Friday, February 12, 2010

Just a reminder, you heard it here 1st...

TEN FOOT POLECATS


Media Contacts:

Keith Mallette (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records and Entertainment)

Contact: keith@dirtyfootfamily.com

Website: http://www.dirtyfootfamily.com


Jim Chilson (Ten Foot Polecats)

Contact: tenfootpolecats@aol.com

Website: http://www.myspace.com/thetenfootpolecats

Phone: 781-258-2471


Ten Foot Polecats sign with Hillgrass Bluebilly Records and Entertainment

“I Get Blamed For Everything I Do” CD Release scheduled for Tuesday March 23, 2010



Boston/Worcester, MA, March 23, 2010 - Ten Foot Polecats are proud to announce that they have been signed by Hillgrass Bluebilly Records out of Austin, Texas. Their debut full length CD “I Get Blamed For Everything I Do” is due for physical release on Tuesday March 23, 2010. It exhibits the menacingly textured vocals of Jay Scheffler, the hyperkinetic guitar work of Jim Chilson, and the primal beat thumping of Dave Darling. Known as a record label that is at the forefront of the raw & primal roots revolution movement, Hillgrass Bluebilly, and Ten Foot Polecats seem like a perfect match.


Midwestern, Southern and Northeast United States Tours are currently being scheduled in support of the album starting in May 2010 along with local New England dates and CD Release parties. More announcements will be forthcoming.


TEN FOOT POLECATS (Boston, MA)

Ten Foot Polecats are a three piece Punk Blues band with their deep roots drawn from the North Mississippi Hill Country. Even though they are basically in their sophomore season, they have made quite an impression on the National and local Boston and Worcester Massachusetts music scenes as they are currently one of the few blues based bands booked across the state in the rock, punk, and psychobilly circuits. Nationally, Ten Foot Polecats have been showcased at the 2009 Deep Blues Festival in Minnesota, The 2008 & 2009 Keene Music Festival in New Hampshire, the 2008 Boston Music Festival, and are scheduled to appear in the 2010 Muddy Roots Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. They have also toured the United States in 2009 and played venues in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and New Mexico. Ten Foot Polecats are creating their own sound and blurring the barriers between musical genres that have been created by some and adhered to by way too many.

HILLGRASS BLUEBILLY RECORDS AND ENTERTAINMENT (Austin, TX)

Hillgrass Bluebilly Records and Entertainment is based out of Austin, Texas and is one of the premiere organizations that are entrenched in bringing a new rebel attitude to a burgeoning Roots and Americana movement. They have forgone the current sterile music market and are now delivering the new sound of the old ways and putting the hunger back into the listening experience that has been missing from today’s popular music. Hillgrass Bluebilly promotes the rebirth of passion, conviction & instrumentation, an equality of sound and skill that isn't trying to sell you anything, and just bringing truth in music as it goes back to its roots.


Hillgrass Bluebilly Records and Entertainment is both a record label and a show/tour promoter. Although their home base is in Austin, Texas, they also have satellite chapters in Arizona, Indiana, Florida, and Louisiana. They have worked with such artists as Scott H. Biram, Bob Log III, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Wayne “The Train” Hancock, Left Lane Cruiser, Possessed by Paul James, William Elliott Whitmore, Soda, Tom VandenAvond, C.W. Stoneking, Boomswagglers, and now Ten Foot Polecats. This past year Hillgrass Bluebilly’s double tribute compilation CD “Hiram and Huddie” was nominated for an Independent Music Award as it showcased some of today’s finest primal and raw roots revolution rebels as they paid tribute to the great Hank Williams & Leadbelly. Their artists have also been involved in film, television & radio. Such outlets have included Slowboat Films “The Folksinger”, song appearances in the movie, “The Waitress”, on television series such as “My Name is Earl” & “The Bounty Hunter”, as well as live appearances on various television shows.

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Jon Short - Worcester - Gilrein's

Jon Short

Live at Gilrein’s - Worcester MA

Saturday - February 6th, 2010


Originality and innovation may be shunned in Boston, but it is heartily embraced in Worcester. It may be the hardscrabble streets for a city still locked in the throes of the economic down turn, or that local blues musicians have forsaken Boston, a city and scene which has forsaken them, but there is a vibrant blues scene down in Worcester.


Leading this scene is ‘Mississippi’ Jon Short, a local Worcester musician currently in demand for both the “Blues in Schools” as well as garnering significant attention on the national level. Short combines an authentic roots style blues sound with pop quality vocal tone. In a just musical world, ‘Mississippi’ Jon Short should be garnering scads of radio airplay with his crossover appeal.


Alternating between Lowebow cigar-box hillharp (two string baritone didley bow), blues harp, resonator guitar, vocals and a hobo percussion section (leather suitcase kick drum, child’s plastic tambourine, and assorted nicknacks), Short consummate entertainer capable of breathing life into old standards, entertaining with his own material, as well as holding down polyrhythmic lines in order to fill out the one-man-band sound. The man can spin a story to the level some of the greats from the Mississippi Hill Country.


Short’s new release, “Have Blues, Will Travel” features “Asian Longhorned Beetle”, an amusing tale of the infestation of the trees around the city. You will find yourself singing along before you even realize the what you’re singing.


Short’s website is http://www.jonshort.com/, if you find yourself within the Worcester area or downstate New York, catch the man live. If you have kids, and want to raise them right, then advocate to your local PTA on the value of musical history by having Short bring his session to your kid’s school.


Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The New England Winter Blues Festival - February 6th, 2010

The New England Winter Blues Festival – at Tupelo Salisbury
Saturday, February 6th at 8PM

Featuring

MR. NICK and the DIRTY TRICKS

THE RACKY THOMAS BAND

THE RADIO KINGS.

RYAN HARTT and the BLUE HEARTS

For $22 bucks a seat, that’s a whole lot of Harpin’ going on at The Northshore’s best new club….

Geezer's Garage Night - February 26th, 2010

FEB 26th Garage Nite at the Granite Rail will be a party for our own.

Good Shepard and Spirtual Leader Preacher Jack, in Honor of his Birthday, and his 50 years of Rock'n'Roll.

Featuring;
BAYOU BOYJOEY FINGERS
PREACHER JACK
METEORMIGHTKENNY HIGHLAND & FRIENDS
THE TEN FOOT POLE CATS
GEEZER DELUXE

PREACHER JACK NITE GEEZERS GARAGE HAPPY BIRTHDAY PREACHER 50 YEARS OF ROCK "N" ROLLTime: 7:00PM Friday,
February 26thLocation:Granite Rail Tavern 16 Cottage AVE"