Big Noise From Springfield

06/10/05
. (conqueroo) Springfield, Missouri has bubbled under the "next big scene" radar since 1982 when The Morells emerged from Lou Whitney's studio with the prototype American roots-rock album Shake & Push. Not youth-driven enough to compete with Akron or Athens, Springfield retreated to the background. But now, in 2005, it's getting ready to erupt for real. Once again, the man behind the action is Whitney, charter member of The Morells and The Skeletons, and his studio, dubbed succinctly The Studio.

HighTone Records of Oakland, California, is now in the process of putting Springfield music back on the national map by releasing four Whitney-produced CDs - The Morells' Think About It, The Bel Airs' Got Love, The Domino Kings' Some Kind of Sign, and Brian Capps' Walk Through Walls - and sponsoring a cross-country tour featuring all four acts. Billed as "Big Noise from Springfield," the tour kicks off on Friday, August 12, 2005, with a live two-and-a-half-hour broadcast over XM Radio Channel 12, X Country. The program, the first live XM concert broadcast of its type, will be repeated in its entirety several times; portions of it will then be aired on several different XM Satellite Radio channels. - Click here for the Full Story

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