Full Tilt Boogie gets the diversity it deserves and adds another point to the overall score.The only thing a listener has to be afraid of is an overdose of enthusiasm. As it comes in spades on the album. </p>
<p>Yes, there are some easy to spot influences on Full Tilt Boogie. Johnny Cash, some country artists I don't mind not mentioning and even Stevie Ray Vaughan can be spotted here and there in the fiery guitar parts. These influences are only there to tell the story of Full Tilt Boogie and nothing else. To give the album a little extra flavour without giving any of its own unique overtones away. Is it perfect? Perhaps not, but it gets very close. The best in its sort I've heard for years. </p>
<p>Wo.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTCLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://wonomagazine.blogspot.com/2018/04/full-tilt-boogie-james-scott-bullard.html?spref=tw&m=1" target="_self">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTCLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209375
2018-04-30T04:28:35-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:32-04:00
Gary Hayes Country Album Feature by Joshua Wallace
<p>By Joshua Wallace</p>
<p>I’ll be honest, I didn’t know much of James Scott Bullard before Gary premiered his single “Jesus, Jail Or Texas”right here on the website. That one song was good enough for me and I knew I wanted to review the album when it was released. Before I got the CD, I went to Spotify to hear what I could from James Scott Bullard. The only thing there was a previous single called “Wicked Ways” and a compilation album called The Rise and Fall Of… which compiles tracks from his previous releases. From what I can gather, Full Tilt Boogie marks his 9th release overall and 6th full length. This feels like a good jumping on point for new fans of James Scott Bullard as it is his best sounding material that I could find and it marks a sonic shift to a more southern rock leaning sound. </p>
<p>This album starts off on a slower note with the opening track “Lord, Have Mercy”. It’s a great way to kick off the proceedings before James Scott Bullard kicks things into high gear. “Wicked Ways” was the first single from the album and sets things off with a killer southern rock country tune that recalls the early days of Skynyrd with ease. Another early track was “Jesus, Jail or Texas” which was premiered right here on Gary Hayes Country. This goes more into the country side of Bullard’s sound and it’s a very catchy tune. This is one of my favorites on the album. </p>
<p>Another favorite has another killer opening riff on the track with “Leavin’ On My Mind”. It’s a great drifting song if you like songs like Willie’s “On The Road Again” or Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere”. The album closes out with “Back To You” which is more of a southern rock ballad. In true southern rock ballad fashion, this track closes the album out with some great solo work. </p>
<p>Full Tilt Boogie is an appropriate name for this album. The boogie is certainly turned to full tilt throughout this record and James Scott Bullard has the Waylon meets Skynyrd southern rock influenced country sound down to a science. I look forward to being able to see him live with a full band sometime in the future. Full Tilt Boogie is available everywhere on April 27th and signed copies are available at James Scott Bullard’s store. </p>
<p>Favorite Tracks : Lord, Have Mercy, Wicked Ways, Jesus, Jail Or Texas, Leavin’ On My Mind, Back To You</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://garyhayescountry.com/album-feature-james-scott-bullard-full-tilt-boogie/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209376
2018-04-30T04:24:31-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:32-04:00
Gary Hayes Americana Roots Hoedown III Coverage
<p>James Scott Bullard. Outlaw Country Southern rocker. ‘If Waylon Jennings had a pet eagle named Evel Knievel that liked to stand on furniture with a guitar, had a homemade Smokey & The Bandit tattoo on it’s chest, a Skynyrd tattoo on it’s middle talon, Keith Richards’ blood in it’s veins, Johnny Rotten’s cocked eye and John Oates’ mustache, that MIGHT come close’ to describing JSB’s music. His new album, “Full Tilt Boogie” will be released April 27, night one of Magnolia Roads American Roots Hoedown III.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://garyhayescountry.com/big-news-from-magnolia-roads-this-weekend/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5209377
2018-04-30T04:20:03-04:00
2018-04-30T06:45:33-04:00
Pasadena Weekly Review
<p>Solidly crafted, big-hearted Southern rock animated by stirring guitar leads (by Bullard and Jeff Springs) and flashes of humor (“Preacher told me, ‘Boy, you’re going straight to hell’/ I said, ‘Well, preacher, when you get to heaven/ Have the good Lord forward my mail’”). The South Carolinian’s burly baritone appeals with the rough warmth of an overly loved flannel shirt, making hard-luck tales like “Lord, Have Mercy,” “Wicked Ways” and “Jesus, Jail, or Texas” more relatable. RIYL Jamey Johnson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2018/04/26/trax-04-26-18/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5196845
2018-04-22T21:12:12-04:00
2018-04-23T02:00:46-04:00
TwangriLa's out of sight review of Full Tilt Boogie!
<p>by Harry Kaplan </p>
<p>If you are looking for your next honky tonk hero, I think I may have found him. His name is Jame Scott Bullard (JSB) and he is pure, 24 karat gold. Not only does JSB look the part, he has lived it. The songs all tell JSB’s story. He used to abuse alcohol and drugs, but now his energy is spent building and developing his art. He is very versatile as well. He can sing honky tonk, outlaw, punk, metal, and good old rock and roll. If JSB were a baseball player, he would be described as a “five tool player”. </p>
<p>There are definitely a wide variety of influences for JSB. He lists his early musical influences as Elvis, Waylon, and Kiss. I can see and hear all three of those. Kiss for the showman aspect and some good rock and roll guitar. I also hear some Skynyrd for sure. Not a replica, but a synthesis of the good aspects. I am specifically referring to boogie woogie and the hard driving guitar. It definitely makes you want to move. I suggested changing the name to “Boot Scoot Boogie” because of the ability to make people dance, but no takers. </p>
<p>I don’t think any song personifies this album better than the opening track. Lord, Have Mercy (Track 1). It is the amuse-bouche in this ten course meal. This is the first course and it is usually a small bite of something very powerful, flavorful, and delicious. It is used as a primer to get people ready for what is about to unfold. I think amuse-bouche is a perfect way to describe the opening number, which is about as perfect of an anthem as you can get. </p>
<p>James is an outlaw country artist, first and foremost. It is only fitting that there be at least one rowdy, outlaw, and honky tonk number to get a little rowdy. Jesus, Jail, Or Texas (Track 6) is a perfect honk tonk shit kicking, whale of a song. The slide guitar work on this song is the hero. It’s some of the cleanest, best sounding slide I have heard on an album in quite a while. This is a song that reminisces about some old girlfriends and what they are doing now. This is then tied into a break up with the current girlfriend. A cautionary tale. </p>
<p>The last song on the album Back To You (Track 10) is a song that really could be considered one of the best in this decade. On this one, I hear some serious Marshall Tucker influence. Both JSB and Marshall Tucker founders have roots in South Carolina. Coincidence? I think not. I think JSB got some serious musical chops by listening to those amazing Marshall Tucker records of the early 70s. Even the dual guitar attack is reminiscent of the sound that was quite prevalent in southern rock and country during the glory days. </p>
<p>I think JSB is the guy that can bring back the glory days. Full Tilt Boogie is definitely a very strong contender for one of the best of 2018. One of my goals this years is to see JSB live, in living color. I will make good on that New Year’s resolution and I urge you to do the same. No, not my New Year’s resolution, to see JSB! This is also a chance to get one of the top albums of 2018 before anyone else gets wind of it. Doesn’t it feel good to be first sometimes?<br> </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twangrila.com/2018/04/22/james-scott-bullard-full-tilt-boogie-big-mavis-music-april-27-2018-release-date/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5179592
2018-04-12T22:27:14-04:00
2018-04-13T03:45:30-04:00
Italian Blog, Lonestar Time, Reviews Full Tilt Boogie
<p>By Remo Ricaldone<br>Lonestar Time - Italy</p>
<p>Here is the rough translation: <br>A native of South Carolina, James Scott Bullard embodies the classic artist in the balance between rock'n'roll and country music, the two sounds that have marked his days from an early age. He has already released several records (at least nine) and has a cult following in his state and now also in the rest of the south and midwest thanks to a capillary live coverage that has made him known and appreciated for style and authenticity. "Full Tilt Boogie" is the opportunity to get to know him and is probably his most mature and complete work, produced by the couple Missy Davis Jones and Ken 'Dakota' Jones and practically recorded at home in the Southern Harmony studios of Florence, SC. Supported by a rock band formed by the rhythm section in the hands of Kevin Singleton (bass) and Mike Knight (drums), from Justin Banks keyboards and Jeff Springs guitars, with the vocal harmonies of Rebecca Morning and Jordan Adams, Mr. Bullard has assembled a really enthralling album, immediately introduced by a melody that would have made Ronnie Van Zandt happy, an electric ballad, cadenced, convincing and classically sudist. "Wicked Ways" has sharp guitars, bluesy and soulful keyboards, the charm of 'southern rock' sprinkled with country music, "All To Pieces" shows how convincing is the compositional talent of James Scott Bullard with another song that leaves the sign (and here Cody Canada could make a nice cover), while "The Next Tear" brings him closer to the melodies of his fellow Marshall Tucker Band. "Full Tilt Boogie" continues joining Waylon and Skynyrd, country, blues and rock in a context full of references and quotations, always giving the impression of freshness and brilliance. From "Warpath" to "Jesus, Jail, Or Texas", from "Leavin 'On My Mind" to the final "Back To You" with his clear guitar duets that refer to the Allman Brothers Band of the "Eat A Peach" period, all contributes to forming a group to be strongly recommended. A (for us) beautiful discovery. </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lonestartime.com/2018/04/james-scott-bullard-full-tilt-boogie.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5179593
2018-04-11T22:45:00-04:00
2018-04-13T03:45:30-04:00
Jolene: The Country Music Blog Reviews "Jesus, Jail, or Texas"
<p>By Sophie Greene</p>
<p>Jolene: The Country Music Blog, Australia</p>
<p>South Carolinian James Scott Bullard has said, ‘All my songs are about making bad decisions.’ While one could speculate about the nature of the bad decisions, they’re clearly good fodder for songs, as he proves on the single ‘Jesus, Jail or Texas’, taken from his forthcoming album Full Tilt Boogie. The title refers to the ways the narrator’s exes might get away from him … while he’s ‘one more drink away from getting over you’. </p>
<p>Bullard makes country music that will appeal to fans of Johnny Cash and also to those whole like their honkytonk. This is straight-up entertaining fare – musically and lyrically – and I could take a whole album of it. Luckily, there’s one on the way. </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://jolenethecountrymusicblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/single-release-jesus-jail-or-texas-by-james-scott-bullard/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5175196
2018-04-07T21:30:00-04:00
2018-04-10T22:46:09-04:00
JSB interviewed by Outlaw Dave on "Outlaws, Rebels & Legends" - WQUD 105.5 - Erie, IL
<p>JSB interviewed by Outlaw Dave on "Outlaws, Rebels & Legends"</p>
<p>WQUD 105.5 - Erie, IL</p>
<p>4/7/18</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5165391
2018-04-04T21:40:45-04:00
2018-04-05T03:15:38-04:00
"Wicked Ways" to debut on Ditty TV!
<p>The "Wicked Ways" video is going to make its Ditty TV debut!</p>
<p>Tune in at 11PM/CDT on Saturday, April 14th, 2018.</p>
<p>This will be JSB's first appearance on Ditty TV, and the Eleven show.</p>
<p>https://dittytv.com/eleven/</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5165392
2018-04-04T17:50:00-04:00
2018-04-05T03:15:38-04:00
Liverpool Sound and Vision Gives "Full Tilt Boogie" 5 Stars!
<p>By Ian D. Hall, Liverpool Sound and Vision</p>
<p>Whilst you may never be the same person from heartbeat to heartbeat, the measure of your life is one of a continuous journey tempered by the knowledge that beliefs, opinions and thoughts change, that a person can grow in the light or shrink back into the dusk, what never goes into hiding is the soul of the artist in us all. </p>
<p>We hopefully give all in pursuit of the pinball machine of life’s highest score and if we have to tilt the table in our favour occasionally, then so be it, it is impossible to play the game straight, only the deaf, dumb, and blind kid can do that, for the rest of us, it is easier to stoke the fires of certainty and play the balls with poise, precision and just a little bit of the sideways glance as the table goes Full Tilt Boogie. </p>
<p>Following on from the impressive 2016 E.P. Box of Letters, James Scott Bullard’s Full Tilt Boogieis a renegade of an album, full throttle country but with the heart of the searing rock strewn throughout, a chimera, a creature of two dimensions and breathing fire, whilst at the same time honest enough to know that tilting the table doesn’t always achieve the result you were initially after. </p>
<p>Instead, this creature, stirring, prowling through the country blues and the rock excitement, is unceasingly cool, the brooding demon, in his own words, has given way to the devilish smile, the imp with the dirty mind and the fingers on the pulse of the table’s button, the high scores racking up till finally, and with much applause from those surrounding the machine, the chance to put the player’s name in the best player box becomes available. </p>
<p>The dynamic of two worlds, both from the same original parentage, just a different outlook on life, has perhaps never been clearer, more alert to each other’s particular positivity and at points negative persuasion, Full Tilt Boogie sees songs such as Lord, Have Mercy, Wicked Ways, the sublime and rather fabulous Jesus, Jail, or Texas, Leavin’ On My Mind and Back To You inhale deeply, take in the rush of air that surveys the scene from the deep south and lets go with unnerving majesty. </p>
<p>Full Tilt Boogie is the album that crosses the chimera of context between two heavily armoured beings and comes out from the war like mist carrying roses for the listener to enjoy; peace between factions is always possible when they understand that they complement each other.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.liverpoolsoundandvision.co.uk/2018/04/04/james-scott-bullard-full-tilt-boogie-album-review/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5163266
2018-04-03T18:54:54-04:00
2018-04-04T00:45:39-04:00
"Full Tilt Boogie: Full Tilt Badassery" - Review by Country Music Armadillo
<p>By "Venice" Joe Pettijohn, Jr.</p>
<p>April 27th brings us the release of the much anticipated next installment of the career of James Scott Bullard. Here is a full review and preview of the record in advance of that release! </p>
<p>The first thing you’ll notice and need to know about “Full Tilt Boogie” is how awesome looking a record it is. It’s one of my favorite visual presentations in recent memory, simple yet vibrant (you literally cannot overlook this record in a lineup,) and as funky and badass as the music it contains. From brandishing a trippy picture of James on the cover to the font that looks like it just arrived straight out of 1978 this record brings it visually before you ever hear the first guitar lick. </p>
<p>And that’s just the start of the badassery this record brings. </p>
<p>Do you remember Bob’s Country Bunker in the movie “The Blues Brothers”? The rowdy roadhouse with the chicken wire in front of the stage, populated with truckers, farmers, hillbillies and honky tonk queens? Every track on Full Tilt Boogie would make the jukebox at Bobs, and get heavy play. </p>
<p>It is a rowdy, raucous good time, that changes pace when necessary to settle you down and allow Bullard to really unleash himself on you. It’s a very full and robust record that takes you on a journey with stops including rowdy women, living your own rowdy existence, and all points in between. </p>
<p>The record opens with the laid back, but edgy “Lord, Have Mercy On me”, a track that could be described as a plea for the journey that’s about to take place. </p>
<p>From there we move to the first single from the album “Wicked Ways”. A song that comes at you like a chainsaw firing to life and being thrust at you. A song telling the tale of living life on the edge, starting at the very beginning. “I was a baby, When my momma, said ‘no women, no wine, no songs, cause your daddy was a rambler, and that’s the same road that he left on'”. It’s a catchy opening line for the song, but more than that it is likely a true one, as James discussed last year in his appearance on the Country Music Armadillo Show. </p>
<p>The record rocks, rolls, and boogies on through “All To Pieces”, “Hey, Hey, Mama”, and “Warpath”, keeping up the high energy and hard living. “Jesus, Jail, or Texas”, the second single from the record, opens up with a laid back sound and feel, but then mashes the gas into a rowdy time. The song is an absolute highlight of the album, and the kind of song that if I had to guess, I’d say the great Waylon Jennings would hear and want to record for himself. It’s got that kind of attitude that Waylon loved to employ, and Bullard pulls it off on his own without a hitch. </p>
<p>The record continues to dish out the jabs and uppercuts through “Evil Lovin'”, “Leavin On My Mind”, and “The Next Tear” before arriving at the final track “Back to You” where the pace changes, and it finishes almost like a relaxing evening watching the sun set in the west. “Back To </p>
<p>You” brings a sound almost reminiscent of an Allman Brothers song. It is the perfect finish to the lively journey you’ve joined Bullard for. </p>
<p>“Full Tilt Boogie” is a damn fine record. There isn’t a down moment to be heard. It’s a record true to it’s own spirit and makes no bones about it. Brother Bullard brings the mail yet again, and come April 27th you’re damn sure going to want him delivering these tunes to your ears in that distinctive style of his. </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.countrymusicarmadillo.com/full-tilt-boogie-full-tilt-badassery/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5163267
2018-04-03T10:20:00-04:00
2018-04-04T00:45:40-04:00
Trending Tuesday Morning Shuffle - Please RSVP Mix
<p>By Joe Wolfe, Ear 2 The Ground Blog </p>
<p> </p>
<p>"Jesus Jail or Texas" by James Scott Bullard <br>"Back to You" by James Scott Bullard </p>
<p>On Tuesdays, we do "Twofer Tuesdays" (whenever the shuffle happens to bring up two songs in a row by the same artist - like today). I could not be more excited about this twofer. James Scott Bullard will be releasing his sixth studio album (and 9th release overall) Full Tilt Boogie on April 27 with a CD Release Show at Dee's in Madison as part of the Magnolia Roads American Roots Hoedown Pre-Party. Boo Ray, Allen Thompson (and more) are also on the bill for that night. "Jesus Jail or Texas" is a fiery and fun song, and "Back to You" is just some fine music. Bullard indicates that he is "too rock for country" and "too country for rock n roll", but he sounds just about right to me.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ear2theground-music.blogspot.com/2018/04/trending-tuesday-morning-shuffle-please.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5157496
2018-03-30T23:54:22-04:00
2018-03-31T00:45:49-04:00
JSB interviewed by Twyla Twang/Honky Tonk Heroes on KZUM 89.3 FM Lincoln, NE
<p>JSB interviewed by Twyla Twang on the Honky Tonk Heroes Program </p>
<p>KZUM 89.3 FM Lincoln, NE</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5147288
2018-03-25T16:25:00-04:00
2018-03-25T17:15:32-04:00
JSB Makes Another Appearance on Sunday Morning Country With Cousin Kate
<p>"Leavin' on my Mind", an album track from the new album, "Full Tilt Boogie", premieres on college radio this week, thanks once again to the "Sunday Morning Country With Cousin Kate" show. </p>
<p>(WZBC 90.3 FM, Boston College Radio, Chestnut Hill, Mass. USA) </p>
<p><a contents="Check out the playlist here." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/336496/Sunday-Morning-Country" target="_blank">Check out the playlist here.</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5147289
2018-03-20T12:00:00-04:00
2018-03-25T17:15:32-04:00
JSB appears on WDVX live radio show, "Blue Plate Special",
<p>JSB made his debut appearance on the WDVX live radio show, "Blue Plate Special", out of Knoxville, TN!</p>
<p><a contents='Listen to the archive here: Select 3/20/18, 12 noon "Blue Plate Special"' data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://wdvx.com/programs/archives/" target="_blank">Listen to the audio archive here: Select 3/20/18, 12 noon "Blue Plate Special"</a></p>
<p><a contents="View photos on the Blue Plate Special Facebook Page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1802332563150238.1073742980.218700708180106&type=1&l=059e9e7f7f" target="_blank">View photos on the Blue Plate Special Facebook Page</a></p>
<p><a contents="View video on the Blue Plate Special Facebook Page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/WDVXradio/videos/10155383057550754/" target="_blank">View video on the Blue Plate Special Facebook Page</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5147290
2018-03-18T16:10:00-04:00
2018-03-25T17:15:32-04:00
Cousin Kate Spins the new single: "Jesus, Jail or Texas"
<p>JSB's new single, "Jesus, Jail, or Texas", premiere's on college radio this week, thanks to the "Sunday Morning Country With Cousin Kate" show.</p>
<p>(WZBC 90.3 FM, Boston College Radio, Chestnut Hill, Mass. USA)</p>
<p><a contents="Check out the full playlist here." data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/279253/Sunday-Morning-Country" target="_blank">Check out the playlist here.</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5147291
2018-03-17T16:05:00-04:00
2018-03-25T17:15:33-04:00
Americana Music Show Review: Full Tilt Boogie by James Scott Bullard
<p>By Tony Ives</p>
<p>What a joy! James Scott Bullard has delivered a Southern Rock album par excellence and the title says it all – Full Tilt Boogie. “Lord Have Mercy” is an electrifying start with a soaring lead guitar with slide fills and Bullard’s country vocal delivery. In the mix we get a bass line so deep it needs a mining permit and following we get the rumble of the Hammond organ as it introduces a perfectly drilled backing chorus. </p>
<p>This is a band you have to hear: together they fit like a glove. Can they boogie? Oh yes! Bullard on rhythm guitar, Jeff Springs on lead guitar and Kevin Singleton’s bass are a force to be reckoned with. This selection of hard-hitting rock songs is self penned and was recorded in South Carolina. Bullard’s gift or good fortune is working with Missy Davis Jones and Ken "Dakota" Jones. Through the quality of the song writing, arrangements, energy and high production values they’ve elevated this work to be a triumph. </p>
<p>“Wicked Ways” adds to the incendiary atmosphere. It sounds like the third song into a live set when the band really starts to cook. A distorted guitar plays rhythm and Justin Banks’ organ swirls and swoops. Before the smell of cordite clears, “All To Pieces” keeps the groove. A lovelorn lyric follows – “I never counted on a love so true, no I never thought a man could be so blue”. </p>
<p>Lyrically then “Hey, Hey Mama” isn’t Shakespeare with instructions to “put your good dress on” and advice that he’s going to love her like ‘it’s against the law” (which, we can all agree is probably too much information). However, I’m nit picking as the song sparks while a walking bass line bounces beneath that exquisite organ. </p>
<p>It’s worth saying at this point that Bullard is a firearm-carrying, ex-addict, ordained minister. I’ve read a lot of Americana biographies and surprisingly, he’s not unique! If all this has contributed to the quality of Full Tilt Boogie then the journey hasn’t been in vain. </p>
<p>The album’s accompanying PR places Bullard in Country Rock and I suppose I can concede some Outlaw in the confection, but only “Jesus, Jail or Texas” sits him comfortably in the genre - hell, even the title shouts Country! The guitar lead suggests Dickey Betts. Rest assured this is not a bad place to be and may find him a wider audience. </p>
<p>“Leavin’ On My Mind” sees Mike Knight drive this along on skins as Bullard takes us on a tour of Memphis, the Mississippi and Austin before moving through Louisiana to the Carolina Pines whilst the band boogies. “The Next Year” is a radio friendly tune which mixes Southern Rock and Tom Petty with an addictive ’60’s pop guitar motif and is the most commercial track on the album. </p>
<p>I thought I heard angels when the twin guitars introduced “Back To You” and we slip into that Allman Brothers' “Ramblin’ Man/Jessica” vibe. Bullard hitches a ride on a Southbound train leaving his lover sleeping to free his spirit only to regret his departure as he visits every town in Dixie. Just sublime. </p>
<p>Already on my end of year list.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5107186
2018-03-02T03:05:49-05:00
2018-03-02T04:15:40-05:00
First "Full Tilt Boogie" Album Review!
