The first single GravelRoad's new album is 'Monkey With A Wig' and we're premiering the video produced by No-Brow productions right here:

"Rabbit Run"
Written by Stefan Zillioux, Martin Reinsel, Jon Newman
Performed by Gravel Road
Courtesy of Gravel Road/SFFTV

We're still looking for a clip to share, but you can find some additional details here:

http://www.soundtrack.net/movie/the-baytown-outlaws/

The latest release from the “most-experienced Seattle band that few people are aware of” comes out on November 30th.  The 7” Green Vinyl of Pedernales (Knick Knack Records) by Seattle’s Dark Blue Rockers GRAVELROAD will not be in stores until mid-November but you can come down to their Vinyl Release Party at the Rendezvous’ Jewel Box Theater on Friday November 30th and hear the band live as they release the recording of tracks they laid-down at Willie Nelson’s Texas studio of the same name earlier this year. Joining GravelRoad at the vinyl-release party will be 2 of Seattle’s finest raw musical acts - NightTrain & Lonesome Shack.

Marty Reinsel, GRAVELROAD’s drummer and 1/3 of the band’s nearly-decade-old incarnation, spoke about how this recording came about.  “Both the tracks and the relationship with the Pedernales studio are rooted in our history over the last 5 years of so.”  With regards to the tracks, the side A song, “Monkey with a Wig,” is an original one that band members Kirby Newman and Stefan Zillioux started working on many years back and the Side B track, “See That My Grave’s Kept Clean” is a traditional by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1927) that the band got to playing at the encouragement of KEXP’s Greg Vandy for a live tribute show for the Harry Smith Anthology series a few years back.

Reinsel continues,  “The basis of the relationship with the Pedernales Studio - definitely the finest recording studio I’ve ever set foot in, let alone recorded in - began late one night about 3 years ago" after a show supporting nonagenarian Mississippi outlaw blues man T Model Ford. "I met Jacob Sciba, Willie's Lead Studio Engineer about 3am after a show at Emo's in Austin, he appeared out of nowhere and we hit it off from the start .... He's been coming to all of our shows in Austin for the last few years.

“Earlier this year we are out on tour playing a dive bar in south Austin on a Saturday with 1 day off to follow.  Jacob invited us to Pedernales on our free day, told us to set up & had us treat it just like another live show on tour.  Since he knows that room inside and out, he had us set up and we just played - it was almost too easy!  We did more tracks than just the one on the 7”, but we were happiest with these 2 for this special release.  I’d always wanted to do a 45 RPM but we simply hadn’t yet. When Joe Johnson of Knick Knack Records heard the tracks, he said it had to be released on Green Vinyl ... we all agreed. Everything about this seemed like it was the right thing to do.  It was the easiest and greatest recording session for us yet and, of course, a recording at Willie’s studio had to be on green vinyl.”

GravelRoad is not planning a full tour for the release of the Pedernales 7”.  The band will instead focus on the recording of their next album, due out in late-spring 2013 and focus on touring behind that release.  In the meantime, the band will be playing select shows in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, touring local psychiatric hospitals and mental health facilities - a hobby of the band’s, says Reinsel: “We love the reception we get there ... it’s a lot more real than select shows where people are reluctant to let loose, ya know.”  GravelRoad will be continuing full touring in 2013.

Here's what The Seattle Weekly's music editor Chris Kornelis has to say about GravelRoad's latest release on Knick Knack Records.

"GravelRoad, Pedernales (out now, Knick Knack Records, gravelroadblues.com): "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" is the season's first solid drinking song (you'll need a whole pitcher). "Monkey With a Wig," the front side of this single, is sophisticated bar-band blues at its most riffalicious."

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2012-10-31/music/it-s-november-2012-and-seattle-sounds-like/

GravelRoad is at it again and we're releasing a 7 inch single that was recorded at Willie Nelson's Pedernales studio while on their spring 2012 tour.

They're celebrating with label mates Lonesome Shack and the wonderful ladies of NighTrain on November 30 at The Rendezvous Theatre.

GravelRoad is working recording at Elliot Bay Recording Studio with Brian Nelson engineering the sessions.

Jim Diamond (Detroit) will be doing the mix, just as he did with 'Psychedelta'

Knick Knack Records artists GravelRoad and Mystery Ship will both be performing on September 21 at Cafe Solstice in Seattle's University District.

This is an ALL AGES show!  So happy to be putting on something for everyone this time.  You can even buy beer at this place.  It's an early show, so you'll still

be able to hit up the club shows later.

Classic Rock Magazine asked their writers for their top 5 albums of the year so far and here's where GravelRoad landed on the list:

5.  Gary Clark Jr - Don’t Owe You A Thing

4.  GravelRoad – Psychedelta

3.  Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

2.  Howlin Rain – The Russian Wilds

1.  Cory Branan – Mutt

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/music_and_videos/albums-of-the-year-so-far-pt-4-featuring-cory-branan-springsteen-gravelroad-howlin-rain-and-more/4/

Another nod to GravelRoad from Classic Rock Magazine for their album 'Psychedelta'

5.  Ian Siegal & The Mississippi Mudbloods – Candy Store Kid (Nugene)

4.  Joanne Shaw Taylor – Almost Always Never (Ruf)

3.  Ray Wylie Hubbard – The Grifter’s Hymnal (Bordello)

2.  GravelRoad – Psychedelta (Knick Knack Records)

1.  Jack White – Blunderbuss (XL/Third Man)

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/music_and_videos/albums-of-the-year-so-far-pt-3-featuring-ian-siegal-joanne-shaw-taylor-gravelroad-jack-white-and-more/4/

"Psychedelta, the new album by the Seattle-based trio GravelRoad, is a primal, raw, hard driving, yet accessible album that presents the blues in a new light.  It is rough and tumble psychedelic rocking blues.  The album pushes and pulses from one track to the other, yet it never loses a consistent rhythm that can create a trance or a boogie with the grace of a slide, the thunder of the drums, or the scream of a blistering riff.  With tracks like “Devil Eyes,” Keep on Moving,” and “In the Woods,” GravelRoad offers up sounds that are familiar but unique.  They reach further and break new ground on tracks like “Caves” and “Deep Blues Theme,” while using “Nobody Gets Me Down (original by T-Model Ford) and “Furry” (an ode to the late Furry Lewis) to honor those that have come before them and serve as vital influences."

http://granazi.blogspot.com/2012/08/gravelroad-psychedelta.html