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Nashville: 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 in a couple weeks!" www.headcount.org.

Scott Biram"s "Chickens" on Eight 30 Records 9/7!
Eight 30 Records will release a digital single of Scott H. Biram"s “Chickens” on September 7! The new song will be featured on The Messenger: A Tribute to Ray Wylie Wylie Hubbard (due late 2019), a companion collection to Brian T. Atkinson"s The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard (Texas A&M University Press, fall 2019). “We"re so excited to give a glimpse into the Ray Wylie tribute we"ll be working hard on for the next year,” says Eight 30 Records" Jenni Finlay, who is producing the album with label co-owner Atkinson. “"Chickens" was tailor made for Scott and we love his fiery one-man band take on the song.”

Preview Biram"s “Chickens,” a Hayes Carll and Ray Wylie Hubbard co-write originally recorded by Carll on his breakthrough album Little Rock, HERE. Biram appears on The Messenger courtesy of Bloodshot Records.

Matt Harlan"s Topical "What We Saw" Out Today!
Listen up to Matt Harlan"s topical 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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Stay Tuned for J.D. Pinkus
The “grass” that influences this banjo might not the the “blue” variety…J.D. Pinkus has written and worked with a variety of projects. Joining the Butthole Surfers at the tender age of 17 started this musical journey. He currently performs with Melvins, Honky, Pure Luck, and solo banjo, which is a beautifully odd mixture of all above mentioned. J.D. Pinkus’ Keep On The Grass” were recorded live in the studio and will take the listener on a few unique audio journeys. Warning: Objects in speakers may appear closer than they actually are.

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"Wonder" Video 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.). CHECK IT OUT:

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 October. 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!)

The Robert Kraft Trio is in the works of making their next record, titled Soul 73. "The new record, Soul 73, is leaner and more stripped down than our previous release (2017’s North Bishop Ave), " Kraft explains. "Topically, the songs touch on a range of issues - from domestic violence, our need look out for each other, the importance of resistance and social justice - plus a few about life and love and the importance of slow-jamming."

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New Chris Fullerton Digital Single Available Now!
News: Eight 30 Records is pleased to release Chris Fullerton"s “All of My Good Friends” as a digital single on September 1! The new song previews Fullerton"s forthcoming Consider the Shoebill, due in the coming months on Eight 30 Records.

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“The concept of "All of My Good Friends" was inspired by Dante’s The Inferno,” Fullerton says, “wherein the story’s protagonist is unexpectedly ushered along a journey through the afterlife and finds himself traversing the depths of Hell where he recognizes the faces of friends and others once known to him in life, among those damned to their eternal suffering in death.” Keep an eye out for Consider the Shoebill soon!!

Stay Tuned for Craig Marshall
Craig Marshall"s lengthy musical resume stretches back to his teen years performing with various combos in his hometown of Syracuse, New York. He moved to Austin in the early 1990s with his then-band, the country-leaning Delta Rays, but soon found himself founding and leading the locally popular Sinatra-style jazz-swing outfit The Lucky Strikes.

The latest entry into Marshall’s discography is his sixth album After All, his second outing with producer (and longtime Marshall admirer) Robert Harrison, leader of the critically acclaimed band Cotton Mather. “I’m hearing Buck Owens or Merle Haggard in my head when I’m writing a song like ‘After All’ or ‘The Only Sound,’” Marshall says, but in fact, two of After All’s centerpieces, the single “Something On Your Mind” and “Only Till The End of Time” navigate firmly in the Petty-Beatles lane.

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Listen Up to Greg Hawks!
It’s been more than three decades since Greg Hawks kicked off a career as a critically-acclaimed songwriter, frontman and multi-instrumentalist, leaving his mark on everything from alt-country to bluegrass music. He casts a wide net with 2018’s I Think It’s Time, his fourth album inspired by the twang of classic country, the hooks of 1970s pop/rock, the rhythmic soul of old-school Stax records and Hawks’ roots in the American South. With influences that veer from Big Star to Buck Owens, I Think It’s Time shines new light on an enduring, eclectic musician who was making Americana music before the genre had a name.

I Think It’s Time holds a mirror to the modern world and its swirl of partisan politics, social media debates, and maddening echo chamber of the 24-hour news cycle. Hawks shares his struggles, torn between his desire to defy our leaders — as with “ King of Hate,” one of the album’s most sharply-worded tracks — and his need to preserve his own sanity. I Think It’s Time also marks the most musically inclusive work of Hawks’ career. The sunnily strummed “Hope I Never Know” evokes Tom Petty’s award-winning work with Jeff Lynne, while “Nothing Matters Anymore” channels the dark, impactful work of Johnny Cash’s final albums. Together, the songs on I Think It’s Time do more than examine the personal and political struggles of a divided country — they show the full range Hawks’ passions and songwriting talent.

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Nichole Wagner IN STORES NOW
THIS JUST IN: And The Sky Caught Fire is soaring up the charts: #31 Folk; #22 Contemporary Folk; and #22 Texas (according to Roots Music Report)! Thank you radio!!

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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James McMurtry Hits the Road in October
CLICK HERE for all tour dates and don"t miss a show near you!

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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Listen Up to The Footnotes!
The Footnotes, based in Austin and Houston, are releasing their third self-titled CD on Friday, October 19. 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.

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Listen Up for Gary Floater Tribute Track On Cable!
Eight 30 Records is proud to announce that The Band of Heathens" version of "Dirty South" will appear in the pilot of upcoming series "Fastest Cars of the Dirty South." How to tune in: If you have MotorTrend On Demand, you get to see the show anytime starting on 9/3/18. If you watch cable TV, it will premiere on Velocity on 9/18/18 at 9:00pm Eastern.

CLICK HERE to purchase Floater: A Tribute to the Tributes to Gary Floater now!

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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Jenny Van West Hits the Road
Jenny Van West has a full calendar this month. Check out the dates below and don"t miss a show near you!
9/4 Brunswick, ME Songwriters on Stage/Maine Songwriters Association9/8 Easton, MD Private
9/9 Rockville, MD House Concert
9/11 Durham, NC Evening of Music with Rissi Palmer
9/12 Charlotte, NC House Concert
9/13 Nashville, TN Americana MusicFest
9/15 Jackson, TN American Roots Saturday
9/16 Nashville, TN House Concert
9/17 Buffalo, NY House Concert
9/18 Woodstock, NY House Concert
9/22 Unity ME Common Ground Country Fair/Spotlight Stage
9/27 Portland, ME Troubadours in the Round
9/27 Portland, ME One Longfellow Square
10/20 Monmouth, ME Cumston Hall

CLICK HERE for more about Jenny Van West

New Single by Liz Frame + the Kickers!
"What You Gonna Do When I Go," brand new single by Liz Frame and the Kickers is available NOW! CLICK HERE to check it out.

Sparrow in a Shoebox is available now! CLICK HERE to purchase your copy today!

Liz Frame and the Kickers continue their tour, criss-crossing the Northeast in support of the record. “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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Steve Finlay"s The Wall Out Now!
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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.

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