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"Wonder" Video Premiere from The Robert Kraft Trio
Great News: The Robert Kraft Trio recently recorded a brand-new music video for the band"s crowd-pleasing hit "Wonder," directed by Scott Rice (Two Shot West Production Co.). The video will be unleashed Friday, August 3 at Austin"s legendary Continental Club Gallery at 8 p.m. CLICK HERE for more information.

Central Texas: Catch the Robert Kraft Trio every Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the Continental Club Gallery. Don"t miss out on this scene: It"s one of the greatest nights of music in town. (The Robert Kraft Trio is available in September. If you"d like to see the Robert Kraft Trio in your neck of the woods at a venue, house concert or shindig, CLICK HERE!)

“ROBERT KRAFT MAKES SMART MUSIC THAT"S ALSO IRRESISTIBLY DANCEABLE. EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES BECOMES AN INSTANT CLASSIC.” - BRENNEN LEIGH

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FREE Download: Matt Harlan"s "What We Saw"
Listen up to Matt Harlan"s new single "What We Saw" featuring legendary banjo ace Danny Barnes and MilkDrive"s Noah Jeffries on fiddle! "I got the idea for this song - and some others I’ve been writing for the new album - from advice a songwriter friend gave me recently," Harlan says. "I was frustrated, wondering how to describe the paralyzing amount of change and division that seems to be everywhere these days, and my friend Jimmy said, "We should all probably be starting from the perspective of bringing people together.""

"The whole time I was so worried about how we’ve been pulled apart, I hadn’t been thinking that way. So I scribbled down some words and brought a bare-bones draft to a weekly writing group we have and together we tapped into our own experiences to help each other form a picture of why we feel the way we do these days. Not only were we writing about coming together, we had to actually come together to write the song." Keep an eye out for Harlan"s forthcoming full-length collection featuring "What We Saw," due in spring 2019 on Eight 30 Records!

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JFP Celebrates 12 Years with Exclusive Party
Celebrate Jenni Finlay Promotions" twelvth year with an intimate and exclusive showcase at Catfish Concerts on Sunday, August 19! Featuring the best of the best of Americana music, and with limited seating, CLICK HERE to purchase your tickets today!

Liz Frame + the Kickers on Starbucks Spotify!
Sparrow in a Shoebox is available now! CLICK HERE to purchase your copy today!

BIG NEWS: Liz Frame added to by Starbuck"s Spotify playlist. CLICK HERE to check it out.

Beginning this month, Liz Frame and the Kickers hit the road in support of the record this summer and fall and certainly will make some legions of new fans along the way. “Honestly, I feel like we’re this undiscovered little gem of a band,” Frame says. “I mean that in all modesty. We’ve worked hard the last five years — touring and recording, playing as many shows as we can, given our somewhat complicated lives outside of music. We all have days jobs, but we all love making original music. It sustains us. It’s what I love to do most.” CLICK HERE for tour dates and don"t miss the show!

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Campfire Propaganda AMA Day Party!
Americana music fans: Join us in Nashville on September 15! Campfire Propaganda and Eight 30 Records are proud to present our day party during the Americana Music Association"s annual festival from 11 am - 7 pm at Michael Weintrob Photography Studio, 9191 Gallatin Pike. The event will feature performances by Mary Gauthier, Tim Easton, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Chris Fullerton, Matt Harlan, Eliza Gilkyson and many, many more! "We"re so excited to join forces with Campfire Propaganda to present this stellar event," Eight 30 Records co-owner Jenni Finlay says. "See you in Nashville next month!" www.headcount.org.

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Johnny Irion"s Driving Friend: MOJO Rave Review
"Two years ago, Johnny Irion put together a band, US Elevator, to play the rock songs that he"d been neglecting since he partnered with Sarah Lee Guthrie and made five folk albums. During a break break in recording that band"s self-title debut, he started writing the songs that led to this album, recording them on a 24-track vintage Studer tape machine. Not so much American rock, more Americana - 10 engaging songs played with a band that includes Neal Casal and members of Dawes, Wilco and Mother Hips. Song of them played a part in US Elevator, so it"s no surprise to hear some of that album"s Burritos, Beatles and Laurel Canyon moments on this album too (Palm Springs; Salvage the Day; Angels Fly). Fine mid-tempo country-rock with a tinge of nostalgia and a sense of summer."

NPR Weekend Edition interview with Scott Simon

RELIX ALBUM PREMIERE of Driving Friend

PASTE MAGAZINE premiere of Cabin Fever!

