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<title>Jim Reilley Joins Plowboy Records As Operations Director</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Plowboy Records has added industry and creative veteran Jim Reilley as Operations Director. Reilley brings a wealth of knowledge and talent to</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plowboy Records has added industry and creative veteran <strong>Jim Reilley</strong> as Operations Director. Reilley brings a wealth of knowledge and talent to the imprint and will fill the role left by the passing of the label’s beloved <strong>Ben Ewing</strong>.</p><p>As an artist, Reilley co-founded the revered group <strong>The New Dylans</strong> in 1986, and as a songwriter—with a stint at Curb Music Publishing—he secured cuts by Vince Gill, Sam Bush, Hal Ketchum, Tim O’Brien, Jack Ingram, and others. He also played bass on numerous recording projects for various artists, most notably Sheryl Crow while helming production on over 40 projects, including several Kerrville and Merlefest award winners. Currently, Reilley is a member of the experimental jazz outfit The Birdwatcher Experiment with Jerry Oliver and a rotating cast that includes <strong>Shannon Pollard</strong> and Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys.</p><p>“Jim has had a long and successful career in this business, and he brings a lifetime of experience from the creative side as well,” notes Plowboy Records’ President and co-founder Pollard. “He knows what it takes to put together deals and how to manage a variety of projects. He speaks the language of a musician, but he also speaks ‘industry’ and that is so important to our future.”</p><p>“If Shannon and I can realize our vision for Plowboy and become a label in the mold of a classic ‘60s Electra/Asylum, Rounder, Blue Note, Sub Pop, Creation, Dischord or Stax/Volt, especially in this current economic climate, I will consider that an enormous success,” says Reilley. “I’m still excited by and in love with music and am honored Shannon has given me this opportunity.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="769" height="1024" src="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-769x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-5687" srcset="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-769x1024.jpeg 769w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-480x639.jpeg 480w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-580x772.jpeg 580w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-225x300.jpeg 225w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-768x1022.jpeg 768w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E-1154x1536.jpeg 1154w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/61B4921E-AF30-458B-B59E-C8F4D65F236E.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px" /></figure><p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/jim-reilley-joins-plowboy-records-as-operations-director/">Jim Reilley Joins Plowboy Records As Operations Director</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Veteran players whose credits include Dolly Parton, the Mavericks, the Farm Bureau, Trailer Choir and Raging Fire band together to</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="wp-block-image"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="819" src="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-1024x819.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5445" srcset="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-480x384.jpg 480w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-580x464.jpg 580w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-300x240.jpg 300w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/SWD-Press-PIC2-768x614.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure><p><em>Veteran players whose credits include Dolly Parton, the Mavericks, the Farm Bureau, Trailer Choir and Raging Fire band together to forge a flame-breathing update on rock, boogie, blues, and other sounds of the South—and take it on the road.</em><br></p><p>NASHVILLE, TN — With a sound stronger than East Tennessee moonshine, Smoky White Devils have arrived … with a debut album called <em>New Old Stock</em> that packs six-string swagger, mountain-country soul, expert songcraft and mule-driving rhythms into 10 original tunes. <em>New Old Stock</em> is available now via Plowboy Records, as the band burns up the highways playing select headlining dates and opening for the likes of the Kentucky Headhunters and Richard Lloyd.<br></p><p>Smoky White Devils unites four pedigreed players: singer-guitarists Richie Owens and Nick Kane, bassist John Reed and drummer Michael “Fergie” Ferguson. And the title <em>New Old Stock</em>—a term used in the musical instrument business for pristine, rediscovered treasures, like vintage tubes and transformers, from earlier eras—alludes both to their experience and to the fresh unfettered energy they bring to their music and live concerts.<br></p><p>“The beautiful thing about this band is it’s all been organic,” says Owens, whose credentials include bandleader, songwriter, guitarist, instrument maker and producer. “We’ve shared the stage with each other over the years in various combinations, but when we got together two years ago just because we all thought it might be fun to play together … it just exploded. Ideas for songs and riffs just started pouring out. We had a sound that coalesced around Nick’s and my guitars and songs naturally. And with all of us being more seasoned and wily, we know how to get right to the heart of a song or a sound in the studio or onstage, and really make it count.”