JOE Bonamassa’s 12TH ALBUM: DUSTBOWL TO BE RELEASED IN MARCH
Joe Bonamassa at Bromhart Theater, Louisville KY
Joe Bonamassa is set to release his 12th full-length solo album,DUST BOWL in the UK on March 21st and in the USA on March 22nd. The album will be promoted on Bonamassa’s forthcoming 2011 Dust Bowl World Tour that will take in America, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
DUST BOWL is Bonamassa’s 9th studio release on Provogue Records in Europe and his J&R Adventures label (which he created with long-time manager Roy Weisman) in the US and his 6th collaboration with Dust Bowl’s producer, Kevin “Caveman” Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Black Crowes, Black Country Communion).
Shirley most recently produced Bonamassa’s 2010 release, Black Rock, which entered the UK album chart at #14 and 2010′s self-titled debut album from Black Country Communion, the Bonamassa-helmed, British-American rock supergroup with Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner) and Derek Sherinian (Billy Idol, Dream Theatre).
Recorded in sessions at Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece, Ben’s Studio in Nashville, TN, The Cave in Malibu, CA and The Village in Los Angeles, CA, Dust Bowl combines the gritty, blues-based tones of Bonamassa’s first albums with the fluid, genre-defying sounds he’s mastered in the years since, plus a dose of Nashville in duets with legends John Hiatt and Vince Gill
JB TV has just released a teaser of Joe’s NEW title single Dust Bowl off the album. The 2011 Dust Bowl World Tour starts 3.17.2011 and album hits stores 3.22.2011. Pre-Order your copy today! click here to watch the video
NIKKI SIXX SET TO RELEASE NEW BOOK “THIS IS GONNA HURT” SIXX:A.M. DELIVERS ACCOMPANYING SOUNDTRACK
NEW YORK, NY— Syndicated Radio Show Host and Rock Icon Nikki Sixx will release “This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx”, a follow up to his New York Times bestseller, “The Heroin Diaries” on April 12th. The book, part photo chronicle and part journal, will be accompanied by the release of an original soundtrack from SIXX: A.M., an 11-track companion piece to the book, which will hit stores May 10th.
“I’ve always had an eye for the oddities in life. Even as a kid I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird. . . . People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are,” said SIXX. He continues, “I felt the need to bring my visions to life. This project is raw, it’s what I see and feel through writing, through photos, through video and through music.”
“This Is Gonna Hurt” is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling snapshots and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Told with the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller “The Heroin Diaries”, “This Is Gonna Hurt” chronicles Sixx’s experience, from references to his early years filled with toxic waste to his success with Mötley Crüe, his death from an OD and rebirth to his addictions to music, photography, and love along with the journey of photographing these images over the past couple of years.
“I want to take you on the journey I am on, in real time,” Sixx writes. “If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.”
Sixx draws from his pain and sobriety for strength and inspiration as seen and heard in this raw and powerful project. The accompanying similarly titled soundtrack from SIXX: A.M. is a chilling, heavy take on the concept of the book and photography. Throughout all mediums SIXX gives us a glimpse inside his sick and dirty mind.
“This Is Gonna Hurt” will include dozens of Nikki’s images and will be the first public viewing of his photography. The book and soundtrack both incorporate the stories behind the pictures and how they came to be, including interviews with the subjects so readers can see “what life is like for those whom society has labeled as freaks.”
“This is Gonna Hurt” will roll out in an innovative multi platform release structure, similar to the multi platform release pioneered by Sixx for his first book release “The Heroin Diaries.” The artistic endeavor pairs the new book with accompanying multimedia projects: a soundtrack, a new single, a book signing tour and select SIXX:A.M. shows.
The album is highlighted by tracks like the first single, “Lies of the Beautiful People,” which tackles contradictions in society. Contradictions that inspired Nikki and even had Nikki questioning, “if I find beauty in all these places that most deem “Freakish” and “Macabre” then why do I also, at times, seek out beauty in what society calls beautiful? Am I contradicting myself or am I able to actually look beneath the surface when others sometimes can’t? This is a good question. Make no mistake when I refer to “The lies of beautiful people” I mean what I say but I am also saying look beneath the skin.”
