Posted by admin on Dec 17, 2009 in
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Kevin Kerby + Battery "Beautiful and Bright" vinyl album cover
When we heard Kevin Kerby + Batterys debut album“Beautiful and Bright” earlier this year we knew this had to be heard on glorious vinyl. It’s chock full of swirling organ, snarling guitars, and biting lyrics that deserve the analog warmth only vinyl can provide. We sat down with Max Recordings head honcho Burt Taggart and Kevin Kerby and struck a deal to allow Last Chance Records to do an exclusive limited vinyl pressing which is finally here! We’ll have a streaming version of the album up soon so you can judge for yourself, but if you trust our taste in music just buy one before they are sold out! Each album includes a free mp3 download of the album.
LCR09
1. Beautiful & Bright
2. You & Your Chemical Smile
3. Last Word On A Situation
4. Cast It All Aside
5. Untrue Juggernaut
6. Soon To Be Replaced
7. Dip It In Shellac
8. The Great Swimming Pool Debate
9. Fallback Crutch
10. The Devil Is Real
Tags: album, Geoff Curran, Josh Bentley, Kevin Kerby, Kevin Kerby + Battery, Last Chance Records, Little Rock, Marcus Lowe, Max Recordings, Max Records, Mulehead, vinyl
Posted by admin on Dec 17, 2009 in
Uncategorized Tickets are limited to 150 and will sell out quickly! We sold 25 in the first few hours of the onsale. You can get yours over at our storefront at www.lastchancemusic.com. $15 gets you in to the legendary White Water Tavern for three of our favorites including Ben Nichols (Lucero), Cory Branan, and John Paul Keith & the One, Four, Fives. Pick up a JPK “Knoxville Town” 7″ on Last Chance Records while you’re at it!
John Paul Keith, Cory Branan, & Ben Nichols @ White Water Tavern
Tags: Ben Nichols, Cory Branan, John Paul Keith, JPK, Last Chance Records, Lucero, New Years Eve, tickets, vinyl, White Water Tavern
Posted by Travis on Nov 18, 2009 in
Shows Last Chance is proud to bring three of the best bands on the road today together for one night at the best bar in America! We gather to celebrate my birthday at the White Water Tavern December first and stumble into the darkness sometime on December second. Join us for what promises to be the best show of the year! Micah kicks it off at 9pm. $10 gets you in the door and $3.50 pitchers all night long. See ya there!
Slobberbone, Glossary, and Micah Schnabel
Tags: Glossary, Last Chance Records, Micah Schnabel, Slobberbone, Two Cow Garage, White Water Tavern
Posted by admin on Aug 26, 2009 in
Podcasts & Bloggers,
Shows The Arkansas Times Rock Candy blog gave us a shout out as the Wednesday “To Do” in Little Rock.
Join us tonight for a FREE American Aquarium show (donations accepted and cheap merch available) at the White Water Tavern. Fayetteville’s Caleb Rose opens the show at 9:30 with American Aquarium on at 10:30.
American Aquarium at the White Water Tavern
Tags: American Aquarium, Last Chance Records, music, White Water Tavern
Posted by admin on Aug 20, 2009 in
Reviews,
Shows Lizzie Burnham from littlerocklivemusic.net gives her review of the Slobberbone/Glossary/Kevin Kerby & Battery show here.
Show of the year!
Slobberbone's Brent Best 08/11/2009
Tags: Brent Best, Glossary, Kevin Kerby, Last Chance Records, Slobberbone, White Water Tavern
John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives
“Knoxville Town” b/w “Memphis Girls”
seven-inch vinyl single
Last Chance Records
By Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
While I most empahtically do not subscribe to the au courant hipster theory that the Beatles ruined rock ’n’ roll by disconnecting it from public peformance and moving it behind the foam-trapped walls of the recording studio, we are well to remember what it’s all supposed to be about. And I doubt John Paul Keith has for one moment considered the potential of his music to bring about world peace.
Instead, I reckon, he just likes the tone he can coax from his Telecaster and the way he can thread it through the hellacious racket of his band. He likes the way that plain words can hang, sopping with heartache, on the taut lines of an earnestly delivered song. Maybe he likes the romance of the road and the sweat-soaked smell of a beery crowd stoked into movement before the bandstand — the quasi-religious revelry of a honky tonk night.
Hell, I don’t know. All I know is that earlier this year he, with his band the One Four Fives, released a an album called Spills and Thrills that was more fun to listen to than talk or write about, and now he’s got a single — on an old timey vinyl disc — put out by Little Rock’s own Travis Hill, the capital behind Last Chance Records.
