"Burned At The Crossroads to be released March 16th!
The new album from Mark Allan Atwood & Brimstone will hit the streets of San Marcos, TX and then the world, on Friday March 16th. With the focus of the musical world about 20 miles down the street in Austin for South By Southwest, one of the finest live music venues in the southwest, Texas Music Theater in San Marcos, will host the release party of the boy's new record Burned At The Crossroads.
With 12 tracks, produced by Grammy winner Adam Odor and recorded at Austin's Yellow Dog Studios, "Burned" promises to be an exciting ride for music listeners and will propel the band into the forefront of the TX Country/Americana scene's consciousness.
Opening the show for Brimstone at the TMT on 3/16 will be the duo of Atwood-Childs. With the first single, Devil's Angel, off their late 2011 release, Trading Pains, just now hitting the radio, this will be Mark and Heath's first show together since the album came out. The week after this show, the pair will know their award fate, as they are nominated for Texas Music Awards Duo of the Year. The TMA's are March 24th.
The TMT show is a free night. Don't miss it. Doors at 8 p.m."
December 24th! That's when you can have a copy of Atwood-Childs Trading Pains in your hands. December 27th, if you wanna wait and get one from me at Giddy Ups. Not long, when you consider we started the album 17 months ago. :-) We've got a credit card deal set up were you can swipe a card in person or shoot us the number to enter manually if you wanna go that route, or you can always send cash or check the old fashioned way and we'll get one to you. Email maa@markallanatwood.com with Trading Pains in the subject line!
Austin, TX and specifically South Austin, is famous for it's long running weekly musical traditions. Residencies at iconic venues by TX artists whose local followings are legendary, include Toni Tuesdays at the Continental, Chicken Shit Bingo at Ginny's every Sunday, dance lessons at the Broken Spoke each week and many, many more. Mark Allan is proud to have launched a new weekly musical event that is likely to be the next thing in South Austin "scene related" weekly events.
Maarmadillo Mondays at Giddy Ups on Manchaca Dr. (home of the renown annual reunion of the legendary Austin Outhouse and it's survivors), has already just in it's first few weeks hosted some magical musical moments. Each week it's whatever the ol' Maarmadillo decides to put on stage, from MAA solo, swaps with a guest, full bands (his own or others) or any combination of the above. It is NOT an open mic, but rather a musical celebration. "I'm blessed with the most amazingly talented set of friends a guy could ever hope to have," Mark Allan said. "I wanted a place in South Austin, that was important, to be able to give them a place to play on Monday nights just for the fun and magic of it. Nancy at Giddy Ups has a venue we all love and was excited to give my idea a shot."
Come be part of what will surely be an Austin tradition for a long time to come. Maarmadillo Mondays, where like Forrest's box of chocolates "you never know what you're gonna get," starts each Monday night around 8-ish. No cover, ice cold beer, great folks and killer tunes. Miss it at your own peril.
MAA's First Thursdays at Cypress Creek Cafe in Wimberley is off to a rip roarin' start. Each First Thursday of the month, Mark Allan will do an acoustic two-person song swap at one of the best rooms in all of TX, certainly Central TX, for listening to that type of show. Guests already appearing with MAA or scheduled to in the near future, include Javi Garcia, Kent Finlay, Carrie Ann Buchanan, Mark Jungers and many more. All killer and no filler is the motta of these showcases. Even Texas music icons such as Ray Wylie Hubbard and Hal Ketchum have already attended, just to sit among the audience and enjoy the shows! So what are you waiting for? If you're anywhere near Wimberley on the first Thursday of every month (and we'd highly recommend that you be), come on by Cypress Creek Cafe for some acoustic food for your soul.
