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Various Artists

Luckenbach! Compadres! (Songs of Luckenbach Texas)

Produced by Tommy Alverson and Walt Wilkins

Street: Available Now

Recorded live over two nights at Luckenbach Texas in January, 2006. Featurings performances by The (original) Lost Gono Band (Craig Hillis, John Inmon, Bob Livingston, Gary P. Nunn, Herb Steiner), Gonzos de Casa (Freddy “Steady” Krc, Bob Livingston, Bobby Rambo, Sam Hendricks, John Inmon, Craig Hillis), Morrison-Williams, Two Tons of Steel, The Derailers, McKay Brothers, Tommy Alverson, Walt Wilkins, Ed Burleson, john Arthur martinez, Kent Finlay, Jimmy LaFave, Brian Burns and Cory Morrow.

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Popularity: 34% [?]

Tex-centric label Palo Duro Records today re-launches with a new name its chart-climbing live recording of Texas music from a tiny Texas town, LUCKENBACH! COMPADRES! (SONGS OF LUCKENBACH TEXAS). The CD is expected to return to retail shelves in the next several weeks.

The album’s name change, from VIVA! TERLINGUA! NUEVO! released by Palo Duro Records in October 2006, is the result of the resolution of a lawsuit filed by Jerry Jeff Walker dba Groper Music against Palo Duro Records. The renamed LUCKENBACH! COMPADRES! will return to retail stores in the next several weeks and will be available through all online music services including iTunes, Sony Connect, Napster and Rhapsody.

Over two nights in January 2006, Palo Duro Records and the Town of Luckenbach celebrated Luckenbach’s musical history by recording live performances of 14 songs from an era that inspired musicians, songwriters and storytellers such as Gary P. Nunn, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, whose “Luckenbach Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” touched millions of people around the world.

Texas artists performing “Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother),” “London Homesick Blues,” “Sangria Wine,” “Gettin’ By,” “What I Like About Texas,” “Desperados Waiting for a Train” and more were Jimmy LaFave, Cory Morrow, john Arthur martinez, Gary P. Nunn, Two Tons of Steel, Ed Burleson, Brian Burns, The McKay Brothers, Morrison-Williams, Walt Wilkins, Tommy Alverson, The Derailers and members of the original Lost Gonzo Band.

LUCKENBACH! COMPADRES!, co-produced by Walt Wilkins and Tommy Alverson, is the first release in the Palo Duro Records Luckenbach Texas Music Series. Additional live recordings at the historical venue are planned, with the second installment to be announced in the next several weeks.

The mission of Palo Duro Records (“Country Music, Texas Spirit”) is to release the best of Texas-made music in a way that reflects the authenticity of its artists. The label is also home to the notable brands Shiner Records, Luckenbach Texas, and the Texas Unplugged Music Series.

For more information, visit www.palodurorecords.com and www.luckenbachtexas.com.

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UPDATE: This release has been retitled Luckenbach! Compadres! (Songs of Luckenbach Texas)

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Various Artists

Viva! Terlingua! Nuevo! (Songs of Luckenbach Texas)

Produced by Tommy Alverson and Walt Wilkins

Street: October 24, 2006 ON HOLD
Recorded live over two nights at Luckenbach Texas in January, 2006. Featurings performances by The (original) Lost Gono Band (Craig Hillis, John Inmon, Bob Livingston, Gary P. Nunn, Herb Steiner), Gonzos de Casa (Freddy “Steady” Krc, Bob Livingston, Bobby Rambo, Sam Hendricks, John Inmon, Craig Hillis), Morrison-Williams, Two Tons of Steel, The Derailers, McKay Brothers, Tommy Alverson, Walt Wilkins, Ed Burleson, john Arthur martinez, Kent Finlay, Jimmy LaFave, Brian Burns and Cory Morrow.

Popularity: 53% [?]