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5096531
2018-02-23T19:58:51-05:00
2018-02-23T20:45:39-05:00
Official Press Release for "Full Tilt Boogie"
<p>Public Relations ~ Artist Management </p>
<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </strong></p>
<p><strong>JAMES SCOTT BULLARD TO RELEASE FULL TILT BOOGIE (April 27, 2018) </strong></p>
<p><strong>Owning Up To Old Demons And Bad Choices Makes For A Great Country Record </strong></p>
<p>Mullins, SC February 2018—James Scott Bullard is not new to the country/Americana music scene. Having shared the stage with David Allan Coe, Butch Walker, Dex Romweber and The Steel Woods, Bullard will release Full Tilt Boogie on April 27th, which marks his 9th release and 6th LP release. Bullard is a man with many stories to tell and he tells those stories with truth and passion. </p>
<p>Following 2016’s EP, Box of Letters, Full Tilt Boogie is described by Bullard as “ A deliberate step down from the ‘poor me’ stuff. The lovelorn songwriter gave way to the brooding demon, who owns his faults. Musically, it’s more rock and roll, but still country. Both of those genres stem from the blues and that’s all it ever is really, from me.” Still in place are the clever one-liners that Bullard’s fans seem to appreciate, but Full Tilt Boogie is an edgier, dirtier, intoxicating ride that takes no prisoners. </p>
<p>Full Tilt Boogie is not only an old trucker CB term, but also it’s also a pinball term, and Tom Vadakan of Urbanwofolks translates that 70’s thread into psychedelic CD artwork. “I’ve been told this record sounds like a modern day ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ soundtrack,” said Bullard, “Which I, of course, love. Tom captured that perfectly with this cover.” </p>
<p>Produced by long-time collaborators, Missy Davis Jones (who also manages Bullard) and Ken “Dakota” Jones, the album was recorded in their Southern Harmony Studio in Florence, SC for the Davis Jones label, Big Mavis Records. Returning to South Carolina after “drifting a bit”, Bullard wanted to put a great band together and kept hearing two names, Jeff Springs (guitars) and Kevin Singleton (bass). They, in turn, knew other musicians and brought them in for the recording. “They are an incredible live band, but they are without a doubt, the best studio band I’ve ever heard,” said Bullard. “The one day demos were amazing.” </p>
<p>Born in South Carolina, Bullard claims to come from a mixed clan of Irish, German, Native American and hillbilly moonshiners. His dad was a country/bluegrass musician, which the young lover of heavy rock music found “silly” at the time. “When I began playing, I took the standard chords my dad taught me, the power chords my heroes were playing and learned all the Sabbath and Maiden I could.” Playing in local bars as a teen, he moved on to rock band in the 90’s, but slowly drifted back to country music. “My dad always said, ‘you’ll come back to your roots’, and he was right.” </p>
<p>“I grew up in the very rural south,” he explains. “I don’t mean this to sound arrogant at all, but there’s something about being from the south that you just ‘know’. There’s something here in the rivers and in the soil that bleeds artistic expression. The blues were born here, which morphed into country and bluegrass and woven into gospel. Hank Williams, Little Richard, Elvis, Lynyrd Skynrd, The Allman Brothers and Tom Petty all came from here. What more proof does one need?” </p>
<p>Too rock and roll for mainstream country and still ‘too country’ for mainstream rock and roll, Bullard has found his niche among the outlaws. Fringe characters have championed Bullard’s music; bikers, rodeo riders, and renegades, but his audience also includes bankers, lawyers and grandmothers. “I’ve seen it all in my audience,” said Bullard, “I had a couple of 20-something young girls up-front and right next to them was a 70 year old woman who danced, clapped and whooped it up right along with them. I loved that.” Harry Kaplan, of Twangrila (an Americana music website) described Bullard as a “poet” and declared, “Something tells me Bullard will soon be a household name in country music like Simpson and Price.” </p>
<p>Several years ago, Bullard survived an addiction and has been clean ever since. “My worst fear with becoming sober was that I wouldn’t be creative anymore,” he confesses. “Like the substances enhanced my creativity when in reality and retrospect, they stifled it.” Bullard declared himself substance-free, but it took him longer to accept responsibility for the rest of his life’s decision. That process led to fan-favorite lovelorn songs from his previous albums. Full Tilt Boogie jumps forward to where Bullard is now, owning his demons and bad choices. </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard is an artist who writes what he lives, with one foot rooted in faith and one foot rooted in the darker, wilder side of life. Everything you hear on Full Tilt Boogie, every note, and every word is 100% genuine. Everyone involved put his or her soul into it. As he told one interviewer, “To be a songwriter, you have to know what you’re talking about or folks will see right through you.” </p>
<p>For more information: https://www.jamesscottbullard.com/ https://shrstudio.com/ http://www.bigmavis.com/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063536
2018-01-24T10:19:27-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:20-05:00
Mullins’ Bullard finally ready to go ‘Full Tilt Boogie’ by Traci Bridges, for The Morning News
<p>By Traci Bridges</p>
<p>MULLINS, S.C. – They say in show biz, timing is everything. And for James Scott Bullard, it’s been a long time coming. </p>
<p>The Mullins native has been biding his time, waiting for things to fall in place for quite some time now. Decades, as a matter of fact. And finally, it looks as if his time has come. </p>
<p>“I think it really boils down to fate,” Bullard said. “Everything happens when it’s supposed to. Had it happened when I was younger, I’d be dead by now.” </p>
<p>Though some people might consider it a late start, now in his early 40s, Bullard is getting ready to embark on the biggest venture of his musical career: a brand-new album that he and others consider his best work and a cross-country tour. But make no mistake, this is not his first rodeo. </p>
<p>Bullard has been on the music scene in various capacities since he was a young teen. It all started with a hard rock band by the name of Crane. The band had some success across the Southeast but eventually broke up. Suddenly, Bullard found himself without a band or any real direction in life. </p>
<p>He thought about college, even applied, but never went. He worked in a video store for a while. Even did a stint in an auditor’s office. But nothing fit, so when a family friend who owned a home in Wilmington offered to let Bullard live there, he grabbed the opportunity and the chance to go find himself. </p>
<p>A new James Scott Bullard – a little bit rock, a little Americana and a whole lot outlaw – emerged. Bullard stayed in the Triangle area for a while, writing and playing gigs with his band, The Late Night Sweethearts. He was even deemed the next Gram Parsons, but things eventually kind of fizzled out, and Bullard found himself back in Mullins. </p>
<p>Little did he know, that timing thing was about to make a whole lot of sense. </p>
<p>“I was playing a show at Francis Marion University, and I met a lady named Missy Davis Jones,” he said. “She and her husband (Ken) had just moved to Florence from Los Angeles and were opening a recording studio. Missy said she was even toying with the idea of starting her own record label.” </p>
<p>From that simple conversation, the perfect partnership was born, and within a few weeks, Bullard was recording in Jones’ Southern Harmony Recording Studio, and before long, Missy officially became his manager. It’s the Joneses that Bullard credits for his new album, “Full Tilt Boogie.” </p>
<p>“Ken has your vision on one side and has what he hears you capable of on the other side, and he can put those two together,” Bullard said. “And Missy’s always got your back. She wants everything to be perfect, and she’s very apprehensive about letting people hear the album too soon. She sees the vision and wants it to be perfect before anybody else hears it. Without those two, I don’t think this record would be what it is.” </p>
<p>Davis-Jones praised Bullard’s talent but said she has come to consider the new album her baby, too, but says she knew she and Bullard were meant to work together the moment she met him. </p>
<p>“I thought he reminded me of a cross between Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue and the singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, and I am a huge fan of both musicians. I clearly remember cracking a joke to Sloane that I was probably going to end up working with him one day,” Jones-Davis said, adding that local radio personality Sloane Spencer introduced the two. </p>
<p>“It’s been six years now, and I work with him because I believe in his talent, and think he has the skill and the will to do the work that is necessary to take things to the next level,” Davis-Jones said. “I trust that if I support him, he will do everything he can to deliver the goods. We have a genuine friendship, and I think that he would do whatever it takes in order to not let me down. </p>
<p>“Likewise, if I didn't do everything I could do to make this record a success, I would feel like I let him down. I am also motivated by all the other great people who worked on this record, and by my own work on the project. This is most definitely James Scott Bullard's record. He wrote the songs, and it's his voice and image on it. But running parallel to that is also a shared vision for the project. I am as emotionally connected to it, as if it had my own name on the cover.” </p>
<p>Bullard’s studio band included local musicians Jeff Springs, Kevin Singleton, Mike Knight and Justin Banks. Each brought a special something to the album, and Bullard said he was blown away by the results. </p>
<p>“I heard the record after having put it on the shelf for a long time,” Bullard said. “Missy and Ken did everything without me – the mixing and mastering, all that stuff – because I would tear it apart. So when I finally heard it again, it was really good. I felt like I was listening to somebody else’s record.” </p>
<p>Bullard did a fall tour of the Midwest to introduce the album to the solid fan base he’s developed from social media and Internet radio. He’ll head back out on the road in a few weeks before the album is released on April 27. This time, he has a whole team behind him, including Jones, national publicists and booking agents. </p>
<p>“These are not the venues I’m used to playing,” Bullard said. “These people aren’t just out to drink. They come to a show to hear the music, and they bring others. It’s really cool. In fact, I kept waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and say, ‘You imposter, you’re not supposed to be here.’ It’s really surreal. I feel like I’ve been biding my time, and now, it’s finally happening.” </p>
<p>The album is mastered and set for release, and tour dates are already booked, but thanks to an online crowding campaign, Bullard’s fans have a special opportunity to support the effort, too. Fans can contribute to support the up-front costs associated with the release of a record in exchange for really cool merchandise, ranging from first dibs copies of the album to handwritten lyrics or a pair of Bullard’s signature boots. At the highest donation level, fans can have their own personal James Scott Bullard performance. </p>
<p>“Many artists, much more established than we, are hosting pledge campaigns,” Jones said. “I fought it for a long time, because I felt like I was too proud to ask for ‘help.’ But I see now, it's not so much asking for a handout as it is an opportunity for the fans to get connected with some special and personalized merchandise in advance of the release.” </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063537
2018-01-20T12:45:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:21-05:00
James Scott Bullard featured in Outlaw Resurgence playlist "Tall Tales and Lies" on Spotify
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063538
2018-01-09T13:05:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:21-05:00
Outlaw State of Mind Interview, by Angie Erwin
<p>Listen to the Outlaw State Of Mind interview, from the 2018 archive. </p>
<p>Interviewed by Angie Erwin. http://undefinedradio.com/outlaw-state-of-mind.html</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063539
2017-12-11T12:20:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:21-05:00
JSB named by Country Music Armadillo as 2017 Award Nominee in the "Up and Comer" Category
<p>By "Venice" Joe Pettijohn</p>
<p>Welcome to the 2017 Country Music Armadillo Awards announcement week! Today we kick off five straight days of nominee announcements leading up to Friday when then voting opens! </p>
<p>Today we announce the Up and Comers! </p>
<p>This award was kind of a nightmare in all honesty, and that is purely my fault. The nearly non-existent criteria for this award made it a mess right out of the gate. Again, totally my fault. When we do these awards again in 2018 I promise this one will be better executed. </p>
<p>The first thing you need to know about this list is that it has been expanded. Many of the nominee lists have, but this one has seen the most growth. There are 15 nominees on this list. The reason for that being, the whole point of this list is to recognize names in this corner of country music that people may not know. The more names we add to that list, the more names we’re potentially exposing to new fans. So this list leads the way in nominations at 15. </p>
<p>The other thing about this list is it means that some artists just aren’t nominated this year. Which is ok. Part of the reason the Artist of the Year nominees were announced early was because it cleared up who qualified for this award and who didn’t. That’s going to cause some to ask “Well why aren’t names like Whitey Morgan and Justin Wells nominated here?” </p>
<p>My answer to that is that those guys being nominated for this award would really be kind of disrespectful to them. They aren’t Up and Comers. The are here. They’ve been here. To pat them on the back as an Up and Comer would be wrong. It also means that their presence on the list would take away spots and attention from what this list is supposed to be about: the artists poised to break into the next level and join those in the discussion for awards like Artist of the Year. </p>
<p>I am judging for this award based off of two factors: Present impact, and future potential to keep growing both as an artist, and in terms of helping country music continue the renaissance taking place right now. </p>
<p>So with that said, let’s take a look at our 15 2017 Country Music Armadillo Up and Comer nominees!</p>
<p>++++++++++++++++++</p>
<p>James Scott Bullard is another artist on this list who has seen a big gain in momentum during 2017 thanks to fans spreading the word of an artist via social media. He’s not new on the scene in any sense, but 2017 has definitely brought him to the attention of a lot of people he wasn’t known to prior. Another one of the artists who kept pace late into the Tumbleweed Late Night Stage competition, Bullard still had an exceptional year despite falling short in that process. He’s already well into the process of releasing his next album, and when that happens the momentum should only continue to build for him.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063540
2017-10-09T13:25:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:21-05:00
5 Shots With Fairbanks: James Scott Bullard
<p>By Gary Hayes</p>
<p>I heard about this weeks artist from mutual friends that introduced me to his music. I really enjoy his sound but beyond that he is just a really friendly down to Earth dude. He has been nothing but nice to me since I first started talking to him so when I found out he was interested in being on my ‘5 Shots’ page, I couldn’t pass up the chance. Like always guys please like my page if you haven’t already so you never miss any upcoming artist interviews and also please share this article to help spread the music of James Scott Bullard Thanks! </p>
<p>Round 1 – How long have you been performing music for people, how did it all get started? </p>
<p>JSB – I would con my way into local bars when I was a kid, like 16 and just hang around until the guitar player or bass player didn’t show up or got too drunk to finish the set, then I’d take his place. So technically since I was 16. I never actually intended to sing until I started my first band and it was less of a headache and more cost effective for me to play guitar AND sing than to try and find a singer and have to split the money another way, so that’s how that happened. I had my first real band during my late teens/early 20’s in the mid to late 90’s, and we had some pretty good regional success, made some records, opened for a few bands who were big at the time; Creed, Big Wreck, Superdrag, a couple of Butch Walkers bands, etc. We had this big blue converted church bus, and we’d removed all the seats but 3 so we could haul our equipment. It had no heat or air, and when you tried to get any, you got a good buzz from the exhaust that was leaking through the vents instead, and those WERE the good ol’ days! Anyway, that all adds up to a lot of years! </p>
<p>Round 2 – I’ve heard you might have a new video and album coming out soon, what can you tell us about them? </p>
<p>JSB – Absolutely! The video is VERY close to being ready. It’s for the first single from the new album. The album is titled: “Full Tilt Boogie” and the single is titled: “Wicked Ways,” and as with the last video, I took the director’s chair on this one. However, I have a REALLY bad habit of starting with one concept, then throwing it out the window and starting from scratch after 18 hrs. of footage has already been shot, which drives the cast and crew insane! I forget that we only have 4 min. to fill up and find myself trying to tell too much of a story. I was reminded by a dear friend recently that art is meant to be interpreted by the viewer or listener, don’t lead ‘em by the hand. That made sense, so I simplified this one by mix-matching the footage we shot and it turned out to be really cool visually and tell its own story…But the BEST part for the fans (and my personal favorite part) is that because there was so much leftover footage, I stole a cue from Michael Jackson…Don’t panic before I explain: After all of it was put together the right way, we had this gritty, surreal mini-movie on our hands that I couldn’t part with. So, there’s gonna be 2 different versions of the video like Michael did back in the day with “Thriller.” You’ll have the long version with the video book-ended by a mini-movie, and then the short version of just the song, (but no dancing zombies, or me in red leather!) And even after all that, there’s still roughly 10 hrs. of footage on the cutting room floor that will never see the light of day. As far as a release date for the video, my understanding is that it’s going to accompany the pre-sale for the album, so it should be coming pretty soon. The album, “Full Tilt Boogie” is being held for release until early 2018, because releasing an album at the beginning of a new year gives it a whole year to really dig in and take root with fans and radio. It is a bit of departure from the stuff like “Elizabeth” and “Another Heart.” I mean it’s still me, still the truth as I’ve lived it, still true blue, real country, but not as soft. It’s edgier and a lot more brazen. A lot less ‘poor me’ and a lot more ‘told ya so!’ </p>
<p>Round 3 – What is your favorite type of guitar to play (Fender, Les Paul etc…) and why is that? </p>
<p>JSB – Electric: My first guitar was a Les Paul, and damn I love the tone of P90 pickups, but Fender Tele is my top choice, been playing them since the 90’s, no need to stop now. Acoustic: I’ve tried them all, the last 2 I’ve played live and on records were Gibson J-45’s, but I have recently been swayed by an AMAZING Guild D-40 I played, so that’ll be my next purchase. </p>
<p>Round 4 – For someone who has never heard your music before how would you describe it to them? </p>
<p>JSB – I’ve heard it called outlaw, real country, alternative country, honky-tonk, Americana, that list goes on forever, but for me, honestly, it all boils down to the blues. Whether it’s rock or country, or whatever, it all came from the same place and it’s all our own interpretations of that. That’s why I think folks don’t connect with pop country, it doesn’t speak TO you or FOR you. It doesn’t understand you like real country music does. Real country music speaks to the every day people; The blue-collar, broken hearted, addicted, angry, common man and woman who deal with real life every day, where there ain’t no sugar coating. …You know why we believed Merle Haggard turned 21 in prison? Because HE DID! In short; To be a songwriter, you have to know what you’re talking about, or folks will see right through you. You have to have conviction. You don’t have to suffer to sing the country blues, but it sure does help. </p>
<p>Round 5 – What are some of your favorite things to do outside of the Music World? </p>
<p>JSB – I have an 11 year old son who I adore. My father once told me before he died: “You’ll never understand what love means until you have a child of your own.” He was right. Every moment I get to spend with him is my Eden. He’s better than me, he’s my hero. And now that he’s older we have so much more in common, we both love Slayer and Pantera! My other passion is filmmaking. Not only did I direct the last 2 music videos, I’m in the process of directing a horror film right now. (I’m a horror film fanatic, so I figured if Rob Zombie could do it, I could too.) </p>
<p>Last Call – Open message to say anything you want to the your fans and the people reading this. </p>
<p>JSB – Thank you! I’ll never be able to say that enough. In the past year I’ve been shown so much love and support, it’s unreal. Without you guys, there is no me. I’m humbled and honored that so many people like what I do, because secretly I’ve always felt like at some point someone is gonna come up and ask for my i.d. and kick me out of the club. Ha! Another big thanks to my manager @Missy Davis Jones for assembling a new award-winning team of people behind the scenes who never miss and don’t understand the word no! And my booking agency @Lone Star Music Promotions and @Big Dawg Music Promotions for getting a helluva start on putting me out there where the fans have been asking for me. And there’s a couple more tricks up the sleeve that I can’t talk about yet, but just hold tight for 2018, I promise y’all ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Last but certainly not least: Myself and plenty of others in the same genre owe a HUGE debt of gratitude not just to the fans, but to folks like you Josh Fairbanks, and Amanda Carlon, Samuel Trimble, and Jon Brashear over at Outlaw Resurgence, Argo Dilligaf, Venice Joe Pettijohn Jr., Bronson McNellis, W.B. Walker, my long-time gal pal, Sloane Spencer, and several who I know I’m forgetting (please forgive me) who continue to put us on radio and push us on social media and turn people onto the fact that there’s real music beyond the top 10 rotation and CMT. For that we owe you guys everything!</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063541
2017-06-14T23:50:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:21-05:00
For His Birthday, a Slew of Local Musicians Will Cover Waylon Jennings — But Which Songs Should They Play?
<p>by Vincent Harris</p>
<p>Whenever someone tells you that Facebook is a waste of time, tell them the story of occasional event organizer (and Free Times contributor) Kevin Oliver and the Waylon Jennings Birthday Jam. The concert, which will feature multiple bands playing ol’ Waylon’s greatest songs, is the result of Oliver spending some extended time trading Waylon lyrics back and forth with some of his musician friends on Facebook. </p>
<p>“The whole thing actually started as me being bored [in] March,” Oliver says with a laugh. “I was listening to Waylon Jennings songs on the computer while I was working on some other stuff, and I posted a couple of random lyrics as they came across the stereo. And a lot of friends who I didn’t realize were Waylon Jennings fans started to respond and it ended up being this two-hour discussion about Waylon Jennings on my news feed with musicians and various folks.” </p>
<p>“I said, ‘Hey we ought to do a Waylon show,’ just putting it out there, and about 30 seconds later I had 10 or 12 musicians going, saying they wanted to do that,” he continues. “I did a little research on significant dates for Waylon, and it turns out that June 15 is his birthday. That seemed doable.” </p>
<p>Over the next few weeks, Oliver brought in many of the bands he’d been speaking to on Facebook, including the Kenny George Band, Hardtack, James Scott Bullard, Bemo Prince and more. He also arranged for the show to be a benefit, with proceeds going to the Harvest Hope Food Bank. </p>
<p>“This whole thing came together in about three hours on a Monday morning,” Oliver says, still sounding a bit surprised. “We’re just doing it for the fun of it.” </p>
<p>Looking forward to the event, here are some recommendations to the bands on which Waylon songs might suit them best: </p>
<p>Hardtack </p>
<p>These raw, ragged rockers lean more towards rowdy honky-tonk swagger than to heartbroken ballads, so the best fit for them would probably be something upbeat like “Good Hearted Woman,” or the loose, locomotive boogie of “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean.” </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard </p>
<p>Bullard is sitting in with Hardtack, and given that he’s got the word “Outlaw” tattooed on his chest and a gruff, looking-for-trouble voice, it’s hard to pick any song other than “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out Of Hand.” </p>
<p>Todd Mathis </p>
<p>Mathis spent some time as the singer for the straightforwardly twanging rock band American Gun, so something equally no-nonsense from Waylon’s catalog would work well — perhaps “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line,” might be a good choice. </p>
<p>Buck & Rhonda Mooneyhan </p>
<p>The Mooneyhans typically play more spiritual material like gospel, but there’s not too much of that in Waylon’s catalog. But perhaps the wistful waltz about trying (and failing) to walk the straight-and-narrow, “Heaven or Hell,” might do. </p>
<p>Tom Coolidge </p>
<p>Tom does a lot of rootsy, unamplified blues playing around town, so the swaggering, acoustic travelogue “I’m a Ramblin’ Man” seems right up his alley. </p>
<p>Ashley Hayes </p>
<p>Hayes will be playing with a stripped-down trio, which begs for the quiet, wounded “Low Down Freedom,” which offers beauty and recrimination in equal measure. </p>
<p>BJ Brazzell </p>
<p>Brazzell is playing a solo acoustic slot, so the heart-in-the-throat ballad “Come With Me” might be just the ticket. </p>
<p>Niles Lewis </p>
<p>Lewis is a guitar wizard, capable of some seriously dazzling playing, so a good sleeper for him might be “Women Do Know How to Carry On.” It’s not the obvious choice, but go back and listen to the sparkling, quicksilver picking on this track. </p>
<p>Trent Jeffcoat </p>
<p>Jeffcoat’s got a natural cowboy swagger that Waylon carried off with ease, so perhaps one of his more badass numbers, like “Honky Tonk Heroes” or “Just To Satisfy You” would fit Jeffcoat’s style. </p>
<p>Matt & Becky Goudelock </p>
<p>This is an acoustic duo that begs for a more thoughtful, introspective Jennings tune like “Rose in Paradise.” </p>
<p>Kenny George Band </p>
<p>These guys were born to play “Black Rose,” one of Waylon’s best acoustic-electric rockers, and they’d probably have a ball with “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” as well, sliding easily into the song’s tight, chugging groove. </p>
<p>Bemo Prince </p>
<p>Prince has a lifetime of playing music behind him, with a lot of time on the road fingerpicking his acoustic guitar and a lot of miles under his belt. “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” is just about perfect for him. </p>
<p>All-Star Jam Finale </p>
<p>Come on. It’s “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” obviously. </p>
<p>What: Waylon Jennings Birthday Jam </p>
<p>Where: Main Street Public House, 1556 Main St. </p>
<p>When: Thursday, June 15, 9 p.m. </p>
<p>Price: Two canned goods or monetary donation for Harvest Hope Food Bank </p>
<p>More: 803-834-3409, mainstreetpublichouse.com</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063542
2017-05-28T13:15:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
JSB mention in Saving Country Music, Tumbleweed Article
<p>The Tumbleweed Festival, which is set to transpire in Sugar Creek, MO, just outside of Kansas City on July 28th and 29th, has just launched the always dicey proposition of an online poll to see what band will fill the festival’s final slot for their 2nd season beside headliners such as Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, Whitey Morgan, and Billy Joe Shaver. Pound for pound, Tumbleweed might have the best true country lineup for all of 2017, and has folks from all around the country planning to trek it to Missouri come late July. </p>
<p>Though there are a few false positives in the poll, like Cody Jinks and Mickey Lamantia receiving hundreds of votes even though they’re already in the lineup, and folks not taking the instructions of voting for emerging regional Outlaw-style bands to heart and nominating folks like Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, and Hank 3, surprisingly the top of the poll actually has some really good names, and digging through it is a good way to see who really is emerging in that side of the country music world. </p>
