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RED WANTING BLUE [https://www.redwantingblue.com/]
“In every odyssey, there comes a time when you must accept that what you are
pursuing is no longer a rational decision,” Scott Terry writes in the liner
notes of Red Wanting Blue’s new album, ‘The Wanting.’ “It’s a choice that does
not feel like a choice. It is a hunger.”
It’s been more than twenty years since Red Wanting Blue first began their long,
strange odyssey, and while much has changed for Terry and the rest of the band
over those two remarkable decades, the hunger remains. Like the North Star, it’s
fixed in the firmament, a guiding light perpetually out of reach. Hunger has
been their fuel, their motivation, their essence. Hunger has steered every step
of the group’s extraordinary journey, and now, it’s at the heart of their most
powerful record yet.
Produced by acclaimed singer/songwriter Will Hoge, ‘The Wanting’ showcases Red
Wanting Blue at their finest, with Terry’s epic, heartfelt vocals soaring above
the band’s gritty, driving rock and roll. Alternately triumphant and
melancholic, the songs are both muscular and nuanced, equally at home blasting
from a car stereo as they are drifting through a pair of headphones late on some
lonely night. Though the record draws on many of the band’s traditional
strengths—indelible melodies, infectious hooks, explosive performances—the
making of it pushed Red Wanting Blue far outside their comfort zone and forced
them to take an unprecedented, nearly year-long break from touring.
“We’re a touring band,” Terry explains matter-of-factly. “We’re on the road all
the time, so much so that it’s painful when we’re not. When I was younger, I
used to get heart palpitations if I was in the same place for more than four
days.”
It’s that insatiable appetite for the road that helped Red Wanting Blue
establish themselves as one of the indie world’s most enduring and
self-sufficient acts. Hailed as “Midwestern rock heroes” by American Songwriter,
the band has spent most of their career operating outside of the confines of the
traditional music industry, earning their legion of lifelong fans through
decades of relentless touring. Over the course of ten studio albums, they
brought their passionate, unforgettable live show to every city and town that
would have them, blazing their own distinctive trail through the American
heartland as they built up the kind of fanatically dedicated audiences normally
reserved for arena acts. Along the way, they notched appearances everywhere from
Letterman to NPR and climbed all the way up to #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers
chart. In 2016, they celebrated with a 20th anniversary retrospective
album/concert film entitled ‘RWB20 Live at Lincoln Theater,’ which captured the
band in all their glory at a sold-out hometown show in Columbus, OH.
FANTASTIC CAT
They said it couldn’t be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form
a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The
Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic
Cat did it anyway, defying the odds and teaming up to record their highly
unanticipated debut, ‘The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat.’ Captured in the wilds of
the Pocono Mountains, the album gleefully careens between genres and decades,
mixing electrified 60’s folk and 70’s AM radio gold with 80’s heartland rock and
90’s alt-country. The result is a record that balances careful craftsmanship and
ecstatic abandon in equal measure, a raw, intoxicating collection captured live
in the moment and fueled by the chemistry of four longtime friends making music
for the sheer joy of it.
Individually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume
along with a litany of critical acclaim.The Guardiandubbed Don DiLego “one to
watch.”NPRsaid Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce
Springsteen or Josh Ritter.”Rolling Stonecalled Brian Dunne’s latest single a
“stunner” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for
a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively, though, the
four transcend their respective roots, emerging as an instrument-swapping,
harmony-trading, tear-jerking, wise-cracking rock and roll cooperative far
greater than the sum of its parts.
They say some cats are born fantastic; others have fantasy thrust upon them.
These guys are somewhere in the middle.
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