| April
8 2007: Robert Reynolds has co-produced Jon Roniger's new record, Charmed
Life which is due to be released on
Tuesday 15 April 2008. Robert also plays on it,
along with Paul Deakin, Scotty Huff, Warren Pash - and many others (see
below). Jon is touring the UK from 17 April 2008: if he passes your way, make sure you go out to see him, you'll have a great time!
October 6 2007: "Deakin, Reynolds and Friends" are appearing at The Hogsbreath, in Key West, Florida, from Monday 8 October to Sunday 21 October 2007, inclusive - 10pm-2am EST. You can watch and listen to the shows live on the webcam at the Hogsbreath website. September 16 2007: Paul Deakin, Robert Reynolds and Nick Kane of the Mavericks perform (with Thad Cockrell on vocals) on "Dixie's Land", a track on a new 3-CD set entitled "Song of America". Obtainable from Amazon from 18 September 2007. You can listen to Dixie's Land by downloading Karen Miller's "The Miller Tells Her Tale" podcast #212 August 5 2007: "Deakin, Reynolds and Friends" are appearing at The Hogsbreath, in Key West, Florida, from Monday 6 August to Sunday 12 August 2007, inclusive - 10pm-2am. You can watch and listen to the shows live on the webcam at the Hogsbreath website. July 31 2007: More Live Hillbilly All-Star photographs from the Midlands Music Festival 2007 added to the site, courtesy of Karen Miller. Click here to view. This year's line-up was: Robert Reynolds, Paul Deakin, Chuck Mead, Chris Scruggs, and they were joined by Jim Lauderdale for two songs on both days. Visit the Diary section on Karen's site for a full review of the weekend's events, and the Flickr page she has uploaded for many more great photos. And yet more Hillbilly All-Star pictures from the Midlands Music Festival have been added, this time courtesy of Raymonda Laermans. Click here to view. May 11 2007: Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin (and friends), performing as the Hillbilly All-Stars, will be appearing at the Midlands Music Festival again this year - Saturday 28 July and Sunday 29 July 2007. See Shows page. February 15 2007: SWAG are likely to be recording a new CD at 16 Ton Studios in Nashville in November this year. September 17 2006: Robert Reynolds is acting as Nashville guide to Bryan Burnett of BBC Radio Scotland for the first hour of Bryan's Brand New Country show on Friday 22 September 2006. Listen online here - it'll be archived for a week afterwards. The second hour of the show is a recording of a Jeff Finlin house concert. (Robert Reynolds, Paul Deakin, Pat Buchanan and Jeff toured together with Kevin Montgomery in 2000.) September 16 2006: Review of the Hillbilly All-Stars appearance at the Midlands Music Festival, Ireland, added to the Press Section. August 21 2006: Four more live Hillbilly All-Stars photographs from the Midlands Music Festival added. Many thanks to Raymonda Laermans for these. Click here to view. July 30 2006: Live Hillbilly All-Stars photographs from Midlands Music Festival, 29 July 2006, added to the site. Al Perkins joined Chuck Mead, Mark Collie and Robert Reynolds at the Midlands Music Festival in Ireland. Many thanks to Karen Miller and Raymonda Laermans. Click here to view July 9 2006: Live Hillbilly All-Stars photographs from April 2006 added to the site. Click here to view. More photographs from the event can be found at the Country Music Club of Switzerland's website . You can translate the text by using Babelfish . There are quite a few photos of the band, interspersed with pictures of the audience, so keep watching while they rotate to make sure you've seen them all. Many thanks to Marco Duss for permission to reproduce his photographs on this site. July 6 2006: Two photos added (see below) from the recording session for Dean Owens' new album. There are more on his website, so don't forget to pay a visit. June 18 2006: Robert Reynolds gave a 20-min interview to a Canadian radio station on 31 May 2006, where he announced that SWAG would be releasing a new CD this year. Also he said Jerry Dale McFadden was a part of the Hillbilly All-Stars, which is good news! Listen to the archived interview at http://www.twangtrust.ca/may31-2.mp3 June 17 2006: Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin, together with the rest of the Hillbilly All-Stars , will be performing at the Midlands Music Festival, Ireland, on Saturday 29 July 2006. http://www.midlands June 12 2006: Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin will be appearing at The Hogsbreath in Florida in July - in a show billed as Deakin, Reynolds and Friends, which runs from 17-23 July 2006. Check the Entertainments listings - and watch the webcasts. They do occasionally play SWAG songs. June 10 2006: It's been a while, but here are the latest updates on what the band members are currently up to: Robert Reynolds, together with Paul Deakin, have multiple musical collaborations: * The Hillbilly All-Stars http://www.livetourartists.com/hillbilly-allstars/index.htm The Hillbilly All-Stars are made up of Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin of the sensational