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0 JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL winter 2019 tour

JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL WINTER 2019 TOUR

Rocky Mountain Artists is very pleased to announce the winter tour for JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL (Lincoln, NE)

JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL will set out an extensive 3 week tour of the west marking the US release of their excellent new album “Do It Now” which will be released on January 18. The tour will see the band play 18 shows in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming highlighted by weekend multi night runs at ski resort areas Jackson, WY and Sun Valley, ID.

You can check out JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL at the following dates:

1/17 (Thu) – Hodi’s Half Note – Fort Collins, CO*
1/18 (Fri) – Gracie’s – Salt Lake City, UT
1/19 (Sat day) – Trap Bar – Alta, WY
1/19 (Sat) – Mangy Moose – Jackson, WY
1/20 (Sun) – Trap Bar – Alta, WY
1/23 (Wed) – Covellite Theatre – Butte, MT
1/24 (Thu) – Lewis & Clark Brewing – Helena, MT
1/25 (Fri) – private event – Butte, MT
1/26 (Sat) – Wild West Saloon – Yellowstone, MT
1/27 (Sun) – Zebra Cocktail Lounge – Bozeman, MT**
1/30 (Wed) – Gracie’s – Salt Lake City, UT
1/31 (Thu) – The Olympic – Boise, ID
2/1 (Fri) – Whiskey Jacques – Ketchum, ID
2/2 (Sat) – River Run Lodge – Sun Valley, ID
2/3 (Sun) – Crusty’s – McCall, ID
2/6 (Wed) – Larimer Lounge – Denver, CO+
2/7 (Thu) – Moxi Tehater – Greeley, CO
2/8 (Fri) – The Lariat – Buena Vista, CO
2/9 (Sat) – The Temporary – Basalt, CO

* = with Blue Taboo
** = with Steady Trees
+ = with Leon and the Revival

https://www.joshhoyer.com/

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Night after night at their live shows, Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal leave it all on the table, bringing crowds palpably authentic music. This is a real working band; music for the people, by the people. You hear the veracity in Hoyer’s voice. You hear the strife of a guitar amp being pushed to its limits. You hear keyboards hammering notes home while emboldened horns soar over the top of a rhythm section akin to a freight train. The raucous funk and smooth soul emanating from the stage dutifully pays homage to the past soul giants while simultaneously charging forward, piloting themselves into the modern era. This is soul music.

Hoyer formed Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal in 2012 in famed blues town Lincoln, Nebraska. The award-winning five-piece band includes some of the area’s most revered and accomplished musicians. Joining Hoyer (keyboards/vocals) is Blake DeForest (trumpet), Mike Keeling (bass), Benjamin Kushner (guitar), and Larell Ware (drums). Inspired by the sounds of Stax, Motown, Muscle Shoals, New Orleans, Philly and San Francisco, the band continuously crosses musical boundaries both in style and era, and joins forces each show with a common goal – to have the crowd dancing so much they forget even their smallest troubles.

On January 26th, 2018, Hoyer released The End of the Night, a 3-song EP and solo side project with veteran Nashville songwriters Jay Knowles (Harry Connick Jr, Blake Shelton), and Jon Coleman (Trace Adkins). In the spring of 2018, Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal recorded their fourth full length record, Do It Now, which was released in Europe in August 2018, concurrent with a 35-city tour spanning 7 countries. Do It Now is slated for a US release on January 18th, 2019.

In 2017, Josh was featured as a contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and the band completed their first European tour; a 27-city stint capped with a live album release from their show in Brussels, Belgium.The hard working band completed several national tours from 2015-2017, playing more than 150 shows in 32 states each year, including opening for George Clinton, Charles Bradley, Booker T Jones, and Muscle Shoals Revue. Their year-round touring schedule took them from coast to coast, including several major summer music festivals.

In 2016, the magic of their live show caught the attention of producer Ken Coomer (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo), who joined with the band to record their third full-length album. Running From Love, was recorded at Nashville’s historic Sound Emporium, and once again features Hoyer’s trademark vocals and the band’s signature groove. The album was released on April 8, 2016, on Silver Street Records, and is available on vinyl, CD, and digital formats.

