A press release from The Ten Foot Polecats

June 21, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contacts:
Jim Chilson (Ten Foot Polecats)
Contact: tenfootpolecats@aol.com
Website: www.tenfootpolecats.com
Phone: 781-258-2471

Keith Mallette (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records)
Contact: keith@dirtyfootfamily.com
Website: www.dirtyfootfamily.com


Ten Foot Polecats CD Release Party at Club Bohemia – Saturday July 17, 2010
Boston area CD Release Party for Ten Foot Polecats “I Get Blamed For Everything I Do”

Cambridge, MA, July 17, 2010 - Ten Foot Polecats have announced that they will be hosting their Boston area CD Release Party for their current CD “I Get Blamed For Everything I Do” on Hillgrass Bluebilly Records (Austin TX). Although their CD was officially released on March 23, 2010 (physical) and May 4, 2010 (downloads), Ten Foot Polecats have been on tour throughout the Midwest, South, and Mid Atlantic so this will be their comeback appearance to the Boston area.

So far this year Ten Foot Polecats have played a lot of notable shows, both regionally and across the Eastern United States. Some of these shows include Muddy Root Festival outside of Nashville in May, Heavy Rebel Weekender X in North Carolina scheduled for July 4th, and earlier this year in Cambridge played and organized a sold out show (in a monsoon!!) on February 25th at PA’s Lounge in Cambridge with James “T-Model” Ford. They have also made tour stops and have scheduled tour stops upcoming in Connecticut, New York, Ohio, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Some of the many venues in Boston and Worcester they have played include: The Middle East, Harper’s Ferry, The Lizard Lounge, The Lucky Dog Music Hall, Johnny D’s, Gilrein’s, Porter Belly’s, The Dive Bar, Oliver’s Nightclub, Club Bohemia, and more.

The CD “I Get Blamed For Everything I Do”, since it’s download release date of May 4th, has made appearances in the blues chart list on both Amazon and iTunes. Some of the charts placements are as follows:

#11 (Amazon-USA) most downloaded Blues song: “Chicken Head Man” – week of June 5th, 2010
#164 (iTunes-USA) most downloaded Blues CD: “I Get Blamed For Everything I Do” – week of June 5th, 2010
#3 (iTunes-Italy) most downloaded Blues song: “I’m Goin’ Crazy” – week of May 22nd, 2010
#4 (iTunes-Italy) most downloaded Blues song: “Big Road” - week of May 22nd, 2010
#6 (iTunes-Italy) most downloaded Blues song: “Brokenhearted” - week of May 22nd, 2010

The CD and band has also drawn well received reviews in such publications as Big Rock Candy Mountain (Chicago), American Blues News (New York), Blues Blast Magazine (Chicago), My Joog (Virginia) and locally in The Boston Phoenix (review by Ted Drozdowski), Boston Blues Booze and BBQ, and The Boston Blues Society, and more.


Details of the July 17th CD Release Party:

Saturday July 17 – 9pm $10 cover
CLUB BOHEMIA – downstairs at The Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA

9pm The Tin Thistles
10pm Smokestack and The Foothill Fury
11pm TEN FOOT POLECATS
12am King Sickabilly


King Sickabilly (Providence RI) from Sasquatch and The Sickabillys fame, will join us for his one man band version of his rebel roots as he brings original gut wrenching lyrics and untamed sounds via his throat, hands, and feet.
Smokestack and The Foothill Fury (Georgia – I think) bring his trash country and Hasil Adkins-esque style music and stage show to Boston for a stop on his 24/7/365 touring schedule.
The Tin Thistles (Boston MA) Local curators of some Electric Boston Oi Folk and Punk. Young and aggressive, take no prisoners attitude.

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