The album as a whole deals with many raw, human issues. Nikki talks about the album as “pulling back the veil on your internal truth.” Saying, “We are who we are… Either poisonous and evil or honest and willing… Willing to make a difference… I haven’t led the life of a saint nor do I intend on it now.”
The thoughtful album—produced entirely by James Michael with writing credits going to SIXX, Michael, Ashba and band friends John William Lowrey and Blair Daly— dives deep into meandering emotions through epic melodies. The resulting work is a deep, dark and intoxicatingly addictive mix of sounds and passion.
The campaign has kicked-off on Nikki’s vibrant online community with the recent releases of video teasers (links to the teasers below) and select photographic images which will be followed by the launch a new single from SIXX:A.M. The first single, “Lies of the Beautiful People,” will go to radio on March 1st, the book will hit stores April 12th and the full soundtrack CD will be available on May 10th.
“This is Gonna Hurt” the book, will be released through Harper Collins imprint William Morrow and accompanying soundtrack will be released on Eleven Seven Music. Expect SIXX: A.M., which consists of Sixx, DJ Ashba and James Michael, to announce a run of tour dates in support of the release.
Album Track Listing:
- This Is Gonna Hurt
- Lies of the Beautiful People
- Are You With Me
- Live Forever
- Sure Feels Right
- Deadlihood
- Smile
- Help Is On the Way
- Oh My God
- Goodbye My Friends
- Skin
Writer Credits:
This is Gonna Hurt – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Lies Of The Beautiful People – Michael, Sixx, John William Lowrey, Ashba
Live Forever – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Are You With Me Now – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Sure Feels Right – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Deadlihood – Michael, Sixx, Blair Daly
Smile – Michael, Sixx
Oh My God – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Goodbye Dear Friends – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
Skin – Michael, Blair Daly
Help Is On The Way – Michael, Sixx, Ashba
TEASER Clips:
TEASER # 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZWSVaZaPsw
TEASER # 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JXtyre7zE
TEASER #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl3gSax2esk
Forecastle Founder Join forces with AC Entertainment. Forecastle resumes in 2012
Mayor Greg Fischer, J.K. McKnight and Ashley Capps
The Forecastle Festival – Louisville’s premier event for music, art and environmental activism – has forged a partnership with AC Entertainment, producers of The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Moogfest, Big Ears, and more than 750 concerts and events throughout the country.
In addition to the partnership, Forecastle Founder JK McKnight has joined AC Entertainment as Director of National Sponsorships. In his new role, McKnight will split time between Louisville and Knoxville, Tenn., the headquarters of AC Entertainment.
While the new relationship benefits Forecastle, it also promises future expansion in Louisville. One of the first joint endeavors will be to bring new event concepts to Louisville, as early as late summer. Details to be announced.
“AC Entertainment brings a wealth of experience and resources, and opens an exciting new chapter for Forecastle and for Louisville,” said McKnight, a Louisville native who has nurtured Forecastle from a small, community gathering to one of the largest events in the region. “This is big for us, but it’s bigger for Louisville. AC shares my vision and passion for creating breakthrough festivals and events. Together we’re going to create some amazing things, both here and abroad.”
“We’re very excited to welcome JK as a part of our team,” said Ashley Capps, AC Entertainment’s founder and president. “From the moment we met, it was clear that JK’s extraordinary vision and creativity were an ideal match for AC Entertainment. JK has created something very special here in Louisville and we’re looking forward to working together with him on Forecastle and more.”
“This partnership is great news for Louisville,” said Mayor Greg Fischer. “Music and arts are important to Louisville’s vitality, appeal, economic growth, and city branding. JK and Forecastle help represent Louisville’s creative, entrepreneurial, forward-thinking spirit. The new partnership with AC Entertainment recognizes and builds on that spirit.”