country mega-band, The Mavericks, Chuck Mead of BR549, and hit solo recording artist/actor Mark Collie. They will be rounded out by a backup band of some of country music's best studio musicians to complement this new honky-tonk country supergroup. The Hillbilly All-Stars came about when these musical friends all got together over their common love of old style honky-tonk country music. Fun jams lead to occasional gigs between their own projects. The excitement created from these sessions almost demanded that more must happen - and more is happening! Recordings are in the works, with a debut CD slated to hit the streets this summer along with some North American touring. Live, The Hillbilly All-Stars are the best of both worlds. They'll play many of the well-known hits from their individual recording careers - songs like "All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down" and "There Goes My Heart" from The Mavericks - Mark Collie hits such as "Even The Man in the Moon is Crying" and "Shame Shame Shame" - plus songs from BR549's past recordings. Their live show will also highlight their new CD plus their interpretations of many great country honky-tonk classics - the very songs responsible for the creation of The Hillbilly All-Stars in the first place! * Limberjack http://www.myspace. ![]() An authentic Appalachian Mountain rhythm instrument made and played in America since colonial days. Sometimes called a clogger man, jigger, or shuffling Sam because of its dancing action. OR, a new and consisting of three of Nashville most beloved, prolific and astute music heroes. Matt King, has done the major label dance, released several acclaimed solo albums and reinvented himself as a true to life country music outlaw. He is one third of Limberjack. The other 2/3 of Limberjack are made up of the driving force and rhythm section of one of the most successful and most awarded bands in country music, The Mavericks. Robert Reynolds and Paul Deakin have teamed up with Matt King to form Limberjack, Nashville's newest supergroup. * Dean Owens http://www.deanowens.com Pictures from the recording of Dean Owens' new record, Whiskey Hearts, can be found on his site - here are two of them, courtesy of Dean Owens. * Kevin Montgomery http://www.kevinmontgomery.com Occasional touring with Kevin Montgomery, with frequent visits to The Hogsbreath, where the shows are webcast and you may well hear a SWAG song or two.. * The Wintersky Works - Robert Reynolds CD Robert released another album entitled The Wintersky Works. You can listen to samples at Robert's website
* Doug Powell http://www.dougpowell.com/ Doug has decided to concentrate on his graphic design work and will no longer be involved with music. There is the chance to buy his last album from Not Lame. This is the publicity they put out: Doug Powell has a new album out... and, sadly, it is his last as he's announced he's going to cease working on music to focus on his career as a graphic designer and expert Flash designer. Since you've picked up as least one of his past releases from us, figured you'd like know about this one --- it's a wonderful, appropriate 'bow-out', too. Doug Powell - Four Seasons Price: $11 Link: http://www.notlame.com/CDPOWELL1.html Brand new album from Doug Powell, one of long time favorite artists here at Not Lame and for many, many of you, you feel the same!! This one may very well be the last one we`ll see from Doug, though, as he`s announced his retirement from music to concentrate on his writing and graphic design business. If that is how it has to be -- and we understand completely as there just is not enough support for musicians these days to take care of `biz`--- it`s a fan-pleasing move with this one. Much of this material never would have seen the light of day without this sort of project. So there`s the scoop. There are 13 songs on this release, all of which you can sample below. 6 of these were songs written for The (New) Cars, who were looking at having Powell join the band before they settled on Todd Rundgren. He wrote these songs for the band and.. well, listen below. They *are* The Cars. It`s amazing how Doug captured `the sound`. If The New Cars stay together and work on new material, guess what? They`ll have a hard time doing better than any of these tracks. Really. The scary thing? Doug tossed this baby off as a creative exercise. The next four songs are from his Japanese only EP, Venus DeMilo`s Arms, which only had 500 printed up. Classic Powell. It was a project of songs from 1996 that he was shopping around for labels after being dropped by Mercury the year before. 2 other songs were recorded in 2004 towards a new record that was never finished. The last song, Song #13, was written for Ringo Starr`s 1999 Christmas CD(quite good, btw!) but went unused by Ringo. What was he thinking?!! All in all, it`s a joy-filled send-off and one that most pop fans will find great enjoyment from! Soundbites from all the tracks are at the link, too! ENJOY! Peace 'n Pop, Marlene @ Not Lame Recordings http://www.notlame.com * Jerry Dale McFadden Last we heard, Jerry Dale McFadden's doing well with his art gallery. http://www.tagartgallery.com/ |
