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Michael Juan Nunez

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*************STARTING 1/22/10 FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS CDBABY WILL DONATE $1.00 FROM EVERY CD SOLD OR DOWNLOADED, TO THE RED CROSS FOR HATIAN RELIEF. To order you can visit at www.cdbaby.com******************We have Put up a couple of live cuts, recorded at Grant Street Dancehall during Festival international, while opening for Sonny Landreth. There are more tunes, and we are discussing realesing our first live record. Let us know what you think! Personel that evening...Jeff Lewis on Drums, Chad Willis on bass, Eric Adcock on Hammond B3, MJN on guitar and lead vox. ENJOY!...................................................... .......................................We have also included unreleased tracks, in a collection just called "STUFF" there's more, but we had no more space. Maybe we'll put the entire collection up sometime.................................................... ............................ 'The American Electric' Now Available at.....ITunes....WWW.DIGSTATION.Com....(Lafayette, LA) Barnes and Noble....(Abbeville, LA) The Abbeville Record Shop....(New Orleans, LA) Louisiana Music Factory....WWW.CDBaby.com................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .............."SHAPE SHIFTING You thought you had Michael Juan Nunez pegged as just another Louisiana blues revivalist dude, right? WRONG. Think again. On his new CD, American Electric, Nunez, like some mad scientist locked up in the lab of his Mind, audaciously deconstructs his own love of blues, roots, rock, and folk and comes out with a Frankenstein-like monster that roars, grinds, stomps, jitters, tweaks, and spits at the hallowed totems of the age. Like some kid just reveling in the joy of making music, Michael Juan, at mid-career strangely enough, has thrown out the rule book. Like Tom Waits in the 80s, he’s burning with a new fire and charging into the great unknown, reaching for something stranger and superior to his past efforts. Feeling no allegiance to the purist orthodoxy that dries the lifeblood of new creation, Nunez playfully whips his way through twelve tunes that screech, grind at odd intervals, and scream through forests of invention. This is John Lee Hooker mind-melding with Ray Kurzweil type stuff. Go buy one at www.digstation.com , Barnes and Nobles in Lafayette, or the Louisiana Music Factory in New Orleans. — Dege Legg-'The Independent' magazine.................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ................................. make
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Member Since: 03/03/2005
Band Website: www.michaeljuannunez.com
Band Members: MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ AND THE RIVERBABYS.....MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ: Lead Vocals, Electric, and Acoustic Guitars, Dobro, Lap Steel, CHAD WILLIS: Bass, Backing Vocals JEFF LEWIS: Drums, and percussion::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: THE VERMILION PARISH BASTARDS....GARLAND THOMPSON:lead vox, GTR, BUCK VERRET:bass, back vox, MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ: guitar back vox, DONALND DEBLANC: drums....ROCK-N-HONKEY TONK. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: THE MINGUS CON....MARK MEAUX: Guitar, lead vox CHAD WILLIS:bass back vox, MICHAEL JUAN NUNEZ: Guitar, lead vox::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Influences: (1) Frosty The Snowman (he certainly knew how short life is)(2) Ren and Stimpy (life is not pretty, laugh)(3) Grandma Ernie (Jeff Lewis' Grandmother, the coolest person over 70 I know. I hope I can be like this.)(4) Grover (proof that personality can overcome everything. Think about it a blue MONSTER, with a speech impediment, and delusional tendenceies, that children around that world love. Hell, most adults too.)
Sounds Like: Moss and mud covered grooves, bubbling like a gumbo under freaky swamp guitar.
Record Label: ParishLine Records
Type of Label: Indie

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TAE included in best of 2009 WWOZ in New Orleans

Black Mold WWOZ.....(from best CDs of 2009).....Michael Juan Nunez  the American Electric  the Erath, LA quintuple threat  he writes the songs, he sings, he play guitar, he produces the CD, and he ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:13:00 GMT

The Independent review

SHAPE SHIFTINGYou thought you had Michael Juan Nunez pegged as just another Louisiana blues revivalist dude, right? WRONG. Think again. On his new CD, American Electric, Nunez, like some mad scientist...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:55:00 GMT

The Daily Advocate (Baton Rouge)

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/63493362.htmlArticle out 10/6/09MJN
Posted by on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:24:00 GMT