At a press conference held at the Galt House today, McKnight said the 10th Anniversary of The Forecastle Festival will be held in the summer of 2012 at Waterfront Park, with the 4th annual “Halfway to Forecastle” festival July 8 – 9, 2011, at a new downtown, indoor / outdoor venue to be announced shortly. The event will expand greatly upon the footprint of previous Halfways (usually hosted in the winter) while adding key elements of the summer festival. Halfway has grown significantly since its inception in 2008, selling out for three consecutive years, attracting fans from throughout the region, while continually upgrading to larger venues.
“With all the transitions taking place right now between here and Tennessee, we decided the best move was to take our time with Forecastle and make sure our vision is perfect,” McKnight said. “The 10th Anniversary is extremely important to me, and we need time to do it right. In the meantime, we’re planning a very unique, multi-day and multi-stage Halfway festival this July. I have every certainty that revelers will find it well worth the wait.”
Forecastle, named one the “Top 15 Festivals in the Country” by Outside Magazine, is held at Louisville’s 85-acre Waterfront Park. In addition to hundreds of artists and organizations who have participated throughout the years, the festival has featured past performances from The Smashing Pumpkins, The Flaming Lips, Widespread Panic, The Black Crowes, DEVO, Cake, Spoon, The Black Keys, The Avett Brothers, De La Soul, GZA, Girl Talk, Band of Horses, Sleater-Kinney, Bassnectar, Z-Trip, and more.
Bonnaroo, held over four days each June on a 700-acre site near Manchester, Tenn. – was named by Rolling Stone as one of the “50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.” Many of the biggest names in entertainment have performed during the festival’s history, including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Merle Haggard, the Police, Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews Band, and Louisville’s own My Morning Jacket. The 2010 lineup included Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, John Prine, Kings of Leon and dozens of other music and comedy acts.
For more information on Forecastle, visit: http://www.forecastlefest.com
For more information on AC Entertainment, visit: http://www.acentertainment.com
Headliners Music Hall presents Wanda Jackson
(the queen of rockabilly)
with Dex Romweber Duo
Doors 7pm
Winner will be chosen on Friday, February 18
When Wanda Jackson, the justly crowned Queen of Rockabilly, recorded “Let’s Have A Party,” a tune she made into a hit of her own in 1958 even after one-time boyfriend Elvis Presley had released a version of it, her delivery of the chorus wasn’t so much a suggestion as a command. As the title – and, more importantly, the contents — of her latest album, The Party Ain’t Over, indicates, this feisty septuagenarian artist is as galvanizing as ever. Jackson was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, honored with a long-time-coming, Early Influence accolade for her pivotal role in the evolution of popular music, especially where female artists were concerned. As a teenager in the mid-50s, the diminutive Jackson was the first woman to perform unadulterated rock and roll – and she one-upped the boys defining this new genre, Presley included, with her exhilaratingly forthright approach. The young Jackson, an Oklahoma native, came across as both gritty and glamorous; a playfully suggestive growl to her voice matched the daring, handmade outfits she wore, short skirts and fringed dresses that have inspired would-be bad girls for decades to come. A tireless touring artist for more than 50 years, Jackson continues to win over new, young fans, including guitarist-vocalist-White Stripes founder Jack White.
On this debut for Third Man/Nonesuch Records, produced and arranged by White at his Nashville studio, the spirited Jackson proves that brash rock and roll attitude need not have an age limit. Her trademark growl remains intact on rockers like “Rip It Up” and “Nervous Breakdown;” she opens the set with an echo-laden sneer on a rollicking version of “Shakin’ All Over” and ends it ten songs later with a plaintive take on Jimmie Rodgers’ “Yodel #6,” along the way gamely tackling country, gospel, densely worded Bob Dylan, and a little bit of Tin Pan Alley. Jackson and White are a remarkably simpatico pairing; their collaboration came together quickly, serendipitously. One of Jackson’s colleagues had originally approached White about doing a duet with Jackson for a proposed “Wanda and Friends” disc, but White demurred. Instead, he offered something better, inviting Jackson to cut a single with him for his Third Man label, and that swiftly led this kindred spirits to put together an entire album.
