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* * *NEW CD RELEASE EXTRAVAGANZA* * *
Friends, We are finally finished and ready to release La Vie En Noir! 3 years in the building will crescendo on Feb 11th at The Capitol at St. Germain in Downtown Houston TX with performances by Southern Backtones featuring Jo Bird from Two star Symphony, Johnny Falstaff, Emily Bell, John Evans and Craig Kinsey of Sideshow Tramps. Following the music will be a Midnight showing of Honky Tonk Blood. We hope this will be a night for you to remember! Dress to the nines, or come as you are you hobo.
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New Single DIVE-DISCO MISFITS available now!
“DIVE-DISCO MISFITS” is a tribute to the dive bars in Montrose and the beautiful woman fledged in them… Find out what exactly made them jump?
click here to download on iTunes!!!!
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PLEASANTON
Alright, Tornado season is over and I’m chomping at the bit to strap on my Gretsch and hit the clubs. Bagged 8 tornadoes this year including the catch of my life… A ghostly tornado materialized in front of my camera, danced and whirled, twisted and floated within 75 yards of me, blew me a kiss and got the hell out of Dodge. Dig this…
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Tornado Season
Southern Backtones instruments will remain in cases for the next 6 weeks so that Hank can do THIS!!!
A whirl-wind of performances shall resume in late June.
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HONKY TONK BLOOD in Marble Falls TX
On Saturday, March 26th Indie feature film Honky Tonk Blood will show in the vintage Uptown Theater in scenic Marble Falls TX in an old town square nestled between limestone canyonlands and granite outcroppings.
After the showing, film stars, Johnny Falstaff, John Evans and Hank Schyma will perform an acoustic set.
Make the drive out and join the Honky Tonk Blood cult in its infancy.Buy Ticket here:
http://www.uptownmarble.com/index.htm
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“BANDERA” New Single released
It’s a little bit Spaghetti Western and a lot Rock-n-Roll. “Bandera” the new single is available now everywhere, on the Honky Tonk Blood soundtrack! Ride along shotgun in the tour van as the Backtones paint an homage to life on the road with John Evans Band. (Sidenote: There are 7 titles of John Evans songs planted in this song, happy hunting.)
http://honkytonkblood.bandcamp.com/track/bandera
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HONKY TONK BLOOD!!!
FIENDISH! DEVASTATING!!!!! NIGHTMAREISHLY SENSUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing can prepare you for………… THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ELVIS FOREVER
Saturday, January 8th The King will be 76. Southern Backtones will resurrect his kick at Avant Garden by performing his hits all night long.
Avant Garden
411 Westheimer, Houston, TX
10pm
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Johnny, John and Hank in a church?
FRIDAY, Johnny Falstaff, John Evans and I will make sweet, sweet music during an event called “Heights Live” in an old church in the Houston Heights. Last time we played together in College Station did not go so well… (Here’s why) Matt Matthews came out to record the show and broadcast it live through the FM airwaves, but apparently we got really drunk. Long story short, after the “performance” was over, Johnny laid down this rule. “When I am playing, No one else plays!” Though he said this to both me and John, i think it was directed at me. “Hank, You played whah whah all over my sweet bluegrass music.” Later that night as I was making promising headway on an extremely beautiful brunette, John & Johnny laid down the mother of all cock blocks on me. They weren’t even trying to get the girl for themselves (cause they had no chance), they simply amused themselves by sabotaging my promising evening. So, This Friday night when we perform in this old church, paybacks are going to be Hell!
The Listening Room at Heights Presbyterian Church, 240 W. 18th, Houston, TX
8:30 – 11:30, tickets $15
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Kelley Devine
Kelley is from the same shit-hole small town I’m from. She never said much. Come to think of it, she didn’t smile much either. Perhaps because in Cypress Texas it behooves one to march in a straight line and do what you’re supposed to. We used to sit at suburban stoplights on the backs of horses. Once green, we would race down a long grassy path (she always won) to the creek and surrounding wooded trails. Damn i miss that. Anyway so 15 years go by and I start bumping into Kelley here in Downtown Houston. She’s an artist now and when i say artist, i don’t mean some lazy scenester schlepping paint on a canvas while on acid. She’s a brilliant talent!So Kelley texted me recently that she sold one of her favorite sculptures and I could tell she was torn about it. Selling work is an artists livelyhood, It’s the means to exist and live to fight another day. So why sadness?Artists like Kelley bore deep. Their work is the product of time, devotion, sacrifice, risk, passion, history, and emotional regurgitation, but with Kelley, there is a one-of-a-kind product. Once sold, she’ll probably never see it again. It would be the equivalent of the Backtones selling a song to Joe Schmo and never singing it ever again, never hearing it, never feeling it.
The Social
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