<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Plowboy Records</title> <atom:link href="http://plowboyrecords.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/</link> <description>Respect The Unexpected</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:02:07 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <image> <url>http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-7B3F4E4C-0608-44DF-913F-0D84050A3612-32x32.png</url> <title>Plowboy Records</title> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>The Bad Signs’ Debut “Knew It Was A Bad Sign” in Under The Radar</title> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/the-latest/the-bad-signs-knew-it-was-a-bad-sign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bad-signs-knew-it-was-a-bad-sign</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[pbradmin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:57:34 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[The Latest]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://plowboyrecords.com/?p=5973</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Click here for the video! Under The Radar 1/17/2022 by Caleb Campbell The Bad Signs are a new outfit from</p> <p><span class="more-link"><a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/the-latest/the-bad-signs-knew-it-was-a-bad-sign/" class="readmore">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text">The Bad Signs’ Debut “Knew It Was A Bad Sign” in Under The Radar</span></a></span></p> <p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/the-latest/the-bad-signs-knew-it-was-a-bad-sign/">The Bad Signs’ Debut “Knew It Was A Bad Sign” in Under The Radar</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-5976" src="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-1024x967.jpeg" alt="" width="920" height="869" srcset="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-1024x967.jpeg 1024w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-300x283.jpeg 300w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-768x726.jpeg 768w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-480x453.jpeg 480w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-580x548.jpeg 580w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648.jpeg 1284w" sizes="(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Q0W91XWRNuI">Click here for the video</a>! <br /><br /></p> <p><a href="https://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_the_bad_signs_share_new_single_knew_it_was_a_bad_sign">Under The Radar 1/17/2022 by Caleb Campbell</a></p> <p><a title="The Bad Signs" href="https://www.undertheradarmag.com/artists/the_bad_signs">The Bad Signs</a> are a new outfit from Nat and Rob Rufus, the duo behind punk band Blacklist Royals, along with alt country songstress Samantha Harlow. The band was first envisioned as a tribute to the beatniks, bikers, and dusty rock stylings of 1960s Americana, mixed with a healthy dose of gothic country. Over time, that tribute coalesced into the band’s upcoming debut record, <i>Go BAD with The Bad Signs</i>. Today, the band have shared the latest single from the record, “Knew It Was A Bad Sign,” premiering with Under the Radar.</p> <p>“Knew It Was A Bad Sign” is somewhat of a statement of intent for the band and the record. With its sweeping vocal melodies, echoing guitars, and hints of Americana grit, the band bring their outlaw style to life. The result feels like <i>Rebel Without a Cause</i>meets dusty alt country and rumbling punk aesthetics, all united by howling and emphatic performances from the trio. It’s an alluring throwback seen through a haze of memory, distorted and recontextualized into something new. <b></b></p> <p>The band says of the track, “‘Knew It Was A Bad Sign’ was in the first batch of songs written for our upcoming full-length <i>Go BAD with The Bad Signs</i> and would go on to define the record’s sound. Written in one of those rare moments where heartbreak meets inspiration, I penned the song front to back in one sitting the night I moved out of my ex’s pad. Over the next year of recording it was this song we kept going back to, we were almost writing the record around ‘<i>Knew It Was A Bad Sign</i>,’ something in the song just encapsulates everything The Bad Signs are about.</p> <p>The video is taken from <i>The Bad Sign Go BAD… Live!</i>, a long-form multi-camera b-movie rock’n’roll extravaganza complete with switchblade wielding backup singers and a rumble with the audience that must be seen to be believed! Filmed in one take, the audio is straight off the board, it’s as live as it gets and as BAD as it gets… almost as BAD as the real thing”</p> <p><span style="font-size: revert; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Check out the song and accompanying video below. </span><i style="font-size: revert; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Go </i><i style="font-size: revert; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">BAD with The Bad Signs </i><span style="font-size: revert; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">is due out later this year.</span></p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/dd8b-GHeEHY"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-5976 size-large" src="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-1024x967.jpeg" alt="" width="920" height="869" srcset="http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-1024x967.jpeg 1024w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-300x283.jpeg 300w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-768x726.jpeg 768w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-480x453.jpeg 480w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648-580x548.jpeg 580w, http://plowboyrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0F339A02-418F-4B80-B288-08ECF37F5648.jpeg 1284w" sizes="(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></a></p><p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/the-latest/the-bad-signs-knew-it-was-a-bad-sign/">The Bad Signs’ Debut “Knew It Was A Bad Sign” in Under The Radar</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Jim Reilley Joins Plowboy Records As Operations Director</title> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/jim-reilley-joins-plowboy-records-as-operations-director/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jim-reilley-joins-plowboy-records-as-operations-director</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[pbradmin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Alejandro Escovedo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buzz Cason]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cheetah