<br></p><p><em>New Old Stock</em> opens with “Hoppin’ John,” a song that plants Smoky White Devils’ flag via Kane’s big, bawdy roadhouse riff and Owens’ tale of a larger-than-life figure that’s a composite of some of the wildmen from his native East Tennessee hills—a place bookended by bootleggers and preachers, with musicians falling somewhere in the middle. “For me, telling the kind of stories I heard as a kid, about the kind of people from where my family is from, is an important part of the tradition I want to carry on,” says Owens.<br></p><p>But other tunes, like the sinuous, wistful “Western Avenue,” speak to today. Owens draws on his experience of being homeless in Los Angeles in the 1980s, while he struggled to find his footing in the West Coast music business, to compose a soul-wrenching metaphor for modern America—where the division been the rich and the poor has never been wider. Kane perfectly capture’s the song’s yearning with the reverb-soaked tone of his customized Les Paul Black Beauty, and Owens’ voice is nakedly and affectingly plaintive as it rides the rich foundation laid by the extraordinary rhythm team of Reed and Ferguson.<br></p><p>It’s back to East Tennessee for the legend of “Popcorn Sutton,” the true-to-life tale of perhaps the world’s most famous moonshiner—now enshrined by both the brand of liquor that bears his name <em>and</em> by Smoky White Devils’ driving, anthem Southern rock treatment of his musical biography. “Everything She Needs” is another rock masterwork. It’s juggernaut rhythm and liquid guitar lines sound plucked from an undiscovered page in Cream’s catalog. <br></p><p>Throughout the album, Owens’ and Kane’s guitar interplay is mesmerizing. “When we first started jamming, we immediately fell into a place that respected both of our strengths,” Kane explains. “We’re both great rhythm players, and Richie is a master of slide guitar and lap steel, and I’ve got all the heavy old-school blues-rock elements covered. I was raised on that stuff, just like Richie was raised on all the sounds he heard as a kid growing up in his musical family.”<br></p><p>Indeed, Owens has deep roots in the Southern music tradition. His great-grandfather, George Grooms, was the inspiration for the character Jack White played in the film <em>Cold Mountain</em>. And his father—musician, publisher, songwriter and producer Louis Owens—was, among other things, the man who first introduced Richie’s cousin, Dolly Parton, to the public. All of the Owens kids played instruments, and Richie discovered his affinity for the resonator guitar (He has several signature models via the Washburn company, and ran his own Owens brand for years.) when he was 10. By then, he’d already been performing on radio, and as a teen he supported Leon Russell, Joe and Rose Lee Maphis and others on stage. Next, he helped drive Nashville’s punk and new wave scene with his bands the Movement and the Resistors, even while broadening his skills to engineering and producing. His credits at the board include albums by Dolly Parton and the Georgia Satellites and Kentucky Headhunters.<br></p><p>He’s also the frontman for Richie Owens & the Farm Bureau, a Nashville-based roots-rock institution that includes John Reed. The bassist and Owens met decades ago in Nashville’s punk scene, when Reed was a driving force in Raging Fire. During those years, Reed and Owens also met Michael “Fergy” Ferguson—who plays sessions and holds the drum chair for Trailer Choir—in Nashville rock clubs. They’ve all remained friends and collaborators ever since.<br></p><p>Kane and Owens first crossed paths in Los Angeles during there playing days at the infamous alt country bar the Palomino Club, shortly before Kane joined the Mavericks as lead guitarist during their Grammy-winning platinum heyday. He, too, comes from a musical family. Kane’s father was a singer with the Berlin State Opera, but ultimately the rock and blues explosion of the ’60s and early ’70s ignited Kane’s still-burning passion for playing electric guitar. After moving to Miami in the ’80s and playing in local bands, he hit the road with a string of blues legends including Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Rogers, and Hubert Sumlin. <br></p><p>After the Mavericks, Kane embarked on a solo career, releasing the album <em>Songs in the Key of E</em> and fronting his hard-driving instrumental project the Balls. As he played around Nashville, he and Owens slipped back into each other’s orbit—and, along with Reed and Ferguson, they co-founded Smoky White Devils—which gets its name from a routine by comedian Shane Caldwell called “Alabama Rehab Guy.” (Look it up on YouTube.)<br></p><p>“As songwriters and musicians, we’ve all come a long way as individuals,” Owens observes. “But with Smoky White Devils, this is truly a band of brothers. We’ve come to the best place musically that we’ve ever been. And we got there together.”<br></p><p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/nashville-roots-rock-supergroup-smoky-white-devils-release-their-debut-album-new-old-stock-on-plowboy-records/">NASHVILLE ROOTS ROCK SUPERGROUP SMOKY WHITE DEVILS RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, NEW OLD STOCK, ON PLOWBOY RECORDS</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>“To bring Richard Lloyd into the Plowboy Records family is a tremendous honor and aligns with our mission of embracing</p>
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<p>“To bring Richard Lloyd into the Plowboy Records family is a tremendous honor and aligns with our mission of embracing pioneers in multiple musical genres, but most importantly, producing high quality records. As a huge fan of Richard’s work and his never wavering commitment to innovation, I’m looking forward to working with him!” – R. Shannon Pollard</p>
