USA Today 1-6-14
By Brian Mansfield
Here’s a little howling hillbilly blues to start your week.
Sittin’ on Top of the Bottom, premiering at USA TODAY, comes from Chuck Mead’s forthcoming Free State Serenade album. It’s the Nashville country singer’s first release for Plowboy Records, the nascent record label founded by former Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome, author/professor Don Cusic and Shannon Pollard, the grandson of country music great Eddy Arnold.
Free State Serenade comes out March 4.
Longtime country fans may remember Mead from his earlier band, BR549, which released a half-dozen albums between 1996 and 2006. Mead also has released two solo albums, Journeyman’s Wager and Back at the Quonset Hut, and he also served as the music director for the Broadway production Million Dollar Quartet, based on the music of Sun Records.