JPK’d had a career before 2009, though I hadn’t heard of him, as the founding lead guitarist of the barnburning Knoxville, Tenn. outfit the Viceroys (later the V-Roys), though he left just about the time their Steve Earle-produced first album, 1996’s Just Add Ice (a worthy add to the collection — if you can find it) hit the shelves. He later worked with Ryan Adams and the Pink Hearts but apparently that didn’t work out so well either —JPK’s promo biography alludes to his “losing his whole band to an Americana prima donna,” which come to think of it, could describe either Adams or Earle.
Not that you can believe everything you read in a press packet — the bio claims JPK moved to Memphis to get away from music and that he never heard the Beatles until he was almost in high school, which while factually unlikely metaphorically makes a lot of sense. What he and the One Four Fives sound like is how American music might have ended up sounding if we hadn’t experienced the reverb effect of the British invasion. It’s honky tonk — country drunk on pathos yet goosed by the boysy thrill of noisy electric weaponry.
Side A of the new single, “Knoxville Town,” starts off like a jaunty Johnny Horton (and the Ballroom Rockets) number like “I’m a Hony Tonk Man” with bouncing piano, sideswipes Paul Westerberg as it rounds a turn and cruises deep into Jason (Ringenberg) and the Scorchers territory. JPK’s Telecaster takes the wheel just before the half-way point. As the band swings back toward home you catch a little of the resigned doom of Hank Williams as JPK sings “there’s liquor on my tongue/ mist in my lungs/ and nothing matters but the night right now …”.
“Memphis Girls” begins as a finger-picked acoustic nightcap ballad that soon collects a gentle drums, bass and slide accompaniment. It’s a good fit for JPK’s serviceable songwriter’s voice, a simple lyric that nevertheless conveys the curious blend of decay and heedlessness endemic to the Bluff City: “Memphis girls don’t give a damn about Bowling Green or Birmingham/ They ain’t afraid to walk alone/Memphis girls they roll their own.”
JPK’s songs sound both ancient (not having an physical copy of the single, I had to check with Hill to make sure neither song was a cover of an obscure oldie)and fresh — no doubt because of the crack band’s non-ironic approach to their performance.
In other words, this isn’t some tongue-in-cheek meta-game played by slumming college kids — this isn’t Unknown Hinson or even (bless their hearts) Billy Bob Thornton’s Boxmasters (and yes, I know what htose bands have in common). This isn’t an art project. This is about making music people want to hear, having a good time and getting paid in cash at the end of the night. About real things.
pmartin@arkansasonline.com
"Knoxville Town" b/w "Memphis Girls" picture sleeve 45
Tags: 45, John Paul Keith, Last Chance Records, Philip Martin, vinyl
Posted by admin on Aug 11, 2009 in
Shows It’s going to be epic my friends! We still have tickets available online at lastchancemusic.com or at the door tonight at White Water Tavern. Be there by 9 because Kevin Kerby and Battery start shortly thereafter. Glossary follows at 10 and Slobberbone at 11. They’ll be talking about this show for a long time. Check the feature on the Arkansas Times website.
Slobberbone
Tags: Glossary, Kevin Kerby, Slobberbone, White Water Tavern
Last Chance Records is proud to announce the release of the John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives “Knoxville Town” b/ “Memphis Girls” on 7″ vinyl. This is the first in a series of planned John Paul Keith vinyl 45 releases on Last Chance Records. The tracks are exclusive to the record and are being issued in a very limited quantity. Each release will feature exclusive picture sleeve artwork showcasing the One Four Fives on heavy stock. A vinyl release show will be held Friday August 7 at the White Water Tavern in Little Rock. Remaining copies will be available locally at the Arkansas Record & CD Exchange in North Little Rock or online at lastchancemusic.com.
"Knoxville Town" b/ "Memphis Girls" picture sleeve 45
Tags: 45, John Paul Keith, Last Chance Records, Memphis, picture sleeve, vinyl, White Water Tavern
Posted by admin on Jun 30, 2009 in
Uncategorized Ninebullets.net does a quick review of the new Chris Stamey produced American Aquarium album. Check it out here.
American Aquarium
Posted by admin on Jun 26, 2009 in
Uncategorized Our friend Brett Cooper was named the first Suburban Home Records “Buddy of the Month”. There’s a nice interview and he gives us a shout out. Good people.
Brett Cooper - Suburban Home Records Buddy of the Month
Tags: Brett Cooper, Suburban Home Records