{"id":2503,"date":"2013-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/08\/skinny-molly-causes-a-haywire-riot-on-new-ruf-records-cd-band-led-by-former-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-mike-estes-already-making-waves-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"skinny-molly-causes-a-haywire-riot-on-new-ruf-records-cd-band-led-by-former-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-mike-estes-already-making-waves-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/01\/08\/skinny-molly-causes-a-haywire-riot-on-new-ruf-records-cd-band-led-by-former-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-mike-estes-already-making-waves-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Molly Causes a Haywire Riot on New Ruf Records CD – Band Led by Former Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Mike Estes Already Making Waves in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"


Ruf Records announces a January 8 U.S. release date for Haywire Riot, the new CD from rock quartet Skinny Molly, distributed nationally by the Allegro Corporation. Skinny Molly is led by lead singer\/lead guitarist Mike Estes, a former member of the legendary Lynyrd Skynyrd, and also features Jay Johnson on lead guitar and backing vocals, Kurt Pietro on drums and Luke Bradshaw on bass and backing vocals. Haywire Riot was produced by Mike Estes and the band and recorded at Swamper Sound in Sheffield, Alabama, and Omni Sound in Nashville. <\/p>\n

Skinny Molly recently finished an extensive tour of Europe, where the group has already built a substantial reputation based on hundreds of solid rockin\u2019 live performances, and intends to emulate that success in their home country with the release of the new CD here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis band was supposed to be for fun; we thought no further ahead than a one-off tour of Europe back in ’04, but it ended up being what I always wanted to do musically,\u201d recalls Mike Estes about the band\u2019s founding.\u00a0 Haywire Riot is the album that Skinny Molly was destined to deliver when Mike first hooked up in 2004 with Kurt and original guitarist Dave Hlubek for that \u201cone-off\u201d tour that never stopped. Soon enough, a debut album \u2013 No Good Deed \u2013 was pricking ears with its early signs of greatness on cuts like \u201cStraight Shooter\u201d and \u201cBetter than I Should.\u201d Now, with the lineup cemented and dedicated to the cause, it\u2019s time for the knockout blow of this new release.<\/p>\n

“It’s great to have another guitar player in the studio for once,\u201d says Estes. \u201cThe No Good Deed album was mostly me. Jay played his ass off on the new record.”<\/p>\n

Haywire Riot is an album that hijacks the modern rock scene, via the old-school values of stellar songwriting, white-hot chops, lyrics wrenched from the depths and performances that leave it all the studio floor. Step into Skinny Molly\u2019s world and you\u2019ll come face-to-face with the deceptive lover from \u201cLie to Me;\u201d the girl hiding a gun in her glove box on \u201cToo Bad to Be True;\u201d and the poisonous call of liquor on \u201cDevil in the Bottle,\u201d a song Estes originally recorded in 1994 as a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd on their acoustic Endangered Species CD for Capricorn Records. With music that swings from the wrecking-ball riffs of \u201cIf You Don\u2019t Care\u201d to the reflective acoustic vibe of \u201cNone of Me No More,\u201d this is maximum rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, zero pretension, and when Mike Estes roars: \u201cHey rock star, just shut up and rock!\u201d on the track of the same name, there\u2019s no doubt the Skinny Molly singer is leading by example.<\/p>\n

“I poured everything I had into Haywire Riot,\u201d exclaims Mike. \u201cFrom the beginning when the pen hit the paper, until the last note of the finished CD. The songs on this album mean a lot to me personally; the subject matter is either from me or somebody I know…They originated from what’s going on in my or a close friend’s life. I’m glad I have a lot of life experiences to draw from, because I’m not a great fiction writer.” <\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s connections to the Skynyrd band go deep.\u00a0 After striking up a friendship with Allen Collins while still a teenager, Mike\u2019s first band, Helen Highwater, was both christened and given guidance by the late legendary guitarist (who once gave him an eight-hour guitar lesson). That bond deepened when the young band opened up Skynyrd\u2019s \u201987 Tribute Tour. Clearly, the Southern icons liked what they heard, and after a period as a behind-the-scenes writer in the early\u201990s, Mike was invited by Gary Rossington to join Skynyrd full-time.<\/p>\n

Post-Skynyrd, Mike smashed the Billboard chart with his co-written \u201cWhite Knuckle Ride\u201d single (recorded while still with Skynyrd on the last session he did with them), and released two solo albums leading the band Driving Sideways \u2013 a self-titled CD and Brave New South \u2013 while remaining a fixture on magazine covers and music channels on the strength of his prolific talent. Back in 1995, he was inducted into the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame, but with Skinny Molly, you sense he\u2019s only just getting started.<\/p>\n

With Mike Estes in the lineup, some guitarists might feel the pressure. Not Jay Johnson, the band\u2019s six-string stinger missile and perhaps the only player capable of standing toe-to-toe with his frontman. Jay got his break at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio as a session guitarist for Malaco Records artist Mary Burns, and since then his talent has spread into writing, production and audio engineering. After early duties in Radio Tokyo, Jay joined The Rossington Band from 1986 to 1989 (a period during which he played on the Skynyrd Tribute Tour before more than a million fans and released two major-label LPs); and by 1994, he\u2019d hooked up with Blackfoot\u2019s Jackson Spires and Dave Hlubek in the Southern Rock Allstars. His stint as Blackfoot\u2019s vocalist in 2006 makes him the ultimate backup singer for Skinny Molly, while many past shows alongside Mike \u2013 including several acoustic duo tours \u2013 mean he\u2019s the perfect wingman.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Kurt Pietro has been Skinny Molly\u2019s drummer from the start and previously was a revered Michigan studio ace and a live powerhouse with early outfit, Crystal. He subsequently studied broadcasting and music at Michigan University, leading to a job at Omni Studios in Nashville, where on a fateful day when a visiting Mike asked if anyone could play a drum overdub, Kurt answered the call and has been there ever since.<\/p>\n

Skinny Molly\u2019s rhythm section was completed in 2007 when Luke Bradshaw signed on to play bass. Picking up the instrument at age 15, Luke\u2019s talent on both electric and acoustic bass can also be heard alongside American Idol\u2019s Bo Bice, Grand Ole Opry star George Hamilton IV, bluegrass artist Bobby Hicks, and Jesse McReynolds and the Virginia Boys.<\/p>\n

Skinny Molly will continue to tour world-wide in support of Haywire Riot.<\/p>\n

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Source: www.skinnymollyrocks.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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