The Minx and the Mountebank is finally up on iTunes and CD baby ready for you to download! Here are the links:
The album on iTunes
The album on CD Baby
Enjoy!
The Guitar Outlaws are accomplished players blending rock, blues, country and jazz to create intriguing songs with a rare ageless quality. Their lyrical maturity and gift for musical expression can hold the intrigue of any crowd.
The band recently released an EP of live material and unreleased recordings and has just begun work on a long overdue debut album. Previous releases include The Crooked Mile Sessions: Vol. 1 released in October of 2003 and the bands first release, Let the Music Notes Bleed released in early 2000.
Russell Turner (vocals, guitar and piano), Dustin Bevell (vocals and bass) and Brandon Stover (drums) formed The Guitar Outlaws in the summer of 1999 under the hot California sun with a vision of freedom that has influenced their music and their direction as a band. Russell Turner formed Salvation Records in late 2002 with an ambitious goal of independently putting out their first album, also to be titled, Let the Music Notes Bleed. He put together a detailed budget on how to effectively get the album recorded, manufactured and promoted and was able to assume a $30K loan. The sessions began at Prairie Sun Studios in northern California in early December 2002 and it was quickly realized that they were not as ready as they thought they were. They had to end the sessions without a finished product so that they would have enough money to manufacture something. Throughout all the troubles they were experiencing they began to call the sessions “the crooked mile sessions†because they were not getting where they wanted to go. They decided to release four songs from the sessions that had good rough mixes and call it The Crooked Mile Sessions: Vol. 1 with the rest of the songs to be released in consecutive volumes as they could afford to finish them. They have yet to get back into the studio to work on these sessions but as you can hear in volume 1 and tracks 7-9 on their recent EP (which are also rough mixes from The Crooked Mile Sessions), they still ended up with a great collection recorded material and they learned a lot in the process.
Throughout 2003 and early 2004 they spent their time in between San Diego and Los Angeles trying to make a name for themselves, gracing such clubs as The Casbah, The Knitting Factory, The Coach House and The Garage. In August of 2004 they moved to Portland, and have since been performing regularly at clubs such as The Bossanova, The Bitter End, Sabala’s Mt. Tabor Theatre and Club Noir and the response has been astounding. They are getting ready to start touring to Seattle and the Bay Area with more dates in Los Angeles and San Diego to come!
