Palo Duro Records

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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Check it out!  We’ve posted a huge selection of our photos from live events, video shoots, etc. to flickr.  You can also subscribe to our RSS photostream if you like to keep track of the latest/greatest.

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Our friends at Stubb’s BBQ have launched a new mail-order website for those unfortunate folks who are too far away from Austin for a quick-fix at lunch. If you are a fan of the smoked cuisine, be sure to sample their new offerings just in time for the holidays.

And while you are warming up your tasty treat, you can enjoy Palo Duro’s A Taste of Texas Music, Volume One ™ included with each order featuring great music from Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros, Lost Immigrants, Darryl Lee Rush, Miles From Nowhere, Two Tons of Steel and Eleven Hundred Springs.

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by John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News

Two Tons of Steel is no stranger to Gruene Hall.

The “countrybilly” band specializing in a revved-up fusion of roots rock and roots country is in the midst of its Two Ton Tuesdays, a weekly barn burner from Memorial Day through Aug. 14 that has drawn a cultlike following of dancers, toe-tappers, hooters and hollerers since rolling the dice on a dead night a dozen years ago.

Two Tons is still tossing sevens with Two Ton Tuesdays, and they’re coming up with 11 on their only Saturday night gig this summer at Gruene Hall. The Texas Sapphires of Austin will open with their own brand of roots country.

“Tuesdays are their own thing, and a Saturday night is a whole different group of people, along with a bunch of the Tuesday regulars,” lead singer, guitarist, songwriter and Express-News photographer Kevin Geil said. “A lot of people can’t make it on Tuesday nights because they work late or have to get up early for work on Wednesday.”

The Saturday show will be much the same as the ones on Tuesdays — with the quintet delivering a blistering set of rockabilly favorites along with their own compositions.

Bassist Chris Rhoades is making his Tuesday debut this summer, joining Denny Mathis, a member of the Texas Steel Guitar Players Hall of Fame; lead guitarist Dennis Fallon; and drummer Chris Dodds. All but Mathis also sing.

The popularity of the Tuesdays keeps amazing Geil, who begins each season wondering if it will be the one that stops percolating. So far, the flame’s still high and the moths keep coming from far and wide, including some who have hit every Tuesday since the beginning.

“People keep hearing about it and come to see what it’s all about, and they tell more people,” Geil said. “Last week there were some from California who’d set their sights on a vacation around Two Ton Tuesday.

“They were blown away by the Texas dance hall culture, a deal for the whole family. They don’t have that in California.”

To sweeten this season’s pot, label mates from Palo Duro Records will be opening Two Ton Tuesdays in July, including Trent Summar July 3 and Eleven Hundred Springs (who will be at John T. Floore Country Store Friday night) July 10.

If you just can’t wait, head down to Port Aransas Friday night to catch them at Pelican’s Landing’s live music series. Or see the videos and blogs on the redesigned www.twotons.com. Or check out www.concert.tv for on-demand videos if your cable TV provider is Comcast, Charter, Insight or Cox.

[Read the full column here]

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Two Tons of Steel posted a new video on their blog of them crashing KSYM with a raw, unplugged performance. Pretty cool!

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