Bonnaroo Lineup and Ticket Information
Bonnaroo announced today the following:
We are getting very excited about the 10th edition of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and, now, at long last, we’re ready to start sharing some of the amazing things that we have in store for this year’s festival. We’ll start with the line up! Stay tuned this coming Tuesday, February 15, as we unveil many of the great artists that will be playing Bonnaroo 2011. So, be sure to visit us at www.bonnaroo.com to find out some of what we have in store. We’ll put tickets on sale Saturday, February 19th at noon Eastern. As you may recall, our special Holiday Pre-Sale back in November sold out in record time…less than 2 hours…so plan to act fast. And, of course, our special payment plans will once again be offered for both GA and VIP tickets. The 10th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will be held from June 9-12, 2011 on our beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Get ready for an unforgettable four-day weekend with more than 150 of your favorite bands, top comedians, art, activities, workshops, vendors and much more, as we celebrate 10 amazing years of Bonnaroo! We can’t wait to have you join us down on the farm in June! he official Bonnaroo lineup announcement hasn’t been announced yet — a publicist with the festival tells me that Feb. 15 is a good possibility — but for these last few days, let’s oscillate/speculate wildly and/or try to sort what we know from what we wish we knew/don’t know. For instance, the other night,Robert Plant announced from the stage that he and his Band of Joy will be playing in Manchester this summer. (They’re in Nashville to play War Memorial Auditorium tonight and tomorrow night.) RP and BOJ join Big Boi, Bruce Hornsby, Gregg Allman Blues Band, Black Star, Massive Attack and Robyn (!) in theunofficially-officially-confirmed column. Lineup Rumors from Nashville News: As always, ‘Roo-mors abound, if not as boundlessly as in years past. This is, after all, the big 10th anniversary, and the lid seems to be on pretty tight. However, according to one historically well-placed source, Arcade Fire (aka Vincent Moon’s least-favorite band) are a lock to headline Friday night. Names making the rounds as “likely” include My Morning Jacket, some incarnation of Les Claypool and/or Primus, Mumford & Sons, Girl Talk, Scissor Sisters, Cold War Kids, Best Coast and Fitz & the Tantrums, while some of the big names being bandied about with varying degrees of Hail Mary-ness include The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Daft Punk, U2, Pearl Jam, David Gilmour and Roger Waters, Dr. John (featuring the original Meters) and David Bowie.
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Taylor Swift coming to YUM Center
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift will bring her 2011 tour to Louisville on July 2. Swift will be joined by Need To Breath. Tickets on sale Friday February 18 @ 10AM
Trombone Shorty to play Headliners Music Hall April 2
WFPK Presents
Trombone Shorty
Saturday April 2
18+ (Doors 8pm)
On Sale Now – $17 / $20
Trombone Shorty meets the Bonnaroo Press
New Collisions to play Highlands Tap Room, March 22
New Collisions Are Getting Ready to Hit the Road with All New Tracks!
Plan to Dominate SXSW
Before Releasing Music Video and 7″!
“Throughout, the band showers the listener with compelling melodies. A lot of bands travel this ground; few do it so well.” —The Big Takeover
“Backed by a pantheon of rock and indie elite, New Collisions are getting ready to take over the world with their thought-provoking brand of pure pop-new-wave-punk.” —Fuse
(photo by Jeff Fasano)
Following a mega 2010 where critics and fans sang praises of the fresh-faced New Collisions, 2011 is shaping up to be equally as epic. After heading back to the studio with famed producers Sean Slade and Paul Kolderie (Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., The Sounds), New Collisions recorded all new tracks for a 7″, which will be released in April. The 7″ will premier two songs off New Collisions’ next LP, expected to be released this summer, and one of those tracks will see a music video treatment. What should fans expect of these new recordings? Rooted in more adventurous pop and rock, citing XTC and Elvis Costello as inspiration, guitarist Scott Guild says, “The 7″ will be two sardonic stories of failure and conceit.” After the strong story-telling in their debut LP, The Optimist, we have a lot to look forward to.
