I’m excited that Have Gun, Will Travel, the great Americana band from Bradenton, is making its Palladium debut this Saturday in the Side Door. If you haven’t seen and heard this band yet, don’t miss this show. I’ve loved the band in outdoor settings but I’m anxious to hear them in our acoustically perfect club.
Tickets are available on our website for this show on Saturday, 11-8 at 8 p.m. If you haven’t been to the Side Door, it’s a cabaret, with tables, candles, great sound and a beer and wine bar.
If you’re a fan, you already know how great this band can be. If you’re new to Have Gun here’s some background from the site bandcamp.com:
Bradenton’s Have Gun, Will Travel have a natural instinct for combining folk, pop, rock and classic country influences to create a sound all their own.
“Their music has a great energy to it with infectious, sing-along choruses and refrains” remarked NPR’s Robin Hilton. American Songwriter called HGWT’s music “organic, infectious Americana Pop. Their music has a refreshing immediacy to it.”
Over the course of four acclaimed albums, hundreds of shows and copious populist-radio airplay, they’ve nurtured a tradition of inviting all manner of gifted musicians to join the fray. The group’s inclusive nature allows it to flesh out tunes that run the gamut from foot-stomping front-porch spirituals and evocative Texas swing to strum-punk rave-ups, hill-country historicals and more.
HGWT’s music has been featured in a national Chevy TV commercial; multiple episodes of the PBS series Roadtrip Nation; and an episode of CBS’s The Good Wife. Their previous albums have spent months on the CMJ Radio Top 200 chart. And their live performances have been described as rousing, rollicking, energetic and dynamic.
The band’s fourth full-length album Fiction, Fact or Folktale? was released in September on CD and digital formats through This Is American Music. The album was mixed by HGWT’s own Scott Anderson and mastered by Rodney Mills (Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Drive-By Truckers).
The band debuted in 2008 with the release of Casting Shadows Tall As Giants. The album garnered praise from national media outlets such as National Public Radio.
At Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay Awards show held in Tampa, HGWT took home the Readers’ Poll Award for Best Americana Act and Staff pick for Local CD of the Year. The album quickly became the fourth most-played album of the year on Tampa’s WMNF 88.5 FM. The album’s opening song Blessing and a Curse was chosen to appear on every episode of the 2009 season of PBS’s Roadtrip Nation, as well as a regional TV and radio ad campaign for GTE Federal Credit Union.
With the release of their anxiously anticipated follow-up album Postcards from the Friendly City, HGWT secured national distribution through Denver, CO indie label Suburban Home Records. The album debuted at #72 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 chart, climbed to #56 within three weeks and spent three full months on the chart.
PBS’s Roadtrip Nation came calling again and featured HGWT’s “Kerosene & Candlelight” in an episode of their seventh season. As a result of HGWT’s hard work and the national attention that it had generated, the band took home the Critic’s Pick award for Best Bay Area Breakout in Creative Loafing’s 2010 Best of the Bay issue. The album ranked No. 3 on WMNF 88.5 Tampa’s list of most-played albums of 2010.
HGWT have toured extensively, playing showcases at some of the major festivals and music conferences including South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, the Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta, Tropical Heatwave in Tampa, Gainesville’s “The FEST” and Orlando’s Anti-Pop Music Festival to name a few.
The band’s ever-popular “Blessing and a Curse” was used in a national Chevy television ad that began airing in April 2011.
FOR MORE INFO ON HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL:
www.facebook.com/hgwtmusic
FOR MORE INFO ON THIS IS AMERICAN MUSIC:
thisisamericanmusic.com
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