PHOENIX RISING is energy and contagious FUN while being a professional band of dedicated musicians who play ROCK-N-ROLL. Their originals have a ROCK/BLUES nature to them. Phoenix Rising’s performance is not strictly music. WILD stage performance make the show an EXPERIENCE rather than just a show.Their debut release Sunday Morning Catastrophe, broke Phoenix Rising out into the music scene.Phoenix Rising released their second CD From the Hip - a soulful set of six songs... on April 25, 2001.Phoenix Rising will be releasing their third CD Phoenix Rising in 2005. Both From the Hip and the new self titled CD Phoenix Rising are available at all performances and on the website at "Get Stuff".Three Amarillo, TX stations have Shake your Head on regular rotation. FMX and KTXT in Lubbock, TX play requests for our CD – and Kclassic in Clovis, NM plays Get It Together. Guymon, OK plays Train Wreck on regular rotation. PR was also featured on Local Licks on FMX in Lubbock, TX. Reaching far onto another continent, PR is being played in Latvia! They have been featured on two major TV network stations in Amarillo, TX. The band directory in Musician Magazine, DigitalCity.com, Tourdates.com, New Rock Review (featured 6/99) and UnsignedMusic.com contain PR info.PR has played for the NHL team, Nashville Predators and their 16,000 fans at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in March 2000. National acts that PR have opened for include, Grand Funk Railroad, Nazareth, Ted Nugent (on Levi’s Stage in Nashville, TN), Memory Dean, Fool’s Progress, Soak, and Amazing Rhythm Aces. In TN, they have played many of the great stages in Nashville, Knoxville, and St. Louis. While in Texas, they traveled to Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Austin, Odessa, San Angelo, Abilene, Dallas, and Midland. In New Mexico, they played at Clovis & Albuquerque. In Oklahoma, they have played in Stillwater and Guymon. 1,000 people receive postcards regarding gig dates.The band currently is based out of Nashville, Tennessee where they are writing new material and playing dates in Nashville and surrounding cities.
