Dave Coleman & Dave Ray will play a stripped down set & take part in an interview for East Side Storytellin’. Chuck Beard, owner of East Side Stories, puts on a great show in which an author does a reading and a musical guest performs, with interviews following.
UPDATE: You can stream and listen to the entire show HERE.
August 20th will feature The Coal Men and Mike Pentecost (author of Bus People)
Thanks to Too Much Country for this extensive review of Escalator
Check out the full review HERE.
East Nashville keeps ’em coming: The Coal Men
The core of the band is guitarist / vocalist Dave Coleman and drummer Dave Ray. Coleman’s vocals even have a Todd sound from time to time during the album though clearly the record is not a Todd Snider sounding one. Coleman has built a solid music network within Music City. Among others who contributed, Will Kimbrough added his guitar gifts to the recording.
You’ll get your dollar’s worth with this one. The album has 13 full-length and quality songs. One thing that really caught my ear in the first couple of listens was the diversity of song styles, instruments used and vocal inflections.
The Coal Men’s fourth release, Escalator, is solid Americana album set for release by Todd Snider’s Aimless Records on August 27th. The standout tracks truly standout – particularly the Jack Whitesque blues-rock grind “Stuck” and the panoramic ballad “Tennessee.”
You can download a free, legal mp3 of the former and stream the latter below.
Also of note are the quirky, laidback blues ditty “Sanity” and the amped up rock riffs of “One Thing At a Time.”
Muruch Music News Streams The Coal Men
The Coal Men have a long list of shows coming up, with more to come. Escalator has been sent out to press and radio and the band will hit the road in late August.
First, there are some great chances to see the band in Nashville.
Aug. 2 @ the Five Spot. The Coal Men, Ned Van Go, & Hurricane Doyle
Aug 20 @ Fat Bottom Brewing Company as part of East Side Stories. This will be more of a stripped down kind of show with an interview with host Chuck Beard.
The Coal Men are proud to have Kim Fowler of Two Dog Media on board as publicist for the new album Escalator.
Some of Kim’s clients include:
The Americana Music Association, Guy Clark, Kelly Joe Phelps, Charlie Peacock (Producer of Civil Wars), Black Hen Records, Dualtone Music, The Vespers,
Other former clients include Nickel Creek, Eric Church, Chris Thile, EMI, Matraca Berg, Colin Hay, Compass Records, Sugar Hill Records, Otis Gibbs, and Julie Lee
We’ve gotten nearly all the overdubbing finished on the new album. It’s mostly a 3-piece live rock album, featuring the core band (Dave, Hitch, and Dave C). All of the tracks were recorded live with no overdubs. But, to make things interesting at Lij Shaw‘s studio (The Toy Box) we’ve had our friends Joe Garcia (steel), Jen Gunderman (organ and piano), and Audley Freed (guitar) add a few bits and pieces. We will be mixing in August and hope to have the album finished soon. Jared Manzo has done a photo shoot at the Nashville airport with Dave and Dave C. for the new artwork, and we will probably do a few more shots.
photo by Jared Manzo