Johnny Irion is on the road!! CLICK HERE for a show near you!

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Nichole Wagner Climbing Charts!
Great News: According to the Roots Music Report, And The Sky Caught Fire is not only the contemporary folk chart, but the main folk album chart. HUGE thank you to radio for all of the support and spins!

Available in stores NOW. Purchase your copy of And The Sky Caught Fire HERE.

Check it out on Spotify HERE

Nichole Wagner"s new album casts more than a hint of gorgeous color and light through its confessional prism — more than enough, at least, to illuminate her way forward as a determined performer primed and ready to catch fire herself. Seeing as how it’s only been three years since her first time braving an open-mic, the stellar singer-songwriter really now gets to live out her lifelong dream.

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Stay Tuned for The Footnotes!
The Footnotes based in Austin and Houston, are releasing their third self-titled CD on Friday, October 19, 2018. Their music is rootsy, high-energy rock "n" roll that embodies the unpretentious attitude, catchy songcraft and high-energy abandon of the vintage classics that originally inspired them to make music.

Gary Floater Tribute to the Tributes Earns Press!
"There’s far too much worthwhile local music (including many records released by this label) to waste time or money on such a trifle" - Peter Blackstock, Austin American-Statesman

Eight 30 Records is proud to announce the release the eighteen-song Floater: A Tribute to the Tributes to Gary Floater“We"re so excited about our latest tribute album honoring the great Gary Floater,” says Eight 30 Records" Jenni Finlay, who produced the album with label co-owner Brian T. Atkinson. “There"s truly never been anyone like him.” Indeed, the "legendary" Floater tunes are singular. Consider a few titles: “Whatever Man,” “Thanks Me,” “Let Me Kiss You Where It Hurts,” “A Hero Never Learns,” “Grandpa"s Promise,” “Pull Over I Wanna Eat That,” “Sunburn Lake.”

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Floater: A Tribute to the Tributes to Gary Floater offers a veritable who"s who of singer-songwriters with their takes on Floater"s solid gold country classics. A short list – The Band of Heathens (“The Dirty South”), James McMurtry (“Grandpa"s Promise”), Jason Eady (“Stand Back Boys I"m Fixing to Care”), Rod Picott (“That"s What I"m Gonna Do”) – gives a glimpse. Floater himself will embark on his 40-city “Drink a Forty for the Fortieth” tour later this year celebrating the 40th anniversary of his unforgettable 1978 landmark album Denim on Denim, which features several songs on the new tribute (to the tributes).

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**Steve Finlay"s The Wall Out Now!**
Steve Finlay crafts songs personal (“Life in a Song”) and political (“The Wall”) with an everyman"s grace (“A Dog Chasing Cars”). Evidence: The Wall. The Waco-based songwriter"s new collection spotlights a late blooming but rapidly rising troubadour in peak form (“Lovesick Serenade”). The Wall simply spotlights straightforward country music in its finest fashion. After all, the best can be expected from the brother of legendary Cheatham Street Warehouse owner Kent Finlay. “I attended Texas State University in San Marcos during Cheatham Street"s first few years and developed a closer relationship with Kent then,” Finlay says. “That"s when I grew more interested in songwriting.”

The Wall highlights Texas music like few others (“Match That Lights My Fire”). Imagine Ernest Tubb holding court at an East Austin beer joint and you"ll frame the picture. Finlay"s background steered the course. “I was born and raised near the geographical center of Texas in the small community of Fife,” Finlay explains. “I was the fifth of five children. Music was a big part of family life with all of the children being involved in music to some degree. As a child and adolescent, I was involved in working sheep, working cows and participating in all the farming operations in raising cotton, wheat and oats.”

The Wall proves the point. The album"s worth the wait.

Host a House Concert with john Arthur martinez!
House concerts are a fun and great way to support your favorite artists! john Arthur martinez will provide your friends and family an amazing memory you will keep forever. CLICK HERE to schedule your house concert - we"ll help you set it up with tips and tricks to throw the best house concert possible.

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James McMurtry"s "State of the Union"
CLICK HERE for the FREE download of McMurtry"s new political single, "State of the Union."

And stay tuned for updates on a brand new album by McMurtry. “I"m tired of the road, but I wouldn"t want to be denied access to it,” McMurtry says. “I"m always writing new material one line at a time on the iPhone. I don"t know when there will be a new record, but Ross Hogarth will produce it whenever it happens.”

CLICK HERE for the recent feature in The New York Times

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