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Band Earns Best Reviews of Their Career for New Blues\/Rock CD
Spin Doctors will be the musical guests on CONAN (TBS-TV,) Wednesday, September 4th. <\/p>\n
Band Earns Best Reviews of Their Career for New Blues\/Rock CD
Spin Doctors will be the musical guests on CONAN (TBS-TV,) Wednesday, September 4th. <\/p>\n
The band will perform a track from their critically acclaimed blues\/rock album \u0091If The River Was Whiskey\u0092 (Ruf Records,) which has earned the best reviews of their career. National coverage includes USA Today, Relix Magazine, M Music & Musicians Magazine, Elmore Magazine and more. <\/p>\n
In a four & 1\/2-star rave, ALL MUSIC\/iTunes Editorial said the CD \u0093feels like an unapologetic throwback to classic Chess records from the ’50s and ’60s. That immediacy is striking, as The Spin Doctors have never sounded so alive on record,\u0094 and No Depression buzzed, it \u0093rocks like a rodeo bull on amphetamines and had my blood pumping from the first few chords.\u0094 <\/p>\n
The album is a ten-song collection of original songs, described by lead singer Chris Barron as a \u0093ramshackle, broken carriage running down a cobblestone hill, with pots and pans, and a screaming baby\u0085\u0094 <\/p>\n
This is the blues album the band was always meant to make, and their confidence shows, as they give the songs lots of room to breath and let the tracks come alive via the road-tested musicianship of Chris Barron (vocals), Aaron Comess (drums), Eric Schenkman (guitar) and Mark White (bass). With no overdubs, irreverent lyrics, soulful drums and guitar licks that are on fire, \u0091If The River Was Whisky\u0092 captures lightning in a bottle and further cements Spin Doctors\u0092 reputation as a live act to be reckoned with. Perhaps Schenkman puts it best: \u0093we\u0092ve been playing together for 25 years & we\u0092re all badasses!\u0094 Listen to streaming samples, here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spin-doctors\/sets\/if-the-river-was-whiskey-album <\/p>\n
See some recent press coverage, here: <\/p>\n
http:\/\/spindoctorscom.siteprotect.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SPIN-DOCTORS-WHISKEY-PRESS-RELEASE-5-20131.pdf <\/p>\n
An international tour is underway. Upcoming tour dates:<\/p>\n
07\/20\/13 Blue Balls Music Festival \/ Lucerne, Switzerland
07\/21\/13 Burg Herzberg Music Festival \/ Germany
07\/24\/13 Lane County Fair \/ Eugene, OR\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Free Show
07\/27\/13 \u0096 2 shows – 1) Festival of Beer \/ Toronto, Canada, 2) Horseshoe Tavern \/ Toronto, Canada
08\/02\/13 Maine Lobster Festival \/ Rockland, ME
08\/03\/13 Unitah Basin Celebration \/ Constitution Park \/ Roosevelt, UT Free Show
08\/07\/13 Eastern Michigan State Fairgrounds \/ Imlay City, MI Free Show
08\/08\/13 Oshkosh Waterfront Concert Series \/ Leach Amphitheater \/ Oshkosh, WI
08\/10\/13 Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater \/ Peachtree City, GA
08\/17\/13 Longview Squirrel Festival \/ Longview, WA Free Show
08\/28\/13 The Independent \/ San Francisco, CA
08\/29\/13 Monterey County Fairgrounds \/ Monterey, CA Free Show
08\/30\/13 Sycuan Casino \/ El Cajon, CA
08\/31\/13 Moses Lake Summer Convert Series \/ McCosh Park, Moses Lake, WA Free Show
09\/01\/13 Pig Out In The Park \/ Riverfront Park \/ Spokane, WA Free Show
09\/25\/13 The Garage \/ London, UK
09\/27\/13 Het Depot \/ Leuven, Belgium
09\/28\/13 Melkweg \/ Amsterdam, Netherlands
09\/30\/13 New Morning \/ Paris, France
10\/01\/13 Le Grillen \/ Colmar, France
10\/03\/13 Moonwalker \/ Aarburg, Switzerland
10\/04\/13 M\u03cchle Hunziken \/ Rubingen, Switzerland
10\/05\/13 Escherwys \/ Z\u03ccrich, Switzerland
10\/07\/13 Spectrum Club \/ Augsburg, Germany
10\/08\/13 Hirsch \/ N\u03ccrnberg, Germany
10\/09\/13 Piano \/ Dortmund, Germany
10\/10\/13 Gemeindesaal \/ Lindewerra, Germany
10\/11\/13 Quasimodo \/ Berlin, Germany
10\/12\/13 Bluesgarage \/ Hannover, Germany
10\/14\/13 The Rock Caf\u03b9 \/ Hamburg
10\/15\/13 Kuz \/ Mainz, Germany
10\/16\/13 Die Halle \/ Reichenbach, Germany
10\/17\/13 Harmonie \/ Bonn, Germany
10\/31 & 11\/01\/13 American Gardens Theater \/ Walt Disney World Resort \/ Lake Buena Vista, FL<\/p>\n
More about Spin Doctors:
When top-class musicianship and great songwriting meet, the result can help to define an era. Such was the case with Spin Doctors\u0092 \u0091Pocket Full Of Kryptonite\u0092, one of the biggest smashes of the 1990s, selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Featuring hit after hit, from \u0091Two Princes\u0092 to \u0091Little Miss Can\u0092t Be Wrong\u0092 and more, the original album reached #3 on Billboard\u0092s Top 200 Album Chart, made the magazine\u0092s Top 100 list of the Best-Selling Albums of The Decade, hit #2 in the UK and #1 in Australia and New Zealand, was certified 3x Platinum in Canada, Gold in Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Singapore, and cemented the group\u0092s debut as an international phenomenon. In fact, \u0091Two Princes\u0092 was the most-played rock song in the world in 1993, and was recently certified by BMI with 3 million international radio plays (\u0091Little Miss\u0092 is at the 2 Million mark.) \u00a0As a live band, the core members of Spin Doctors are among the best in the business, a fact often overshadowed by their commercial success, but arguably more important than ever. Following 2011 the release of \u0091Pocket Full of Kryptonite: 20th Anniversary Edition\u0092, Spin Doctors hit the road to do what they do best: perform great pop\/rock and blues songs for live audiences.\u00a0 Like their H.O.R.D.E. allies Phish, Blues Traveler, Allman Brothers and more, and like The Black Crowes, Counting Crows and other respected contemporaries, Spin Doctors are a reminder that hits and chops needn\u0092t be mutually exclusive.\u00a0 The wildly favorable audience reaction to their \u0091Kryptonite\u0092 tour helped paved the way for \u0091If The River Was Whiskey\u0092. \u0091If The River Was Whiskey\u0092 was produced by Spin Doctors. All songs written by Spin Doctors (Shogun Songs Inc.\/ BMI) except \u0093Some Other Man Instead\u0094 Written by Spin Doctors, Arne Hovda, (Trak One Music\/BMI) Erik Norvald R\u03c8e (Tono) <\/p>\n
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