The band will be taking their new material and electrifying live act on the road, playing huge shows and SXSW! Taking the stages of venues everywhere from Webster Hall with Brooklyn’s Deluka to the WorkPlay Theater with Marcy Playground, singer Sarah Guild will be every bit of the “punk-rock firecracker” NY Press says she is. Be sure to check em out, as their live act has been lauded by critics everywhere, including New York Magazine, Blackbook Magazine, and The Boston Globe.
New Collisions Spring Tour Dates
Thurs, 3/3: The Fire – Philadelphia, PA
Fri, 3/4: Union Hall w/Fast Romantics – Brooklyn, NY
Sat 3/5: Studio@Webster Hall w/Deluka – New York, NY
Wed 3/9: Cafe Nine – New Haven, CT
Fri 3/11: Vinyl Music Hall – Pensacola, FL
Sat 3/12: Respectable Street – West Palm Beach, FL
Sun 3/13: Brewsters – Jacksonville, FL
Mon 3/14: WorkPlay Theater – Birmingham, Alabama, w/Marcy Playground
Wed 3/16 – Sun 3/20: SXSW – Austin, TX
Mon 3/21: Cicero’s – St. Louis, MO
Tues 3/22: Highlands Taproom – Louisville, KY
Wed 3/23: The Whistler – Chicago, IL
Thurs 3/24: The Crofoot – Pontiac, MI
Fri 3/25: Melody Inn – Indianapolis, IN
Sat 3/26: Frankie’s Inner City – Toledo, OH
Sun 3/27: Bernie’s Distillery – Columbus, OH
Mon 3/28: The Bug Jar – Rochester, NY
Fri 4/1: Valentine’s – Albany, NY
Sat 4/2: Dover Brick House – Dover, NH
Sun 4/3: Great Scott – Boston, MA w/Protokoll, Young Adults
Sat 4/16 – Record Store Day – Newbury Comics Faneuil Hall, Boston
The Decemberists to play Iroquois Amphitheater
concerts & events
Iroquois Amphitheater Summer Concert Series
The Decemberists with
Justin Townes Earle
Tuesday April 26th @ 8pm
Gates 6:30pm
Iroquois Amphitheater
All Ages
General Admission Tickets $35
Tickets On Sale 2/11 @10am
Tickets can be purchased at
www.ticketfly.com, ear x-tacy
and CD Central (Lexington)
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Life as a musician means continual evolution. Over the course of a career, any band worth paying attention to will pursue a sound, a direction, until it triggers a different idea and they’re chasing some other distant dream. With their sixth album, The King Is Dead, The Decemberists illustrate the power that comes from this kind of creative call-and-response.
When the band completed their wildly ambitious 2009 song cycle The Hazards of Love, frontman and primary songwriter Colin Meloy said that “doing this album took a lot out of me, and I’m definitely curious what will come out now that I’ve gotten it out of my system.”
The Hazards of Love, a narrative suite that grew out of old English folk tunes, met with widespread acclaim (Mojo wrote that “this spellbinding work peaks and soars with all the warmth and wonder of some great romantic adventure,” while Rolling Stone gave the album four stars), and was followed by a grand-scale tour in which The Decemberists performed the project in full. But by that time, Meloy was already feeling the pull of another approach.
“Hazards was actually a bit self-destructive,” he says. “We knew people might have a hard time getting into it. On tour, we would play the whole thing—but once we were onstage at Bonnaroo or wherever, I just kind of wanted to play some normal songs!”
Inspired by a move to a more rural area outside the band’s base of Portland, Oregon, Meloy took a few songs that had been left off of Hazards and started working on the kind of project he had long been thinking about—a set of more stripped-down, country-based songs. The mostly-acoustic arrangements on The King Is Dead showcase the ways in which The Decemberists—Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen—sound just as glorious in simple, concise compositions as they do on the elaborate structures that have defined their work for years.
As far back as 2004, the band released “The Tain,” an eighteen-and-a-half minute single based on an Irish myth. The Crane Wife (which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of 2006) took as its starting point an ancient Japanese folk tale, which was interpreted across three separate songs, and climaxed with “The Island,” a 13-minute, three-section murder ballad.