<p>Evan Webb, who currently is sitting 2nd in the poll, won Saving Country Music’s Video of the Year last year, and certainly would be worthy of a performance slot. Justin Wells, who had SCM’s Song of the Year in 2016 is also on the list. So are a bunch of other cool bands, like Porter Union, who is currently in 3rd, and are about to release a self-titled album that’s really good. The Dustin James Clark Band is leading the poll at the moment, with James Scott Bullard, The Piedmont Boys, The Reeves Brothers, and Casper McWade also populating top spots in a pack of nearly 100 entries. </p>
<p>Anyway, it’s a cool exercise to see who’s bubbling up in independent, Outlaw country. Of course like with all of these polls, it has just as much to do with the motivation of the artists and their ability to mobilize their fan bases as opposed to a true litmus test of the quality of the music. But in this case, it’s kind of working as both. After the first round of voting ends on June 5th, a 2nd round will commence to find the winner of the final spot. Hopefully all participants are good sports and understand that just the exercise itself is doing a lot to spread the music and name recognition of some worthy artists. </p>
<p>The Tumbleweed Festival also just recently released the schedule for the event (see below). Tickets can be purchased at tumbleweedcountry.com.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/tumbleweed-festivals-talent-search-showcases-some-cool-emerging-bands/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063543
2017-05-04T23:40:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
Country Music Armadillo Interview by "Venice" Joe Pettijohn
<p>Interview by "Venice" Joe Pettijohn</p>
<p>James Scott Bullard has a shirt out asking “Who the fuck is James Scott Bullard?” I set out to answer that question myself in this brand new interview, and when all was said and done, I knew exactly who the fuck James Scott Bullard is. </p>
<p>I must admit, the prospect of interviewing James Scott Bullard was a little intimidating. Not because he’s a bad guy (On the contrary, he’s one of the truly great guys) but because he was someone that I knew the least about. He was a “cold call” interview for me. I had heard his music before and I had an appreciation for it, but I have never seen him live. I had never interacted with him before. We chatted lightly only for a couple days prior to the interview, but I was still nervous heading in. </p>
<p>They say you’re only as good as your dance partner, and James Scott Bullard pulled me right through the waltz with him. He took the lead, and carried me through while giving what I consider to be a masterpiece of an interview. </p>
<p>The first thing I will tell you about this interview is this: prepare for it. My previous long was with “Badass” Billie Gant coming in at a second over 46 minutes. </p>
<p>We nearly triple that in this one. Coming in just 5 seconds shy of 2 hours and 8 minutes, James Scott Bullard may have taken possession of a record that will never be broken here at the Country Music Armadillo. </p>
<p>But it’s not long-winded. It’s not rambling. It’s all meaningful. It’s genuine. James is a man with a story to tell, and his eagerness to share is as deep as an ocean. He holds nothing back. Where others may use discretion and keep such personal matters to themselves, James opens right up like a book for you to read and pours them forth, and does so in a way that lets you know just why it has meaning to him. This isn’t a man without a filter just saying things that he probably shouldn’t just to hear his own voice, it’s a man telling his stories, his truths, with a passion. A passion for where it has led him. </p>
<p>And that same passion is one he puts into his music. </p>
<p>James isn’t a new face to this country music movement. He’s been here for a while. And he didn’t come here because he was tired of the state of mainstream country music. He started doing his own thing, and learned of the state of country music as he went. He didn’t let that change his style though. Unwavering, he continued to be who he was. </p>
<p>And thank god for that. </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard is a man with a lot to say both in song, and out. We connected very quickly because we think and feel a lot the same way, and we even share some pretty damn cool life experiences. I was nervous going in, and I came out on the other side with a damn good friend. </p>
<p>So grab a drink, a snack, and spend a couple of hours with a guy so real and genuine that the time stands still, and listen to him do his thing in his wonderful way and experience for yourself just who the fuck James Scott Bullard is.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446540
2016-09-25T23:15:00-04:00
2016-10-31T23:15:37-04:00
WoNo Magazine reviews James Scott Bullard "Box of Letters"
<p>James Scott Bullard is on the same label as Stephanie Fagan, Big Mavis Music, and as avid readers of this blog will recall, the singer-songwriter featured on this blog with her album 'Heart Thief, an interview and her recent EP, '' The March'. She also features on Box of Letters, the mini album under scrutiny at this point in time. </p>
<p>Box Of Letters is an album that sounds familiar immediately. It could have been made anywhere between 1972 and 2016. By now I have dozens and dozens of albums like it and I just don't mind this one extra. Why? There are two reasons that present themselves to me straight away. The first one is that I can hear the honesty in the music and the singing. This is who James Scott Bullard is, the music he excels in, believes in and loves playing. The second reason is even more obvious: his songs are good. So here you go. It may all sound very familiar, whether he touches on country, country rock or a country rock ballad, he and his band touch upon the deeper truths of the music that reaches out to and touches me. </p>
<p>Having been enthusiastic about Stephanie Fagan twice on this blog, I may surprise all with writing that 'Elizabeth' is the song I like less on Box Of Letters. Yes, I like hearing her voice, but the song is the kind of common country song where I usually stop listening. The softly whining pedal steel is too much for me, as is the melody of the song. </p>
<p>Having that off my chest, I can focus on the other songs that I like all. The mid-tempo country rocker 'First Thing On Your Mind' with Rebecca Morning has this delicious lead guitar that does all between The Rolling Stones and The Outlaws. Nice and rough but like a reigned in, wild horse by an excellent rider. Add the warm organ sound and a slide guitar and I'm sold. Not to mention the great oohs and yeah-yeahs going on in the background. This is the sort of country rock that I get out of bed for. </p>
<p>'Another Heart' is more one dimensional than the previous song, but has this change leading up to the, one line, chorus, that packs me in again. The third duet on the album, 'Heartache No More' with Taylor Nealey, again tends to the cleaner side of the fence, but is more alive. A dirty guitar caters the ache, while the organ takes care of the heart. The two voices match in a great way. </p>
<p>If anything Box Of Letters shows that Bullard swings back and forth between the cleaner and the rougher sides of country music. He convinces in both, but I prefer the dirtier side of things and when he steps a bit more out of style with the ballad 'Town Square'. Bullard is able to tap into some heartfelt feelings and shares them with us translated in finest kind of southern music. </p>
<p><a contents="By Wout de Natris, WoNo Music Blog" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.com/2016/09/box-of-letters-james-scott-bullard-and.html" target="_blank">By Wout de Natris, WoNo Music Blog</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063544
2016-09-25T21:45:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
WoNo Magazine Review of Box Of Letters, by Wout de Natris (Netherlands)
<p>Reviewed by Wout de Natris</p>
<p>Box Of Letters is an album that sounds familiar immediately. It could have been made anywhere between 1972 and 2016. By now I have dozens and dozens of albums like it and I just don't mind this one extra. Why? There are two reasons that present themselves to me straight away. The first one is that I can hear the honesty in the music and the singing. This is who James Scott Bullard is, the music he excels in, believes in and loves playing. The second reason is even more obvious: his songs are good. So here you go. It may all sound very familiar, whether he touches on country, country rock or a country rock ballad, he and his band touch upon the deeper truths of the music that reaches out to and touches me. </p>
<p>Having been enthusiastic about Stephanie Fagan twice on this blog, I may surprise all with writing that 'Elizabeth' is the song I like less on Box Of Letters. Yes, I like hearing her voice, but the song is the kind of common country song where I usually stop listening. The softly whining pedal steel is too much for me, as is the melody of the song. </p>
<p>Promo photo </p>
<p>Having that off my chest, I can focus on the other songs that I like all. The mid-tempo country rocker 'First Thing On Your Mind' with Rebecca Morning has this delicious lead guitar that does all between The Rolling Stones and The Outlaws. Nice and rough but like a reigned in, wild horse by an excellent rider. Add the warm organ sound and a slide guitar and I'm sold. Not to mention the great oohs and yeah-yeahs going on in the background. This is the sort of country rock that I get out of bed for. </p>
<p>'Another Heart' is more one dimensional than the previous song, but has this change leading up to the, one line, chorus, that packs me in again. The third duet on the album, 'Heartache No More' with Taylor Nealey, again tends to the cleaner side of the fence, but is more alive. A dirty guitar caters the ache, while the organ takes care of the heart. The two voices match in a great way. </p>
<p>If anything Box Of Letters shows that Bullard swings back and forth between the cleaner and the rougher sides of country music. He convinces in both, but I prefer the dirtier side of things and when he steps a bit more out of style with the ballad 'Town Square'. Bullard is able to tap into some heartfelt feelings and shares them with us translated in finest kind of southern music. </p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.com/2016/09/box-of-letters-james-scott-bullard-and.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063545
2016-09-01T21:45:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
Twangri-La Review of Box Of Letters, by Harry Kaplan
<p>Reviewed by Harry Kaplan</p>
<p>Classic country 70’s style EP. Four of the six songs feature female vocalists and two are duets reminiscent of Loretta and Conway. All six songs are flawless, perfect representations of country music. It may appear that this EP is overly melancholy, but it isn’t. I wouldn’t say it is totally uplifting; however, it doesn’t require a box of tissues either. A very worthy EP in 2016. Listen and get your own copy. Elizabeth (Track 1) features Stephanie Fagan on co-vocals. Absolutely beautiful sad break up song where Bullard and Fagan switch off the vocal duties then converge on the choral parts. Yes, a little bit formulaic, but, this is the winning formula. Check out the video for Elizabeth, which happens to be the first single, here. First Thing On Your Mind (Track 2) is by Rebecca Morning. Another break up song but this time it the message is a little more course. It talks about using some alcohol and other substances to get over the girl. Even with all of the extra help, she will still be the first thing on your mind, so the song goes. True to that. Certainly most of us can relate to those sentiments. Another Heart (Track 3) sounds like Rebecca Mourning at vocal duties again, although she is not listed on the credits. Chelsea (Track 4) has Bullard back doing vocals again. Another song about a woman. This time it is written to his girl before he is about to meet his maker. He is in trouble with the law and his days are numbered. He wants to see his love one more time before it all goes down. Heartache No More (Track 5) is self-explanatory. It is a really well-crafted song with good lyrics and strong vocals. The last track, Town Square, is another song about a woman. A sad ballad, but a great song, nonetheless. James Scott Bullard sings from the heart and sings about his own life experiences including love, loss, death, and addiction. All themes seem to be represented on this EP. He is a poet and writes very smart songs that aren’t preachy or too matter of fact. Something tells me Bullard will soon be a household name in country music like Simpson and Price.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twangrila.com/2016/09/01/box-of-letters-by-james-scott-bullard-and-the-late-night-sweethearts-on-big-mavis-music/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446475
2016-09-01T13:45:00-04:00
2016-10-31T22:44:02-04:00
James Scott Bullard "Box of Letters" reviewed by Twangri-LA
<p>Classic country 70’s style EP. Four of the six songs feature female vocalists and two are duets reminiscent of Loretta and Conway. All six songs are flawless, perfect representations of country music. It may appear that this EP is overly melancholy, but it isn’t. I wouldn’t say it is totally uplifting; however, it doesn’t require a box of tissues either. A very worthy EP in 2016. Listen and get your own copy. </p>
<p>Elizabeth (Track 1) features Stephanie Fagan on co-vocals. Absolutely beautiful sad break up song where Bullard and Fagan switch off the vocal duties then converge on the choral parts. Yes, a little bit formulaic, but, this is the winning formula. Check out the video for Elizabeth, which happens to be the first single, here. First Thing On Your Mind (Track 2) is by Rebecca Morning. Another break up song but this time it the message is a little more course. It talks about using some alcohol and other substances to get over the girl. Even with all of the extra help, she will still be the first thing on your mind, so the song goes. True to that. Certainly most of us can relate to those sentiments. Another Heart (Track 3) sounds like Rebecca Mourning at vocal duties again, although she is not listed on the credits. </p>
<p>Chelsea (Track 4) has Bullard back doing vocals again. Another song about a woman. This time it is written to his girl before he is about to meet his maker. He is in trouble with the law and his days are numbered. He wants to see his love one more time before it all goes down. Heartache No More (Track 5) is self-explanatory. It is a really well-crafted song with good lyrics and strong vocals. The last track, Town Square, is another song about a woman. A sad ballad, but a great song, nonetheless. </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard sings from the heart and sings about his own life experiences including love, loss, death, and addiction. All themes seem to be represented on this EP. He is a poet and writes very smart songs that aren’t preachy or too matter of fact. Something tells me Bullard will soon be a household name in country music like Simpson and Price.<br><br>- <a contents="Reviewed by Harry Kaplan on Twangri-La" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.twangrila.com/apps/blog/show/44144164-box-of-letters-by-james-scott-bullard-and-the-late-night-sweethearts-on-big-mavis-music" target="_blank">Reviewed by Harry Kaplan on Twangri-La</a><br> </p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063546
2016-08-10T23:25:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
Swedish blog TownHogs features James Scott Bullard song, "Elizabeth"
<p>Swedish blog TownHogs features James Scott Bullard track, "Elizabeth" on the mixtape of the month for August 2016.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.townhogs.com/en/town-hogs-lista-augusti/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446624
2016-08-10T00:10:00-04:00
2016-11-01T00:08:24-04:00
Swedish blog TownHogs features James Scott Bullard song, "Elizabeth"
<p>Swedish blog TownHogs features James Scott Bullard track, "Elizabeth" on the mixtape of the month for August 2016:<br><br>http://www.townhogs.com/en/town-hogs-lista-augusti/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421145
2016-07-27T22:55:00-04:00
2016-10-15T22:57:17-04:00
Singer-songwriter Stephanie Fagan appreciates her Florence roots | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. – Stephanie Fagan remembers the day in Prague quite clearly. </p>
<p>As she toured across Europe, a stranger approached her. </p>
<p>“Are you Stephanie Fagan?” the stranger asked. “I have you as my ringtone!” </p>
<p>Fagan laughs and recalls thinking, “This is the highlight of my life. … This moment, right now.” </p>
<p>But since that day four years ago, the 30-year-old Florence singer has continued her success, releasing several albums, performing in Europe and across the eastern United States and filming a music video with Eerie Von, former bassist in the metal band Danzig. </p>
<p>For Fagan, it all feels surreal. Though she lived abroad in Germany and in Baltimore, Md., she moved back to the Pee Dee and now works as a massage therapist at the Hotel Florence spa. Fagan's everyday life often feels separate from her musical career. </p>
<p>“When I see myself with a ton of makeup and three-inch eyelashes singing this rock song with super cool people that I look up to, it just, it almost doesn’t even feel like me. It’s a total honor for sure. But I’m still that shy, awkward kid that wants to hang out with the cool kids,” she said, smiling. </p>
<p>Fagan got her start singing at Hillside Free Will Baptist Church in Florence when she was just 3 or 4 years old. She comes from a musical family and said it was natural for her to pursue music, too. </p>
<p>A lot changed for Fagan, though, when she met Ken and Missy Jones, who now own Southern Harmony Recording Studio on Celebration Boulevard. </p>
<p>The pair had just moved to Florence from Los Angeles and Fagan sold her first album to Ken when he came to buy a coffee at Aroma Underground, the coffee shop where Fagan once worked that has since closed. </p>
<p>She became a personal assistant of sorts for the couple, doing computer work and other odd jobs. And when the Joneses finally opened Southern Harmony, Fagan said, she became their guinea pig. </p>
<p>To Fagan, the Florence music scene is closely knit and flooded with talent. </p>
<p>“And not just people that play and appreciate music, people that are really, really good. … And everybody really supports each other, too, which is pretty rare. A lot of times there’s this competitive aspect, especially when you get into bigger cities,” Fagan said. </p>
<p>The singer soon will begin preproduction for her newest album, which is tentatively called “Calico Cat” as a tribute to the cats that are typically female and “known to be a little bit crazy.” </p>
<p>In some ways, the record is very much Stephanie Fagan, who says she is a songwriter and singer at heart. It is lyrically driven folk music with songs influenced heavily by love and relationships. </p>
<p>“But the theme of this CD is going to be embarrassing myself cause that’s probably the thing I’m best at,” she said. “I’ve very skilled. Putting my foot in my mouth, saying the wrong thing. You know, worrying for nothing. That sort of thing.” </p>
<p>She said she has already played several of the tunes live and received good feedback. Many of the songs are vulnerable but relatable. </p>
<p>Though she used to be shy, Fagan aims to entertain the crowd when she performs live. </p>
<p>“…A lot of my show is jokes and talking to people in the audience. You know, walking around. I want to let people know that I’m really appreciative for them coming out and supporting,” she said.<br><br>- Deborah Swearington, The Morning News<br>Source: <a contents="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_5630be42-5441-11e6-9a3d-9f67f39feded.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_5630be42-5441-11e6-9a3d-9f67f39feded.html" target="_blank">http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_5630be42-5441-11e6-9a3d-9f67f39feded.html</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063547
2016-03-31T12:50:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
Business After Hours at the Hampton Inn & Suites - Civic Center
<p>The Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours event Thursday evening was held at the Hampton Inn & Suites - Civic Center as Raldex Hospitality showcased the newly renovated 82 room hotel. </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard provided musical entertainment, Cast Iron Waffles & Espresso provided tasty treats and door prizes were given away to a crowd of over 125 people.</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/gallery/collection_1ae67c16-f7a6-11e5-b8ae-bf87be4f24cc.html#14" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063548
2016-01-10T23:30:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:22-05:00
James Scott Bullard "Box of Letters" receives notable release designation on Twang Nation
<p>By Baron Lane, Twang Nation </p>
<p>2015 was another bumper crop year for Americana and roots music, and 2016 show vast signs that the great music will continue to come. As our Cream of the Crop favorites from 2015 makes plain we might be experiencing a new golden age of roots music as a growing influence on our contemporary culture and as a sustainable , and viable, business for young and old artists alike. </p>
<p>That last part is crucial as it provides seed corn for the future of this music we truly love. </p>
<p>The list below is a collection of 2016 notable Americana / roots releases. Some anticipated releases from artists like Sturgill Simpson, Elizabeth Cook, Robbie Fulks, Lydia Loveless, Al Scorch and Brandy Clark have no release dates yet, but when I’m aware of them and others I will be updating the list through the year and will send word through my twitter account </p>
<p>If you know of a release not listed leave it in the comments and I might add it. </p>
<p>Look for new things coming in the 2016 at Twang Nation. With your help it’s going to be a great year folks. </p>
<p>January 11th <br>Keegan McInroe – “Uncouth Pilgrims” </p>
<p>January 15th <br>Dylan LeBlanc – ‘Cautionary Tale’ <br>Randy Rogers Band – “Nothing Shines Like Neon” <br>Hank Williams Jr. – “It’s About Time” <br>Dawn Landes And Piers Faccini – ‘Desert Songs’ </p>
<p>January 22nd <br>The Cactus Blossoms – ‘You’re Dreaming’ <br>Simon Linsteadt – Self-Titled <br>Aoife O’Donovan – “In the Magic Hour” </p>
<p>January 24th <br>Michael Chapman – ‘Fish” </p>
<p>January 26th <br>Brad Armstrong – “Empire” </p>
<p>January 29th <br>Buddy Miller and Friends – ‘Cayamo Sessions at Sea’ <br>Sierra Hull – ‘Weighted Mind’ <br>Aubrie Sellers – ‘City Blues’ <br>Miranda Lee Richards – “First Light of Winter” </p>
<p>February 5th <br>Lucinda Williams – “The Ghosts of Highway 20” <br>Dori Freeman – ‘Dori Freeman’ <br>Luther Dickinson – ‘Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II)’ <br>The Infamous Stringdusters – ‘Ladies & Gentleman’ <br>Freakwater – ‘Scheherazade’ <br>The O’s – ‘Honeycomb’ </p>
<p>February 12th <br>Vince Gill – “Down to My Last Bad Habit” <br>Wynonna Judd – “Wynonna & the Big Noise” <br>Lorrie Morgan – ‘Letting Go … Slow’ <br>Joey + Rory – “Hymns That Are Important To Us” <br>Malcolm Holcombe – ‘Another Black Hole’ <br>Wheeler Walker Jr. ‘Redneck Shit’ <br>Alex Dezen – ‘Alex Dezen’ <br>Matt Patershuk – ‘I Was So Fond of You” <br>Applewood Road (Emily Barker, Amber Rebirth and Amy Speace) – ‘Applewood Road’ </p>
<p>February 19th <br>Lake Street Dive – ‘Side Pony’ <br>Austin Lucas – ‘Between The Moon and the Midwest” <br>Mike June – ‘Poor Man’s Bible’ </p>
<p>February 26th <br>Shooter Jennings – ‘Countach (For Giorgio)’ <br>Waco Brothers – ‘Going Down in History’ <br>Kathryn Legendre – ‘Don’t Give A Damn’ <br>Michael Daves – ‘Orchids and Violence’ <br>Jane Kramer – ‘Carnival of Hopes’ <br>Paul Burch – ‘Meredian Rising’ <br>Bonnie Raitt – ’Dig In Deep’ <br>Caleb Caudle – ‘Carolina Ghost” <br>Jen Lane – ‘This Life of Mine’ <br>Ashley Monroe – ‘Live At Third Man Records” </p>
<p>March 4th <br>Loretta Lynne – ‘Full Circle’ <br>Chris King – ‘Animal’ <br>Anielle Reid – ‘Love Song’ <br>Dead Tongues – ‘Montana’ </p>
<p>March 11th <br>Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – ‘Something Real’ <br>Waylon Jennings – ‘Return of the Outlaw: The Abbott, Texas, Broadcast 1973’ </p>
<p>March 18th <br>Various – Dave Cobb’s ‘Southern Family <br>Grant Lee Phillips – ‘The Narrows’ <br>Sean Watkins – “What To Fear” <br>The Roosevelts – ”The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn’ </p>
<p>March 25th <br>Parker Millsap – ‘The Very Last Day’ <br>Margo Price – ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter’ </p>
<p>April 1st <br>Elephant Revival – ‘Petals’ <br>Robbie Fulks – ‘Upland Stories’ <br>Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones – ‘Little Windows’ <br>Left Arm Tan – ‘Lorene’ </p>
<p>April 8th <br>Hayes Carll – “Lovers and Leavers” <br>Tim McNary – ‘Above the Trees’ EP </p>
<p>April 15th <br>Hackensaw Boys – “Charismo” <br>Pauline Andres – “The Heart Breaks” <br>The Lowest Pair – ‘Fern Girl and Ice Man’ / ‘Uncertain As It Is Uneven’ </p>
<p>April 19th <br>Crow Moses – “Nightshades” </p>
<p>April 22nd <br>Nate Leavitt – “Someone Send a Signal” <br>Derek Hoke – ‘Southern Moon’ </p>
<p>April 29th <br>Larry Hooper – ‘No Turning Back’ </p>
<p>May 3rd <br>Robert Ellis – ‘Robert Ellis’ <br>Jeremy Nail – ‘My Mountain’ </p>
<p>May 6th <br>Mary Chapin Carpenter – ‘The Things That We Are Made Of” <br>Jimbo Mathus – ‘Band of Storms’ EP <br>Vaudeville Etiquette – ‘Aura Vista Motel’ </p>
<p>May 20th <br>Crystal Yates – ‘The Other Side’ </p>
<p>May 27th <br>The Lowest Pair – ‘Fern Girl and Ice Man’ and ‘Uncertain As It Is Uneven’ <br>Bonnie Bishop – ‘Ain’t Who I Was’ </p>
<p>June 17 <br>Sarah Jarosz – ‘Undercurrent’ <br>Kris Kristofferson – ‘Cedar Creek Sessions’ </p>
<p>June 24 <br>The Felice Brothers – “Life in the Dark,” </p>
<p>July 1 <br>Sara Watkins – ‘Young In All The Wrong Ways’ </p>
<p>July 4 <br>James Scott Bullard – “Box of Letters” </p>
<p>July 8 <br>Mark Chesnutt – ‘Tradition Lives On’ <br>Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley – ‘The Country Blues’ </p>
<p>July 15 <br>The Earls Of Leicester – ‘Rattle & Roar,’ </p>
<p>July 22 <br>High Bar Gang – ‘Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind’ </p>
<p>August 5 <br>Chelle Rose – ‘Blue Ridge Blood’ <br>Summer Dean – ‘Unladylike’ </p>
<p>August 12 <br>Kelsey Waldon – ‘I’ve Got a Way on’ <br>Boo Ray – ‘Sea of Lights’ </p>
<p>August 19 <br>Lydia Loveless – ‘Real’ <br>John Paul White – ‘Belah’ </p>
<p>August 26 <br>The Devil Makes Three – ‘Redemption & Ruin” <br>Dietrich Strause – “How Cruel That Hunger Binds” <br>Waiting for Henry – ‘Town Called Patience’ </p>
<p>September 9 <br>Blue Highway – ‘Original Traditional’ </p>
<p>September 16 <br>Amanda Shires – “My Piece Of Land” <br>Jesse Dayton – ‘The Revealer’ <br>The Buffalo Ruckus – ‘Peace & Cornbread’ </p>
<p>September 30 <br>Drive-By Truckers – ‘American Band’ <br>Jim Lauderdale – ‘This Changes Everything’ </p>
<p>October 7 <br>Shovels and Rope – ‘Little Seeds’ <br>Hiss Golden Messenger – ‘Heart Like a Levee’ <br>The Dexateens – ‘Teenage Hallelujah’ </p>
<p>October 28 <br>Aaron Lee Tasjan – “Silver Tears” <br>Various Artists – ‘Highway Prayer – Tribute to Adam Carroll” <br>Jasmine Rodgers – ‘Blood Red Sun’ </p>
<p>November 4 <br>Kent Eugene Goolsby – ‘Temper Of The Times’ </p>
<p>November 18 <br>Miranda Lambert – “The Weight of These Wings”</p>
<p><a contents="CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.twangnation.com/2016/01/10/wanted-notable-americana-and-roots-music-releases-for-2016/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446537
2016-01-10T23:10:00-05:00
2016-10-31T23:08:27-04:00
James Scott Bullard "Box of Letters" receives notible release designation on Twang Nation
<p><a contents="By Baron Lane, Twang Nation" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.twangnation.com/2016/01/10/wanted-notable-americana-and-roots-music-releases-for-2016/" target="_blank">By Baron Lane, Twang Nation</a><br><br>2015 was another bumper crop year for Americana and roots music, and 2016 show vast signs that the great music will continue to come. As our Cream of the Crop favorites from 2015 makes plain we might be experiencing a new golden age of roots music as a growing influence on our contemporary culture and as a sustainable , and viable, business for young and old artists alike. </p>
<p>That last part is crucial as it provides seed corn for the future of this music we truly love. </p>
<p>The list below is a collection of 2016 notable Americana / roots releases. Some anticipated releases from artists like Sturgill Simpson, Elizabeth Cook, Robbie Fulks, Lydia Loveless, Al Scorch and Brandy Clark have no release dates yet, but when I’m aware of them and others I will be updating the list through the year and will send word through my twitter account </p>
<p>If you know of a release not listed leave it in the comments and I might add it. </p>
<p>Look for new things coming in the 2016 at Twang Nation. With your help it’s going to be a great year folks. </p>
<p>January 11th <br>Keegan McInroe – “Uncouth Pilgrims” </p>
<p>January 15th <br>Dylan LeBlanc – ‘Cautionary Tale’ <br>Randy Rogers Band – “Nothing Shines Like Neon” <br>Hank Williams Jr. – “It’s About Time” <br>Dawn Landes And Piers Faccini – ‘Desert Songs’ </p>
<p>January 22nd <br>The Cactus Blossoms – ‘You’re Dreaming’ <br>Simon Linsteadt – Self-Titled <br>Aoife O’Donovan – “In the Magic Hour” </p>
<p>January 24th <br>Michael Chapman – ‘Fish” </p>
<p>January 26th <br>Brad Armstrong – “Empire” </p>
<p>January 29th <br>Buddy Miller and Friends – ‘Cayamo Sessions at Sea’ <br>Sierra Hull – ‘Weighted Mind’ <br>Aubrie Sellers – ‘City Blues’ <br>Miranda Lee Richards – “First Light of Winter” </p>
<p>February 5th <br>Lucinda Williams – “The Ghosts of Highway 20” <br>Dori Freeman – ‘Dori Freeman’ <br>Luther Dickinson – ‘Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II)’ <br>The Infamous Stringdusters – ‘Ladies & Gentleman’ <br>Freakwater – ‘Scheherazade’ <br>The O’s – ‘Honeycomb’ </p>
