| 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) |