“If James Brown and Otis Redding had a love child, it would be Josh Hoyer. The Lincoln, Nebraska, soul shouter, and his band of merry soulsters, Soul Colossal, deliver a sound so big, so funky, so wring-the-sweat-out-of-you energetic that it reaches through the speakers and shakes you until you start moving to its groove.” – No Depression

 

 

0 LORD NELSON releases “Through The Night”

LORD NELSON “THROUGH THE NIGHT” RELEASE TOUR

Rocky Mountain Artists is very pleased to present the new album release from
LORD NELSON out of Charlottesville, VA , “Through The Night.”

The band will be playing a series of dates through the southeast in mid May in celebration of their album release highlighted by a headline hometown show at the Southern in Charlottesville on Friday May 18, 2018.

Check out the following tour dates, promo video and first single “Tail Lights” on iTunes, Spotify, etc. and check out the band on the road near you in May with more spring and summer dates on the way…

 

You can check out LORD NELSON live at the following dates:

5/9 (Wed) – Surf Bar – Folly Beach, SC
5/10 (Thu) – Home Team BBQ – Charleston, SC
5/11 (Fri) – Clyde’s – Chattanooga, TN
5/12 (Sat) – Rosewood Crawfish Boil – Columbia, SC
5/13 (Sun) – Sierra Nevada Brewing – Mills River, NC
5/14 (Mon) – Preservation Pub – Knoxville, TN
5/15 (Tue) – Tiki Hut – Hilton Head Island, SC
5/16 (Wed) – Tiki Hut – Hilton Head Island, SC
5/17 (Thu) – Mac’s Speed Shop – Greenville, SC
5/18 (Fri) – The Southern – Charlottesville, VA*
5/19 (Sat) – Clementine Cafe – Harrisonburg, VA**

* = album release show with Adams Plastic Pond and Sam Black
** = album release show with Adams Plastic Pond

https://lordnelsonband.com/

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Lord Nelson has won many fans over the last several years with their spirited live performances and serious musical chops. Those fans should raise a glass, because they’re about to get their ears blown off with the new full-length album Through the Night, set for a late spring release. The album possesses a depth of sound that can only come from the frequent addition of piano, organ, and horns to guitar-based rock. This set of songs, written on the road and between tours, explores dark themes of relationships, the political climate of the country, and what it means to spend your days in a van, traveling the highways of America.

Musically, the songs don’t hesitate to dive deep into grooves, peeling off that outer layer of song craft to illustrate a wide palate. With haunting guitars, a driving rhythm section, and big chorus’, this album represents a thin coat of finish on a hard worn sound. The lead-off single “Tail Lights” grapples with the joys and challenges of the road for those on it and those left at home. Other standout tracks include the powerful “Second Chances,” the zeitgeist commentary of “Southern Discomfort” and “Safety Meeting.” A moment of levity with the swamp tinged “Good Time” provides a snapshot into the simple pleasures.

Produced over the last year by Dave Stipe (Rockfish Music) at Monkeyclaus Studio in Nelson County, VA, the record has a full, Rock’n’Roll identity, heavily laced with Americana and Soul. Whether it’s a fat horn section under a slide guitar riff, propelling it powerfully forward, or a harmony vocal giving the song an extra dimension, the album illustrates the power of a band bringing lyric driven songs to full expression. As anyone who has seen their live show will tell you, while there are several excellent solos and impressive individual moments, the thing that gets you – the thing that keeps you coming back – is that full sound. Sonically, the band is greater than the sum of its parts, in the best possible way.

The unified musicianship of the band serves as a solid home base for the searching lyrics of lead singer and guitarist Kai Crowe-Getty. In addition, the band’s multi-instrumentalist, Henry Jones, takes a break from keys and trombone to jump on the mic for a few tracks, bringing an R&B urgency. The current lineup includes Jones’s brother Calloway on lead guitar, Andrew Hollifield on bass, and Johnny Stubblefield behind the sticks. With a full tour of the east coast and points west in the works, this is a band in command of their sound, bringing strong songs in hard times to towns across the country. Keep your head up.