Howdy bab, and Happy New Year.
All tough country bands need a live recording from prison to be considered bone fide, and we’ll be joining that select gang on March 23rd 2022 with the release of “Live Near Winson Green”. The album goes on pre-sale today and is available to as a digital download and CD.
Get it now from our Bandcamp page.
It features 14 tracks recorded live near Her Majesty’s Prison Winson Green, Birmingham, with songs taken from our first three albums. It’s a rootin’, tootin’ retrospective of everything we’ve done since our debut album in 2016. The set was recorded in August 2020 at a point when the band were cooking with gas; this is your favourite Country band strolling into the prison yard on Day 1 and sparking out the biggest, meanest dude. You have to lay down a marker.
We’re putting this out because it’s been hard to get out and play for folks over the last two years, so the record is a chance for us to come to you and deliver the energy of our live shows. All that’s missing is the chicken wire and the flying beer bottles, but you can supply your own.
This release also fires the starting pistol on a busy year here at the Independent Country Ranch. We’re currently finishing off some recordings that will see the light of day towards the end of summer. This batch of songs will be our first set of original material, and – without giving too much away – it’s a movie soundtrack. Once we’re done with that one, we’ll be moving swiftly on to tackle the pile of original song demos that CHiPs, Doc, The Swede, Randy, Magic Dave and Bobby P have been slowly adding to since we all got together. There are over 150 to choose from, so we’ve got work to do. More news on all that soon.
In the meantime, get yourself a slice of Live Near Winson Green by pre-ordering CD/digital today. You get the first track, “Freak Scene” as an immediate download.
Until next time, keep a shank handy and remember what happens to snitches.
Love from,
CHiPs, Doc, The Swede, Randy, Bobby P and Magic Dave.
PS: If you want to support the band throughout 2022, the best way to do that is to join the Independent Country Bandcamp Ranch. For £25 a year you get everything we’ve done so far, all new releases in 2022, discounts on physical product and merchandise, and a monthly EP of exclusive tracks. The 13th EP is landing later this week – you’ll get all 12 EPs released last year, plus all subsequent EPs. Get stuck in here.