NO SHOW PONIES DECLARE THE END OF FEEL GOOD MUSIC
WITH THEIR
LATEST RELEASE
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AUSTIN, TX - Austin's Americana rock and roll group No Show Ponies announces the release of their debut album, The End of Feel Good Music,. It features varied instrumentation, from fiddle to Keith Langford's (The Gourds) drumming to John Dee Graham's haunting lap steel, and rich, imagery-laden songwriting engineered to start a conversation.
The record is the very first produced by Kevin Russell of the Gourds, and it's ripe with No Show Ponies' always-dazzling lyrical craft. Christ on the cross, the Garden of Eden, Hitler's Germany, Hiroshima, Southern grotesques, Coney Island, Lenin, faded stars and human relationships… it's all there. But, so is Chuck Berry, Jersey soul, early country, mandolins, loud guitars, fiddles and rock and roll.
"This is an album that speaks in emotional terms as to what it has felt like to be an American during our recent turbulent history," says No Show Ponies guitarist/vocalist Ben Brown.
The group puts a lot of emphasis on the lyrics and it shows, but they also have a knack of creating some really catchy tunes, as on "A Run In with a Faded Star" and "The End of Feel Good Music". They succeed in creating a record that is enough fun that you'd play it on your back porch with friends, but it's also intelligent and introspective enough that you'd listen to it in your bedroom when the sun goes down.
"Producing this record is among my favorite musical experiences," says Russell.
The album asks big questions and demands big answers. Over an appropriate "lucky thirteen" tracks, the album explores themes of human commonality and existentialism, all washed over with scores of acoustic guitars, mandolins, tinkering pianos, and Graham's lap steel. Call it a 'hootenanny for the head.'