Meloy points out, however, that creating straightforward, unadorned songs can be at least as hard as building complicated musical epics. “For all my talk about how complex those records were, this one may have been harder to do,” he says. “It’s a real challenge to make simple music, and lot of times we had to deliberately hold off and keep more space. This record is an exercise in restraint.”
It’s no accident that songs like “All Arise!” and “Rise to Me,” complete with Funk’s plaintive pedal-steel guitar, echo the homespun sound of albums like Neil Young’s Harvest. Meloy describes that classic as “the quintessential barn record,” and it was the concept of the barn—as recording space and as attitude—that informed the making of The King Is Dead. The album was recorded in a converted barn at Pendarvis Farm—home of the annual Pickathon indie roots music festival—an 80-acre estate of lush meadows, forest, and Mt. Hood views outside of Portland. “We wanted that ethos,” he says. “That was the color we wanted the record to have.”
The country-rock sound of the 1970s was also behind the decision to bring in Americana luminary Gillian Welch, who sings on seven of the album’s ten songs. “Some of my favorite country-rock records had that consistent pairing with a female voice, like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris or Neil and Nicolette Larson on Comes a Time,” says Meloy. “We thought it’d be great if there was a female foil to my singing and Gillian was sweet enough to come on board.”
For some of the album’s other songs, The Decemberists were able to reel in one of their actual inspirations into the recording studio. “A few things, like ‘Down by the Water’ and ‘Calamity Song,’ were out-and-out homages to R.E.M.,” says Meloy. “Robyn Hitchcock was opening some of our shows, and Peter Buck plays in his group. I mentioned to him that I was writing some songs that were really ripping off his style, and he thought it was funny, so it seemed like, why not get him in and just wear it on our sleeves?” Buck wound up adding his signature propulsive, chiming guitar on those two songs, and contributing a mandolin part to the opener “Don’t Carry It All.”
Another of the album’s guest contributors is violinist Annalisa Tornfelt, a collaborator along with Funk, Conlee, and Query in the noir bluegrass band Black Prairie. Tornfelt’s rousing fiddle adorns “Don’t Carry It All,” “All Arise!,” and “Rox In The Box.”
For all of the album’s shift in musical direction, though, The King Is Dead is still clearly a Decemberists album, especially in the usage of imagery taken from landscapes, plants, and water throughout the lyrics. “The syntax of The Decemberists is definitely still there,” says Meloy. “I didn’t want it to be too much of a departure. But where the nature motifs were more mystical on The Hazards of Love, the flora of this record are more of a pastoral backdrop.”
To Colin Meloy, in some ways The King is Dead represents his own musical journey coming full circle. “Over the last eleven years or so, since I moved to Portland, I feel like I’ve been mining mostly English traditions for influence”, he says. “I guess I’ve kind of come back to a lot of the more American music that got me going in the first place – R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven and all these bands that borrowed from more American traditions like Neil Young and the Byrds.”
“Sometimes I kind of miss the epic-ness of the other albums,” he continues, “but it’s nice to get all of the information across in three minutes. It’s like going from reading a novel to reading a bunch of short stories.”
Bassist helped put Austin on the blues map. Alex Napier: 1949-2011
Alex Napier, who played bass for the Cobras with Stevie Ray Vaughan and in the bands of both Charlie and Will Sexton, died Thursday morning after a bout with liver cancer. He was 59.
He was one of the white musicians from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul Ray, Denny Freeman and Doyle Bramhall, who helped establish Austin’s blues town reputation during the “cosmic cowboy” era.
During the late ’60s, he did light shows at the Vulcan Gas Company and opened a club in Westlake that eventually became Soap Creek Saloon.
A founding member of the Leroi Brothers, Napier passed away at his home in DeSoto, his nephew Mark Stanley said.
In addition to being a noted bassist, Napier was an unforgettable character, with a great sense of humor and a sly grin.
“He had more stories than any book will ever be able to write about the Texas blues days in the ’60s-2000s,” said Steve Dean, who often booked Napier’s bands at the old AusTex Lounge.
Alex Napier
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