Topic: PRESS RELESE
Purple Shed Records
Compilation Album
“Bands from the Back 40”
National Release Date
Tuesday September 19, 2006
This 10 track, 10 songs, Compilation is dedicated to the newest rising superstars, all from a small southwestern town know as Nevada, Missouri. The CD includes our very own Nashville beauty, Marci Mitchell, the Midwestern mavericks known as Baby Fingers, and the second coming of Bob Dylan, or as you may know him, the Beatnik Poet, Matthew Harper. The album also will include newcomer to the Missouri emo scene James McIntire, homegrown bluegrass by the Joneses, the band Worba, Seth Crawford’s ELSINORE, and none other than Americas favorite road dog and song guru, Dangerous Doug Harper.
The set list includes:
"Road Trip" an upbeat rockin’ country song, recorded in Nashville Tennessee as well as “Lovers to Friends” a soon to be top 40 country hit are both penned by Marci Mitchell, a Nevada Missouri girl, gone Nashville and current Lori Morgan keyboardist Mark Oliverius. You can get more info on her at www.marcimitchell.com. Track #2 "Cake and Ice Cream" is brought to you from ELSINORE, and project from Nevada, Missouri boy Seth Crawford in the style of early 1990‘s alternative radio hits such as Nirvana‘s “Polly“, and Weezer‘s “Undone the Sweater Song“, this is a fun song that you may find yourself listening to again and again. Matthew Harper fans have been waiting for some new recorded material since his last CD excitedly, but this time Matthew took more of a striped down acoustic solo take just like his ever popular live show. So many people were saying they wanted to hear that on a record he chose to include two song on the CD "Morning Guy" and “Long Haired Friend of Jesus” both written by Matthew. For more info check out his web page: www.matthewharper.ws. "Jezebel" the acoustic version has now became a household sing along around town artist: Baby Fingers, a project by Nathan Rorabaugh brings modern-rock and acoustic together in an all around ear pleasing hit for people of all ages. New Missouri emo child James McIntire bring you the Violent Fems meets Green Day up-tempo acoustic song about love, the song is titled "Right By Your Side" written and performed by James. Track #6 is titled "I Found Myself a Monkey" written and performed by: Dangerous Doug Harper and recorded live at the Snake River Canyon Jam near Rogerson Idaho. The fun song includes a guest appearance from Nathan Rorabaugh on lead guitar, and Monkey on electric rhythm guitar and backing vocals. Bob and Dawn Jones know on the album as the Joneses for obvious reasons, have many musical talents and love to play bluegrass gospel at their church Maranatha Christian Fellowship, and have jams at their home with friends. At home Bob has his home studio known as Head Level, and has recorded an entire album that you can listen to and, download for free at his web page www.headlevel.org. Last but defiantly not least is the progressive punk-rock ballad with drum solo, "Fall In" a song written about artist and writer, Aaron Rorabaugh’s girlfriend from Cottey College. His band Worba are planning to put the song on their upcoming full album release “Aliens”, the track also features his kid brother Nathan Rorabaugh on guitar as well. For More Information contact: Local Ear P.O. Box 892
Nevada, MO 64772, 417-684-1732, www.localearmusic.com