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Hillbilly Hellcats

Chuck Hughes's Hillbilly Hellcats

About Me

Hillbilly Hellcats have 2 CDs, Rev it Up With Taz, and Our Brand. The CDs are available on Amazon and CDBaby. They are also both available as downloads on Itunes.The band is currently touring the U.S. and will tour europe in the fall.
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Member Since: 11/4/2005
Band Website: hillbillyhellcats.com
Band Members: Chuck Hughes- Guitar Eric Dee Blackwell, Lance Bakemeyer, Dan Enriquez-Bass
Influences: Elvis, Gene Vincent, Django, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Bill Monroe, Rev. Horton Heat, Stray Cats, Junior Brown, Barney Kessel, Duane Eddy, Danny Gatton.
Sounds Like: The Rev, Stray Cats
Record Label: Rockin' Cat
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Booking Europe

On tour sometimes people say "I can't understand why you aren't bigger than you are". I would tell them a few more trips to MacDonald's will take care of that.Or people will say "How come you never pl...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:21:00 PST

Happy 4th

Thanks to everybody who let us crash at their house on our Western tour. Gas cost us over $100 a day, so it was great to not have the motel bills.I've just about got the east coast tour booked, but eu...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:37:00 PST

Touring 1998 vs 2008

O.K. first let's get gas out of the way. Gas is now somewhere around twice as expensive.But what is not as obvious is that in 1998 you usually booked a club for a guaranteed fee or the door admissions...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:26:00 PST

Jump and the net will appear

It is a fact of the music business that your project is going to have turnover. It doesn't matter how well you screen, people's lives are constantly changing. Your life is constantly changing.There is...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:38:00 PST

Booking the Eastern and European tours.

Booking in 1998 vs booking today is very different. Now it's 90% myspace, and the other 10% is email. They occasionally want CDs for follow up in-club play, but the days of going to the post office wi...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Tue, 27 May 2008 08:23:00 PST

Booking the Western tour

I have a few more dates to fill for the western tour. This has been a crazy month for bookings . zero to 18 in about 3 weeks, so I am grateful.Today I am in Flagler, Florida, where I am finishing my ...
Posted by Hillbilly Hellcats on Sun, 11 May 2008 07:53:00 PST