<p>“Richard’s music speaks for itself and we look forward to bringing his new material and recordings to the world this year” – Ben Ewing</p>
<p>Production on the new record will begin in Nashville in June with a projected release date in October. The album will contain 10 new songs penned by Richard. In addition to his new relationship with Plowboy, Richard will now be represented by Need More Management (NMM) and Bill Carlton for career direction and management, and Trent Houghton at Monolith Music for booking.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>  New York, NY (July 25, 2017)– Punk rock pioneers and provocateurs, the Dead Boys, celebrate the 40th anniversary of their</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">New York, NY (July 25, 2017)– Punk rock pioneers and provocateurs, the <b>Dead Boys</b>, celebrate the 40th anniversary of their landmark first album <b><i>Young, Loud and Snotty</i></b>, with a worldwide tour and a special re-recording of the classic record. <b><i>Still Snotty: Young, Loud & Snotty at 40</i></b>! on Nashville-based <b>Plowboy Records</b> is hitting the streets and available online <span class="s2">on September 8</span> with a major US tour kicking off in Dallas, Texas <span class="s2">on September 7.</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Formed in Cleveland in 1976, the <b>Dead Boys</b> were one of the first American acts to combine the proto-punk fervor of bands like <span class="s2">the Stooges</span> and the <span class="s2">New York Dolls </span>with a new level of intense energy. 1977 debut LP, <i>Young, Loud and Snotty</i>, was a landmark album in the birth of hardcore punk and produced one of the first great punk anthems, “Sonic Reducer.” After one more album, the band split in 1979. They reunited for a few gigs in the 1980s, but following the death of lead vocalist <span class="s2"><b>Stiv Bators</b></span> in 1990, the band members went their separate ways except for two brief reunions in 2004 and 2005. The return of the <b>Dead Boys</b> began with guitarist <span class="s2"><b>Cheetah Chrome</b></span>.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“I’ve had my solo band for the last ten years, and <b>Dead Boys</b> songs have always been included in my shows and over time the right mix of people came together to pull off and at times enhance the <b>Dead Boys</b> sound. With the 40th anniversary of the <b>Dead Boys</b> on the horizon and a solid band that could interpret and deliver the performance and sound needed to maintain the authenticity of the <b>Dead Boys</b>, I reached out to <b>Johnny Blitz</b> about an anniversary tour and he said yes and we began the journey of what would become <b><i>Still Snotty</i></b>: with <b>Jason Kottwitz</b> on guitar, Detroit punk legend <b>Ricky Rat</b> on bass and vocalist <b>Jake Hout</b> from ‘zombie’ <b>Dead Boys</b> tribute band, the Undead Boys, the <b>Dead Boys</b> 40th anniversary tour started taking shape. I’ve been singing the <b>Dead Boys</b> songs myself for 20 years because I couldn’t find another singer I trusted enough to hand it to,” <b>Chrome</b> says. “The first gig with <b>Jake</b>, it was like, ‘You got it, man!’ I think <b>Stiv</b> would be very proud of our choice.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With the line-up in place, the group brought the house down at a showcase performance at this year’s South by Southwest music fest in Austin, Texas. Writing in Paste Magazine, music critic Robert Ham named their set as one of the 10 Best Sets at SXSW 2017. “The group played the entire LP (of <i>Young, Loud and Snotty</i>) with sweat and fire, wiping away all four decades of the past in the process.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Fresh from that success, the urge to capture a new take on the classic album was a natural next step.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“The original album was actually a demo,” <b>Chrome</b> says. “None of us had been in a studio before, and we figured we would go back in and do it right, but the label said no. It has stood up, but 40 years later we can do a ‘What if?’ What would it have sounded like if we could have gone back in? So that’s what this is about. It’s not better. It’s just different.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Produced by <b>Plowboy Records</b> head Shannon Pollard and cut in just three days of sessions in Nashville’s historic Creative Workshop Studios, <b><i>Still Snotty: Young, Loud & Snotty at 40!</i></b> is an exciting chance to revisit a classic album. Think of it as a “Sonic Expander.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“When <b>Blitz</b> and I are playing it’s like we’re 20 years old again, of course I feel a lot worse the next morning,” <b>Chrome</b> says with a laugh. “It’s still just as loud and snotty, we’re just old now.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Track Listing:</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">1.) Sonic Reducer </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">2.) All This And More </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">3.) What Love Is </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">4.) Not Anymore </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">5.) Ain’t Nothin’ To Do </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">6.) Caught With The Meat In Your Mouth </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">7.) I Need Lunch </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">8.) High Tension Wire </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">9.) Down In Flames</span></p>
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