<p>February 12th <br>Vince Gill – “Down to My Last Bad Habit” <br>Wynonna Judd – “Wynonna & the Big Noise” <br>Lorrie Morgan – ‘Letting Go … Slow’ <br>Joey + Rory – “Hymns That Are Important To Us” <br>Malcolm Holcombe – ‘Another Black Hole’ <br>Wheeler Walker Jr. ‘Redneck Shit’ <br>Alex Dezen – ‘Alex Dezen’ <br>Matt Patershuk – ‘I Was So Fond of You” <br>Applewood Road (Emily Barker, Amber Rebirth and Amy Speace) – ‘Applewood Road’ </p>
<p>February 19th <br>Lake Street Dive – ‘Side Pony’ <br>Austin Lucas – ‘Between The Moon and the Midwest” <br>Mike June – ‘Poor Man’s Bible’ </p>
<p>February 26th <br>Shooter Jennings – ‘Countach (For Giorgio)’ <br>Waco Brothers – ‘Going Down in History’ <br>Kathryn Legendre – ‘Don’t Give A Damn’ <br>Michael Daves – ‘Orchids and Violence’ <br>Jane Kramer – ‘Carnival of Hopes’ <br>Paul Burch – ‘Meredian Rising’ <br>Bonnie Raitt – ’Dig In Deep’ <br>Caleb Caudle – ‘Carolina Ghost” <br>Jen Lane – ‘This Life of Mine’ <br>Ashley Monroe – ‘Live At Third Man Records” </p>
<p>March 4th <br>Loretta Lynne – ‘Full Circle’ <br>Chris King – ‘Animal’ <br>Anielle Reid – ‘Love Song’ <br>Dead Tongues – ‘Montana’ </p>
<p>March 11th <br>Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – ‘Something Real’ <br>Waylon Jennings – ‘Return of the Outlaw: The Abbott, Texas, Broadcast 1973’ </p>
<p>March 18th <br>Various – Dave Cobb’s ‘Southern Family <br>Grant Lee Phillips – ‘The Narrows’ <br>Sean Watkins – “What To Fear” <br>The Roosevelts – ”The Greatest Thing You’ll Ever Learn’ </p>
<p>March 25th <br>Parker Millsap – ‘The Very Last Day’ <br>Margo Price – ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter’ </p>
<p>April 1st <br>Elephant Revival – ‘Petals’ <br>Robbie Fulks – ‘Upland Stories’ <br>Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones – ‘Little Windows’ <br>Left Arm Tan – ‘Lorene’ </p>
<p>April 8th <br>Hayes Carll – “Lovers and Leavers” <br>Tim McNary – ‘Above the Trees’ EP </p>
<p>April 15th <br>Hackensaw Boys – “Charismo” <br>Pauline Andres – “The Heart Breaks” <br>The Lowest Pair – ‘Fern Girl and Ice Man’ / ‘Uncertain As It Is Uneven’ </p>
<p>April 19th <br>Crow Moses – “Nightshades” </p>
<p>April 22nd <br>Nate Leavitt – “Someone Send a Signal” <br>Derek Hoke – ‘Southern Moon’ </p>
<p>April 29th <br>Larry Hooper – ‘No Turning Back’ </p>
<p>May 3rd <br>Robert Ellis – ‘Robert Ellis’ <br>Jeremy Nail – ‘My Mountain’ </p>
<p>May 6th <br>Mary Chapin Carpenter – ‘The Things That We Are Made Of” <br>Jimbo Mathus – ‘Band of Storms’ EP <br>Vaudeville Etiquette – ‘Aura Vista Motel’ </p>
<p>May 20th <br>Crystal Yates – ‘The Other Side’ </p>
<p>May 27th <br>The Lowest Pair – ‘Fern Girl and Ice Man’ and ‘Uncertain As It Is Uneven’ <br>Bonnie Bishop – ‘Ain’t Who I Was’ </p>
<p>June 17 <br>Sarah Jarosz – ‘Undercurrent’ <br>Kris Kristofferson – ‘Cedar Creek Sessions’ </p>
<p>June 24 <br>The Felice Brothers – “Life in the Dark,” </p>
<p>July 1 <br>Sara Watkins – ‘Young In All The Wrong Ways’ </p>
<p>July 4 <br>James Scott Bullard – “Box of Letters” </p>
<p>July 8 <br>Mark Chesnutt – ‘Tradition Lives On’ <br>Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley – ‘The Country Blues’ </p>
<p>July 15 <br>The Earls Of Leicester – ‘Rattle & Roar,’ </p>
<p>July 22 <br>High Bar Gang – ‘Someday the Heart Will Trouble the Mind’ </p>
<p>August 5 <br>Chelle Rose – ‘Blue Ridge Blood’ <br>Summer Dean – ‘Unladylike’ </p>
<p>August 12 <br>Kelsey Waldon – ‘I’ve Got a Way on’ <br>Boo Ray – ‘Sea of Lights’ </p>
<p>August 19 <br>Lydia Loveless – ‘Real’ <br>John Paul White – ‘Belah’ </p>
<p>August 26 <br>The Devil Makes Three – ‘Redemption & Ruin” <br>Dietrich Strause – “How Cruel That Hunger Binds” <br>Waiting for Henry – ‘Town Called Patience’ </p>
<p>September 9 <br>Blue Highway – ‘Original Traditional’ </p>
<p>September 16 <br>Amanda Shires – “My Piece Of Land” <br>Jesse Dayton – ‘The Revealer’ <br>The Buffalo Ruckus – ‘Peace & Cornbread’ </p>
<p>September 30 <br>Drive-By Truckers – ‘American Band’ <br>Jim Lauderdale – ‘This Changes Everything’ </p>
<p>October 7 <br>Shovels and Rope – ‘Little Seeds’ <br>Hiss Golden Messenger – ‘Heart Like a Levee’ <br>The Dexateens – ‘Teenage Hallelujah’ </p>
<p>October 28 <br>Aaron Lee Tasjan – “Silver Tears” <br>Various Artists – ‘Highway Prayer – Tribute to Adam Carroll” <br>Jasmine Rodgers – ‘Blood Red Sun’ </p>
<p>November 4 <br>Kent Eugene Goolsby – ‘Temper Of The Times’ </p>
<p>November 18 <br>Miranda Lambert – “The Weight of These Wings”</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446512
2015-10-22T22:55:00-04:00
2016-10-31T22:54:01-04:00
James Scott Bullard and Rebecca Morning appearance on The Woodshed Archive
Listen to the full show at this link:<p><a contents="https://woodshedarchive.org/event/rebmorn2015-10-22/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://woodshedarchive.org/event/rebmorn2015-10-22/" target="_blank">https://woodshedarchive.org/event/rebmorn2015-10-22/</a><br> </p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063549
2015-10-22T11:05:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:23-05:00
James Scott Bullard and Rebecca Morning appearance on The Woodshed Archive
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421144
2015-09-09T22:50:00-04:00
2016-10-15T22:53:34-04:00
Florence musicians to play Americana Music Festival in Nashville | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. -- Musicians James Scott Bullard and Stephanie Fagan of Florence will showcase their talents at a party being held Sept. 17 during the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. </p>
<p>Bullard and Fagan have mostly toured regionally, so playing in a city like Nashville will be a big step, said Missy Jones, owner of record label Big Mavis Music, which represents both artists. </p>
<p>The festival features around 165 live performances in nine music venues across downtown Nashville. </p>
<p>Bullard and Fagan, however, will each play a 20- minute, unofficial showcase at Bobby’s Idle Hour. While the two are not on Americana Music Fest’s lineup, their performances are still associated with the event and will allow for the artists to have a presence at the festival. </p>
<p>“Being an unofficial showcase is just the dream,” Jones said. “At events like this, the unofficial parties are almost just as important and almost just as attended.” </p>
<p>Bullard said he’s excited to be playing a shorter set because it allows him to carefully select his best work to perform. </p>
<p>“With 20 minutes, you can hit them with your best shot and really leave an impression,” he said. </p>
<p>Sloane Spencer, host and producer of nationally syndicated radio show Country Fried Rock, said she’s excited for Bullard and Fagan. </p>
<p>Nashville has been called the “Music City” for a long time, she said, and it’s often difficult for musicians to make a name for themselves if they aren’t living nearby. </p>
<p>“That’s a big deal for them to be acknowledged like that,” Spencer said. </p>
<p>Spencer will be a part of one of the Americana Music Festival’s official kick-off parties, which will get both festival attendees and the general music community in Nashville excited for the event. </p>
<p>The party will also raise funds for Eddie Spaghetti, the lead singer and bass player for the Supersuckers, who has stage three oropharynx cancer. </p>
<p>Americana is a cool niche of music to be in because everyone knows and cares about each other, Spencer said. </p>
<p>Although the major markets for her radio show are not in South Carolina, Spencer is able to live in Florence and produce her radio show from home. </p>
<p>Bullard agreed with Spencer that the opportunity is huge for both him and Fagan. </p>
<p>“It’s a great thing that this chance is given to artists to show their face,” he said, adding that the festival shows the public that there is more to the genre than what is often played on the radio. </p>
<p>Jones calls all of the artists she represents “a hippie pack of people that fell into a bizarre musical family.” </p>
<p>She said she loves having her own label because she gets to work with people that she has a personal synergy with, like Bullard and Fagan. </p>
<p>“It’s almost like a marriage,” she said. “We have to understand each other and share goals. We have to have the same vision.” </p>
<p>After performing in Nashville, Bullard and Fagan will stay in town to shoot a music video for their duet “Elizabeth,” with Nashville photographer and musician Mick Leonardi.<br><br>- Deborah Swearington, The Morning News<br>Source: <a contents="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_ad26602a-574f-11e5-9019-6376cc056938.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_ad26602a-574f-11e5-9019-6376cc056938.html" target="_blank">http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_ad26602a-574f-11e5-9019-6376cc056938.html</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063550
2015-09-09T11:10:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:23-05:00
Florence musicians to play Americana Music Festival in Nashville | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>by Deborah Swearington, The Morning News </p>
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. -- Musicians James Scott Bullard and Stephanie Fagan of Florence will showcase their talents at a party being held Sept. 17 during the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. </p>
<p>Bullard and Fagan have mostly toured regionally, so playing in a city like Nashville will be a big step, said Missy Jones, owner of record label Big Mavis Music, which represents both artists. </p>
<p>The festival features around 165 live performances in nine music venues across downtown Nashville. </p>
<p>Bullard and Fagan, however, will each play a 20- minute, unofficial showcase at Bobby’s Idle Hour. While the two are not on Americana Music Fest’s lineup, their performances are still associated with the event and will allow for the artists to have a presence at the festival. </p>
<p>“Being an unofficial showcase is just the dream,” Jones said. “At events like this, the unofficial parties are almost just as important and almost just as attended.” </p>
<p>Bullard said he’s excited to be playing a shorter set because it allows him to carefully select his best work to perform. </p>
<p>“With 20 minutes, you can hit them with your best shot and really leave an impression,” he said. </p>
<p>Sloane Spencer, host and producer of nationally syndicated radio show Country Fried Rock, said she’s excited for Bullard and Fagan. </p>
<p>Nashville has been called the “Music City” for a long time, she said, and it’s often difficult for musicians to make a name for themselves if they aren’t living nearby. </p>
<p>“That’s a big deal for them to be acknowledged like that,” Spencer said. </p>
<p>Spencer will be a part of one of the Americana Music Festival’s official kick-off parties, which will get both festival attendees and the general music community in Nashville excited for the event. </p>
<p>The party will also raise funds for Eddie Spaghetti, the lead singer and bass player for the Supersuckers, who has stage three oropharynx cancer. </p>
<p>Americana is a cool niche of music to be in because everyone knows and cares about each other, Spencer said. </p>
<p>Although the major markets for her radio show are not in South Carolina, Spencer is able to live in Florence and produce her radio show from home. </p>
<p>Bullard agreed with Spencer that the opportunity is huge for both him and Fagan. </p>
<p>“It’s a great thing that this chance is given to artists to show their face,” he said, adding that the festival shows the public that there is more to the genre than what is often played on the radio. </p>
<p>Jones calls all of the artists she represents “a hippie pack of people that fell into a bizarre musical family.” </p>
<p>She said she loves having her own label because she gets to work with people that she has a personal synergy with, like Bullard and Fagan. </p>
<p>“It’s almost like a marriage,” she said. “We have to understand each other and share goals. We have to have the same vision.” </p>
<p>After performing in Nashville, Bullard and Fagan will stay in town to shoot a music video for their duet “Elizabeth,” with Nashville photographer and musician Mick Leonardi. </p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421142
2015-08-19T22:45:00-04:00
2017-01-14T10:18:42-05:00
James Scott Bullard pays homage to hero with new album, party at Southern Hops | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. – James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts will host a party next weekend for the release of their double album “Oh My Land.”</p>The album release party will be held at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29 at Southern Hops Brewing Company.<br>“Oh My Land” is Bullard’s sixth record, and his first with Florence record label Big Mavis Music. The album features Big Mavis artists Stephanie Fagan and Taylor Nealey, along with the musicians in Bullard’s band, The Late Night Sweethearts.<br><br>“The album is a double album. There’s two halves to this record,” Bullard said. “It’s an EP, which initially, it’s eight songs; four of my songs and four of Gram Parsons’ songs.”Known as the father of country-rock, Parsons was a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds. Bullard said Parsons is an inspiration to him and anyone who plays country music.<img src="//b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035426&cv=2.0&cj=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /> <p>Bullard and his band cover four of Parsons’ songs on the album. “The four of his songs that were chosen, were chosen carefully,” Bullard said. Several artists do covers to Parsons’ music, Bullard said, but he felt it was something he needed to do because he was a fan. “I wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel while I was doing this,” Bullard said. “I was trying to put it on a different car. It’s just to pay homage to one of my heroes.” </p>
<p>Inspiration behind Bullard’s original songs on the album comes from bad relationships or his past drug addiction. “Any experience I go through, I try to take something from it,” Bullard said. “The majority of my songs are probably about bad relationships. There’s a portion of my life where I was a drug addict, and I’ve been clean for eight years now. And it all fell into the same toxic lifestyle.” </p>
<p>Bullard said whenever he overcame situations, he had a lot of songs. </p>
<p>“It was like a puzzle. My life was like this puzzle, and the pieces didn’t fit,” Bullard said. “Some of these songs were around for a long time, and Missy said they deserved the light of day. It was her going through these songs that made them happen.” </p>
<p>Bullard said that with seven albums’ worth of songs, he can’t explain the inspiration. He isn’t able to pick one specific thing, but he is sure they were about bad versions of himself. </p>
<p>All proceeds from the album sales will benefit Eddie Spaghetti’s cancer fight. Eddie Spaghetti, a member of the Supersuckers band, is battling stage three oropharynx cancer. </p>
<p>Missy Davis Jones is the president of Big Mavis Music, and she said the album has been in the works for a while. </p>
<p>“I’m really excited to finally have an opportunity to release this fantastic record. It’s been in the works since January of last year,” Jones said. “It’s the second record my husband and I have co-produced at our studio, Southern Harmony Recording, and we’re very proud of the quality of musicianship that we were able to produce locally, with locally sourced talent and musicians.” </p>
<p>Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts will perform music from the album and other favorites at the release party. Fagan and Nealey will be guest performers. </p>
<p>Bullard said whoever buys the first hundred copies at the release party will have a copy of a song that will never be released by him again. </p>
<p>The event is free and open to the public.<br><br>- Shamira McCray, The Morning News<br>Source: <a contents="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_0e46f1a8-46cf-11e5-ba6f-db17076a9170.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_0e46f1a8-46cf-11e5-ba6f-db17076a9170.html" target="_blank">http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_0e46f1a8-46cf-11e5-ba6f-db17076a9170.html</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063551
2015-08-19T11:20:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:23-05:00
James Scott Bullard pays homage to hero with new album, party at Southern Hops | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>By Shamira McCray, The Morning News </p>
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. – James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts will host a party next weekend for the release of their double album “Oh My Land.” </p>
<p>The album release party will be held at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29 at Southern Hops Brewing Company. <br>“Oh My Land” is Bullard’s sixth record, and his first with Florence record label Big Mavis Music. The album features Big Mavis artists Stephanie Fagan and Taylor Nealey, along with the musicians in Bullard’s band, The Late Night Sweethearts. </p>
<p>“The album is a double album. There’s two halves to this record,” Bullard said. “It’s an EP, which initially, it’s eight songs; four of my songs and four of Gram Parsons’ songs.”Known as the father of country-rock, Parsons was a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds. Bullard said Parsons is an inspiration to him and anyone who plays country music. </p>
<p>Bullard and his band cover four of Parsons’ songs on the album. “The four of his songs that were chosen, were chosen carefully,” Bullard said. Several artists do covers to Parsons’ music, Bullard said, but he felt it was something he needed to do because he was a fan. “I wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel while I was doing this,” Bullard said. “I was trying to put it on a different car. It’s just to pay homage to one of my heroes.” </p>
<p>Inspiration behind Bullard’s original songs on the album comes from bad relationships or his past drug addiction. “Any experience I go through, I try to take something from it,” Bullard said. “The majority of my songs are probably about bad relationships. There’s a portion of my life where I was a drug addict, and I’ve been clean for eight years now. And it all fell into the same toxic lifestyle.” </p>
<p>Bullard said whenever he overcame situations, he had a lot of songs. </p>
<p>“It was like a puzzle. My life was like this puzzle, and the pieces didn’t fit,” Bullard said. “Some of these songs were around for a long time, and Missy said they deserved the light of day. It was her going through these songs that made them happen.” </p>
<p>Bullard said that with seven albums’ worth of songs, he can’t explain the inspiration. He isn’t able to pick one specific thing, but he is sure they were about bad versions of himself. </p>
<p>All proceeds from the album sales will benefit Eddie Spaghetti’s cancer fight. Eddie Spaghetti, a member of the Supersuckers band, is battling stage three oropharynx cancer. </p>
<p>Missy Davis Jones is the president of Big Mavis Music, and she said the album has been in the works for a while. </p>
<p>“I’m really excited to finally have an opportunity to release this fantastic record. It’s been in the works since January of last year,” Jones said. “It’s the second record my husband and I have co-produced at our studio, Southern Harmony Recording, and we’re very proud of the quality of musicianship that we were able to produce locally, with locally sourced talent and musicians.” </p>
<p>Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts will perform music from the album and other favorites at the release party. Fagan and Nealey will be guest performers. </p>
<p>Bullard said whoever buys the first hundred copies at the release party will have a copy of a song that will never be released by him again. </p>
<p>The event is free and open to the public. </p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421160
2015-07-20T23:30:00-04:00
2016-10-15T23:27:54-04:00
The Daily Krapht – Review of Stephanie Fagan – “Prodigal” Video
<p>It’s hot, ridiculously hot, and it’s Monday. What the world needs today is some dirty dobro work and a voice that could stop traffic. </p>
<p>Enter Stephanie Fagan. </p>
<p>“Prodigal” is a new video from the southern songstress off of her album Heart Thief that has been re-released through Big Mavis Music. Directed by Katrina Garnes, it features Fagan, and dobro player John Bazen in a cotton field. It oozes of the blues and is filled with heartbreak in every word. </p>
<p>For more information on Stephanie Fagan, check out the links below, and go find her latest release – The March.<br><br>- Victor Alfieri, Wordkrapht<br>Source: <a contents="http://wordkrapht.com/main/2015/07/20/the-daily-krapht-stephanie-fagan-prodigal/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://wordkrapht.com/main/2015/07/20/the-daily-krapht-stephanie-fagan-prodigal/" target="_blank">http://wordkrapht.com/main/2015/07/20/the-daily-krapht-stephanie-fagan-prodigal/</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421177
2015-07-18T00:05:00-04:00
2016-10-16T00:10:06-04:00
Stephanie Fagan "The March" reviewed by Dutch blog, De Krenten Uit De Pop
It is a voice that Heartthief knew to great heights to lift and so does the voice of Stephanie Fagan again with the songs on The March. . It reminds me occasionally somewhat reminiscent of Natalie Merchant and which should be read as a very great compliment. Besides naturally sounding echoes of the great singer-songwriters from the 70s on. <p>Or I the songs of The March should go quickly here at a wedding I doubt, but they're going to come out of the speakers often is certain, because what is beautiful. Moreover, the intimate and emotive songs on The March taste much more, so take the Greyhound to Nashville Stephanie Fagan and conquer the world!<br><br>- Erwin Zijleman, de krenten uit de pop<br>Source: <a contents="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F07%2Fstephanie-fagan-march.html&amp;sandbox=1" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F07%2Fstephanie-fagan-march.html&sandbox=1" style="" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F07%2Fstephanie-fagan-march.html&sandbox=1</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421140
2015-05-20T22:40:00-04:00
2017-01-14T10:18:42-05:00
Florence singer Stephanie Fagan to hold album release party at Clay Pot | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. – Florence singer Stephanie Fagan will release her newest extended-play recording, “The March,” next month with a party hosted by The Clay Pot. </p>
<p>The album release party will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on June 13 in the Renaissance Dining Courtyard downtown. </p>
<p>Fagan said she will perform the four songs from the EP at the release party.<img src="//b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035426&cv=2.0&cj=1" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /> </p>“The whole theme of the album is just wedding-oriented love songs,” Fagan said.
<p>Over the years, she said , her friends have commissioned her to write songs for their weddings. Fagan said she ended up with many wedding songs. </p>
<p>“Wedding songs are a little bit hard to come by,” she said. “It’s a little bit hard to find songs like that. The idea is to give people some options for their big day.” </p>
<p>Songs included on “The March” were written at the request of Fagan’s friends and performed at their weddings. </p>
<p>“The March” and Fagan’s other music are all indie-folk-styled.</p>Of the four songs on the EP, her favorite is “You’re Mine.” She said that particular song is upbeat and lighthearted.
<p>“It's about being immune to outside forces and so empowered with the positive energy of new love that you feel totally invincible,” she said. “It's also about just being completely yourself and finding that one person who you can give your whole life to and not feel like you've lost a thing.” </p>
<p>Fagan is signed to the Florence record label Big Mavis Music. Missy Jones, the owner of the record label and Fagan’s manager, said people should attend the release party because the Florence native has a beautiful voice. </p>
<p>“Lots of people enjoy coming to her shows,” Jones said. “While her music is beautiful, she’s also very funny. As a local singer-songwriter, people should come out and support all of our local music.” </p>
<p>Physical copies of “The March” will be available at the release party and on www.stephaniefagansings.com/store beginning June 14. The digital version is available now at www.alternativeweddingmarch.com/buy-alternative-wedding-music.<br><br>- SHAMIRA McCRAY Morning News<br>Source: <a contents="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_e59d0508-ff4d-11e4-942a-d716cc08cbde.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_e59d0508-ff4d-11e4-942a-d716cc08cbde.html" style="" target="_blank">http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_e59d0508-ff4d-11e4-942a-d716cc08cbde.html</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446587
2015-05-09T23:45:00-04:00
2016-10-31T23:43:46-04:00
James Scott Bullard's "Carolina Rose" featured in "18 Stunning Songs Of SC That Will Make You Come Home"
<p>James Scott Bullard's "Carolina Rose" featured in onlyinyourstate.com article, "18 Stunning Songs Of SC That Will Make You Come Home"<br><br>http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/south-carolina/18-stunning-songs-of-sc/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063552
2015-05-09T11:30:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:23-05:00
"Carolina Rose" featured in "These 18 Stunning Songs of South Carolina Will Bring It All Back Home To You" by Gwen Tenille
<p>By Gwen Tennille</p>
<p>Music is more than bits of notes placed in a lyrical arrangement for auditory pleasure. Music beats inside each and every one of us; holding us together to time and place. In certain instances, music can transport us to a time of pure happiness, it can bring us memories that were tucked away, and can comfort us in our time of need. Music can also bring pride; pride in who you are and where you came from. Here, I have compiled a selection of music in which I’m positive each and every one of you will find a favorite. </p>
<p>1. Carolina In My Mind – Allison Krauss & Jerry Douglas </p>
<p>2. South Carolina Low Country – Josh Turner </p>
<p>3. Carolina Girls – General Johnson & The Chairmen of the Board </p>
<p>4. Carolina On My Mind </p>
<p>5. South Carolina – The Outlaws </p>
<p>6. Just A Little Bit South of North Carolina – Dean Martin </p>
<p>7. Waltz For A Girl In South Carolina – Brett Shady </p>
<p>8. Carolina – Benton Blount </p>
<p>9. My Sweet Carolina – Ryan Adams </p>
<p>10. Charleston, South Carolina – Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders </p>
<p>11. South Carolina Blues – Junior League Band </p>
<p>12. Carolina In The Morning – Judy Garland </p>
<p>13. South Carolina Rag – Willie Walker </p>
<p>14. Carolina, I Remember You – Charlie Daniels </p>
<p>15. Carolina Drama – The Racoonteurs </p>
<p>16. Carolina Rose – James Scott Bullard & The Late Night Sweethearts </p>
<p>17. The Carolinian – Chatham County Line </p>
<p>18. Carolina County Ball – Elf </p>
<p>Obviously, I could have went on and on, but I hope that this gives you a good idea of what I’m talking about. The really interesting part of this article is that not all of these songs come from South Carolina artists. It just goes to show you that South Carolina is impressionable upon people. And, personally, I can understand why. I love this place from the sands of the beaches to the hills of the mountains and every place in between. I am a bit biased however, when it comes to the Lowcountry. I was born and raised there and it is hard to find the kind of peace that I find there anywhere else. I think it is the coolness of the shadows beneath the huge oaks and Spanish moss. Maybe you can call it, “The Song of the South” or, in this case, “The Song of South Carolina”.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063553
2015-03-23T22:55:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:23-05:00
Couch By Couchwest 2015, Staff Picks
<p>James Scott Bullard is a dude, a dude I would like to have a drink with, a dude that writes some killer tunes, a dude I am not saying I am not kind of afraid of. He wrote 20 songs for his upcoming record, 10 of them made the cut, “Hellbound Blues,” did not. Mr Bullard says that “Hellbound Blues” is an ode to Jimmie Rodgers’ country blues style. He claims this was the first time he’s ever recorded anything from bed, full clothed and alone. James Scott Bullard, you are the man I hope to be one day! - Greg</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446472
2015-03-20T22:35:00-04:00
2016-10-31T22:37:40-04:00
James Scott Bullard on Couch By Couchwest 2015 Blog, Greg's Picks
<p>James Scott Bullard is a dude, a dude I would like to have a drink with, a dude that writes some killer tunes, a dude I am not saying I am not kind of afraid of. He wrote 20 songs for his upcoming record, 10 of them made the cut, “Hellbound Blues,” did not. Mr Bullard says that “Hellbound Blues” is an ode to Jimmie Rodgers’ country blues style. He claims this was the first time he’s ever recorded anything from bed, full clothed and alone. James Scott Bullard, you are the man I hope to be one day!<br><br><a contents="- Couch By Couchwest 2015 Blog, Greg's Picks" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://couchbycouchwest.com/james-scott-bullard-hellbound-blues/" target="_blank">- Couch By Couchwest 2015 Blog, Greg's Picks</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063554
2013-11-04T13:55:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
Cosmic American Radio Show with Laura Harmondale, on Radio Free Nashville
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063555
2013-11-03T14:10:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
JSB and the Sweethearts Interview with Candy Gunn and Eerie Von from 'Under the Gun' on 'Radio Free Nashville'.