Chrome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chuck Mead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eddy Arnold]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ivan Julian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Burch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plowboy Records]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fauntleroys]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Ghost Wolves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Latest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://plowboyrecords.com/?p=5686</guid> <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> <p><span class="more-link"><a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/jim-reilley-joins-plowboy-records-as-operations-director/" class="readmore">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text">Jim Reilley Joins Plowboy Records As Operations Director</span></a></span></p> <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> ]]></description> <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 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> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Plowboy VP Ben Ewing Dies at 67</title> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/plowboy-vp-ben-ewing-dies-at-67/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plowboy-vp-ben-ewing-dies-at-67</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Art Webb]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:51:20 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plowboy Records]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Latest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://plowboyrecords.com/?p=5622</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Music industry member Ben Ewing passed away on Sunday (June 27), according to a post on his Facebook. He was 67. He was</p> <p><span class="more-link"><a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/plowboy-vp-ben-ewing-dies-at-67/" class="readmore">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text">Plowboy VP Ben Ewing Dies at 67</span></a></span></p> <p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/plowboy-vp-ben-ewing-dies-at-67/">Plowboy VP Ben Ewing Dies at 67</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Music industry member <strong>Ben Ewing</strong> passed away on Sunday (June 27), according to a post on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10165438623995394&set=a.10152357258000394" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a>. He was 67.</p><p>He was General Manager at Plowboy Records, the Nashville-based label established in 2012 to promote and further the legacy of the late singer Eddy Arnold. Plowboy has released projects by Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare, as well as JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers, Buzz Cason, The Ghost Wolves and more. Ewing most recently oversaw management of punk artists The Dead Boys/Cheetah Chrome and The Bad Signs, and guided Plowboy Records releases from The Kentucky Headhunters, Chuck Mead, Paul Burch, Smoky White Devils and Richard Lloyd of Television.</p><p>Before joining Plowboy Records, he owned and operated Ewing Management, where he managed the careers of Brandon Jenkins, Johnny Solinger, Michael Lattanzi, and more. Prior to that Ewing was General Manager at the artist management, music publishing, and record distribution company, Red Dirt Music Company.</p><p>He also spent time at Progression Music Group and Artist Envoy Agency in Nashville, and was CEO of the radio and television broadcasting company South Eastern Communications in Bowling Green, Kentucky for 10 years.</p><p>Ewing was a veteran of the Vietnam War and got his start in the music business working for Phil Walden at Capricorn Records.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://sellarsfuneralservices.com/tribute/details/10159/Ben-Ewing/obituary.html">Ben’s Obituary</a> </p><p>The post <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/plowboy-vp-ben-ewing-dies-at-67/">Plowboy VP Ben Ewing Dies at 67</a> appeared first on <a href="http://plowboyrecords.com">Plowboy Records</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>NASHVILLE ROOTS ROCK SUPERGROUP SMOKY WHITE DEVILS RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, NEW OLD STOCK, ON PLOWBOY RECORDS</title> <link>http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/nashville-roots-rock-supergroup-smoky-white-devils-release-their-debut-album-new-old-stock-on-plowboy-records/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nashville-roots-rock-supergroup-smoky-white-devils-release-their-debut-album-new-old-stock-on-plowboy-records</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[pbradmin]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:13:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Alejandro Escovedo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Buzz Cason]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cheetah Chrome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chuck Mead]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eddy Arnold]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ivan Julian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Burch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plowboy Records]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fauntleroys]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Ghost Wolves]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Latest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Video]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://plowboyrecords.com/?p=5449</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Veteran players whose credits include Dolly Parton, the Mavericks, the Farm Bureau, Trailer Choir and Raging Fire band together to</p> <p><span class="more-link"><a href="http://plowboyrecords.com/uncategorized/nashville-roots-rock-supergroup-smoky-white-devils-release-their-debut-album-new-old-stock-on-plowboy-records/" class="readmore">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text">NASHVILLE ROOTS ROCK SUPERGROUP SMOKY WHITE DEVILS RELEASE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, NEW OLD STOCK, ON PLOWBOY RECORDS</span></a></span></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> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure class="wp-block-image"><img loading="lazy" 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="auto, (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> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>