James Leg Premieres New Track, New Album ‘Blood On The Keys’ Out 3 September
JAMES LEG PREMIERES NEW TRACK VIA ELMORE! | NEW ALBUM “BLOOD ON THE KEYS” OUT SEP. 30TH
JAMES LEG TO RELEASE THIRD ALBUM “BLOOD ON THE KEYS” SEPTEMBER 30TH VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS
ELMORE MAGAZINE PREMIERES JAMES LEG’S NEW TRACK “HUMAN LAWN DART” |CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
“Blood On the Keys picks up where Leg’s last effort, Below The Belt, left off. Chunky, rowdy, classy come clanky piano progressions with Leg’s satanic howl bouncing around the mix like Howlin’ Wolf’s third white cousin. The tracks are fleshed out with plenty meat on the bone for this effort, fiddle fills and strings, guitars and copious if not deadly doses of gravel punk rock. There is nothing like a Leg record and there never will be, no one plays like him, no one growls like him, and certainly no one rocks like him.” – NO DEPRESSION
“… a sneering, whiskey fueled, son-of-a-preacher, punk rocker of a long gone order… radiates an almost-unhinged tension, as if it’s always one lick away from flying fully off the rails.”. – ELMORE MAGAZINE
“The good reverend continues to be an absolute force of nature on the keys. And after two Black Diamond Heavies records, one cover record with Left Lane Cruiser, and now his third James Leg LP, it’s clear this man has not run out of tricks.” – GLACIALLY MUSICAL
“Comes on like a cross between Howlin’ Wolf, Suicide and a fire and brimstone Gospel/Blues shouter” – THEE PSYCEDELICATESSEN
James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers of the Black Diamond Heavies, The Immortal Lee County Killers) is set to release his third solo album, Blood On The Keys, this fall. Back in his days with the Heavies, Leg laid the foundation for his solo work with his down-n-dirty keys, fervent live performances and trademark gruff black snake moan.
Following the success of his acclaimed 2015 solo album, Below The Belt, Leg recorded once again at the Masonic Sounds located in a Masonic Lodge in Dayton, KY, and had the album mixed by renowned producer/engineer Jason Soda (GospelbeacH, Everest, Jakob Dylan) at SodaCuts in East LA.
Leg, the son of a Texas preacher, started playing piano when he was just six. Raised on southern gospel music, he began preaching at the church his father pastored at the age of 14. Two years later he became infected with the lure of rock-n-roll and eventually alcohol and drugs. It was this contrast of good & evil, heaven & hell that would affect not only his music – solo and otherwise – but also his impassioned live performances evoking some sort of fervid snake-handling Pentecostal preacher in the middle of a lung-busting, jugular-popping sermon (just replace the slippery vermin with a fifth of whiskey and Leg pounding on his signature Fender Rhodes and you get the picture).
James Leg’s Blood On The Keys will be available September 30th on Limited Edition colored vinyl, CD and digital formats via Alive Naturalsound Records. Click here to pre-order via iTunes
JAMES LEG EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
8/31 : Bordeaux – St Michel – Festival Relache
9/01 : Saint Menoux – L’Echoppe Ferme de la Mhotte
9/02 : Meisenthal – Moon K’fé
9/03 : Gérardmer – Grattoir
9/16 : Lille – Amul Solo
9/18 : Strasbourg TBC
9/19 : Besançon – Bar de I’U
9/21 : Reims – L’Apprart’ Café
9/22 : Lixing-lès-Rouhling – TCP
9/23 : Tranqueville-Graux – La BaZKa
JAMES LEG U.S. TOUR DATES
10/15 : Clarksdale, Mississippi – Deep Blues Festival – Shackup Inn
10/16 : Birmingham, Alabama – TBC
10/17 : Chattanooga, Tennessee – JJ’s – with Mark Holder & MPH and Dirty Deep
FOR MORE INFO ON JAMES LEG:
http://www.alive-records.com/artist/james-leg
https://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Leg/114197558646461
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