Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers

About Me

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Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers play honky tonk country music with a 50s and 60s flair. Miss Leslie sings a gutsy, belting lead that has been compared to the likes of Patsy Cline, Leona Williams and Connie Smith. This group is creating buzz with their music they describe as Country music with a hardwood floor sound. Combining some original material along with obscure country tunes that they have unearthed from the 50s and 60s, the band opens up new sounds in a retro honky-tonk setting.
While Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers are a relatively new group on the scene, the band has played professionally with nationally touring acts. Ricky played for many years with Gary P Nunn and Dale Watson and is the steel player on most of Dale Watson's recordings. Ricky has also played with many Texas artists such as: Tommy Alverson; Davin James; Larry Joe Taylor; The Derailers and Asleep at the Wheel and TV and radio commercials and movies such as www.monster.com, Bud Light, Kodak, Lonestar, Texas Lotto, "A Scanner Darkly" and many more. Ric Ramirez played for many years with Two Tons of Steel and Wayne "the Train" Hancock.
Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers were nominated for Houston Press Music Awards in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2005, they were nominated for Best Original Band in the Houston Chronicles Ultimate Houston Awards. The band was also a top music pick in 2005 and 2006 for the Houston Chronicles Handstamp Blog. And Honky Tonk Revival was voted Best Debut Album of 2005 by the FAR Charts, FAR and Away picks.
And THANKS to Angela Duckworth for the cool MySpace Layout . . . .

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Music:

Member Since: 7/8/2005
Band Website: missleslie.com
Band Members: The Juke-Jointers are:
Ricky Davis - steel guitar
Ric Ramirez - upright bass & vocals
Timmy Campbell - drums
Influences: Ray Price, Connie Smith, Leona Williams, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Dolly Parton, Wynn Stewart, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin . . . 50s and 60s country music.
Sounds Like: Country music with a hardwood floor sound.
Record Label: Zero Label Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

First Review - Third Coast Music Gives 4 Stars

The first review is in - you can pick up your copy where Third Coast Music is distributed in Texas. For those of you that can't pick one up, here's the review: "Ken Irwin the music lover is a big fan ...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:23:00 PST

Kenny Chesney Ringtones

Is it just me or does anyone else get supremely annoyed that the Sponsored Link on myspace (and I'm assuming this is because I'm classified as a "country" band) is KENNY CHESNEY RINGTONES. I HATE seei...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:23:00 PST

On My Way to Pick Up the CDs

On my way to pick up the new CDs. Can I get a "Hell yeah" anyone?
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Thu, 29 May 2008 12:20:00 PST

Love Will Find You

A friend sent me an email about some bad news. I shared this story and wanted to share it with you: My daughter has a book called Zen Shorts. It's a children's book of Zen stories. One of my favorites...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Wed, 28 May 2008 09:02:00 PST

New CD Release Date - July 15

The Good News: Burnside Distribution Corporation (http://www.bdcdistribution.com/) is going to distribute "Between the Whiskey and the Wine". The reason why this is so good is because BDC partne...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:16:00 PST

Honky Tonk Hangover

Thought I'd put up one of the fun-nest songs on the new CD. I like the lyrics. I think most people can relate. I love the instrumental work on here. Share this with a friend. If you f...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Sat, 17 May 2008 07:20:00 PST

Back to the Music - Between the Whiskey and the Wine

Alright, I've got my complaining about the music industry out of the way for the day. Back to the music. I have uploaded a sample of "Between the Whiskey and the Wine". This is track 2, b...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Thu, 08 May 2008 11:30:00 PST

Too Country for Texas

The funny thing about disappointments is that you somehow manage to fall asleep. And when you wake up, everything's pretty much the same. My van still beeps at me to put on my seat belt. M...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:35:00 PST

Preview 1st Song on the New CD

If you clicked on our myspace profile, you've already noticed that I uploaded a sample of the 1st track from the New CD. The song is called "I'm Done with Leaving". I wrote it about a year ago w...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

Dont tell me I cant do something

I have a lot of musician friends that are bitter about the music business. They've worked in the trenches for a long time. Humping gear. Playing in a thousand bars sometimes crowded, many ...
Posted by Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:48:00 PST