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1308 East 4th St. @ Navasota
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The Lonesome Heroes are Back In Tejas after an 8171 mile adventure touring the West Coast. Thank You everyone who helped us make it down that Lost Highway.
The Lonesome Heroes charter is very simple: to take over and revolutionize Country Music in America.
However, in practice the implementation of this charter is somewhat more difficult. It's a big old world out there and most of the people running the show are not such lonesome heroes most of the time.
So we drive around in rusty vans and pour our souls into countless lonestars and sad country songs, trying to find meaning and other lonesome heroes in this strange world. Everywhere we find beautiful people hidden in the spaces between parking lots where highways end. We leave a few songs, some memories, and drive off like a giant slow motion cliche. We do our best to keep our spirits high and keep on keepin on no matter what.
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SOME REVIEWS FOR "DON'T PLAY TO LOSE"
AUSTIN CHRONICLE
JULY 21, 2006.
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Balancing on the slide of Landry McMeans' lap steel, the Lonesome Heroes' sad and forlorn country cry walks the dirt road from West Texas desert to a poor man's urban dwelling. Singer Rich Russell's Brooklyn upbringing marries Willie Nelson to Will Oldham on the Heroes' debut EP, and when McMeans' delicately airy voice opens up "Oyster," tears roll.
AMERICANA UK MAGAZINE
www.americana-uk.com
A sixteen minute psychedelic steel trip. The eerie, liquid noise that Landry McMeans pulls from her lap steel and dobro is the defining sound on this five track EP. It’s a desert sound, reminiscent of what the late great Rainer Ptacek might have produced if he’d taken a little more peyote. Smooth and multicoloured, like oil in a rock pool, it alternately leads the songs and slides in behind them, always there, always nibbling away at the psyche.
AUSTIN DAZE
I normally stick to reviewing full size albums, but this band shows great promise in their 5-song debut. Chemistry between players is so important in any music project, and thats what I hear in this. The vocal harmonies between Rich Russell and Landry Slydry McMeans seem like a rare thing in its infancy, and so does the songwriting. Slydrys high-pitched voice is as unique as her slide on the lap steel guitar. The Lonesome Heroes are on a mission to make a different kind of country music. With its Grapes of Wrath era feel soaked in reverb, you get the feeling you are listening to a long distant echo of something that once was. The drifting melancholy and bittersweet style is beyond the range of their youth, and yet it seems totally natural to them.The production is low budget and the mix is occasionally questionable. The song structure is loose but the almighty groove and ability to convey the mood is dead on. I expect great things from this band in the future, so theyd better stick around for the long haul.
FOXY DIGITALIS
Sleepy, weepy, cowpunk from the Austin duo of Rich Russell and Landry McMeans, whose lap steel and dobro drags these alt.country twisted tales through the barren Texas desert with a faint Neil Young aroma wafting through the sagebrush and mixing with Chicago cultists, Souled American. Steel sashays across the horizon, leaving a dusty aftertaste of Jonathan Richmans attempts at going country in our ears (cf. Jonathan Goes Country). McMeans takes center stage on The Moon and The Sun, and her vocals leave a sweet, honeysuckle variety to Russells good ol boy, downhome grooves. Russells echoed lap steep and dobro add a haunting, full-moon quality to the track that contrasts nicely with our heroines litling voice.The duo end on a high note with the spooky, Oyster, with McMeans faraway vocals riding the dusty prairie winds across your mind on a magic carpet ride buttressed by her lap steel and dobro. This is the perfect soundtrack for hunkering down in a sleeping bag under the stars somewhere out in the wild expanses of Americas vast hinterlands, counting shooting stars and cowering from coyotes howling in the night.
- Jeff Penczak
SMOTHER MAGAZINE
The debut EP from country folk group The Lonesome Heroes are bar tales that are elbow to elbow with some of the legendary lyrics spun by the best in the country world. Salty vocals with numerous harmony parts soar into a high ledge of abandoned folk guitar and twangy hollow body guitar swagger. With psychedelic underpinnings, Dont Play to Lose is a tasty morsel of modern country folk that was extraordinarily produced and engineered by Scott OGara. Perfect.
J-Sin
www.75orless.com
If Maryrose Crook and the Renderers are the jaded souls playing to the barflies as closing time looms, then The Lonesome Heroes are the still-hopeful opening act. The haunting lap steel belies that hope, however, lurking beneath strummed guitars with a lonely yearning. In the title track, Rich Russell declares, "country songs ... have got a strange hold over me." With their roots firmly planted in Hank Williams territory, The Lonesome Heroes structure their songs well, blazing their own path through alt-country style.
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