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June 17
2003: Robert's
released a 6-track 'work in progress' album whilst touring the UK with
Kevin Montgomery and the Road Trippers. The six
tracks
are:
Notes from the reverse of the sleeve: "The inspiration for this little collection came while preparing for another tour of the UK. A number of dedicated friends and fans were interested in hearing my solo efforts, and though this project is still taking shape, I decided to release some work in progress. It's a random selection of songs, some earmarked for a future pop project and a few that were written for my first solo record, which will blend my love for country, rock, and pop." Robert has also written brief notes for each track on the album sleeve: She Brings The
Rain
(Reynolds, Allen, McFadden) Carolina (Reynolds) Mama's Dogs (Reynolds) Dragonfly
(Reynolds) Waiting On A
Train (Reynolds,
Allen) Audrey In A
Dream
(Reynolds, Allen) |
| April 15 2003: News that the Mavericks are re-forming, which means that Robert Reynolds will be even busier! Robert is releasing a CD of his own music this year. |
| March 15 2003: Robert Reynolds is continuing to tour Europe and the UK as a member of Kevin Montgomery's band The Road Trippers. Robert is composing his own songs and sings some of them on tour, notably "Dragonfly", which is always received very well by the audiences. |
| July 25 2002: Jerry Dale McFadden update: Jerry Dale is now officially a full member of Sixpence None The Richer, and plays on every track on their upcoming album, Divine Discontent, which is on Warner/Reprise. The record will be released in the US on September 24. Look out for him on the official photographs. |
| July 20 2002: Robert Reynolds will again be part of Kevin Montgomery's Road Trippers - this time for their appearance at the 2nd Buddy Holly Music Festival & Symposium at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas on August 31. Details here |
| July 8 2002: Robert Reynolds will be playing in Kevin Montgomery's band The Road Trippers for their second two-week residency at the Hogsbreath in Key West, Florida, July 8-21. |
| June 4
2002: Jerry
Dale McFadden news: he has just finished recording four more
songs
with Sixpence None The Richer for their September release.
There's
a photoshoot on Wednesday 5 June in relation to the release.
Sixpence will be playing a few dates this summer but will not really be touring hard until the album comes out in the Fall. |
| May 30
2002: Doug
Powell update: Doug will be playing bass in July with Pete
Stringfellow
on his tour of China.
Doug's new CD,
The Lost
Chord, is now available now from Parasol
Records - on their site there's the chance to hear a track from the
CD, "Baby Blue". You can buy his earlier CD
"Curiouser"
for only $5 when you order "The Lost Chord",
There's a new book available, "Flash Frames: A New Pop Culture", by Stuart Shapiro and Laurie Dolphin, which includes some of Doug's artwork. An interview with Doug about his work with Todd Rundgren can be found in the new biography "A Dream Goes On Forever: The Continuing Story of Todd Rundgren" by Billy James. |
| May 19 2002: Robert Reynolds completed his latest tour of Europe in Kevin Montgomery's band The Roadtrippers. Also in the band were Paul Deakin (ex Mavericks and SWAG), and Al Perkins. Support was Joe Pisapia. |
| March
21 2002: Doug's
new cd will be out May/June 2002. The drums to one of the songs
will
be re-recorded shortly by Doug's favorite drummer of all time - Prairie
Prince from the Tubes (also drummed on XTC's Skylarking and Wasp
Star)!
He'll be the only guest.
Doug also contributed Love is Like Oxygen to a tribute cd to Sweet which just came out. Keep checking Doug's website Meanwhile, Robert Reynolds is playing in Kevin Montgomery's band at their two-week residency at the Hog's Breath, in Key West, Florida, 18-31 March 2002. Other members of the band are erstwhile SWAG guests Paul Deakin (drums) and Scotty Huff (guitar). |
| March
1 2002: Doug performs a track
on the 60th birthday tribute to Brian Wilson - he performs "'Til I
Die".
This album will be released by Silent Planet this summer.
Sixpence
None The Richer also have a track on this CD.
Doug also has a track on a new Not Lame Records compilation . He sings the Partridge Family's 'I Woke Up In Love This Morning'. Keep checking the Not Lame website |
| February
28 2002: Ken Coomer will be
performing
at SXSW this year with Bare Jr. They are scheduled to play at Stubbs on
Friday, March 15 at 9:00 p.m.
Otherwise, Ken is currently keeping himself occupied by getting involved in producing a few bands in Nashville. Robert Reynolds has recently completed a two-month tour of Europe with Kevin Montgomery. |
| February
18 2002: Jerry Dale McFadden
will
be making some appearances with Sixpence None The Richer in March at
the
South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. The
Conference
begins on Wednesday March 13 and concludes Saturday March 16.