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063556
2013-07-07T23:45:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
Country Fried Rock Interview, Part 1, by Sloane Spencer
<p>Listen to the Country Fried Rock interview, from the 2011 archive.</p>
<p>Interviewed by Sloane Spencer. https://countryfriedrock.org/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063557
2013-07-07T22:05:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
Country Fried Rock Interview, Part 2, by Sloane Spencer
<p>Listen to the Country Fried Rock interview, from the 2011 archive. </p>
<p>Interviewed by Sloane Spencer. https://countryfriedrock.org/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063558
2013-07-07T18:55:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
Country Fried Rock Interview, Part 3, by Sloane Spencer
<p>Listen to the Country Fried Rock interview, from the 2011 archive. </p>
<p>Interviewed by Sloane Spencer. https://countryfriedrock.org/</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063559
2013-06-15T12:10:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:24-05:00
Anusaya.com interview, by Denise Smith
<p>By Denise Smith (interview 2010.06.15)</p>
<p>“With a past steeped in love, loss, death, addiction, human suffering, torrid tales of flirting with the devil, the wrath of deep south religion, more southern-gothic lore than a Tennessee Williams play and a constant walk on a moral tightrope, James Scott Bullard’s songs reflect not just his own life, but real life. He has won several awards for his efforts, collected a mass amount of glowing critical reviews, and had much written about his prolific songwriting and troubled past. His songs have hit well over 20 million downloads across the internet ocean and he has gained worldwide attention due to massive airplay spanning the entire globe,” boasts James Scott Bullard’s artist bio at reverbnation.com. </p>
<p>No brag. Just fact. </p>
<p>I recently talked to James Scott Bullard about alternative Country, his father and his love for B-Grade Horror flicks. </p>
<p>What is your favorite story about your father? <br>James Scott Bullard: There’s so many; He was very big man, very old school, tough as nails, cowboy type of guy from the backwoods of North Carolina. We’re talking about moonshine, shotguns, the whole 9 yards. But don’t be fooled or mislead by stereotypes, he was probably one of the most intelligent people you’d ever meet! He was a lot of fun, and had so many great stories to tell. He had traveled the world, wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything and was friends with everyone from the local preacher to hardened murderers in prison. But, if I had to pick a favorite story, I guess it would be when I was about 8 or 9 years old. We were driving along the highway one day and we saw a homeless guy pushing a shopping cart. It is freezing outside. My dad pulls off the highway, walks to the back of our van and pulls out a brand new coat. Walks over to the guy handing him the coat, and asks him when he last ate. He then puts the guy and his cart in the back of the van, and drives us all to a diner. Where we sit down like old pals and eat a huge meal. My dad then hands the guy $20.00 and offers to take him somewhere, but the man politely declined the ride. Opting instead, to stay in the diner for a bit and drink some coffee. So, we leave and as we get in the van I’m chomping at the bit to talk about this incident without the guy around. I ask my dad why he did what he did, and he said: “You never know where angels roam.” He then went on to explain that it was possible that that poor guy had fought in a war for our freedom and deserved better, but that life was just that hard. My dad was a softie for vets because he was one. </p>
<p>But years later I had time to ponder; “You never know where angels roam.” And it hit me that to that guy my dad was the angel, but my dad saw it the other way around. He was like that. </p>
<p>Who or what inspired you to pick up your first instrument and how old were you? <br>James Scott Bullard: I was always surrounded by music. My dad played guitar and I had uncles that played instruments. My first memories are of the differences in musical taste in my immediate environment: My dad was a hardcore Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, country/bluegrass kind of guy, but my mom was into Rod Stewart, The Commodores, and average pop. Then I had an older step-brother who lived with us at the time and was into Kiss, Ted Nugent, and whatever else you’d expect a teenager to be into. But what really inspired me to pick up a guitar was when a friend of mine discovered heavy metal before I did and brought over Quiet Riot’s ‘Metal Health’ and the ‘Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhodes Tribute’ albums on the same day! I was in complete awe, it was everything I wanted! Loud, aggressive and angry, but fun. My dad was so happy that I wanted to play guitar, he went out and bought me one a week later. Long story short: The week before I was an A student, playing little league. After that week, I stopped studying and quit the team. </p>
<p>Remembering back to your first time in front of a live audience, what comes to mind? <br>James Scott Bullard: Fear, excitement, and feeling like I belonged. </p>
<p>What has been your biggest triumph as an artist? Greatest challenge? <br>James Scott Bullard: Being tagged ‘The New Gram Parsons’, with a nod of approval from some of his family, friends and peers has to top the list as a triumph. </p>
<p>Greatest challenge? Giving up any semblance of a stable, normal life. And trying to explain alt.country (Alternative Country) to people! </p>
<p>If the whole world were listening, what would you play? And why? <br>James Scott Bullard: “The War” from one of my new albums: Sunsets & Cigarettes, because it needs to be heard. </p>
<p>We’ve got plenty of protest and pro-war songs, but no one says anything about the reality of what it’s like for a soldier to come home mentally unstable, addicted, crippled, or whatever the case may be. No one speaks from the soldiers perspective, and this song does. </p>
<p>As your music has evolved, what do you think has been the most significant change and do you consider it a positive or a negative? <br>James Scott Bullard: Has it evolved? Ha! I guess the best answer here is that in the past 10 years, I went from being in a hard rock band, which had it’s limits, to being an alt.country solo artist, which really has no limits. If I want to play “Kick out the Jams” live, and then go right into “He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today,” it’s ok! And having no artistic boundaries is definitely positive! </p>
<p>What is the best line you have heard from a B-Grade Horror flick? <br>James Scott Bullard: Wow! There’s so many great ones. My personal favorite would have to be from an 80’s indie vampire flick: Near Dark with Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen who both play these hard, redneck type of vampires. And at one point in the film, Lance Henriksens’ character ‘Jesse’ is asked how old he really is and his reply is: “Let’s just say I fought for the South…We lost.” Love that line, and any other answer I would have given here would have been too vulgar to print! </p>
<p>What is your favorite song to perform live? Why? <br>James Scott Bullard: That changes every night, I guess I don’t have a real answer to this. <br>Some nights I like to get their a**es movin’, and some nights I like to get their brains workin’ …It all depends on the crowd and my mood. </p>
<p>Who would be your dream band to perform with, from anywhere in the world? <br>James Scott Bullard: The Rolling Stones!! Not only because they’re The Rolling Stone for God’s sake, but because my other choices are no longer among the living. Then again, I’m not sure Keith Richards is either. </p>
<p>Is there anything you’d like to say to fans? <br>James Scott Bullard: ‘Thank you’ and ‘I love you’ sound too much like I’m running for office and desperately need votes… But thank you, and I love you each and every one! (This message was approved by James Scott Bullard.) <br>Seriously, thank you for listening and spreading the word… Keep spreading!! </p>
<p>I would like to thank James Scott Bullard for his participation in this interview. </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063560
2013-05-16T12:55:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
Country outlaw David Allan Coe to perform at Florence Civic Center, James Scott Bullard to Open
<p>By Traci Bridges</p>
<p>FLORENCE – His long hair just can’t cover up his red neck, and country outlaw David Allan Coe’s ready to flaunt it this weekend in Florence. </p>
<p>Coe will perform all his most-loved songs from throughout the years as he takes the stage Friday at the Florence Civic Center. </p>
<p>It’s been a long time since Coe played Florence, but his friend Ed Younkin was determined to make it happen. Younkin, who moved from Pennsylvania to Florence, met Coe about 18 years ago after Younkin’s son died. </p>
<p>“My son had been a big fan of his music, and after he passed away, I began going to some shows,” Younkin said. </p>
<p>“When you go to more shows and you go early and stay late, you get to be more than a groupie. You get to know the musicians and you become friends,” Younkin said. </p>
<p>That’s precisely what happened between Coe and Younkin. So when Younkin and his wife moved to Florence, they began talking to Coe about him playing somewhere in the area. </p>
<p>“He hadn’t been to Florence in quite a while, but he wanted to get back here,” Younkin said. “Between David (Allan Coe), his road manager and myself, we were able to work it out.” </p>
<p>Coe's musical style derives from blues, rock and country music traditions. His vocal style is described as a “throaty baritone.” His lyrical content is often humorous or comedic, with William Ruhlmann describing him as a “near-parody of a country singer.” Coe’s lyrics frequently include references to alcohol and drug use, and are often boisterous and cocky. </p>
<p>Born in Akron, Ohio, in 1939, Coe was sent to a reform school at the age of 9 and spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities. Coe received encouragement to begin writing songs from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, with whom he had spent time in prison. </p>
<p>After concluding yet another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse he parked in front of the Ryman Auditorium, where the Grand Ole Opry was located, and caught the attention of the independent record label Plantation Records. He soon signed a contract with the label. </p>
<p>In 1968, Coe released his debut album, “Penitentiary Blues,” followed by a tour with Grand Funk Railroad. Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success. </p>
<p>Other performers, however, begin achieving charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears' 1972 recording “Souvenirs & California Mem'rys” and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone).” </p>
<p>Tucker’s recording was a No. 1 hit, which led to Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and him being signed by Columbia Records. Coe recorded his own version of the song for his second Columbia album, “Once Upon a Rhyme,” released in 1975. The album also contained a cover of Steve Goodman's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," which was a Top Ten Billboard hit, and was followed by a string of moderately successful hits. </p>
<p>In 1977 Johnny Paycheck released a cover of Coe’s "Take This Job And Shove It," which was a No. 1 hit and Coe's most successful song. </p>
<p>During the 1980s, Coe enjoyed a resurgence in mainstream popularity, twice hitting the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with "The Ride" (1983) and "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" (1984). </p>
<p>In 1990, Coe reissued his independent albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album on compact disc, as well as the compilation 18 X-Rated Hits. Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful career as a concert performer in the United States and Europe. In 1999, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas, and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal, agreed to work together, and began production on an album. </p>
<p>In 2000, Coe toured as the opening act for Kid Rock. In 2003, Coe wrote a song for Kid Rock, "Single Father," which appeared on Kid Rock's self-titled album. </p>
<p>Coe’s son Tyler now serves as lead guitarist in his band. The Coes will be joined Saturday by two speical guests, Mullins native James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts and popular Manning band Headin’ South.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063561
2013-05-05T22:00:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
A.Lane2FAR Interview, by Allen Lane
<p>Interview by Allen Lane</p>
<p>You don't see bad reviews on James Scott Bullard's body of work, </p>
<p>and I must admit; he may be the most ambitious indie artist I’ve ever interviewed. <br>Within a 40 minute phone conversation he told me about new albums, new side projects; including: bands, horror film scripts, concept albums, artwork, and even books that he’s working on as you’re reading this. </p>
<p>But I get the feeling that Mr. Bullard is ambitious on a dangerous level, (and I don’t mean like postal dangerous) <br>I mean like; don’t turn your back on him if you’re in the spot he wants. <br>Or, to quote Bullard himself: <br>“Never go down the stage stairs in front of someone who wants to be the headliner.” </p>
<p>I’ve read all the same tedious stuff you have about Bullard: </p>
<p>The drugs, guns, women, and the rock and roll lifestyle that almost killed him. </p>
<p>The psychiatric hospital, a teetering morality, death, hellhounds, and finally rehab and newfound sobriety. <br>But isn’t that every songwriter’s bio? </p>
<p>The same demons after the same poor lost soul, who just happens to be a charismatic poet with a guitar? </p>
<p>My belief is that there are real people inside all those stories, and my goal was to meet the real James Scott Bullard, but I’m not sure he exists. </p>
<p>When first confronted with all the rumors and stories mentioned above, Bullard became quite defensive, and stated: <br>“I’ve got 2 new albums out right now that no one is going to fucking buy! <br>I need promotion for that, not another story about me carrying a gun into a bar…No one cares! <br>So if that’s what you want to write, then let’s end this now.” </p>
<p>Days after our interview I googled Bullard’s name and found he was quite right; <br>When he first hit the scene, he was the critics darling for his songwriting ability, but somewhere along the road things took a turn to the aforementioned blip on the lifestyle page; forgetting the songwriter altogether, and focusing on the train wreck that was the man. </p>
<p>Bullard has proven himself over and over as a songwriter, but let me be very clear when I say that these two new records are his finest work to date. <br>With the releases of: “The Star-Crossed Sessions” and “Sunsets & Cigarettes” I dare say that he has the market entirely cornered on songwriting, sobriety intact and all. <br>There are words on these records that paint portraits, and sounds that capture landscapes. <br>And it’s all seamless. <br>Although these portraits and landscapes are populated by the usual suspects, and by that I mean the same characters that populate most of Bullard’s work; the lost, broken-hearted anti-heroes. </p>
<p>But there’s still more chapters to each of their lonesome lives, or at least Bullard apparently sees it that way, and is somehow able to make it interesting all over again. </p>
<p>Exploring more blues and rock than on his last 2 records: 2003’s “Avenues of Sunshine” and 2007’s “Same Old Ghosts”; both considered alt-country records by and large, Bullard seems this time to have carved a comfortable niche’ in the middle. <br>The line drawn in the sand between rock, blues and country by most people, artist and consumer, has been erased by Bullard. </p>
<p>Not that that’s any surprise, having already been labeled “The New Gram Parsons” mainly due to his abilty to pen a borderline perfect country song even though he comes from a rock background and his impassioned duets with backing vocalist Regina Lanier, who, though present on the records is now absent from the fold. <br>But Bullard embraced the tag with pleasure…for a while, and then realized he didn’t want to live in a tall shadow like the one cast by Parsons. </p>
<p>So began the work on the double album. </p>
<p>“I didn’t deliberately write songs that didn’t sound like Gram Parsons; in fact, I think that there are about 3 or 4 songs on (The Star-Crossed Sessions) that sound exactly like something he may have done. Hell, I didn't even set out to do a double album. <br>I just tried to explore this time around; My roots are not just rock and country, but the roots of where it all came from…the blues. <br>So I electrified a little more, used a little more slide, added a “Woo” here and there, and it is what it is…As for “Sunsets” (& Cigarettes), it’s all stripped back down to the barest essentials; voice, guitar, minimal percussion, some steel, etc., but mostly it’s about the story in the song. <br>Whatever told the story best was what we used. <br>There were a lot of songs that didn’t make it onto the records; they just weren’t ready yet…Maybe one day.” Bullard sighs. <br>But when asked if that sigh was regretful, he adds: “I don’t regret a thing, even the crazy stuff you really want to ask me.” </p>
<p>So I took this open door opportunity and snuck one in: </p>
<p>Me: “Back when you were doing all those things, were you just doing it to be like your heroes? <br>i.e.; Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, Nikki Sixx even?” </p>
<p>JSB: “I will own up to over-romanticizing that lifestyle in my head, yes, but as far as trying to copycat them? </p>
<p>No, I didn't deliberately become an addict, I didn't deliberately go through bad relationships (most of which were my fault, I will admit) I didn't deliberately end up at the bottom in rehab… Nobody sets out to do these things; Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse, you just get caught. </p>
<p>However, I will say this: Happy, normal, well adjusted people don’t get written about.” </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063562
2013-04-04T12:35:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
Bullard brings new Late Night Sweethearts to Creek Ratz in Florence
<p>By Traci Bridges</p>
<p>It’s been a while since James Scott Bullard headlined a show in Florence. </p>
<p>And when Bullard takes the stage at Creek Ratz this weekend, some things will be a little different. </p>
<p>For starters, Bullard’s band, The Late Night Sweethearts, boasts a whole new lineup – well, new to Bullard but nowhere near new to anyone familiar with the Florence music scene. </p>
<p>Bullard will be backed by Tyler Roberts on guitar, Jeff Springs on bass and Rocky Phipps on drums. Phipps has played in several local bands. Roberts’ and Springs’ most recent musical venture was Midway Blue. </p>
<p>Bullard, who recently relocated to his native Mullins after years of calling the Triangle area of North Carolina his musical home, said he’s extremely excited about the new lineup, yet a little amazed at how easily it fell into place. </p>
<p>“After coming home, I was desperate to find a good backup band,” Bullard said. </p>
<p>“With everybody I talked to, Jeff Springs’ name kept coming up over and over,” he said. “I didn’t realize at the time that Midway Blue was defunct, and I didn’t want to steal anybody from another band, so I just didn’t really pursue it. But then I heard Midway Blue was done, and Jeff and I finally got together and hung out. It just clicked from there.” </p>
<p>Springs suggested Roberts and Phipps, who Bullard had known for years, and the new Late Night Sweethearts were born. </p>
<p>Still, Bullard promises, it is the same – perhaps just a little edgier. </p>
<p>“I think my songwriting has taken a bit of a dark turn, a little more outlaw-y,” Bullard said. “But it’s still what I’ve always done – just with a little twist. I think people will like it.” </p>
<p>Bullard’s love of music began at an early age. A self-proclaimed outsider in his hometown, he never quite got into the traditional hunting, fishing or little league most other boys his age were interested in. The guitar became the outlet he’d always needed. </p>
<p>“I really just never was athletically inclined, but I was playing little league and on the way home, I saw this guitar in a pawn shop window,” Bullard said. “My dad had always been into music and played a little, so when I showed it to him, he said, ‘Sure, you can get it.’ So basically, on Wednesday, I was playing little league. On Thursday, I got the guitar. And on Friday, I didn’t go back to little league practice.” </p>
<p>Despite his father’s love of George Jones, Hank Williams Sr. and other country legends, Bullard spent the majority of his teen years immersed in heavy metal. It all started with Black Sabbath’s “We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll.” A high school girlfriend gave the album to Bullard as a gift, and he spent every spare minute he had messing around on the guitar and learning the album from start to finish. </p>
<p>“I was brought up around a mix of music. My dad liked old country, and my mom liked Top 40,” Bullard said. “I gravitated toward metal. If you’re a kid starting out in a garage band, the easiest thing to start with is punk or metal.” </p>
<p>Bullard went on to form a hard rock band by the name of Crane. The band was successful throughout the region but eventually broke up. Suddenly, Bullard was bandless and without any real direction in life. He applied to go to college, but never went. A family friend who owned a vacation home in Wilmington offered to let Bullard move there to “find himself.” </p>
<p>“Living up there, all these people were always telling me to check out this alt-country, rock guy named Ryan Adams,” Bullard said. “I didn’t think I would be into it at all, but I bought his album ‘Heartbreaker’ and took it home and listened to it. And it hit me. Suddenly, it all made perfect sense. Why can’t I put two worlds together – rock and country? I started writing, and within a week, I’d written my first solo album.” </p>
<p>Bullard is working on his a studio album at Florence’s Southern Harmony Recording Studios, with an anticipated summer release date.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063563
2013-03-31T22:25:00-04:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
No Depression/Country Fried Rock Interview, by Sloane Spencer
<p>Originally published 3.26.2011 on Country Fried Rock. </p>
<p>"Scott, I don't think school had a lot to offer you." </p>
<p>James "Scott" Bullard bares his soul in regular conversation and freely shares about his tumble into addiction. After his hard rocking, regionally successful band Crane folded in 2000 with a farewell show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC, Bullard had no idea what he was going to do with himself, literally and creatively. He hibernated in a borrowed beach house, writing music profusely and growing a long beard--a physical testament to his seclusion. He knew that his lyrics needed a different format, but only knew about hard rock; it took his time in Wilmington to connect with his dad's bluegrass influence and the emerging role of alt-country, a la Ryan Adams. While briefly sidetracked by the great singer-songwriters like Tom Waits, Bullard felt that his own style was best expressed through a more alt-country style, in that it was uptempo but people still listened to his lyrics. </p>
<p>His first two solo records reflect his exploration of the new-to-him genres, with one being more songwriter and the other more alt-country, while his 2010 release is a double album, intentionally highlighting both. Live, though, James Scott Bullard is backed by an existing band who've played together for years, and the Late Night Sweethearts bring the alt-country to the stage. (They spent years touring as a Gram Parsons tribute band.) We've seen them captivate a bar crowd, and rock a college listening room, in a way that has not yet been captured in their records. Bullard is a dynamic performer, no matter the crowd, with audience members comparing him aloud to everyone from Nikki Sixx, Ian Astbury, to Ryan Adams (source: personal experience). </p>
<p>Bullard candidly describes his descent into addiction and the lies he told himself to distinguish his slavery to the pills from people using street drugs, while ultimately recognizing that his abuse was no different than theirs. His brief stint in rehab helped him choose to get sober, and several chance interactions with an orderly have left lifelong impact, including the title of one of his records, Sunsets & Cigarettes. Bullard spins great tales, but in this case, it's not just "based on a true story."</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063564
2013-03-01T23:20:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
Bare Bones Reviews Live Show Review
<p>To witness him take an audience is like watching a man possessed. Part preacher, part snake-oil salesman, with the swagger of rock & roll, the pain of the blues, the heartache of old country and delivered with the conviction of a tent-show gospel revival.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063565
2013-02-01T23:15:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
indie0utlaws Interview, by Freddie "King Rat" Weisman
<p>By Freddie ‘King Rat’ Weisman</p>
<p>It had been quite awhile since I last spoke with James Scott Bullard, so I called to play a bit of catch-up on shows, the new band, record sales, etc. And once again, I got everything but…but once again, I got the goods. </p>
<p>“Alt.Country is dead!” exclaims a tongue-in-cheek agitated Bullard. </p>
<p>I find this odd considering he has been referred to as the new Gram Parsons on more than one occasion, has fought tooth and nail for the alt.country movement, and against anything calling itself country that he deemed unworthy, which since the invention of the c.d. according to him, has been just about everything. </p>
<p>“Let’s call what I do: Real country.” He continues. “I hate that there has to be a title, a genre or an ilk to fit into, but there does so I’m just going to start calling it: ‘real country.’ <br>Because that’s what it is! It’s real. About real things, real people, real emotions and real problems.” </p>
<p>“Hank Williams didn’t sing about trucks and tractors and shit, he didn’t have people chant a good ol’ boy chorus of ‘Hell yeah’ along with him, and he definitely didn’t fucking rap! <br>He sang about realism! <br>How many times do I have to stand on this same old soapbox? Everyone agrees with me, they’re just afraid to say it out loud, afraid they’ll offend the Taylor Swift or Kenny Chesney fans…Fuck 'em all!” </p>
<p>See what I mean? </p>
<p>Playfully aggressive and presumptuous was how I found Bullard and I left him in the same way. </p>
<p>He has gained a reputation as being outspoken, having made past statements or actions that got him into hot water and this will probably prove to be no exception. </p>
<p>The question here is one I’ve had before: Is it real or a persona that he takes on to draw you in? Especially since there’s a new music video on the way and 2 new records to sell…Coincidence? <br>After all, Bullard himself has been cited as saying that every time Eminem beats up his girlfriend, his record sales skyrocket! </p>
<p>And let's not forget my last coverage on Bullard was a marriage hoax that he said; "Did it's job." </p>
<p>As bad as I dislike bratty musicians, I always have and always will champion Bullard and his work, because I can’t deny talent and my final summation is this: </p>
<p>James Scott Bullard’s music, much like his character is bold, loud, gritty, determined and just damn good, plain and simple! <br>If Nikki Sixx suddenly decided to play country music, this is exactly what it would look and sound like.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063566
2013-02-01T22:55:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
TooMyEars Journal Live Show Review, by Sydney Baker-Brown
<p>By Sydney Baker-Brown</p>
<p>I once read that; “Truly great songwriters are madmen who just chose to take a more creative route than serial killing.” And if you look at the track record of America’s most revered songwriters, you do see a pattern: Most of them are either addicts or reformed addicts. Most of them had, to say the least, strange childhoods. Most of them have a history of depression or some other psychological disorder. Most of them are loud, selfish, aggressive, brash people who crave attention, but pretend they don’t. This is probably (some of it definitely) all true about Bullard as well, but if you want to know what James Scott Bullard is without a comparison, here is my conclusion; He’s the bravado of rock and roll, he’s the pain of blues, he’s the beautiful heartache of country, and there’s nothing fake about it. He is quite simply the real deal. I’ve become very disillusioned with music journalists who compare every new up and coming artist to an established artist; whether it’s living or dead, flattering or not, it’s still become a tired staple in reviews and critique’s. Case in point; 1.) He’s a great and prolific songwriter who has taken exactly the right parts from both rock (the sloppy complexity) and country (the simplistic poetry) to build a catalog of alt.country genius for which he has received awards, accolades and nods from some pretty heavy hitters in the business. 2.) He has a shaky past, that if read into, is almost unbelievable and makes Bullard seem unbreakable. 3.) If you’ve ever seen him live you probably get the following quote from one of my peers: “Bullard has a walk, a swagger that is not unlike a wolf circling its prey. He's hungry. When he is on the stage, he is a demon, and by the time the show ended I’m pretty sure every woman in the room would follow that walk anywhere.</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063567
2013-02-01T12:50:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:25-05:00
Pee Dee band performs at exclusive Gram Parsons tribute in Nashville
<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Florence-based alternative country/southern rock group James Scott Bullard & The Late Night Sweethearts recently had the honor of participating in Gram InterNational V in Nashville. </p>
<p>The event, created by the Gram InterNational organization, was Nov. 2 at Nashville listening room the Douglas Corner Café. James Scott Bullard, a Mullins native, was personally invited by organizers to participate in the annual tribute to Gram Parsons, who is widely considered the “father of alternative country music.” </p>
<p>This was the third time participating for Bullard, who previously performed at the event in 2008 and 2009. However, this was the first event for the latest lineup of The Late Night Sweethearts: Jeff Springs (pedal steel), Tyler Roberts (lead guitar), Kevin Singleton (bass) and Mike Dowling (drums.) Also performing with the group was Rebecca Morning-Phipps, recent winner of the Artsville Songwriting Contest. Morning-Phipps sang several duets with Bullard, provided backup vocals and played acoustic guitar. The show was a special honor for Bullard, who has been the recipient of many awards, included the coveted Gram Parsons Cosmic American Legacy Award. </p>
<p>The group plans to record their versions of the Gram Parsons’ classics “Juanita,” “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” and “A Song For You” for a special limited edition EP to be released in February on Florence-based Americana record label, Yonder Music, to which Bullard is signed. Morning-Phipps will again join the Sweethearts for this recording project, titled “21 Grams.” The EP will be for sale on Bullard’s website www.jamesscottbullard.com, as well as iTunes, CD Baby and other popular digital sites. </p>
<p>Gram InterNational began in 2008 as an annual event in Nashville in support of the Petition to Induct Gram Parsons Into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Lack of recognition for the legendary artist is a controversial topic among alternative country music fans, and support for his induction into the official Country Music Hall of Fame has been swelling in recent years. The first Gram InterNational was held on the 35th anniversary of Parsons’ death in 2008, and in 2011, six GIN events were held in three countries. For more information about Parsons, or to sign the the petition, visit http://graminternational.wordpress.com/.</p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063568
2013-02-01T12:30:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:26-05:00
The Morning News COLUMN: Get the real stories behind the songs | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>By Traci Bridges</p>
<p>I don’t know how many of you have ever seen VH1’s “Storytellers,” but it’s one of my favorite shows (maybe because it’s one of the few shows on this “music channel” that actually involves music … go figure). </p>
<p>Anyway, for those who aren’t familiar, the premise is simple: Some of the biggest names in music and songwriting provide the stories, anecdotes and most intimate details behind their biggest hits and then perform them. </p>
<p>In the 15 years the show has been on the air, everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Maxwell to Kings of Leon has graced the “Storytellers” stage. For those of us who love music, it’s a real treat to get such an up close and personal look into the songs that have provided a soundtrack for our lives. </p>
<p>Those of you locals who dig this kind of stuff like I do may have to settle for hanging with Tom Waits via television, but you do have a chance to share a similar experience with some of your favorite local songwriters. </p>
<p>Yonder Music and Country Fried Rock will kick off the Second Saturdays Songwriters Circle series this Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Railroad Junction in downtown Florence. </p>
<p>Each event will feature three singer-songwriters who will perform their favorite compositions and share the stories behind the songs they’ve written in an intimate, collaborative atmosphere. </p>
<p>The inaugural event will feature Yonder Music artist Stephanie Fagan of Florence, John Bazen of Florence and Steele Management’s alt-country outlaw James Scott Bullard of Mullins. </p>
<p>Fagan is a Florence native who now resides on a military base in Germany with her enlisted husband. She’s in town finishing up her sophomore release “Heart Thief” at Southern Harmony Recording Studio, which is set to be released in December. </p>
<p>Bazen, another Florence native, is best recognized as the frontman for reggae-ska band Downtribe. I haven’t seen Bazen’s solo act, but Downtribe is amazing. If you get a chance to check them out, do it. In the meantime, let’s get back to Second Saturdays. </p>
<p>So while I’m not real familiar with the work of Fagan or Bazen, I can tell you a little about Mr. Bullard (or JSB as I like to call him). </p>
<p>He’s been called the next Gram Parsons. He’s been compared to Ryan Adams (he wishes ... total winky face, JSB). But being a friend and having listened to most of his stuff, I’d have to say JSB is just JSB. Sure, he’s got his influences — he cites everybody from Waylon Jennings to WASP in this category — and they all shine through here and there, but he’s definitely his own musician. He’s a little bit country, a little bit rock, a little bit crazy. But most of all, he writes about things to which we can all relate. And in the end, isn’t that what music’s all about? </p>
<p>P.S. — Even on the off chance you just don’t like JSB’s music, I can promise you’ll still enjoy his stories — even if most of them aren’t true. I kid, I kid. </p>
<p>Check him out. Check out these other local artists. </p>
<p>Find them on Facebook or Myspace, give them a listen, then pelt them with questions during the Songwriters Circle. I don’t care how you do it. </p>
<p>Just support live local music. </p>
<p>Here’s to another great week. I’ll see ya on the town! </p>
<p>Morning News Digital Journalist Traci Bridges is on the town and in Currents every Thursday. Contact her at 843- 317-7325 or tbridges@florencenews.com. Or find her at Railroad Junction on Saturday, poking holes in all of James Scott Bullard’s tall tales. </p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/5063569
2013-02-01T00:00:00-05:00
2018-02-05T23:52:26-05:00
'Amp'd' series opens with Bullard & Late Night Sweethearts
<p>By Traci Bridges</p>
<p>James Scott Bullard walked out of rehab nearly four years ago, clean and sober but a little clueless as to how he was going to handle life and music without the help of Percocet. </p>
<p>An orderly gave him a little piece of advice that struck a chord — “You still got sunsets and cigarettes, baby.” </p>
<p>At first, Bullard was a little confused by the words. But then the meaning hit him. </p>
<p>“It’s the simple things in life that matter,” Bullard said in a recent interview with the Morning News. “Those are the things that count.” </p>
<p>And in typical Bullard fashion, he was back in the studio within days of leaving rehab, doing the one simple thing he knows best — playing music. </p>
<p>“I think the music now is better than it’s ever been,” Bullard said. “I was scared I wouldn’t be able to write or perform without the drugs, but it was never a problem. I got right back to writing, and haven’t stopped since.” </p>
<p>Bullard’s love of music began at an early age. A self-proclaimed outsider in his hometown of Mullins, he never quite got into the traditional hunting, fishing or little league most other boys his age were interested in. The guitar became the outlet he’d always needed. </p>
<p>“I really just never was athletically inclined, but I was playing little league and on the way home, I saw this guitar in a pawn shop window,” Bullard said. “My dad had always been into music and played a little, so when I showed it to him, he said, ‘Sure, you can get it.’ So basically, on Wednesday, I was playing little league. On Thursday, I got the guitar. And on Friday, I didn’t go back to little league practice.” </p>
<p>Despite his father’s love of George Jones, Hank Williams Sr. and other country legends, Bullard spent the majority of his teen years immersed in heavy metal. It all started with Black Sabbath’s “We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll.” A high school girlfriend gave the album to Bullard as a gift, and he spent every spare minute he had messing around on the guitar and learning the album from start to finish. </p>
<p>“I was brought up around a mix of music. My dad liked old country, and my mom liked Top 40,” Bullard said. “I gravitated toward metal. If you’re a kid starting out in a garage band, the easiest thing to start with is punk or metal.” </p>
<p>Bullard went on to form a hard rock band by the name of Crane. The band was successful throughout the region but eventually broke up. Suddenly, Bullard was bandless and without any real direction in life. He applied to go to college, but never went. A family friend who owned a vacation home in Wilmington offered to let Bullard move there to “find himself.” </p>
<p>“Living up there, all these people were always telling me to check out this alt-country, rock guy named Ryan Adams,” Bullard said. “I didn’t think I would be into it at all, but I bought his album ‘Heartbreaker’ and took it home and listened to it. And it hit me. Suddenly, it all made perfect sense. Why can’t I put two worlds together – rock and country? I started writing, and within a week, I’d written my first solo album.” </p>
<p>The debut was titled “Avenues of Sunshine.” Since then, Bullard has released two other albums and put together a new backup band, the Late Night Sweethearts. Bullard’s latest release is a double album. The first part of the album is “The Star-Crossed Sessions,” which features the full band. The second half of the album is “Sunsets and Cigarettes,” full of stripped, down acoustic cuts. </p>
<p>Tonight, Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts, with special guest Jebb Mac, will play “Amp’d!” at Francis Marion University. Amp’d is a series showcasing concerts of various styles of music. Performers showcased in the series will be residents, non-residential students and performers who are not students at FMU. The series will be held on the second and fourth Thursday of each month in the Heyward Community Center from 7 to 9 p.m. This musical series will expose residents to diverse genres of music. The atmosphere of “Amp’d!” will resemble that of MTV’s Unplugged 2.0 series. Because of the small, relaxed, and intimate atmosphere, residents will be able to connect and fellowship with other residents from various backgrounds of life.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3630826
2013-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:30:01-04:00
Interview with Stephanie Fagan for WoNo Magazine by Wout de Natris
<p>Interview with Stephanie Fagan for WoNo Magazine and WoNoBlog </p>
<p>by Wout de Natris </p>
<p>© WoNo Magazine 2013 </p>
<p>Recently we published a review of Stephanie Fagan's latest album 'Heart thief' (click here). It sounded like there was a story behind it, so we reached out and contacted Stephanie Fagan and asked if she would like to do an interview. She did. You can read the result here. It even went one step further. We also got into contact with her producer, Missy Davis Jones. An interview with her will follow later this month. But first this. </p>
<p>As not all readers will know Stephanie Fagan, would you like to introduce yourself? <br>I’m just a normal American married woman in my mid-twenties. My husband is in the military so we move all the time. Songwriting is something I can do anytime any place. I love it. Ive been writing songs for about 10 years now. </p>
<p>Which musicians are/were of influence to your music? </p>
<p>Gosh , too many to ever name. I’m a real lyrics snob. So I like death cab for cutie, the Decemberists, the indigo girls, Noah and the whale, Dolly Parton, John Denver, Elvis Costello, Jim Croce, Sondre Lerche, anybody with excellently crafted lyrics. </p>
<p>If you were allowed to bring one album with you to the proverbial deserted island in the Pacific, which would it be and why? </p>
<p>I mixed one I made probably, BUT if I were forced to pick just one artist and one album I’d say The Black Keys “The Rubber Factory”…. It’s just really sexy. </p>
<p>In your bio it says that you have travelled a lot. What made the road appeal to you? </p>