Austin, TX - September 13, 2006 Palo Duro Records (“Country Music, Texas Spirit”) is in the midst of a rash of releasing and re-releasing records — debut efforts by new artists as well as albums by veterans on its roster of the past few years — as part of its distribution agreement with Fontana and to go the distance for music fans around the globe who can’t get enough of the sound of the Lone Star State.

For five years, Palo Duro has lived up to its original mission, to release the best of Texas-made music in a way that reflects the authenticity of its artists. Its releases are heard on radio stations from Austin to Boston to London and beyond. Its efforts are documented in the September issue of Southwest Airlines’ in-flight magazine, Spirit.

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Popularity: 78% [?]

Various Artists

Texas Unplugged, Volume One

Street: October 26, 2004

Popularity: 22% [?]

Palo Duro Records releases October 26 its Texas Unplugged, Vol. 1, the first of an acoustic music series created to highlight the different talent and style of artists whose sounds are shaping Texas music today.

Palo Duro Records releases October 26 its Texas Unplugged, Vol. 1, the first of an acoustic music series created to highlight the different talent and style of artists whose sounds are shaping Texas music today.

Palo Duro has captured a slice of the diversity of music in the Lone Star State with 12 all-acoustic tracks by some of Texas’ finest musical artists: TC Taylor, Mike McClure, Becca Dalrymple, Ed Burleson, Houston Marchman, Deryl Dodd, Sisters Morales, Terri Hendrix, Eleven Hundred Springs, Larry Joe Taylor, Brian Burns and Tommy Alverson.

Each track reflects the simplicity, directness and passion that are elemental to that vast terrain known as Americana, Lone Star-style.

Most cuts were recorded in Texas studios, and several were written just for this project.

Texas Unplugged, Vol. 1 will be distributed to more than 1,000 radio stations through the monthly compilation CD TEX Vol., 26. Tracks from Texas Unplugged will be featured each week through December on the CDTEX Radio Show, a weekly two-hour program syndicated to stations across the country with a potential audience of 5 million. The show is hosted by Billboard Monitor award-winning Bobby Lopez.

Artists of Texas Unplugged, Vol. 1

TC Taylor
Dancehall Revival, the latest recording by the traditional country singer, showcases rich, distinctive vocals, as in his Unplugged cut, the album’s lead-off tune, “Don’t It Make You Wanna Dance?”

Mike McClure
The Okie has become known as an expert purveyor of red dirt music: a blend of southern rock, outlaw country, Texas swing and a little Tex-Mex.. His Unplugged offering is “My Sweet Lily.”

Becca Dalrymple
The Unplugged entry of the awarding-winning vocalist is “No Man’s Land.”

Ed Burleson
A protégé of the late Doug Sahm reveals a honky-tonk heart on his Unplugged cut, “The Way You’ve Been Treating Me.”

Houston Marchman
Draws praise from Texas country music vets with his “Dark Black Irish Eyes.”

Deryl Dodd
“Old Time Sake” features his style of stone country and twangy rock.

Sisters Morales
Roberta and Lisa Morales’ harmonies are energetic and emotional. For Unplugged, they recorded “Even the Rain.”

Terri Hendrix
Her one-of-a-kind mix of folk, pop, country and jazz-inflected roots-rock can be heard on “Clicker.”

Eleven Hundred Springs
A shot of humor surrounded by traditional instrumentation is thrown into the mix with the band’s “Kick Me When I’m Down.”

Larry Joe Taylor
Incorporating country with reggae, blues, rock ‘n’ roll and the occasional doo-wop, his Unplugged contribution is “Welcome to Paradise.”

Brian Burns
The unofficial music historian of Texas offers “Bicycling in a Border Town.”

Tommy Alverson
The track by the so named “Godfather of Metroplex honky-tonk,” is the classic “Texas Woman.”

Texas Unplugged, Vol. 1 was executive-produced by Palo Duro’s Chris Thomas. Palo Duro plans to release Texas Unplugged, Vol. 2 in Fall 2005.

For information, visit www.palodurorecords.com, www.texasunplugged.com.

Popularity: 26% [?]