500 Miles to Memphis HAS BEEN NOMINATED for four categories for this year's Cincinnati Entertainment Awards.
Best Rock Band
Best Live Band
Album of the year
Artist of the Year
Pleas cast your votes(if you think we deserve it of coarse! Vote here
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Named after the distance from the band’s hometown of Cincinnati to
Graceland, 500 MILES TO MEMPHIS plays rowdy, insanely
catchy, sometime heartbreaking but always inspiring "country punk" on
their debut SUNSHINE IN A SHOT GLASS. These songs
are whiskey-soaked in bittersweet lament, but this is definitely not an
alcohol-fueled pity party. Rather, it’s the slug
of Jack Daniel’s you throw back before crawling on stage to sing your
heart out. It’s the glass of liquid courage that
dirty barroom brawls and back alley fistfights are brewed from. It’s
the bottom of the bottle where fiery, drunken
tirades aimed at ex-lovers are unleashed. It’s everything we’ve
regretted from the night before but can only
half-remember the next morning. It's knowing you’ll survive the
hangover to raise hell yet another day.
Lead vocalist Ryan Malott is the impetus behind 500 MILES TO MEMPHIS’
heartache, and this soon to be acclaimed debut is
undoubtedly his catharsis. While Malott’s lyrics draw from
afflictive personal experience and a weary western sprawl
that only true country music can evoke, these rousing tunes are cranked
out with punk grit and determination and a brash
rock ‘n’ roll attitude. Somehow it makes life seem a little more
bearable and a hell of a lot more fun, at least for
the duration of these twelve exhilarating songs. Slather on an
infectious melody, some bright, brash guitars and a
touch of bluegrass fiddle and suddenly tracks about cocaine-addicted friends and coma victims praying for sweet
death ring out like the perfect, invigorating remedy for the honky tonk
blues.
500 MILES TO MEMPHIS sound like a band you could drink a round or two
with before the show…and definitely a few more
afterwards. More than likely, you’ll get your chance as these boys
are on a mission to play every country dive bar and
punk rock club across the US. Perhaps that’s why 500 MILES TO
MEMPHIS’ songs come across so warm and heart-wrenchingly
familiar, even when they’re played fast, loud and with reckless
abandon. It’s the type of honest music that can prompt
a sentimental, liquor-tinged therapy session between old friends or
incite a raucous, fist-pumping sing-along amongst
perfect strangers at your neighborhood pub. And that’s a shot of
firewater we’re happy to take any day of the week.
"Incredibly dark, sinister and unbelievably brilliant..." - Dayton City
Paper
"An exercise in American Eclectic: gritty, dirty and damn good." -
Independent Weekly
"Harnessing the bucking bronco of country punk and holding on for dear
life." - Knoxville Metro Pulse
"Bridging the spirit of sweaty punk and old-school country, 500 Miles
To Memphis is irresistible." - CiN Weekly
500 MILES TO MEMPHIS is Ryan Malott (vocals, guitar), Jeff Snyder
(bass), Stephen Kuffner (guitar, vocals), Kevin Hogle
(drums), David Rhodes Brown (lap steel) and Paul Patterson (fiddle).
Sunshine In A Shot Glass was recorded at The
Bamboo Room Studio in Highland Heights, KY just outside of the band’s
hometown of Cincinnati, OH. The record was
co-produced by Ryan Malott and Erwin Musper.
Recommended For Fans of: Lucero, Green Day, Drive By Truckers, The
Clash, Old 97’s, Social Distortion
Winner of the 2005 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for best Roost/Americana/Folk
Nominated for the 2006 CEA for best Rock
Winner of the 2007 CEA for best Live Act
Winner of the 2007 CEA for best Rock
Nominated for the 2007 CEA for Album of The Year
Nominated for the 2007 CEA for Artist of the Year
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