<p>The road didn’t so much appeal to me as it was between me and where I wanted to go. Haha. I mean traveling is fun but it’s exhausting. I like to sleep and stay home so just thinking about being on the road makes me tired. When you’re playing music you have to travel, it’s just the way it is. I was always afraid to travel on my own to places I'd never been where I knew no one and had no place to stay but I learned quickly how generous and kind people can be. Everywhere I went people offered me a couch or a meal and people really listened to my songs and just were so great to me. It made me less afraid of the world. </p>
<p>In what way did the travelling and playing help develop your music? </p>
<p>I guess once I left the comfort of the small town I grew up in I learned how similar people really are. It was amazing to be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home and talk to a stranger who felt the same way I did about being dumped, or angry or homesick. It’s so wonderful how for all our differences people I think are fundamentally the same. We all want to be loved and appreciated, we’re all selfish and at times horrible, but nobody is all bad either. It made me less self conscious. Before I would write personal things and feel embarrassed like I was telling a dark secret about myself but really everybody has the same unflattering secrets. Nobody’s perfect so now I’m less embarrassed and write more honestly. </p>
<p>Heart thief is very clear sounding. What was the influence of the producer of 'Heart thief', Missy Davis Jones, on the sound of the album? <br>The sound of the record had a lot to do with Missy’s vision. I always say “I have no imagination” when it comes to instrumentation and arrangement. She’s good with that stuff. She’d say “how about horns here or strings here?” She really fleshed things out and made it sound polished. The sound engineer was her husband Ken “Dakota” Jones. So they worked together on things. I don’t pretend to be a producer, I’m just a singer/songwriter so it’s hard for me to imagine my little songs any bigger than me playing them on my bed at home. </p>
<p>How did you meet Missy and when did you know that you would work together? </p>
<p>Its complete happenstance we met. I was working at a coffee shop peddling a CD I had made and started talking to Ken when he came in for coffee. A few weeks after we met he asked me to do some computer work for him. At the time I thought it was strange but wasn’t in a position to turn down work. So I went to his house and started doing odd jobs for him and his wife Missy. I instantly hit it off with them. They are really easy going and had just moved to the area. I knew them for years and then Missy started a record label and Ken opened a recording studio and it was just a natural progression that I would be the new artist. Kismet. </p>
<p>The songs on your album have a few distinctive styles, from singer-songwriter and country to blues. Were the songs created that way or do they develop along the way? </p>
<p>They became more distinct in the studio. I came in with the basic chords and tune but everything else was added later. </p>
<p>The sound of 'Heart thief' is diverse. There are many different lead instruments. How did you decide what fits a song best? </p>
<p>Haha The simple answer is that I don’t. Like I said, arrangement is more Missy’s thing. A lot of time we will have 3 or 4 instruments and we pick the one that fits the best and pull it to the front so to speak. </p>
<p>Most of your songs are what I would call “bittersweet”. At the same time you can write about a happy feeling or event. From where this contrast? </p>
<p>It all depends on where I’m at mentally when I’m writing it. Most of the songs on Heart Thief were written at the end of what I deemed my “wild year” . I was done with college. I had been fired from my job. I hadn’t met my husband yet. I was just completely lost. Dating a string of guys that weren’t right for me. Destitute. Moving from one friend’s house to the next every few months and traveling around playing music sleeping in my car. When I’m more settled I tend to write sweeter happier songs. </p>
<p>I read that you’re living in Germany these days. Can we expect lederhosen music next? (Is living in Germany influencing your writing in a different way than the south of the US?) </p>
<p>Ah yes I lived in Germany for about 2 years I’m actually in the process of moving back to the States right now. I don’t know exactly how it influenced me. I won’t know for a while probably. I really enjoyed listening to the street performers over there. Making a lot of sound with one or two instruments. Also I loved the ambient noises. The river, the cobble stone, the echo inside of a cathedral, it was all wonderful. </p>
<p>In ‘Writer’s block’ you sing “This song, like all the others, is about you”. How important is your everyday life to your lyrics? </p>
<p>Heart Thief was a record written primarily to or about this one guy. He didn’t like me and it broke my heart so bad I just mourned for a year… or more. Before that I was just writing fictional stories about love and heartbreak but everything changed when it happened to me. It was so much more powerful than I had imagined. The funny thing is he’s probably forgotten me completely and he’ll never hear any of these songs. It’s kind of pathetic but it made me better. </p>
<p>Did you experience a writer’s block and if so what made you come out of it? </p>
<p>Yes absolutely “Writers Block” was written about it. I was so frustrated because I was writing these great songs BUT they were all about this guy I didn’t want to love. I felt like he didn’t deserve songs written about him, and I was mad at myself for not being more in control over my own inspiration. </p>
<p>A theme that comes back in your songs is, I would describe as, “to belong”. How important is this for you? </p>
<p>It’s everything. All I’ve ever wanted is a nice home full of people I love who love me back. My early twenties was just me trying to build that over and over and it never really worked out until I met my guy. He’s good. </p>
<p>‘Prodigal’ really stands out as a song on the album. I described it as ‘Paris, Texas’ with lyrics. How did this song come about? </p>
<p>Ironically it was the song that was the least work on the whole record. I had this song with no music. And my friend John Bazen came in with a dobro. We rehearsed 10 minutes and did 2 takes and that was it. It was simple and we liked it but didn’t know if anyone else would, so the response has been surprising. </p>
<p>In your song 'You are the devil' you sing “You are the angel on my shoulder, you are the devil”. Is this a song about the good and bad that is within every (wo)man? </p>
<p>Yeah kinda of. It’s about loving someone you know is bad. Wanting someone who doesn’t want you and treats you badly. It’s a strange feeling to objectively know someone is bad but to love them like they’re good. To love them even though they don’t deserve it and its killing you. To just lay there and let someone ruin you. </p>
<p>Heart Thief is from 2011. What can we expect from you in the near future? </p>
<p>I’ve been writing a lot. We recorded a little but we’re not sure what it will turn out to be yet, a whole album or maybe a 5 song EP, it’s all wide open. The new songs are happier. I’m in love and my life is really comfortable right now so everything is sweet and mellow. </p>
<p>Are there plans to tour in The Netherlands? </p>
<p>Yes! Nothing in stone yet but it’s definitely at the top of my list. I’ve never been there but I’m really eager to visit.</p><a contents="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2013/01/interview-with-stephanie-fagan.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2013/01/interview-with-stephanie-fagan.html" style="" target="_blank">Source: http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2013/01/interview-with-stephanie-fagan.html</a>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3641834
2012-12-16T00:00:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:28:24-04:00
Stephanie Fagan's "Heart Thief" named one of the "Best Albums of 2012" by Erwin Zijleman in De Krenten uit de Pop Blog
<p>"Completely unknown, but is responsible for the best female singer-songrwiter album of the year."<br><br>- Erwin Zijleman, De Krenten Uit de Pop</p><a contents="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fjaarlijstje-2012.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fjaarlijstje-2012.html" style="" target="_blank">Source :http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fjaarlijstje-2012.html</a>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3641840
2012-12-15T00:00:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:24:32-04:00
Stephanie Fagan "Heart Thief" reviewed by Paul Kerr, for Scottish blog Blabber 'n' Smoke
<p>In contrast to the cerebral notions of Peters Stephanie Fagan initially appears to be a bit of a good time cowgirl going by the album cover. However, and as the man said you can’t judge a book by the cover. Fagan, from South Carolina, doesn’t let a whoop or a holler escape her lips here and actually shares some territory with Peters, singing songs about lost loves and regret on Heart Thief. She has a whispery and smoky voice and the first few songs are delivered with an airy acoustic guitar and mandolin to the fore giving the album the sense and feel of early Joni Mitchell. At times Fagan dips into a bluesy mood such as on Blow with its lonesome midnight trumpet but she does best on the songs that could have come from a cowgirl, however reserved. Prodigal is a Dobro driven gospel plow while You Are The Devil allows a clattering banjo to drive it along. A very promising effort. </p>
<p>- Paul Kerr, Blabber and Smoke <br><br>Source:<a contents="https://paulkerr.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/vanessa-peters-stephanie-fagan/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="https://paulkerr.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/vanessa-peters-stephanie-fagan/" style="" target="_blank"> https://paulkerr.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/vanessa-peters-stephanie-fagan/</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3630827
2012-11-23T00:00:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:11:32-04:00
Stephanie Fagan's "Heart Thief" reviewed by WoNo Magazine
<p>You can listen to all songs of Heart thief here. </p>
<p>That's what I did after reading Erwin Zijleman's blog 'De krenten uit de pop' this week and decided to pull out the old credit card straight away. It's a rare thing when I'm truly touched by a voice, usually it's the music that is responsible for that. Stephanie Fagan's slightly raspy voice made rather an impression and as I also liked the songs I was hearing, the combination was a winning one. </p>
<p>Stephanie Fagan comes from the U.S.'s south. South Carolina to be precise. After playing a lot while travelling around she released her first album in 2009, 'Ideas for your ear bone'. In 2011 this album, her second, was released through an independent label. She now lives in Germany. So who gets her to the Q-Bus in Leiden? </p>
<p>Country and singer-songwriter are musical forms that do not have a lot of mysteries to Ms Fagan. Even when she goes deeper into country territory she manages to keep me on board, where others would have forced me to call it quits. The main difference is that she stays true to herself and is not looking for emotional effects of the dubious kind. She lets her voice sort of fade, instead of putting emotional power behind it. The effect is just right. This also goes for the way a lazy piano, mandolin or banjo drives several songs. It's a treat to listen to. No antics, just slow rhythms, with 'Beautiful man' shining out brightest. Everything is spiced up every once in a while by a clean sounding electric or a slide guitar. The accusing 'You are the devil' has both guitar and banjo. These changes between the lead instruments give songs a distinct individual flavour, that make Heart thief very attractive as a whole album. </p>
<p>The album goes wide with an almost jazzy 'Blow', a delightful slow song, with spacious piano notes, a muted trumpet and Stephanie's voice, all the way to the slide blues 'Prodigal', where she gets the right effect. 'Paris, Texas' with a female voice. Next to the already mentioned country song 'The diner song ', there's several easy listening songs, that are just plain good. And a roots rocker to boot, 'Boy who doesn't exist'. She gets away with all styles and songs, with not so much a confident voice, but a modestly exposed knowledge that gives each style exactly the voice it needs. </p>
<p>As I only have the digital version of the album, I can't say anything about who plays what, just that the production of Missy Davis Jones serves Stephanie Fagan in all the right places. Subtle accompaniments, a soft male voice behind her own. A rocking guitar to lively things up or spaces to let the music breathe and Stephanie Fagan shine. The sound is clean and bright, just like her voice in most songs. The long range of influences go all the way from Joni Mitchell and Carol King to Ry Cooder and James Taylor and there are even songs that could have been sung, in three voiced harmony, by Girlyman. </p>
<p>Looking at the pictures on her website there is a lot of Stephanie Fagan, but she also offers a lot on Heart thief. This album deserves to be heard by a lot of people. If you're interested in music that walks that thin line between, folk, country, singer songwriter, roots rock and blues and like a good female voice with a tough edge at times, Heart thief by Stephanie Fagan is an album you want to check out. For $10,- or €8,66 it's all yours if you go to her Bandcamp site. It's a bargain! </p>
<p>- Wout de Natris, WoNo Magazine<br><a contents="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2012/11/heart-thief-stephanie-fagan_23.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2012/11/heart-thief-stephanie-fagan_23.html" style="" target="_blank">Source: http://wonomagazine.blogspot.nl/2012/11/heart-thief-stephanie-fagan_23.html</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421137
2012-11-20T22:35:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:35:17-04:00
A Christmas show Florence can call its own | Currents | scnow.com
<p>A Christmas show Florence can call its own New ‘Christmas in Carolina’ features local talent, supports new Florence Music Alliance</p>
<p>FLORENCE, S.C. – Christmas gets an early start in Florence when some of the area’s most popular musicians gather to celebrate the season and raise money for a good cause. </p>
<p>It’ll happen at the the Florence Regional Arts Alliance inaugural holiday music production, “Christmas in Carolina: a Hometown Music Show,” set for Dec. 8 at Florence Little Theatre. </p>
<p>A pre-show reception featuring jazz from The Bobby Roberts Quartet will begin at 6:30 p.m., with the main show following at 7:30 p.m.</p>Admission to the pre-show reception is included with the price of the ticket. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and desserts will be served, and a cash bar will also be available serving wine, beer and gourmet coffees.
<p>Local musician Mark Humphries said he’s been thinking about doing a local Christmas show for years. He just never got around to it until this year. “I first thought about it years ago while I was watching a Christmas show at the Alabama Theatre,” Humphries said. “I just thought, ‘Why don’t we have something like this in Florence?’ With all the great musicians we have around here, it didn’t make any sense.”</p>“I worked on the Allen Johnson benefit a few years ago with Melanie and John, and that went really well,” Humphries said. “So I pitched this idea and Melanie has a Christmas album, so it just worked. It made sense.”
<p>“Christmas in Carolina” is the story – yes, it’s a concert with a story – of an aspiring young Florence musician (Josh McDowell) who goes to New York to pursue his dreams, leaving behind his girlfriend (Kayley Green). The script was conceived by Francis Marion University theatre professor, Keith Best, and Florence singer-songwriter McMillan. It was inspired by McMillan’s song “Christmas in Carolina,” which was featured on her 2010 album “Joyous Noel.”</p>The show will be hosted by Lloyd Wilcox and Jai Jai Spann.
<p>In addition to its dramatic elements, the show will feature live musical performances by an all-star cast of Pee Dee musicians including: McMillan, Speakeasy, Allen Johnson, Kevin Smith, The Borrowed Time Band, Ed Clements, Sam Grant, the Chris Brown Combo, Harry McFadden, Rusty Henderson, Suzanne Henderson, Johnny Tanner, John Bazen, Stephanie Fagan, James Scott Bullard & The Late Night Sweethearts, Taylor Nealey, Rebecca Morning Phipps, and Olivia Charnes. Kelley’s Fine Arts Dancers will perform, and Santa Claus (didn’t know he was from the Pee Dee, did you?) is even expected to make an appearance. </p>
<p>“There is a dramatic element used to frame the musical numbers, but it's definitely more of a music show than a play,” said Missy Davis Jones, owner of regional record label Yonder Music. She helped organize the event and put together the roster of musicians.</p>“It's very much a show about live music,” said Jones. ‘There’s lots of variety from rock to country to jazz. The short skits are charming and just sort of provide the glue for the whole production.”
<p>The event serves as a kickoff and a fundraiser for the newly formed Florence Music Alliance, a new music-focused organization under the umbrella of the Florence Regional Arts Alliance. The Florence Music Alliance will seek to promote opportunities for musical creativity in the region. Proceeds also benefit the Florence Little Theatre. </p>
<p>“The Florence Music Alliance is a brand new organization, and this event is creating the seed money to get it started,” Jones said. “It's going to be a branch of the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, but there’s still a lot of conversation happening regarding what sort of projects it will fund and pursue. But what's important for everyone to know, is that it will be focused on popular styles of music, not so much classic, which makes it a unique organization in our community. The goal is to organize and fund opportunities to showcase local musicians.”</p>Some of the ideas being discussed include additional showcases like the Christmas event, assistance in helping musicians seek out business opportunities and help in providing low-cost services such as practice space or promotion for area musicians.
<p>“We're still figuring it all out, which is the exciting part,” Jones said. “Having an exclusive organization to support regional music and knowing that, the possibilities are endless. There's so much opportunity both to support the area's musicians, and create music enrichment programs for our community. We’re very excited about it.”<br><br><a contents="-Tracey Bridges, The Morning NewsSource: http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/currents/article_bafb2c54-3384-11e2-a5f0-001a4bcf6878.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/currents/article_bafb2c54-3384-11e2-a5f0-001a4bcf6878.html" style="" target="_blank">-Tracey Bridges, The Morning News<br>Source: http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/currents/article_bafb2c54-3384-11e2-a5f0-001a4bcf6878.html</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3630400
2012-11-01T00:00:00-04:00
2016-10-15T21:34:51-04:00
Stephanie Fagan "Heart Thief" reviewed by American Roots UK
<p>This excellent album was actually released at the tail end of last year but only came into my possession recently, geting the full review treatment thanks to the future promise it holds and the large degree of individuality that Stephanie possesses in her vocals and style. Whilst the album content is not hugely original, that just mentioned individuality actually does separate her from much of the rest of the field in this loose rootsy singer songwriter genre. She has a very listenable style that repays repeated listening sessions and she imbibes a strongly reflective atmosphere on each song, almost as if they all come from her life experiences and she is just musing on the way love takes us <br>all on twists and turns. <br> The design on the album cover is a total contrast to the music held within. Looking at it in a rack would give the impression that this is a real ‘good ol’ country girl’ album but, whilst this is obviously aimed at a particular market, it does Stephanie a disservice. The album certainly has much <br>of it’s roots in country and perhaps to a lesser degree in folk music, but there is also at times a distinct bluesiness and occasionally a slightly jazzy feeling. <br> The songs are all built around various aspects of love, such as the comfort of requited love, unrequited love, being in love with a two timer and being strung along, all done with conviction, thanks to the tremendous playing of her supporting studio musicians and Stephanie’s beautifully expressive vocals, allowing the listener to feel sympathy for the characters who, at times, just can’t seem to help themselves. Much like real life really! It is an album that is not heavy on instrumentation but always has enough to give variety but at the same time allow Stephanie’s beautiful vocals and the stories plenty of space to breath and create an impact. It could be that given a chance and time her vocal style will be as recognizable as someone such as Joni Mitchell as she seems able to conjure up a terrific depth of feeling on any style or tempo that she chooses. <br> The songs are all written by Stephanie on this, her second album, and whilst I’ve yet to hear her debut, I’m pretty sure it will be well worth seeking out. The tempos range from slow to mid and from love struck ballads to something approaching mid tempo country rock, all played with exceptional skill and with Stephanie’s vocals expressing the strong emotions contained within. Each <br>subsequent listen to this album seems to give it more appeal, not necessarily because of the strength of the writing, although it is very good, but more because of Stephanie’s lovely vocal style that bears vague similarities to several other singers whose names I can’t quite grasp, but without actually <br>sounding exactly like any of them! The album opens with New Tattoo a pleasantly slow and reflective song about love that if not actually lost is very close to it, immediately followed by a beautiful mellow sounding song about being helplessly in love, Writers Block. Blow has a slightly jazzy feel with some nice piano and moodily atmospheric trumpet on a slightly unsettling tale about cold heartedly stringing lovers along, following which is Prodigal a tremendous blues song with a brilliantly played and hugely atmospheric dobro accompaniment on a sad tale of lost love that really gets a lovely depth of feeling from Stephanie’s vocals. Despite most of the songs being of a similar tempo there is a nice <br>variety in the styles and instrumentation that avoids any saminess. There is some nice tasteful banjo playing as well as excellent steel guitar, emphasizing the country/folk roots and right in the middle of the album the tempo is lifted by Boy Who Doesn’t Exist,a nice mid tempo country rocker with haunting steel guitar on a sad song of someone taken advantage of in love, followed by the easy loping ‘pure’ country,The Diner Song, a lovely steel guitar led tale about working and drinking too <br>much to try and forget a lost love. <br> This is a really good album of reflective songs built around various aspects of love, but what lifts it above average is Stephanie’s lovely distinctive vocals. Add this to her excellent songwriting and ability to construct some catchy melodies and we can look forward with optimism to her next album, and the next ……. !</p>- Mike Morrison, American Roots UK<br><a contents="http://www.americanrootsuk.com/stephanie-fagan---heart-thief.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="" href="http://www.americanrootsuk.com/stephanie-fagan---heart-thief.html" style="" target="_blank">Source: http://www.americanrootsuk.com/stephanie-fagan---heart-thief.html</a>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421157
2012-09-15T23:10:00-04:00
2016-10-15T23:19:31-04:00
Stephanie Fagan "Heart Thief" reviewed by Dutch Blog, De Krenten Uit De Pop
Through my participation in the Euro Americana Chart ( http://www.euroamericanachart.eu ) I get regularly records of American roots musicians in hands that I would have otherwise surely missed. Between these plates (which come by on Saturday on this BLOG) are quite a few excellent roots plates and a single outlier. A plate of the level of Heartthief Stephanie Fagan, I was so far not yet encountered. At most one minute after the disc into the CD player was missing, I was in love with Heartthief Stephanie Fagan and since then this love has only grown. Stephanie Fagan is from Florence, South Carolina, coming singer-songwriter who now seems to operate from Germany. Much more I can not really think about the US, so I'm just here for that Heartthief is her first serious album. If so, is it a dream debut. Stephanie Fagan makes to Heartthief nice quirky pop songs with roots influences (especially folk and country, but also blues). These are pop songs that are instantly memorable at first listen and everything had to have some pop songs in this genre. Heartthief is characterized by a particularly pleasant sounding instrumentation that one time, the side of the radio-friendly folk-pop and other times deflected toward the paths of the more traditional roots music. It's music like a warm blanket around you, turn and do beg for more, especially when wonderful touches are added by various string instruments (dobro incredibly beautiful game as outlier), and here and there a blazer. The production of Missy David Jones is among the best I've heard lately. The most powerful weapon of Stephanie Fagan, I had not even mentioned, because that is her voice. Stephanie Fagan has a unique sounding voice. It is a voice that you can stand against, but it is likely that the US you mercilessly pack. The voice of Stephanie Fagan reminds me especially reminiscent of Natalie Merchant, but just a little less sharp. Also, Beth Orton and Jewel are here and there useful comparisons and thus I have to address directly three of my favorite singers. Because the songs on Heartthief be even more beautiful and impressive, the wonderfully versatile Heartthief is a record that in recent weeks as a comet has skyrocketed in my list of the best records of the moment. Because the plate is also another out of nowhere, I dare to speak quite a sensation and what is true for me, is probably true for many lovers of this genre. The totally unknown Stephanie Fagan has delivered an album that compete with the undisputed masterpieces of the genre can. It is a record to hold dearly and all this love Stephanie Fagan pays double coin back. Every time Heartthief in the CD player disappears I'm still a little happier this album and every time I'm even more of an impression. I can shout it from the rooftops and may have also once again: WHAT A SPLENDOR POSTERS STEPHANIE FAGAN !!<br><br>- Erwin Zijleman, de krenten uit de pop<br>Source:<a contents="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F09%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief.html&amp;edit-text=" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F09%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief.html&edit-text=" style="" target="_blank">https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F09%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief.html&edit-text</a>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421105
2012-09-11T21:40:00-04:00
2016-10-15T21:43:20-04:00
Review of Heart Thief in Alt Country Forum, by Martin Overheulestraat
<p>After she debuted in 2009 with Ideas For Your Earbone, a record on which the contours been emerging from a singer-songwriter who diligently browsed through folk and country, a few years remained silent about Stephanie Fagan. That was largely due to the fact that she her husband, a professional soldier in the US Army, took to his new home in Germany. Meanwhile, seem to be the main adjustments to the new environment behind and must Fagan decided it was time again to leave something of themselves heard. </p>
<p>She does with Heartthief, an album they led by producer / manager Missy Jones took in her hometown of Florence, South Carolina. On her second album, which folk and country again predominate, Fagan shows us that it not only grown in recent years as text and music writer, but also as a singer. Proof of this can be found in Blow (blissful piece trumpet), the bluesy Prodigal (listen to the dobro!), The folky No Response and warm altcountrysong Two Strangers, four numbers again steal my heart every time. Heartthief a sympathetic, kept small picture of a musician who has no problem to let others look deep into her soul.</p>
<p>- Martin Overheulestraat, Alt Country Forum<br>Source: <a contents="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altcountryforum.nl%2F2012%2F09%2F11%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief%2F" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altcountryforum.nl%2F2012%2F09%2F11%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief%2F" target="_blank">http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.altcountryforum.nl%2F2012%2F09%2F11%2Fstephanie-fagan-heart-thief%2F</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421106
2012-06-23T21:45:00-04:00
2016-10-15T21:45:18-04:00
Roots Music Report reviews Heart Thief - by Duane Vehr
<p>“A voice possessed of both a down-home earnestness and a jazzy lightness both comforts and compels” </p>
<p>- Duane Vehr, Roots Music Report</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421110
2012-05-03T21:50:00-04:00
2016-10-15T21:48:17-04:00
Chance encounter at coffee shop led to singer/songwriter Stephanie Fagan signing to indie label Yonder Music | JazzCorner.com News
<p>Chance encounter at coffee shop led to singer/songwriter Stephanie Fagan signing to indie label Yonder Music | JazzCorner.com News </p>
<p>The days of an artist getting signed because of a chance meeting at a coffee shop are long gone. However, somebody forgot to tell that to singer/songwriter Stephanie Fagan. </p>
<p>The dulcet-voiced troubadour has just released her debut album, Heart Thief, on the independent record label Yonder Music, and she can partially thank this country's dependence on a morning caffeine rush for that accomplishment. "I was living in Florence, South Carolina working an office job at 21. I had gotten burned out and fired from that so I had just gone to work for a local coffee shop," Fagan recalled. "I was meandering, depressed, and writing the best songs of my life. One day this guy with shaggy blonde hair, Ken Jones, comes into the shop, and we have this long conversation about city planning of all things. Two weeks later he calls me at the coffee shop and asks if I want to come to his house and do some computer work for him. I knew nothing about computers but he didn't strike me as an axe murderer, and I needed extra money, so I said sure. I went to his house and met his super cool wife, Missy Davis Jones, and it wasn't long before I was doing odd jobs for her. I hit it off with both of them on a friend level, and through that they heard my music. As it happens they had just moved there from Los Angeles and were both working in and around the music merchandise business. The next thing I knew they had opened a really top-notch recording studio and founded Yonder Music with me as the flagship act." </p>
<p>Given the emotionally charged singing and insightful lyrics on Heart Thief it's no shock that Yonder Music would be attracted to Fagan's artistry. Versatile enough to balance her folk and country inspirations without leaning towards too much on either of them, Fagan is a definite crossover musician, among the few who can do so without any trace of self-consciousness. For Fagan, it's all about going back to her listening roots, to a certain generation of singer/songwriters that refused to see stylistic boundaries. "The first music I ever remember listening was a lot of ‘60s and ‘70s singer songwriters like Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, John Denver, and Gordon Lightfoot," Fagan revealed. "They all had fairly simple instrumentation and really charming well-crafted lyrics. Those were probably my first loves. They still are."<br><br>Source:<a contents=" http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=2831" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=2831" target="_blank"> http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=2831</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421113
2012-04-14T21:55:00-04:00
2016-10-15T23:49:28-04:00
No Depression - Stephanie Fagan Over Yonder - Roothog Radio Reviews Heart Thief, gives 10 out of 10 rating
<p>It’s no wonder why Stephanie Fagan’s Heart Thief was voted the top disc of the year by Country Fried Rock. This is the most amazing voice I’ve heard in quite some time. She’s featured by the new label Yonder Music. </p>
<p>Fagan’s first disc was Ideas For Your Earbone. I haven’t heard it, but the title alone is intriguing. In Texas growing up, we had all kinds of “bones,” from an honesty bone to the traditional funny bone. It’s a southern term I’ve always favored as a way to talk about the spiritual or physical body. </p>
<p>Fagan’s voice is very strong and her lyrics are as well. She learned to play a few chords on the guitar so that she could accompany herself. I loved her honesty when talking to Stacey Zering. </p>
<p>Musician? Who said I was a musician? I play guitar about as poorly as a person can and still be tolerated by an audience, and I only learned to play the little I do out of pure necessity. </p>
<p>I’ve written songs and sang my whole life but it wasn’t until college I learned to play on a $20 used, no-name guitar with nylon strings because I was sick of the hassle of trying to get up with “real” musicians and having creative differences. I knew the way I wanted to sing it, and I just needed something playing along, nothing fancy. </p>
<p>So I learned a few chords and that’s about the size of it. I still don’t play bar chords and my musician friends rag on me all the time about it but honestly it’s just not something that’s super important to me. So far I’ve been able to get by with the few chords I know, and if one day I hit a creative wall with it and it starts to hinder my songwriting, I’ll learn more. </p>
<p>You kind of get the idea that one day she will learn more, too. She’s very good for someone so young, but still open to broadening her scope. Musing about her, Country Fried Rock said: </p>
<p>She…is a product of her generation–she grew up listening to singles, and only recently has discovered the pleasure of an entire album. Interestingly, this has led her to re-examine some of her former favorite songs and find the artists’ deeper catalogs and histories–a completely novel concept to Fagan! Prior to the last two years, she could not even identify artists, simply individual songs, but at the encouragement of the producer, Missy Jones of Yonder Music, Fagan began to immerse herself in albums from start to finish and found that the cohesive concepts greatly improved her own writing for (Heart Thief). </p>
<p>Though their voices are not similar at all, the first time I heard her sing My Old Man, she caught me the same way Janis Joplin did when I first heard her on the radio. That instant feeling that there is something deeper here worth listening to. </p>
<p>Now, about her current album, Heart Thief…A lot of folks like Beautiful Man, which is a nice song. To me, though, she really comes into her own with Prodigal. </p>
<p>It’s easily the best piece on the album. It’s an eery song in the best style of country (or blues), one that sounds like it comes straight out of the mountains from a wail that is beyond humans but just happens to flow through them as its only avenue of release. </p>
<p>For shame, for shame. I trusted you with my soul. For shame, for shame. You led me down. Down to that promised land. For shame, For shame… </p>
<p>There is something beyond time about this song and her voice on it. It sounds like it could have been sung a hundred years ago, there is something so primal about it. <br>Spring was my second favorite song on the album. It’s another one that shows some of what her voice can do. Like Two Strangers, it gives you a feeling that this is a voice to watch. </p>
<p>The Diner Song was a fun song about drunk dialing. It had that twangy, steel guitar feel. Coffee, toast and grits. It’s morning and I drink myself awake. Hair of the dog, I was drunk last night and called. That was a mistake! </p>
<p>It’s a refreshing and humorous love song. Later, she talks about the rest of the day… </p>
<p>Two hours break between morning shift and late put my tired back on track. Don’t mind the work ’cause the money doesn’t hurt. </p>
<p>Similar to how Prodigal is the epitome of a wailing country song, this is a classic fun song where the lyrics are well crafted and flow to make a story you really want to sing along with. I really enjoyed Heart Thief. Definitely worth a listen. </p>
<p>Goes good with: Alison Krauss, Dixie Chicks <br>Rating: 10/10<br><br>Originally posted at RootHogRadio.com by L.H. O'Connor<br>Source: <a contents="http://nodepression.com/article/stephanie-fagan-over-yonder" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://nodepression.com/article/stephanie-fagan-over-yonder" target="_blank">http://nodepression.com/article/stephanie-fagan-over-yonder</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421166
2012-03-22T00:05:00-04:00
2016-10-16T00:02:09-04:00
Stephanie Fagan added to PT's Roadhouse Show #78
Source:<a contents="http://www.ptsroadhouse.com/2012/03/22/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.ptsroadhouse.com/2012/03/22/" target="_blank">http://www.ptsroadhouse.com/2012/03/22/</a>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421115
2012-03-19T21:55:00-04:00
2016-10-15T21:55:27-04:00
Indie Music Reviewer reviews Stephanie Fagan's Heart Thief
<p>“This song is stalking me. It follows me to bed. It finds me in the shower. I can’t get away from it. It is intoxicating. Fagan’s voice is reminiscent of Natalie Merchant with a slight twang.” </p>
<p>- Victor Alfieri, Indie Music Reviewer (IMR) Magazine</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421136
2012-03-14T22:30:00-04:00
2016-10-15T22:30:00-04:00
ME AND THE ARTS: Missy Davis-Jones ... I like music | Entertainment | scnow.com
WHAT I LISTEN TO: It would be a shorter response if you asked me what I DON’T listen to. I truly enjoy most music, I don’t have walls up with regards to genres or production styles, and I try to appreciate everything for what it is. I value quality musicianship, but I can still love a band that doesn’t play that well if they have a really good story to tell. As far as “new” music goes, I favor Americana: Folk, Country, Bluegrass, Bluesy Rock, Jazzy and soulful Roots music. I 've always liked super artsy female singers - Bat For Lashes, Feist, Cat Power, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, etc. I really like a good old folk singer-songwriter record. At the same time, I am also a really big '80s music fan, everything from new wave to hair metal bands -- I had really big hair in the 8th grade. I still like '90s alternative rock -- that was my high school experience – Blur, Oasis, The Verve, The Lemonheads, Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins, stuff like that. I love funk and soul, lots of Motown in my collection. I think my most unexpected passion is for UK Punk, I am a big Sex Pistols fan -- they have a fascinating story -- and I love The Clash. I am crazy about Irish music, especially the Chieftans and The Pogues. I was an emo girl in the early 2000s, and I have a weakness for bands from New Jersey like Saves The Day and Thursday. Like most people on the planet, I enjoy the Beatles. I love Journey, Foreigner, Bad Company, all the usual classic rock suspects. I like progressive rock, especially Yes. Pat Benetar is one of my heroes, and my favorite thing to karaoke to. My guiltiest pleasure is 70’s soft-rock, some call it “Yacht Rock” – Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, The Little River Band, Ambrosia, Player, Firefall. I am a sucker for a slick melodic vocal sound. I have a few other oddball fetishes, Phil Collins and Nine Inch Nails are really good examples of things that do not go together anywhere in this world except my IPod. It’s a really broad spectrum of music that influences me, I don’t care about what’s “cool.” I just like what I like.<br><br>LAST CONCERT ATTENDED: Locally, I see a lot of live music -- Florence has a great music scene with tons of talent. In fact, I just saw Slug's Revenge, Speakeasy, Dylan Sneed, Sarah Harrelson, and Rachel Riner all in the same weekend. Rachel Riner is now my favorite new musical discovery -- we have local talent that is on par with top-selling national acts. The last national/touring act I saw was actually quite some time ago. That would have been Levon Helm with Jenny Lewis at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. I used to travel to Los Angeles frequently for work, so I went alone and had a box seat. It was a really incredible once-in-a-lifetime experience.<p>SONG THAT INSPIRES ME: At the risk of being corny, I will say “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House is a song that always evokes a lot emotion from me. I’ve heard a hundred people “cover” it, and it always brings a little tear to my eye. It’s hard to know exactly what he’s talking about, if anything specific at all, which I think is what makes it a great song. The line, “They come to build a wall between us, we know they won’t win” means something different to every listener depending on what they are going through. But it’s a relatable idea for anyone. If you will indulge me a second choice, the other one is even cornier. “The Living Years” by Mike and the Mechanics always gets me. The line, “You can listen as well as you hear,” I think, is a smack over the head in lyric form. Paul Carrack melts me no matter what he sings. He is a criminally underrated vocalist.</p>ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONGS (AT LEAST 3): “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure; “Wish You Were Here” by Ryan Adams; “Tempted” by Squeeze; “Breathe (Breathe in The Air) by Pink Floyd; “Sometimes Salvation” by the Black Crowes; “Two Strangers” by Stephanie Fagan (I liked that one so much, I started a record label.)
