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Track List This Truck... (Is My Life) American Style Music City
Check out Kings Highway (including audio
clip) here One of the most admirable traits of King's Highway, outside of their music, is the fact that they're more likely to toot the horn of their influences and contemporaries, than their own. After you've visited King's Highway be sure to check out: |
California's country music scene has a long history of innovativeness.
Over the years, when country music threatened to fall between the cracks,
pioneers stepped up to the plate.
The Maddox Brothers and Sister Rose added a touch of rockabilly flair to their hillbilly honky tonk in the 1940's. When ultra-smooth countrypolitan sound filled the radio airwaves in the 60's, a rebellious group of artists put country music back on track with the resounding twang of the telecaster, giving birth to the Bakersfield Sound with now legendary country music pioneers such as Wynn Stewart, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Today, with almost non-existent mainstream radio support, a number of exciting, innovative musicians and artists, with their roots firmly planted, work steadfastly to keep country real. Country music is thriving against the odds in the Golden State, with music from the likes of Red Meat, Dallas Wayne and Johnny Dilks. The Bay area based band, King's Highway combines the best of California's rich country music legacy with an updated fresh sound that will appeal across generations. Mixing rockabilly with a solid honky tonk twang the band adds multi-leveled textures that are seemingly extinct in the bulk of today's mainstream fare. Band members include: Felix Tauzer (Vocals), James Egolf (Guitar), Jon Jorczak (Bass Guitar) and Hector Moreno (Drums). With a 3 song CD single that gives you more solid country than most 13 track albums, King's Highway leaves you wanting more. All 3 of the tracks were penned by band members Felix Tauzer and James Egolf. The band's musical influences are obvious throughout the twang edged rockabilly of This Truck , as they recapture the best of yesterday. American Style not only keeps the momentum going but kicks it up another notch, with it's drivin' backbeat The solid, hardcore, honky tonk of 'Music City' is more than worthy of any roadhouse jukebox as the lyrics themselves speak for the music: Well, I love you Music
City, but you'd never let me in Too country, for country in my neck of the woods is a compliment. King's Highway should take pride that while mainstream country may turn and run, real country music fans will undoubtedly sit a spell. King's Highway is proof positive that country music is still alive and well in California.
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Laurie Joulie Take Country Back
May 2002