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Blue Mountain Pre-sales available now
by Laurie (March 24, 2008)
Hi everyone,
Cary and I have returned to Dallas to finish up the new material at Elmwood Recording in Dallas, TX, with Grammy-winning
producer/engineer Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, White Stripes, Loretta
Lynn). We have pushed the release date back a bit due to studio
time/tour date scheduling conflicts. Please look for the CD in mid July. For those of you who have pre-ordered the CD, you will still be the first to get copies as soon as they are back from the printer.
We went to SXSW and had a great time. Thanks to all of you who came
out to support us there and everywhere else, too. We are really
looking forward to our midwest-east coast run in May!
Here are some press links if you are interested in reading recent
press about the band.
Thanks for all your support!
Laurie
Harp Magazine, 1/31/08
Paste Magazine, 3/5/08
The Austin Chronicle, 3/7/08
Austin 360, 3/13/08
Tour dates:
March 29 -- HubFest / Downtown Festival/Hattiesburg, MS 3:45 pm
April 4 -- Workplay Theatre -- Birmingham, AL
April 5 --Robert St. John afternoon show/Deals on Wheels Benefit, Hattiesburg, MS
April 6 -- Crawdad Hole/Jackson, MS
April 10- The Reserve, Laurel, MS
April 12 -- Dave's Dark Horse -- Starkville, MS
April 17 -- Lucas School House -- St. Louis, MO with Big Smith
April 18 -- Bottleneck w/ Big Smith/Lawrence, KS - with Big Smith
April 19 -- Blue Note w/ Big Smith/Columbia, MO - with Big Smith
April 26 -- Double Decker Festival -- Oxford, MS
April 26- Proud Larry's- Oxford, MS
Blue Mountain/Andy Friedman dates
April 30 --Howler's Coyote Café, Pittsburgh, PA
May 1 -- Hideout-Chicago, IL
May 2 -- 400 Club-Minneapolis, MN
May 3 -- Crystal Corners -- Madison, WI
May 4 -- The Brass Rail- Fort Wayne, IN
May 5 -- Chicago Street Tavern -- Joliet, IL
May 6 -- Shank Hall/Milwaukee
May 7 -- Lager House -- Detroit, MI
May 8 -- Casa Nueva/Athens, OH
May 9 -- Beachland Ballroom/Cleveland, OH
May 10 -- Luna Lounge/Brooklyn, NY
May 11 -- Roots hoot House Concerts, Peace Dale, RI
May 12- Maxwell's -- Hoboken, NJ
END OF TOUR WITH ANDY FREIDMAN
May 31 --Wood House Concert, St. Louis, MO
July 5- Hill Country Picnic- Potts Camp, MS
Here's what people are saying about the Autumn Defense record:
"The Autumn Defense" is a gorgeous, sun-kissed beauty of a record. This is a moment in time captured for eternity, something so perfectly moving it defies negativity...The Autumn Defense's Pat Sansone and John Stirratt have made an album that stands as the first great release of 2007.----STATIC MEDIA
"Stunningly Beautiful"---MUSIC BOX
"A warm and impeccably lush album of blue-eyed soul...the timeless reach of these songs has a gentle touch."----NO DEPRESSION
"AD’s third album wafts gently between sultry sweetness, tangy twang and daydream romance. Diverse yet cohesive, subtle yet distinct, Autumn Defense cushions and caresses with consummate craftsmanship"---Maximum Ink
"A brilliantly constructed return to soft-rock"
----treblezine.com"
"The Autumn Defense's self-titled album pairs soothing pop harmonies with eerie vocals for one of the oddest and most infectious releases in recent memory."---men.style.co
"Albums like this don't get made anymore...If Crosby, Stills, and Nash were able to teleport back in 1969 to the present, this is the album they would have made."---Relix
"Better than any album with this much flute on it has the right to be"---salon.com
Press for other Broadmoor Releases:
Healthy White Baby
"Beatles-in-Hamburg sound, all sharp pop hooks played with bare-knuckled abandon through a grimy, lo-fi haze." Chicago Sun-Times
Laurie & John 'Arabella'
UNCUT - four stars
Twins born in 1967, the Stirratts last played together in '80s countryites The Hilltops. Since then John's played with Uncle Tupelo (and now Wilco and Autumn Defense) while Laurie helped form the late, lamented Blue Mountain. Arabella distills their influences, boasting woody acoustics, soft-shoe shuffles and flights of melody. "Juniper" sounds like a Dylan original, and "Mistral" like early Neil Young (with Jeff Tweedy on guitar). But they spin their own colours on "We'll Meet Again" - all blended harmonies - and the slide-and steel-riddled "Canadian Noon". Brad Jones, Will Kimbrough and Wilco's Glenn Kotche also star.
MOJO - three stars
Dreamy, drifting and melancholy, this is The Carpenters meets Autumn Defense the latter another of John (Stirratt of Wilco)'s side-projects. Laurie is his twin sister, whose pure innocent voice makes a perfectly bittersweet foil.
See you soon,
Laurie
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