<p>FAVORITE COMPOSER/ARTIST OR BAND AND WHY: An impossible question for someone like me. Lots of bands are my favorite band for very different reasons and at very different times in my life. I have a hundred favorite bands. </p>
<p>GENRE I JUST DON'T GET: The things that don’t interest me are usually because they are obviously contrived and devoid of any soul or thought or meaning. It doesn’t have to be deep, but it does need to be interesting. As a result, I don’t really pay attention to the “hits” on the radio that everyone else seems to know. If music is intentionally synthesized, as in with keyboards or whatever, that’s fine. It’s more when it’s trying to pass itself off as organic music, when it’s clearly had a lot of “help,” if you know what I mean. I feel about music the way other people feel about Star Wars – Yoda was far cooler as a puppet than as a digitally animated effect.</p>ARTIST/BAND I'D PAY GOOD MONEY TO HEAR IN PERSON: I’ve seen more than my fair share of concerts, and I’ve been lucky to see most of the “legends” in some form or another, as well as just about all of my favorite bands. But if someone were to invent a time machine, they could make good money off me, by transporting me to the actual “Last Waltz” concert, which was the final performance of The Band. They were joined by an outrageous cast, including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Van Morrison, all when they were in their prime. It would be a priceless experience.
<p>-- Missy Davis Jones is the owner/operator of the independent record label Yonder Music, which recently released its first record, "Heart Thief" by singer-songwriter Stephanie Fagan. She and her husband, Ken, also own and operate Southern Harmony Recording Studio. Missy is a New Jersey native, who got her first taste of the music business as a teenager, photographing a popular South Jersey indie rock band called Blacklight Violets. She relocated to Florence four years ago from Los Angeles.</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421117
2012-03-01T21:55:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:59:50-04:00
Belgian Blog Rootstime reviews Stephanie Fagan "Heart Thief"
<p>Singer and song writer Stephanie Fagan is a young married lady from Florence, South Carolina who started her musical career as a member of an exclusively-female folk group "Flowers By Gert. Her first achievement as a solo singer was her debut album "For Your Ideas Earbone" in 2009. Since then, she and her husband-soldier traveled to Germany where he was quartered in barracks for his last assignment. </p>
<p> That move has not stopped her to continue composing songs with the aim to record a second album. There's Stephanie Fagan now passed since we got a brand new copy of the new album "Heart Thief" which she wrote 12 new songs and recorded. </p>
<p>Substantive blasting the lyrics more maturity than on her debut album and its songs inspired by everyday life speak more directly to the listener than before. Her honeyed voice brings the songs to a sweet, almost melancholy manner and the numbers received by producer Missy Davis Jones a full and professional orchestration with the American recording studio in Florence. </p>
<p> We have selected for you a list of our favorite tracks from these 12 songs. Our warm recommendation reads as follows: folksong "Writer's Block", the ballad "Beautiful Man" and "Spring", it is only through dobro guided acoustic song "Prodigal" banjo- and country songs "You Are the Devil" and "Sweethearted" the delicious rippling country rocker "the Diner Song" and the emotive "Two Strangers" which only acoustic guitar and pedal steel to provide musical accompaniment. </p>
<p>As a singer, we can compare it with the best bits of Sarah McLachlan, supplemented with elements of the crystal clear voice of Natalie Merchant. But it is especially Stephanie Fagan himself who convinces with these songs on her album "Heart Thief" and has therefore been awarded a place in this folk and Americana music will be able to enforce. </p>
<p>- Valère Sampermans, Rootstime.be<br>Source: <a contents="https://www.reverbnation.com/control_room/artist/1070422/press" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.reverbnation.com/control_room/artist/1070422/press" style="" target="_blank">https://www.reverbnation.com/control_room/artist/1070422/press</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421164
2012-02-20T23:55:00-05:00
2016-10-15T23:53:13-04:00
Taproot Radio adds Stephanie Fagan Heart Thief to rotation
<p>Source: <a contents="http://www.taprootradio.com/2012/02/20/taproot-radio-news-300/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.taprootradio.com/2012/02/20/taproot-radio-news-300/" target="_blank">http://www.taprootradio.com/2012/02/20/taproot-radio-news-300/</a></p>Rotation #300, February 20, 2012
<p>read: http://www.taprootradio.com </p>
<p>listen on Spotify <br>user profile: cspowers <br>current rotation play list <br>road song of the week play list <br>live: Monday nights at 9pm eastern on WCOM: http://www.wcomfm.org <br>feedback: director@taprootradio.com </p>
<p>Howdy, </p>
<p>Lucero leads off the news this week with the announcement of a new upcoming CD, Women & Work. Nobody does twang infused blues rock any better than these guys and Women & Work highlights is their best yet, soulful when it needs to be, bad-ass the rest of the time. “Like Lightening” is going in as the road song this week. My other highlight is the title track, which sounds like the Stones, if they could do southern accents honestly. </p>
<p>Speaking of rock, Snatches of Pink front man Michael Rank has a new band called Michael Rank and the Stag. The guest list on this CD includes a who’s who of Chapel Hill rock and country legends including Rick Miller, Dex Romweber, and John Howie Jr. The first release from the new line up is Kin. These guys have more of a late night jam band feel to them, full of angsty energy and wailing instrumental work. </p>
<p>Also, I gotta mention that the new CD from Andre Williams is out. On Hoods and Shades, the New Orleans hell hound himself has transcended his nefarious past and moved into Gil Scott-Heron territory, giving us a slice of street cred and wisdom with almost a beatnik poet delivery. </p>
<p>My interview guest on the live show this week is Jason Alexander. He and his band, the Stedpsiders are at the top of the FAR charts these days with a very fine CD of straight up honky tonk. As always locals can tune into the live show on WCOM in Chapel Hill/Carrboro and everyone else can tune into the webcast. </p>
<p>A couple of logistical announcements. In an attempt to simplify the madness that is my weekly routine, I have decided to drop the Live365.com station. The weekly rotation will continue to be available for full listening on spotify.com. See the header of this newsletter for the relevant links. I’m kinda sad to be leaving Live365.com. They are good folk. Never had a thing to complain about with them. But it’s not free and it takes time and there are commercials in the stream. On the other hand. Spotify is free for me and listeners don’t have to hear commercials. So the decision was pretty simple. </p>
<p>Likewise, I will no longer be publishing the weekly rotation in iTunes Ping? What’s Ping? Exactly my point. If iTunes was paying affiliate commissions on sales generated from my pay lists, I might consider it. But as it stands now, I’m spending time each week for no return. </p>
<p>And lastly, I’m combining the weekly newsletter with the WCOM play list post. Again, to save a little bit of time each week. But also to keep the web site from being quite so cluttered. </p>
<p>On episode 75 of the Taproot Podcast, Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner, and Molly Venter of Red Molly talk about their music backgrounds, the appeal of female trios, the excitement of playing Merlefest, the appeal their music has for the NYC coffeehouse crowd, and the stories behind three of their songs on the CD Light In The Sky. </p>
<p>I tried to think of something to say to commemorate the 300th Taproot Rotation. Taproot Radio has gone through numerous incarnations starting from my show on WXDU, the Duke student station. Moved to WCOM, added the podcast, added the webcast, added the weekly newsletter. But at the end of the day, it’s all about sharing good music with as many people as I can. The thing I can say about getting up to my 300th rotation is that I’m happy to have done it. </p>
<p>Dig Deep, <br>Calvin </p>
<p>Taproot Road Song </p>
<p>You gotta like a song that starts out with an old-timey acoustic piano riff which leads into power chord driven guitars and blaring trumpets and that’s what you get from Lucero’s “Like Lightening” from their Women & Work CD. </p>
<p>Recent Podcast Episodes </p>
<p>Episode 71 – John Lilly talks about meeting Bill Kirchen and Bill’s help on his most recent CD, Cold Comfort; how he funded the CD by winning a songwriting contest; working at the Country Music Hall of Fame and getting to visit “the cathedral of Country Music”; his yearly Hank Williams Tribute show; and introduces us to three songs on his Cold Comfort CD. <br>Episode 72, Lee Briante of The Far West talks about the importance of having video and internet media available for today’s audience; how it made him feel to move to Los Angeles; and how recording in an American Legion hall brought their debut self-titled CD to life. </p>
<p>Episode 73 – Lincoln Durham talks about his residency at Gruene Hall, why he can’t write love songs, his long path from playing fiddle to Son House and Fred McDowell, and why he wrote a creepy songs about ne’er-do-well characters playing forty </p>
<p>Episode 74 – Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing from Hymn For Her, how they met and started making music together; their evolution from folk duo to lo-fi rock band; and recording in their airstream trailer. </p>
<p>Episode 75 – Laurie MacAllister, Abbie Gardner, and Molly Venter of Red Molly talk about their music backgrounds, the appeal of female trios, the excitement of playing Merlefest, the appeal their music has for the NYC coffeehouse crowd, and the stories behind three of their songs on the CD Light In The Sky. </p>
<p>Recent Adds </p>
<p>tenderhook / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 1] / 4:26 </p>
<p>on the bleed / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 1] / 4:52 </p>
<p>straw man / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 1] / 3:24 </p>
<p>Sea Measures / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 2] / 4:25 </p>
<p>Gypsy Django / Humming House / Humming House / 2:51 </p>
<p>Boy Who Doesn’t Exist / Stephanie Fagan / Heart Thief / 4:52 </p>
<p>I Can Tell The World About This / Sankofa / The Uptown Strut / 2:16 </p>
<p>Curveball / Duane Eddy / Road Trip / 3:33 </p>
<p>Back To Santa Rosa / Carolann Ames / Laurel Canyon Road / 3:40 </p>
<p>Dirt / Andre Williams / Hoods and Shades / 3:13 </p>
<p>Jaw Dropper / Andre Williams / Hoods and Shades / 2:06 </p>
<p>Hu-matic Man / Andre Williams / Hoods and Shades / 3:13 </p>
<p>The Train That’s Bound For Glory / Garrison Starr / Amateur / 3:41 </p>
<p>Angel Of Death / New Country Rehab / New Country Rehab / 2:52 </p>
<p>Bird / Chris Castle / Last Bird Home / 1:47 </p>
<p>Trees Fall Every Day / Chris Castle / Last Bird Home / 3:10 </p>
<p>Dirty Water / Chris Castle / Last Bird Home / 4:21 </p>
<p>On My Way Downtown / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:29 </p>
<p>Women & Work / Lucero / Women & Work / 3:07 </p>
<p>Juniper / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:44 </p>
<p>Sometimes / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:53 </p>
<p>Like Lightning / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:15 </p>
<p>This Week’s Rotation </p>
<p>Taproot Play Lists on iTunes </p>
<p>This week’s play list on Spotify </p>
<p>Women & Work / Lucero / Women & Work / 3:07 <br>Trees Fall Every Day / Chris Castle / Last Bird Home / 3:10 <br>Dirt / Andre Williams / Hoods and Shades / 3:13 <br>tenderhook / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 1] / 4:26 <br>Makin’ Time / Westbound / Blackjack Road / 2:54 <br>After the Game / Maynard and the Musties / Cheap Cigar / 3:17 <br>Babe I Ain’t Perfect / Mike June & The Wilson Street Refugees / Exile On Wilson Street / 3:19 <br>Try / Joel Dasilva And The Midnight Howl / Joel Dasilva And The Midnight Howl / 2:35 <br>Lessons / Drew Nelson / Tilt-A-Whirl / 4:13 <br>Come On Back To Me / Jackstraw / Sunday Never Comes / 3:08 <br>Fool’s Gold / The Damn Quails / Down the Hatch / 4:15 <br>Reckoning Lament / Lincoln Durham / The Shovel Vs. The Howling Bones / 3:11 <br>Home / Thieving Birds / Thieving Birds / 4:43 <br>Songbrd / Randy Thompson / Collected / 4:08 <br>Worry B Gone / Hayes Carll / This One’s For Him: A Tribute To Guy Clark [Disc 1] / 3:49 <br>Bitter, Drunk & Cold. mp3 / The Far West / The Far West / 2:32 <br>C’mon / Hymn For Her / Lucy & Wayne And The American Stream / 3:13 <br>Ode To Misery / Paladino / Paladino / 2:27 <br>You’re Through Fooling Me / Patty Loveless A/ The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / 2:06 <br>Marginalized / The Gourds / Old Mad Joy / 5:31 <br>Gypsy Django / Humming House / Humming House / 2:51 <br>I Can Tell The World About This / Sankofa / The Uptown Strut / 2:16 <br>Little Elvis & Fat Cat Eddie / Doug Prescott / The Journey & The Deep Blue Sea / 3:15 <br>Boy Who Doesn’t Exist / Stephanie Fagan / Heart Thief / 4:52 <br>Curveball / Duane Eddy / Road Trip / 3:33 <br>Like Lightning / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:15 <br>The Slummer The Slum / Steve Cropper & Buddy Miller / Dedicated – A Salute To The 5 Royales / 3:12 <br>I’ve Been Loving You Too Long / Otis Redding / ARB 6: 1965-1967 / 3:15 <br>She / Gram Parsons / Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology (Disc 2) / 4:59 <br>Let Me Be A Woman / Brenda Varner / Sweet Sounds Of Muscle Shoals: Vol. 1-Tear Stained Soul / 3:15 <br>Feel Good Again / Charlie Feathers / Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-69) [Disc 2] / 8:16 <br>Wildisde / Mark Lennon / Down The Mountain / 4:35 <br>Mama Don’t / Jon Doe with Dave Alvin & Veronica Jane / This Is Americana Volume 2 / 2:48 <br>Walkin On My Dreams / Hacienda Brothers / This Is Americana Volume 2 / 3:39 <br>Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last / The Two Dollar Pistols & Tift Merrit / The Two Dollar Pistols With Tift Merritt / 2:43 <br>Sin City / Clive Gregson & Boo Hewerdine / Conmemorativo | A Tribute To Gram Parsons / 5:09 <br>Wayward Son / Adam Klein / Wounded Electric Youth / 4:05 <br>I Don’t Like Half The Folks I Love / Paul Thorn / Pimps & Preachers / 4:21 <br>Hate It Here / Wilco / Sky Blue Sky / 4:34 <br>I’m Just A Nobody / Freddy Love / The Soul Side Of The Street – The Hadley Murrell Story: 1964-1972 / 2:38 <br>My Baby Loves the Secret Agent / The Detroit Cobras / Baby / 2:00 <br>Sugar Bee / Sir Douglas Quintet / The Prime of Sir Douglas Quintet / 2:19 <br>Flashback Blues / John Prine / John Prine / 2:32 <br>She Lives Up The Street / The Silos / Cuba / 3:13 <br>Poke Salad Annie / Captain Luke and Cool John / Outsider Lounge Music / 4:49 <br>All The Time / Elizabeth Cook / Americana Music Awards Sampler / 2:54 <br>Naked Eye / Luscious Jackson / Fever In Fever Out / 4:41 <br>Watch Yourself / Bucktown Kickback / Speakeasy / 4:08 <br>The Mercenary Song (3:01) / Cory Morrow / The Cory Morrow Band / 3:01 <br>I’m Gone / Pieta Brown / Mercury / 2:21 <br>Stick On You / Otis Taylor / White African / 3:31 </p>
<p>This Week’s WCOM Play List </p>
<p>Interview Guest: Jason Alexander and the Stepsiders </p>
<p>Like Lightning / Lucero / Women & Work / 4:15 <br>tenderhook / Michael Rank and Stag / Kin [Disc 1] / 4:26 <br>Ode To Misery / Paladino / Paladino / 2:27 <br>Bitter, Drunk & Cold. mp3 / The Far West / The Far West / 2:32 <br>Makin’ Time / Westbound / Blackjack Road / 2:54 <br>Come On Back To Me / Jackstraw / Sunday Never Comes / 3:08 <br>Dirt / Andre Williams / Hoods and Shades / 3:13 <br>Suppose Tonight Would Be Our Last / The Two Dollar Pistols & Tift Merrit / The Two Dollar Pistols With Tift Merritt / 2:43 <br>I’m Gone / Pieta Brown / Mercury / 2:21 <br>I’ve Been Loving You Too Long / Otis Redding / ARB 6: 1965-1967 / 3:15 <br>Babe I Ain’t Perfect / Mike June & The Wilson Street Refugees / Exile On Wilson Street / 3:19 <br>Reckoning Lament / Lincoln Durham / The Shovel Vs. The Howling Bones / 3:11 <br>Trees Fall Every Day / Chris Castle / Last Bird Home / 3:10 <br>You’re Through Fooling Me / Patty Loveless / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / 2:06 <br>I Don’t Like Half The Folks I Love / Paul Thorn / Pimps & Preachers / 4:21 <br>My Baby Loves the Secret Agent / The Detroit Cobras / Baby / 2:00 <br>After the Game / Maynard and the Musties / Cheap Cigar / 3:17 </p>
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Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421134
2012-02-08T22:20:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:20:01-04:00
Yonder Music, Country Fried Rock present 'Second Saturdays Songwriters Circle' | Entertainment | scnow.com
<p>Second Saturdays Songwriters Circle continues this month with local bluegrass talents Johnny Tanner, Kevin Wykoff and Desiree Shaffer. </p>
<p>Tanner is well-known as a member of The Borrowed Time Band. His original composition, “Wake Up John,” was the 2011 winner of the prestigious Chris Austin songwriting contest, which is hosted by MerleFest music festival. </p>
<p>Wykoff, a West Virginia native, is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the popular Florence insurgent bluegrass group Slug’s Revenge. He is widely celebrated for his lightning fast finger picking style and punk rock ethos.</p>
<p>Yonder Music, Country Fried Rock present 'Second Saturdays Songwriters Circle' | Entertainment | scnow.com<br><br>Shaffer grew up in Quinby and is known throughout Florence for her depression era, babydoll fashion sense and sweet traditional vocal stylings. She is the bassist for Slug’s Revenge and also a talented songwriter and gifted lyicist. </p>
<p>Each Songwriters Circle features three singer-songwriters who perform their favorite original compositions and share the stories behind the songs they wrote in a unique, collaborative atmosphere. </p>
<p>The series is the brainchild of Missy Jones, owner of Yonder Music, and Sloane Spencer, owner of Country Fried Rock, who wanted to create a new kind of music outlet in Florence that would highlight talented songwriters and allow them to showcase their original works. Both Jones and Spencer are Railroad Junction Art Collective consigners, and wished to contribute a music-based program to the cooperative’s robust menu of arts offerings.<br><br>- Traci Bridges, The Morning News</p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421120
2012-01-16T22:05:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:04:14-04:00
No Depression - An Interview with Singer/Songwriter Stephanie Fagan by Stacey Zering
<p>After an initial spin, there is no doubt as to why singer/songwriter Stephanie Fagan has named her latest album Heart Thief. Lyrical content aside, it’s what Fagan will do to new listeners; her crystalline voice flows with honeyed sweetness and wintry melancholy. The music on Heart Thief effortlessly slides between genres, from folk to acoustic pop to Americana but it is the haunting ache in her singing that stitches these diverse threads together. From the rootsy balladry of “Beautiful Man” to the atmospheric Beth Orton-ish moodiness of “Prodigal” to the old-school country twang of “Sweethearted,” Fagan easily robs listeners of their pulse. </p>
<p>Q: As a musician, where did it all begin for you? In other words, what artists started the fire within your heart to become one yourself? </p>
<p>A: The first music I ever remember listening was a lot of '60s and '70s singer/songwriters like Jim Croce, Cat Stevens, John Denver, and Gordon Lightfoot. They all had fairly simple instrumentation and really charming well-crafted lyrics. Those were probably my first loves. They still are. </p>
<p>Q: How old you were when you made the decision to become a musician? Was it something that you treated seriously back then? Or did you feel it was simply a hobby? </p>
<p>A: Musician? Who said I was a musician? I play guitar about as poorly as a person can and still be tolerated by an audience, and I only learned to play the little I do out of pure necessity. I’ve written songs and sang my whole life but it wasn’t until college I learned to play on a $20 used, no-name guitar with nylon strings because I was sick of the hassle of trying to get up with “real” musicians and having creative differences. I knew the way I wanted to sing it, and I just needed something playing along, nothing fancy. So I learned a few chords and that’s about the size of it. I still don’t play bar chords and my musician friends rag on me all the time about it but honestly it's just not something that’s super important to me. So far I’ve been able to get by with the few chords I know, and if one day I hit a creative wall with it and it starts to hinder my songwriting, I’ll learn more. </p>
<p>Q: How did you get signed to the independent record label Yonder Music? </p>
<p>I would say dumb luck but looking back it seems more like fate. I wasn’t really looking for a record deal. I was living in Florence, South Carolina working an office job at 21 and had gotten burned out and fired from that so I just gone to work for a local coffee shop. I was meandering, depressed, and writing the best songs of my life. One day this guy with shaggy blonde hair, Ken Jones, comes into the shop, and we have this long conversation about city planning of all things. Two weeks later, he calls me at the coffee shop and asks if I want to come to his house and do work some computer work for him. I know nothing about computers but he didn’t strike me as an axe murderer, and I needed extra money, so I said sure. I went to his house, met his super cool wife, Missy Davis Jones, and it wasn’t long before I was doing odd jobs for her. I hit it off with both of them on a friend level, and through that they heard my music. As it happens they had just moved there from L.A. and were both working in and around the music and music merchandise business. The next thing I knew they had opened a really top-notch recording studio and founded a record label, Yonder, with me as the flagship. It’s been three years in the making but it still feels like a bit of a whirlwind. </p>
<p>Q: How prolific are you in terms of songwriting? Is it a meticulous process for you or do the lyrics flow naturally? </p>
<p>A: That really all depends. It comes and goes like a tide. Some weeks I’ll write five songs, which is a really good week for me, and sometimes I couldn’t write a song if my life depended on it. I’d say in my whole life I’ve written somewhere in the ballpark of 200 full songs. When I am inspired writing, a first draft is a breeze. But editing can be painstaking. I am a lyrics snob so I try to look at my work as objectively as possible and think “would I be critical of this if it weren’t mine?” Inspiration is the easy part in a way but it’s a very small part of the process. It’s divine, fleeting, and uncontrollable like a spark. Editing is like tinder. A spark isn’t a fire without tinder but there’s no need for tinder without the spark. The worst writers to me are the ones that can’t edit and are immensely proud of every piece of garbage they create. Editing is 99% of writing. </p>
<p>Q: How long did it take to you record Heart Thief? Did you write the songs specifically for the record or have they been around for a while? </p>
<p>A: It took about 2 months to record Heart Thief spread out over the course of a year or so. We didn’t mean for it to take so long but during that time the studio relocated, and the Army shipped my husband and by extension me to Germany, plus we had to work around the schedule of the 20 some odd local musicians who so graciously lent their talents to the process. The songs were written maybe a year before the record as a project was conceived but they were all written within the same two-month span of time. </p>
<p>Q: Did you finance the record yourself? What advice would you give to other independent acts out there? </p>
<p>A: I didn’t finance the record luckily. Even though Yonder is a small indie label they have been really great about everything in that regard. We worked at Southern Harmony the studio owned by Ken and Missy and I even lived with them for like three months during the final recording and mixing process, which is completely unheard of. I would say to other acts that you should examine honestly and carefully what you want and what you’re willing to do. If you just want to gig around, maintain complete creative control of your art and keep all the profits for yourself; you need to be on your own. Scrounge up the money and D.I.Y. it. That’s what I did for my first record. For most musicians, that’s what I would recommend. That said, it’s hard to get your foot in the door (with radio, etc.) that way. If you want to take it to the next level and really pursue it as a career, a label is a necessity. Be careful about record contracts and don’t be afraid to ask for what you think is reasonable; be sure to read the fine print and get a decent lawyer familiar with the music business to advise you. Yonder is amazing; they are really respectful of my rights as an artist and willing to work with me but I know musicians that have worked as basically slave labor for years under well-known labels for no pay because they got giddy at the sight of a record contract and signed their lives and their songs away. Be savvy. </p>
<p>Q: What's the most personal track for you on Heart Thief and why? </p>
<p>A: That a tough one because they are all really personal, but if I had to pick just one I’d say “Two Strangers.” Even now, years later, it makes me uncomfortable to sing. It’s a song about a non-relationship relationship. I was in this nontraditional long distance thing that was basically just phone conversations and e-mail. I’m sure to most people something like that wouldn’t mean anything but at the time it meant a lot to me. When it ended I grieved for what it never was, and I struggled to define it. That song is embarrassingly honest.<br><br>- Stacey Zering, No Depression<br>Source: <a contents="http://nodepression.com/interview/interview-singersongwriter-stephanie-fagan" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://nodepression.com/interview/interview-singersongwriter-stephanie-fagan" target="_blank">http://nodepression.com/interview/interview-singersongwriter-stephanie-fagan</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421129
2011-12-25T22:05:00-05:00
2016-10-15T23:33:41-04:00
No Depression - Stephanie Fagan "Heart Thief" voted #1 in 2011 by fans of Country Fried Rock
<p>“Combine the voice of Natalie Merchant with a hint of Jewel’s yodel, and you have Stephanie Fagan. Stephanie Fagan’s record, “Heart Thief” slinks out like a stealthy cat, and pounces on you with her sensuous vocals.” </p>
<p>- Sloane Spencer, Country Fried Rock</p>
<p>Wow! In 2011, Country Fried Rock featured 50 roots musicians via in-depth interviews, highlighting their songwriting and musical influences. From those, we selected the 40 most-listened to programs, and let our listeners select their Top 10. Hundreds of listeners voted for the Country Fried Rock "Best of 2011" list, yielding a surprisingly clear Top 10. </p>
<p>If you liked any of the music we have featured this year, please consider buying the albums and supporting the musicians who make great songs. All of the songs posted for download are with express written permission of the artists. Please "thank" them by visiting their pages or buying their music. If you buy music through our links, a very small portion also goes to bring you Country Fried Rock in the future. Thanks for supporting roots music & Happy (almost) New Year! </p>
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<p>7. Dylan Sneed, Texodus Free Download of "No Worse for the Wear," Live on Dutch Radio </p>
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<p>5. Driftwood, Wanderlust TWO exclusive, free downloads! Jeannie and the Giant and California's Burning. </p>