On March 13 Sixpence will play at The Austin Music Awards held in the Austin Music Hall, and then on March 16 they will do a full set at a venue called the Steamboat. The full schedule is available at the SXSW website |
| February
9 2002: News from Doug's website
that he has almost finished his new CD 'The Lost Chord', which will be
released later this year on Parasol
Records.
More DP News is that Doug is contributing 'Waters Part' to a Let's Active tribute. |
January
30 2002: Doug Powell's CD EP Venus
DeMilo's
Arms is now available at Not Lame Records. Tracks are: Shot Like
A Bullet Into The Sun, Do You Know Mary, Bye Bye Magpie, But I'm Only
Dreaming.
There's ordering information and a soundclip of Bye Bye Magpie on the
Not
Lame website -
plus
you can obtain his earlier CDs from the site
![]() artwork: Doug Powell |
| January 21 2002: The Japanese label JVC will shortly be putting out the Catchall album with two bonus tracks, "Your New One" (never before released, Robert sings) and "Let It Go" (which was a Swag song which appeared on Jerry Dale's solo album "This Girl"). You can find details of Jerry Dale's music here |
| January
19 2002: Robert Reynolds and Paul
Deakin
are currently touring Europe with Kevin Montgomery. Robert
has been getting wild applause for his solo spot, which features 'Near
Perfect Smile' and a new song he's written, 'Dragonfly'. For more
details on the tour, which lasts until mid-February, check
www.kevinmontgomery.com
Jerry Dale McFadden has a prior commitment with Sixpence None The Richer, but had been pencilled in to join the Kevin Montgomery tour. |
| January 16 2002: After some unavoidable delays,"Lynne Me Your Ears" is finally being released on January 25 2002. Tracklisting below: |
October
26 2001: The new issue of ICE magazine
mentions
SWAG's version of "Don't Bring Me Down" on the forthcoming "Lynne Me
Your
Ears": A Tribute to Jeff Lynne. It was one of only five
"key
cuts" mentioned of 33 total tracks! Doug Powell is the
executive
producer of this tribute.
1 Bobby
Sutliff
/ Mitch Easter - 10538 Overture |
| On August 21 2001, SWAG provided the backing for Denny Diamond, a 'captivating Neil Diamond impersonator who stops at nothing to entertain'. The show was at the Slow Bar in East Nashville. The set didn't contain any SWAG songs. Word is that SWAG 'had a blast'... |
| The August 5 2001show from Schuba's, Chicago, is set to be webcast. Details at: ttp://www.digitalclubnetwork.comThis show has not been archived yet. Keep checking. |
| Setlist for the show at Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, on April 21 was: Different Girl, Please Don't Tell, Sweet Lucinda, Lone, Near Perfect Smile, Every Little Truth, Eight, Louise, Trixie, Ride, She's Deceiving, You, Don't Bring Me Down, and Hey Bulldog. The show was webcast and is archived at http://www.dcn.com/contest/band_page.jsp?bandName=swag# |
| Venus
DeMilo's Arms. Wizard in Vinyl, a Tokyo label, will be releasing a
four-song
Doug Powell ep called Venus DeMilo's Arms. This will be out
in the fall and numbers will be limited.
Lynne Me Your Ears Doug Powell is the executive producer for the tribute to Jeff Lynne, "Lynne Me Your Ears". It will come out this fall and be a two-cd set. Doug has 20 of the tracks so far and it is proving to be a really exceptional project! |
| June
17 2001: SWAG played a 40-min set at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville - songs were: Different Girl, Please Don't Tell, Sweet Lucinda, Near Perfect Smile, Lone, Trixie, Louise, I Don't Even Know Your Name, Ride, She's Deceiving, You. Doug couldn't be there, so Sean Kelly from Sixpence None The Richer stood in. Robert hoped people could make it to 12th and Porter in Nashville on Friday night for their next show. If you missed the show, you can listen via RealPlayer to the archived show. But it's only archived until next week's show. Actually, there's an easy way and a hard way to do this. This is an easier way than the one given to me by Radio Lightning. Just go to http://www.broadcast.com/radio/archives/wrlt/nashville/ and click on "Nashville Sunday Night Archives". The hard way (for all you masochists) is this: Go to Radio Lightning's site: http://www.wrlt.com Once there, click on "Listen", "Listen Now", (instead of archive). Once the Yahoo Broadcast page is up, click on "Lightning 100 archives" to get the audio of the the Nashville Sunday Night show. Note: sometimes the live broadcast over-rides the archived show - you'll need to click "Lightning 100 archive" again to get the archived show . |
| June
13 2001: Not Lame Records is
planning
a Jeff Lynne homage that (tentatively) includes SWAG, Bill Lloyd,
Matthew
Sweet and more cool performers...
Momzine http://milesofmusic.com/ |