Palo Duro Records

Watch Buzz Cason’s new video series online here!

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We are excited to announce the musical lineup for the debut Chattahippie Music Festival, featuring the best talent in Americana, Rock, Blues, Jam, Country, Folk and Bluegrass from around the nation! With over thirty artists from ten states, this promises to be a great celebration of peace, love and music!

Northwest Georgia Bank presents the 2008 Chattahippie Music Festival featuring: Pure Prairie League, Chris Knight, The Derailers, Charlie Louvin, Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros, Two Tons of Steel, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Wayne, The Gougers, Gary Nicholson, Jason Eady & The Wayward Apostles, Laura Cantrell, Buzz Cason & The Love Notes, Beggars’ Caravan, Lou Wamp, Roger Alan Wade, Dane Varese, Joe Moss, Trent Summar & The New Row Mob, Jimmy Davis, Michael Johnathon, Band of Heathens, Doug & Telisha Williams, Miles from Nowhere, Michael Hearne & South by Southwest, Tommy Alverson, Billy Block, Whitey Johnson, Penguin, Tressie Seegers, Darryl Lee Rush, and The New Binkley Brothers.

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BUZZ CASON/Hats Off To Hank
Writer: Buzz Cason; Producer: Buzz Cason; Publisher: Buzz Cason/Southern Writers Group, ASCAP; Palo Duro (track) (www.buzzcason.com)

—Buzz has been a mainstay of the Nashville pop scene for six decades, but his latest CD is country all the way. Its title tune is a very tasty collage of boom-chicka-boom guitar, tickling steel and steady bass topped by a gently sentimental vocal. Nicely done.

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A title like Hats Off to Hank naturally leads the prospective listener to anticipate the sort of honkytonk wail that Hank Williams practically patented. Though “Hats” is the title song, this is not, in fact, a particularly country record.

A songwriter, performer, producer and all-around music-business professional who’s been around since the latter 1950s and the rockabilly era, Buzz Cason is more likely to generate thoughts of Bob Dylan and J.J. Cale. Yes, country is an influence, but blues at its grittiest and chuggiest is a larger presence. So, from time to time, is gospel, as witness (so to speak) the powerful “Hooked Up With the Man.” And, of course, basic dance-hall rock ‘n’ roll. Coming in last and at less than two minutes, the Hank tribute feels like an afterthought. It’s a decent song, but — unlike just about anything that has preceded it — nothing terribly special.

From his long immersion in Southern vernacular music, Cason has absorbed an assortment of roots sounds and shaped them into a idiosyncratic approach that manages to dodge, rather miraculously, just about every cliche at hand. Relatively few songs feel genre-specific, but they all give the sense that they came from somewhere — somewhere South, that is, and probably where alcohol is served. Cason delivers them all in a lived-in, gravel-specked drawl, whether they’re about boozin’ and screwin’ (”Texas Wild Flower”), good eatin’ (”Barbeque”), faded love (”Somebody Told Me”), beloved place (”I Love the South”) or grave injustice (”Black Man in Mississippi”).

Though Cason, who lives in Tennessee, has strong connections with the Texas music scene, he doesn’t sound like a generic Red Dirt act, by which I mean a would-be Guy Clark or a vaguely countrified guitar-rock hack. Cason is somebody who’s been hearing music and playing it all his life, and as the sum of a whole lot of worthy influences, he is, finally, no more or less than himself. If this album doesn’t sound good to you, well, you and I probably wouldn’t have much else to talk about, either

by Jerome Clark

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 by Douglas Waterman

 Nashville song man Buzz Cason - music publisher (Southern Writers Group), studio owner (Creative Workshop) and hit songwriter - has been a fixture in town since the 1957 inception of his band, The Casuals (Nashville’s first rock and roll band). His songs have been recorded by the likes of Robert Knight (pop-soul classic “Everlasting Love”). The Beatles, Martina McBride, Gloria Estefan, Arthur Alexander, Gary Allan and many more. His Palo Duro debut, Hats Off To Hank, compiles 15 tracks that slip-slide from acoustic blues-boogie to the Jimmy Buffet-esque “I Love The South.” Vocally, he’s warm, raspy and engaging, and fans of Billy Joe Shaver and Steve Forbert will find a kindred spirit. For a great read and to learn more about Cason’s life journey in music, check out his autobiography Living the Rock ‘N’Roll Dream: The Adventures of Buzz Cason.

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BUZZ CASON

Invites you to help celebrate the release of his new CD

“Hats Off To Hank”

Tuesday, March 25th  6 PM
Douglas Corner Cafe
2106 8th Avenue South
Nashville, TN
615-298-1688

Buzz and the “Hats Off To Hank” musicians will perform songs from his new recording

Each guest will receive a complimentary CD

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