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<p>3. Kevin Kinney, A Good Country Mile (with the Golden Palominos) Free download of "In the Land (Of Things That Used to Be)" exclusively for Country Fried Rock listeners. </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421132
2011-12-22T22:15:00-05:00
2016-10-15T23:30:58-04:00
Florence couple turns love of music into full-time gig by Traci Bridges
Most musicians head to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. <p>But for Ken “Dakota” Jones and his wife, Missy Davis-Jones, it ultimately took leaving California to turn dreams into reality. </p>
<p>After spending many years working in the music industry in California, the couple moved to the Pee Dee about four years ago. </p>
<p>Since then, the couple has been making big waves in the local music scene. </p>
<p>So how did this rock n’ roll story end up in the Pee Dee? </p>
<p>Well, it wasn’t an accident. </p>
<p>A native of Darlington, Jones grew up in the Pee Dee and graduated from Dillon High School. Jones’ dad was a pastor. His mom taught at Florence-Darlington Technical College </p>
<p>Jones first picked up a guitar when he was about 13. Three months later, he was in a rock band. </p>
<p>“It was called Sabre. We were just your basic classic rock band,” Jones said. “But we actually played Parker Music’s grand opening, which was a pretty big deal back then.” </p>
<p>When Jones graduated from high school, he immediately packed up and headed to Los Angeles to go to school at the Musicians Institute. </p>
<p>He played in a hard rock band for a couple of years until that group broke up. Then he joined a funk band called Wuditiz. The band developed quite a following in Southern California and regularly packed the famous Roxy and Troubador. </p>
<p>“We were very popular in the Los Angeles area,” Jones said. “We just never got that break to go national.” </p>
<p>Eventually, that band also broke up and by that point, Jones said, he was interested in learning a different side of music. </p>
<p>“Playing live was great, but when the night was over, it was over,” Jones said. “I got into the recording side, because I wanted to capture the moment and branch out into different aspects of music.” </p>
<p>And that’s exactly what he did. He began training with Dave Jenkins at Valley Center Studios and learned everything he could. He did sound for television shows, some movie tracks and even a popular beer commercial that ran prominently during a Super Bowl. </p>
<p>Eventually he got into recording at home and also was working for a company that manufactured music accessories. It was through the second gig that he met his wife, a New Jersey native who’d relocated to Los Angeles to work as a buyer for Hot Topic. </p>
<p>“Someone introduced us, but we didn’t do business together, because I was a music T-shirt buyer. I didn’t have anything to do with accessories,” Davis-Jones said. </p>
<p>“Ken always says, ‘I was buying. He was selling. But I wasn’t buying what he was selling,’” Davis-Jones said, laughing. “But it was through our jobs that we met.” </p>
<p>The two hit it off and eventually got married. </p>
<p>Though not a playing musician, Davis-Jones said she’d always been a fan of music and even took photos of local bands for their album covers when she was a teenager. Though she enjoyed her job at Hot Topic, she said, she always yearned for a career in music. </p>
<p>“I loved what I did at Hot Topic, but I was not as big a part of the creative process as I wanted to be,” Davis-Jones said. “I never felt like I was truly creating anything or hand anything to show for what I did.” </p>
<p>That was until the couple decided to move back to Florence to be closer to Jones’ parents. </p>
<p>Jones had contemplated selling his recording equipment several times through the years but never followed through with it. And when the couple got settled in Florence, that recording equipment came in handy. The couple decided to make their dreams a reality. </p>
<p>Earlier this year, they opened Southern Harmony Recording Studio. And just last month, Davis-Jones launched her own music label, Yonder Music. </p>
<p>“It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing,” Davis-Jones, who also works in sales at Monster, said. “We said, ‘Let’s do it.’ And we went for it. The studio is Ken’s project. I help out when he needs me, but that’s really all Ken’s deal. Yonder Music is my baby.” </p>
<p>The risk is already paying off tenfold, according to the Joneses. Several local acts already have recorded at Southern Harmony, which uses analog equipment, including Morgan’s Road, James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts, Stephanie Fagan, Slug’s Revenge, Donner Party, Jazz Plus and I Deserve Hell. </p>
<p>Jones said he is open to recording all kinds of music and sound but is most known for his work with live musicians. </p>
<p>“I like to say I record living, breathing human beings,” Jones said. “We do analog, which is a niche for live musicians. I don’t do beat production and that sort of stuff.” </p>
<p>Davis-Jones also likes working with live musicians, which is what prompted her to launch her own record label. She signed local musician Stephanie Fagan earlier this year and is working to promote Fagan’s new release, “Heart Thief.” </p>
<p>She hopes to sign more musicians in the future, but right now wants to focus her efforts on Fagan. </p>
<p>“The label was just a natural progression,” Davis-Jones said. “I’ve really been amazed by the talent I’ve seen in this area. It’s so much better that most of what I saw living in Los Angeles, as far as local bands. There’s a whole lot of talent here, and it’s worth getting it out there for other people to know about.” </p>
<p>The local talent is just as impressed with the Joneses and the way they do business. </p>
<p>“I’m impressed with them not only for their work but as people,” Bullard, who is working on a new album at Southern Harmony, said. </p>
<p>“Ken is just so laid back, but he’ll say, ‘Hey, that’s great, but let’s try this’ and by the time you’re done, you don’t realize you’ve done it four times. It’s not work with Ken. And Missy’s just a wrangler, which most musicians and artists need. She’s the person who can look over the forest and say, ‘Go this way or that way,’” Bullard said. </p>
<p>“As far as a team, you’d never know they were married because they work so well together. They’re not at each other’s throats like most married couples who work together. They’re just awesome.”<br><br><a contents="Source: http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_805f8abb-a06a-5306-af51-0c9e0c450680.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_805f8abb-a06a-5306-af51-0c9e0c450680.html" target="_blank">Source: http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_805f8abb-a06a-5306-af51-0c9e0c450680.html</a></p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421130
2011-12-18T22:10:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:09:16-04:00
Stephanie Fagan featured on Country Fried Rock Podcast
<p>Stephanie's voice needs no "fairy dust" to bring forth meaning beyond her lyrics. Her live performance, whether backed by a full band, in an acoustic duo, or just with her guitar, remains true to the recording yet stands on its own. If you enjoy her live, you will appreciate the album, and vice versa. Heart Thief accurately reflects songwriting to which many people can relate and enjoy.”</p>
<p>- Sloane Spencer, Country Fried Rock</p>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/3641827
2011-12-08T00:00:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:17:10-04:00
"Last Saturday Night A Good One For Florence" - Morning News article by Traci Bridges
<p>“Then came the Belle of the Ball, and I have to say Stephanie’s voice is amazing. You’re probably saying I say that about everyone, but I don’t. Stephanie’s voice is really something special (a little like a cross between Adele and Sarah McLachlan, if you ask me), and I think anyone who’s ever been in love (or even unlucky in love) can definitely identify with her lyrics.” </p>
<p>- Traci Bridges, The Morning News</p><a contents="Read the full story here:http://www2.scnow.com/entertainment/pee-dee/2011/dec/08/column-last-saturday-night-good-one-florence-ar-2816186/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www2.scnow.com/entertainment/pee-dee/2011/dec/08/column-last-saturday-night-good-one-florence-ar-2816186/" style="" target="_blank">Source: http://www2.scnow.com/entertainment/pee-dee/2011/dec/08/column-last-saturday-night-good-one-florence-ar-2816186/</a><br>
Big Mavis Music
tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421068
2011-11-30T21:10:00-05:00
2016-10-15T21:14:56-04:00
Florence native Fagan celebrates release of second CD with launch party
<p>Musician Stephanie Fagan’s ongoing musical journey will make a stop in Florence this weekend as the songstress celebrates the release of her second album. </p>
<p>Fagan will perform Saturday night during the “Heart Thief” Album Release Party at Southern Hops Brewing Co. in Florence. The party also marks the official launch of the Yonder Music record label, to which Fagan is signed. </p>
<p>Fagan is a Florence native who began her musical career at North Greenville University in an all-girl folk group named Flowers by Gert. After leaving college and getting fired from her day job, Fagan hit the road and performed as a solo act across the Southeast. </p>
<p>Fagan said those months of sleeping under the stars and on the couches of strangers enhanced her songwriter skills and helped her grow as an artist. </p>
<p>“I fell in love with the earth and the people in it,” Fagan said. </p>
<p>Her live performances and self-released first album, 2009’s “Ideas for Your Earbone,” earned her an eclectic and loyal regional fanbase. </p>
<p>But much has changed for Fagan during the past two years. She’s now a military wife, residing in Germany, and her perspectives on romance, life and people have matured a bit. She’s signed to an independent record label, and she says both the professional and personal changes are reflected in her new material. </p>
<p>“The last album was recorded at many different studios with different players on each track,” Fagan said. “Being able to go into the same studio, with the same musicians, engineer and producer has created a more cohesive sound this time around.” </p>
<p>Many popular Pee Dee musicians contributed as session musicians on the album including Ray Berry, Timmy Berry and Steve Hamilton of Dillon; James Scott Bullard of Mullins; John Bazen, Jeff Springs, Melanie McMillan, Deidre Johnson, Barrett Jackson, Mark Jackson, Rick Paulus, Brian McIver, Bernard Rand and Tommy Hatfield of Florence; Tom Ross of Columbia; and Sarah Harrelson. Florence native and Nashville session musician Chris Cottros also appears on the album. </p>
<p>The album was engineered by Ken “Dakota” Jones of Southern Harmony Recording Studio in Florence and produced by Yonder Music’s Missy Davis Jones. </p>
<p>Fagan will perform songs from “Heart Thief” during Saturday’s launch party. James Scott Bullard and the Late Night Sweethearts will open for Fagan. </p>
<p>“Heart Thief” will be available for purchase during the party. </p>
<p>- Traci Bridges, The Morning News <br>Source: <a contents="Florence native Fagan celebrates release of second CD with launch party" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.scnow.com/entertainment/article_c964762e-6aeb-5f52-9415-4dde848f68bc.html" style="" target="_blank">Florence native Fagan celebrates release of second CD with launch party</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421135
2011-11-10T22:20:00-05:00
2016-10-15T22:24:21-04:00
COLUMN: Get the real stories behind the songs | Entertainment | scnow.com
I don’t know how many of you have ever seen VH1’s “Storytellers,” but it’s one of my favorite shows (maybe because it’s one of the few shows on this “music channel” that actually involves music … go figure). <p>Anyway, for those who aren’t familiar, the premise is simple: Some of the biggest names in music and songwriting provide the stories, anecdotes and most intimate details behind their biggest hits and then perform them. </p>
<p>In the 15 years the show has been on the air, everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Maxwell to Kings of Leon has graced the “Storytellers” stage. For those of us who love music, it’s a real treat to get such an up close and personal look into the songs that have provided a soundtrack for our lives. </p>
<p>Those of you locals who dig this kind of stuff like I do may have to settle for hanging with Tom Waits via television, but you do have a chance to share a similar experience with some of your favorite local songwriters. </p>
<p>Yonder Music and Country Fried Rock will kick off the Second Saturdays Songwriters Circle series this Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Railroad Junction in downtown Florence. </p>
<p>Each event will feature three singer-songwriters who will perform their favorite compositions and share the stories behind the songs they’ve written in an intimate, collaborative atmosphere. </p>
<p>The inaugural event will feature Yonder Music artist Stephanie Fagan of Florence, John Bazen of Florence and Steele Management’s alt-country outlaw James Scott Bullard of Mullins. </p>
<p>Fagan is a Florence native who now resides on a military base in Germany with her enlisted husband. She’s in town finishing up her sophomore release “Heart Thief” at Southern Harmony Recording Studio, which is set to be released in December. </p>
<p>Bazen, another Florence native, is best recognized as the frontman for reggae-ska band Downtribe. I haven’t seen Bazen’s solo act, but Downtribe is amazing. If you get a chance to check them out, do it. In the meantime, let’s get back to Second Saturdays. </p>
<p>So while I’m not real familiar with the work of Fagan or Bazen, I can tell you a little about Mr. Bullard (or JSB as I like to call him). </p>
<p>He’s been called the next Gram Parsons. He’s been compared to Ryan Adams (he wishes ... total winky face, JSB). But being a friend and having listened to most of his stuff, I’d have to say JSB is just JSB. Sure, he’s got his influences — he cites everybody from Waylon Jennings to WASP in this category — and they all shine through here and there, but he’s definitely his own musician. He’s a little bit country, a little bit rock, a little bit crazy. But most of all, he writes about things to which we can all relate. And in the end, isn’t that what music’s all about? </p>
<p>P.S. — Even on the off chance you just don’t like JSB’s music, I can promise you’ll still enjoy his stories — even if most of them aren’t true. I kid, I kid. </p>
<p>Check him out. Check out these other local artists. </p>
<p>Find them on Facebook or Myspace, give them a listen, then pelt them with questions during the Songwriters Circle. I don’t care how you do it. </p>
<p>Just support live local music. </p>
<p>Here’s to another great week. I’ll see ya on the town! </p>
<p>- Traci Bridges , The Morning News<br><br>Morning News Digital Journalist Traci Bridges is on the town and in Currents every Thursday. Contact her at 843- 317-7325 or tbridges@florencenews.com. Or find her at Railroad Junction on Saturday, poking holes in all of James Scott Bullard’s tall tales. </p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421165
2011-09-12T23:55:00-04:00
2016-10-16T00:00:24-04:00
Urban Cowfolks - The Process of Creating the Bandit Girl Icon for Stephanie Fagan
<p>Urbancowfolks (Los Desperados TV) Blog: Process of Creating "Bandit Girl" Icon </p>
<p>I recently was hired to come up with an album cover text logo for Yonder Music artist Stephanie Fagan. Knowing that they will also want to make merch I decided to also create an "icon", something simple but strong.... The "Emily the Strange" character image came to mind, because it's so identifiable, so I wanted to create something that was simple and had that same kind of "power". Stephanie's album is called "Heart Thief" so an image of a "bandit" came to mind. </p>
<p>Above is a sequence of how the Bandit Girl icon was created. First I looked at photo's of Stephanie on her FB page. I then took out a pad of paper and quickly sketched with simplicity in mind, but that it's no doubt an image of Ms. Fagan. For the geeks, I love sketching with Color-Tex non-photo blue pencils. I just like how they feel. Once I got the image I liked, I then light-boxed it and hand inked it, using Windsor & Newton series 7 brushes. From there I then scanned it and re-traced it in Illustrator, making it a vector file, which now can be sized at any size and retain it's sharpness. </p>
<p>This was a super fun project for me, one in which the execution matched the expectations of my initial vision. That doesn't always happen. The bonus is that the client loved it!<br><br>- Tom Vadakan, Urbancowfolks, My name is Tom Vadakan, and I run Urbancowfolks Studio. I'm just a guy trying to live a good life in this big but small world. I live life doing the things I love to do, and spending the time with people I love. I'm truly humbled and grateful to have my health, a wonderful family, awesome friends, and stoked to have had art shows in SF, LA, & NY. I hope the blessings continue.<br><br>Source: <a contents="http://urbancowfolksart.blogspot.com/2011/09/process-of-creating-bandit-girl-icon.html" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://urbancowfolksart.blogspot.com/2011/09/process-of-creating-bandit-girl-icon.html" target="_blank">http://urbancowfolksart.blogspot.com/2011/09/process-of-creating-bandit-girl-icon.html</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446543
2011-07-07T23:25:00-04:00
2016-10-31T23:24:51-04:00
Complete Archive of James Scott Bullard's 2011 Country Fried Rock Interview
<p>Listen here:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/CountryFriedRockInterviewWithJamesScottBullardPart1Of3">https://archive.org/details/CountryFriedRockInterviewWithJamesScottBullardPart1Of3</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4446621
2011-06-15T23:55:00-04:00
2016-10-31T23:52:59-04:00
Anusaya.com interview with James Scott Bullard
<p>“With a past steeped in love, loss, death, addiction, human suffering, torrid tales of flirting with the devil, the wrath of deep south religion, more southern-gothic lore than a Tennessee Williams play and a constant walk on a moral tightrope, James Scott Bullard’s songs reflect not just his own life, but real life. He has won several awards for his efforts, collected a mass amount of glowing critical reviews, and had much written about his prolific songwriting and troubled past. His songs have hit well over 20 million downloads across the internet ocean and he has gained worldwide attention due to massive airplay spanning the entire globe,” boasts James Scott Bullard’s artist bio at reverbnation.com. </p>
<p>No brag. Just fact. </p>
<p>I recently talked to James Scott Bullard about alternative Country, his father and his love for B-Grade Horror flicks. </p>
<p>What is your favorite story about your father? <br>James Scott Bullard: There’s so many; He was very big man, very old school, tough as nails, cowboy type of guy from the backwoods of North Carolina. We’re talking about moonshine, shotguns, the whole 9 yards. But don’t be fooled or mislead by stereotypes, he was probably one of the most intelligent people you’d ever meet! He was a lot of fun, and had so many great stories to tell. He had traveled the world, wasn’t afraid of anyone or anything and was friends with everyone from the local preacher to hardened murderers in prison. But, if I had to pick a favorite story, I guess it would be when I was about 8 or 9 years old. We were driving along the highway one day and we saw a homeless guy pushing a shopping cart. It is freezing outside. My dad pulls off the highway, walks to the back of our van and pulls out a brand new coat. Walks over to the guy handing him the coat, and asks him when he last ate. He then puts the guy and his cart in the back of the van, and drives us all to a diner. Where we sit down like old pals and eat a huge meal. My dad then hands the guy $20.00 and offers to take him somewhere, but the man politely declined the ride. Opting instead, to stay in the diner for a bit and drink some coffee. So, we leave and as we get in the van I’m chomping at the bit to talk about this incident without the guy around. I ask my dad why he did what he did, and he said: “You never know where angels roam.” He then went on to explain that it was possible that that poor guy had fought in a war for our freedom and deserved better, but that life was just that hard. My dad was a softie for vets because he was one. </p>
<p>But years later I had time to ponder; “You never know where angels roam.” And it hit me that to that guy my dad was the angel, but my dad saw it the other way around. He was like that. </p>
<p>Who or what inspired you to pick up your first instrument and how old were you? <br>James Scott Bullard: I was always surrounded by music. My dad played guitar and I had uncles that played instruments. My first memories are of the differences in musical taste in my immediate environment: My dad was a hardcore Merle Haggard, George Jones, Waylon Jennings, country/bluegrass kind of guy, but my mom was into Rod Stewart, The Commodores, and average pop. Then I had an older step-brother who lived with us at the time and was into Kiss, Ted Nugent, and whatever else you’d expect a teenager to be into. But what really inspired me to pick up a guitar was when a friend of mine discovered heavy metal before I did and brought over Quiet Riot’s ‘Metal Health’ and the ‘Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhodes Tribute’ albums on the same day! I was in complete awe, it was everything I wanted! Loud, aggressive and angry, but fun. My dad was so happy that I wanted to play guitar, he went out and bought me one a week later. Long story short: The week before I was an A student, playing little league. After that week, I stopped studying and quit the team. </p>
<p>Remembering back to your first time in front of a live audience, what comes to mind? <br>James Scott Bullard: Fear, excitement, and feeling like I belonged. </p>
<p>What has been your biggest triumph as an artist? Greatest challenge? <br>James Scott Bullard: Being tagged ‘The New Gram Parsons’, with a nod of approval from some of his family, friends and peers has to top the list as a triumph. </p>
<p>Greatest challenge? Giving up any semblance of a stable, normal life. And trying to explain alt.country (Alternative Country) to people! </p>
<p>If the whole world were listening, what would you play? And why? <br>James Scott Bullard: “The War” from one of my new albums: Sunsets & Cigarettes, because it needs to be heard. </p>
<p>We’ve got plenty of protest and pro-war songs, but no one says anything about the reality of what it’s like for a soldier to come home mentally unstable, addicted, crippled, or whatever the case may be. No one speaks from the soldiers perspective, and this song does. </p>
<p>As your music has evolved, what do you think has been the most significant change and do you consider it a positive or a negative? <br>James Scott Bullard: Has it evolved? Ha! I guess the best answer here is that in the past 10 years, I went from being in a hard rock band, which had it’s limits, to being an alt.country solo artist, which really has no limits. If I want to play “Kick out the Jams” live, and then go right into “He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today,” it’s ok! And having no artistic boundaries is definitely positive! </p>
<p>What is the best line you have heard from a B-Grade Horror flick? <br>James Scott Bullard: Wow! There’s so many great ones. My personal favorite would have to be from an 80’s indie vampire flick: Near Dark with Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen who both play these hard, redneck type of vampires. And at one point in the film, Lance Henriksens’ character ‘Jesse’ is asked how old he really is and his reply is: “Let’s just say I fought for the South…We lost.” Love that line, and any other answer I would have given here would have been too vulgar to print! </p>
<p>What is your favorite song to perform live? Why? <br>James Scott Bullard: That changes every night, I guess I don’t have a real answer to this. <br>Some nights I like to get their a**es movin’, and some nights I like to get their brains workin’ …It all depends on the crowd and my mood. </p>
<p>Who would be your dream band to perform with, from anywhere in the world? <br>James Scott Bullard: The Rolling Stones!! Not only because they’re The Rolling Stone for God’s sake, but because my other choices are no longer among the living. Then again, I’m not sure Keith Richards is either. </p>
<p>Is there anything you’d like to say to fans? <br>James Scott Bullard: ‘Thank you’ and ‘I love you’ sound too much like I’m running for office and desperately need votes… But thank you, and I love you each and every one! (This message was approved by James Scott Bullard.) <br>Seriously, thank you for listening and spreading the word… Keep spreading!! </p>
<p>I would like to thank James Scott Bullard for his participation in this interview. </p>
<p><a contents="~Denise Smith (interview 2010.06.15)" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.anusaya.com/interview/james-scott-bullard/" target="_blank">~Denise Smith (interview 2010.06.15)</a></p>
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tag:bigmavis.com,2005:Post/4421162
2011-03-31T23:45:00-04:00
2016-10-15T23:44:43-04:00
No Depression - James Scott Bullard (& The Late Night Sweethearts) on Country Fried Rock
<p>"Scott, I don't think school had a lot to offer you." </p>
<p>James "Scott" Bullard bares his soul in regular conversation and freely shares about his tumble into addiction. After his hard rocking, regionally successful band Crane folded in 2000 with a farewell show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC, Bullard had no idea what he was going to do with himself, literally and creatively. He hibernated in a borrowed beach house, writing music profusely and growing a long beard--a physical testament to his seclusion. He knew that his lyrics needed a different format, but only knew about hard rock; it took his time in Wilmington to connect with his dad's bluegrass influence and the emerging role of alt-country, a la Ryan Adams. While briefly sidetracked by the great singer-songwriters like Tom Waits, Bullard felt that his own style was best expressed through a more alt-country style, in that it was uptempo but people still listened to his lyrics. </p>
<p>His first two solo records reflect his exploration of the new-to-him genres, with one being more songwriter and the other more alt-country, while his 2010 release is a double album, intentionally highlighting both. Live, though, James Scott Bullard is backed by an existing band who've played together for years, and the Late Night Sweethearts bring the alt-country to the stage. (They spent years touring as a Gram Parsons tribute band.) We've seen them captivate a bar crowd, and rock a college listening room, in a way that has not yet been captured in their records. Bullard is a dynamic performer, no matter the crowd, with audience members comparing him aloud to everyone from Nikki Sixx, Ian Astbury, to Ryan Adams (source: personal experience). </p>
<p>Bullard candidly describes his descent into addiction and the lies he told himself to distinguish his slavery to the pills from people using street drugs, while ultimately recognizing that his abuse was no different than theirs. His brief stint in rehab helped him choose to get sober, and several chance interactions with an orderly have left lifelong impact, including the title of one of his records, Sunsets & Cigarettes. Bullard spins great tales, but in this case, it's not just "based on a true story."<br><br>- Sloane Spencer, Country Fried Rock<br>Source: <a contents="http://nodepression.com/article/james-scott-bullard-late-night-sweethearts" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://nodepression.com/article/james-scott-bullard-late-night-sweethearts" target="_blank">http://nodepression.com/article/james-scott-bullard-late-night-sweethearts</a></p>
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