When The Rubber Meets The Road

(IT-06 0)

"When The Rubber Meets The Road" is the second I-Town release by the band most recently dubbed as "Ithaca's stalwarts of country rock." Included are thirteen songs of heartbreak and lonesome drifter nostalgia that will surely make fans of alt-country music stomp their feet, raise their glass, and holler like a hillbilly. Produced by Trevor MacDonald, this release features several guest musicians and is already being hailed as the band's strongest effort to date. The various songs draw from numerous genres and tell the tales of a "hidden America" where heartbreak, hangovers, and the highway are part of everyday life. This cd includes everything from fast pickin' back porch stomps, tear in your beer ballads, psychedelic two-step cosmic cowboy jams, and a good natured folk song or two. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the Ithaca country sound up close and personal!

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Won't Be Long

(IT-040)

If modern country music has an irascible and reckless cousin whose gut level enthusiasm and indifference to convention is both maddening and contagious, it is the music of Urban Horse Thieves. After three years of writing and performing their own brand of rock-n-roll with a hillbilly twist, UHT culminate their efforts in this, their first full length release on I-Town records. Produced by Nate Silas Richardson of John Brown’s Body, this CD showcases the band’s americana pie inclinations in which country rock is fused with elements of honky tonk, blues, rockabilly, bluegrass, and soul.

Featured on the CD are several talented guest musicians who appear on a number of other I-Town releases and whose presence make this recording truly an I-Town collective effort. Also of note is the band’s use of two primary songwriters whose off-setting styles create an uncommon variety of mood and subject matter. Songs of triumph and heartbreak together tell a tale of passionate Americanism in which hope abides eternal and despair faithfully holds her right hand. Whether the occasion be to raise a glass in defiance of the modern workaday toil or to cry into that glass over love’s refusal to rest easy, Won’t Be Long seems the soundtrack to fit the bill

Rock-n-roll with a hillbilly twist! Here is the much anticipated debut of Ithaca’s country rock connoisseurs.

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