If you weren't one of our guests at the Uptown Marble Theater on May 26th for MAA's birthday concert, you missed a fantastic night of live music, stories, laughs and even a few tears. For those who didn't know, the Uptown was the site of MAA's All-Star Birthday Bash, with Kevin Higgins, john Arthur martinez, Mike Ethan Messick and Heath Childs. For his birthday, Mark Allan asked each of the guys to play at least a couple of specific songs. They did not disappoint. The entire event was filmed by Melissa Arnold of Texas Red Productions, who was assisted for the evening by popular D/FW Area singer/songwriter, Saille Branch and it is being edited and formatted now for a future DVD release. Watch the page for details on the release date and how to get your hands on one. In the meantime, enjoy MAA's song Ghost from that evening. You can also, for a limited time, download an audio clip of the song on the Fans page that was recorded live in the studios of KNBT 92.1 FM in New Braunfels, when Mark Allan was a guest at the station.
Lots of changes here on the site lately, with lots more to come. MAA's recent interview on leading Americana radio station KNBT 92.1 FM is on the Listen page. There are two songs from that in-studio appearance to listen to and one of them may be downloaded on the Fans page. Also look for changes to the Who page, including info about the band, Brimstone!
We encourage you all to sign up for the FOTMs (Friends Of The Maarmadillo) Email List! It's simple, just shoot an email to fans @ markallanatwood.com and you're in! You may also fill out one of the signup forms available at the live shows wherever our merchandise is sold. We promise never to sell our mailing lists to anyone, for any reason! There will be many special events, merchandise, discounts and surprises that will only be available to those who receive the FOTMs emails, so just shoot us a message already, we wanna hear from you!
There are new studio happenings to report! Two different projects are in the works and both are expected to be completed soon. You may have heard talk about the exciting duet album that has folks talking. The individual material of both Heath Childs and Mark Allan, the mix of their voices and guitars and their co-written work will combine to make an acoustic based duet record that will be unlike anything either of the two have ever done before. "I'm so excited to see how this turns out," Mark Allan said about the album. "It's definitely the coolest thing I've ever done." The album is entitled Atwood~Childs Trading Pains and tracking for it has recently been completed. The album is in it's final mixing phase and a release date of Fall 2011 is planned. Stay tuned here for those details. Also another MAA full band studio album, that would be more of a followup to How Country, is in the works. The new band, Brimstone has a great take on this material and there will be some new tunes and some previously unrecorded crowd favorites from the live shows on the new record. Stay tuned to this website (in fact, signing up for the email list is a REALLY good idea), for release schedule info. And of course, where the release parties will be. If they're anything like the release party for How Country, well, if you were there, you know. And since it was one of the largest crowds Poodie's has seen in a long time, chances are you might've been there.
2010 has been quite a year for Mark Allan. With an Academy of Texas Music "Rising Star" TMA under his belt, five songs from the album How Country receiving terrestrial radio play, as well as online, signing an endorsement deal with Kona Guitars of Fort Worth, starting work on two different, brand new album projects and restructuring his band, everyone who's part of the team is excited to see what 2011 will bring
"Mark Allan Atwood has a voice that will throw you back into the old Southern Rock era. His rough and rowdy writing style is perfect for the Texas/Red Dirt scene. Gritty, yet clean. Rough, yet smooth. Give him a listen, The Allman Brothers and Skynyrd would BOTH be proud!" Jim Nash, Program Director and half of the popular "Morning Fiasco" show on 106.9 FM The Ranch
“Mark Allan Atwood is a True Texas Hippie Honky-Tonker, great new record out, can drink me under the table and a great live show with tunes with substance.” Brett Dillon – KHYI 95.3FM The Range, Dallas, TX
“Mark Allan Atwood gets the most out of what he does. Life, songwriting, the new CD, or up on stage, you get the same high-octane energy from a man who not only loves music, but is passionate about sharing with those fortunate enough to cross his path. Double-Dog Dare anyone to test my theory, three bars into an MAA song and you'll know what I’m talking about!” Tres Womack, Singer/Songwriter
"Mark is a unique artist, partly because so many of his songs seem like a friendly conversation with the audience ... one line might be a rock & roller's boast, the next a good old boy's self-deprecating shrug. Plus he's got that big, earthy voice to push those cool songs all the way to the cheap seats, and that's a rare combination." Mike Ethan Messick, Singer/Songwriter
