Bluerunners in the News
The Bluerunners announce release date of new Live CD
The Bluerunners, from Lafayette, Louisiana, announce today that they will be releasing a new Live CD “The Bluerunners – Live at The Triple Door”. The new CD’s release date will be on Friday, October 13th and was recorded at The Triple Door in Seattle, WA. The Bluerunners Live at The Triple Door was recorded on July 5th of this year during their West Coast tour.
The disc will feature live performances from 4 of the band’s 5 previously released records and includes the tracks:
Ca Fait Chaud, So Long Ago, and Zordico (from their 1st Self-Titled release),
Bluco, (from To The Country),
Nonc Tete Dure, Grand Chenier, On and On (from Le Grand Bleu)
The Gravedigger, I Got You, Black Cat Bone (from Honey Slides)
and the Bluerunners’ versions of the Clifton Chenier favorites: Louisiana 2-step and Shake It Don’t Break It.
The Bluerunners Live at The Triple Door was produced by Ivan Klisanin and will be available to purchase on the web at www.bluerunners.com, in select retail locations and at Bluerunners live shows. CD release parties will be held on:
Friday, October 13th at Grant Street Dancehall in Lafayette, LA
Saturday, October 14th at the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, LA
Sunday, October 15th at Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette, LA
Friday, October 20th at dba in New Orleans, LA
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Times-Picayune Music Writer includes Honey Slides as one of his favorite CD's of 2005....
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Offbeat Magazine just announced their annual Best of the Beat Awards and included Honey Slides as one of 2005's Top CD's....
BLUERUNNERS SONG FEATURED ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO SHOW: AMERICAN ROUTES
Nick Spitzer of the nationally syndicated radio show "American Routes" recently did a great special called "After the Storm: An American Routes Special" about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He played Grand Chenier in hour 2...Click Here to listen online.
3 SONGS FROM THE BLUERUNNERS NEW CD, HONEY SLIDES, FEATURED ON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TOUR
3 songs off Honey Slides are featured as Walk-In Music for the Bruce Springsteen Devils and Dust tour. Voodoo Mens and Voodoo Dolls, Ghost of a Girl and Big Head are among the songs he plays prior to each show.....Here is the link to all the music he plays:
www.brucespringsteen.net/live/walkinmusic.html
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November 18, 2004
THE BLUERUNNERS EMERGE FROM LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA WITH FIRST ALBUM IN FOUR YEARS, HONEY SLIDES
Follow-up to 2001’s Le Grand Bleu features duet with Susan Cowsill.
January 25 street date puts CD in front of Mardi Gras
LAFAYETTE, La. – Cajun rockers The Bluerunners have broken a four-year silence with the impending release of Honey Slides, once again combining the native sounds of their Southwest Louisiana heritage with alt-rock and blues. The new album features a duet with Susan Cowsill (“Ghost of a Girl”), who follows an eclectic list of previous collaborators that includes Michael Doucet and Sonny Landreth. Honey Slides is set for January 25, 2005 street date – the week leading up to Mardi Gras.
The album’s curious title refers to an herbal concoction developed by fellow Louisiana native Rusty Kershaw for Neil Young during the latter’s On The Beach sessions. Having a nearly coma-inducing effect on its users, it’s basically just weed, fried up in a skillet, then covered with honey and then eaten. The effects are along the lines of hash brownies. Between the honey slides and the unorthodoxy of its recording, On The Beach became a pretty bizarre album -- and a favorite of the Bluerunners.
The Bluerunners are fronted by Mark Meaux (mandolin/guitar/songwriter) who founded the band in 1987, which led to its 1991 self-titled debut album on Island Records. Meaux is joined by “new guys” Willy Golden (slide guitar) and Adrian Huval (accordion) – both members for the past 11 years. Drummer Frank Kincel and bassist Cal Stevenson have been with The Bluerunners for five and six years respectively. (Previous members have gone on to join Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and Cowboy Mouth.)
The album contains 13 songs, nine of which are original. “Working Man’s Zydeco” pays homage to Zydeco originators Clifton & Cleveland Chenier. “Coulee Rodaire” revives a Conray Fontenot classic with Huval’s strong vocals and Mitch Reed’s fiddle. “Ghost Of A Girl,” with vocals by Susan Cowsill (Cowsills, Continental Drifters) provides a glimpse of what it might have sounded like if John Doe and Exene sat in on the Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet sessions. “Black Cat Bone,” the band’s paean to Northern Mississippi Hill Country, is a Jessie Mae Hemphill classic that rocks the house down with live crickets in the mix.
According to Meaux, “Honey Slides is our most fully realized album in terms of songwriting, production and good vibes coming together at the right time.”
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For more information on The Bluerunners, contact:
On the Mark Entertainment
jill@onthemarkwebsite.com
www.onthemarkwebsite.com
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