Summer on the way, baseball on the radio and new music coming soon for 2013. The Ohio City Singers have tracked 15 new songs at Suma Studios and will be finishing it up this Summer for a 2013 release of "A Town Called Christmas"....In OTHER news I will be recording an acoustic record with Al Moss, Tom Prebish and Don Dixon in my garage this June. It will contain a "best of " reel of tracks we have been performing and a few new things as well. Look for a late Summer release!
Rosavelt's first two albums Carp & Bones and Transistor Blues are now available on all digital outlets for the first time via Bug Music Digital.
Check out the July 2012 Cleveland Magazine for a review of the new album by Rosavelt, saying the album offers "11 new tunes that further cement Chris Allen as one the city's best songwriters."
Thank you all for coming out to support Rosavelt on the release of their new album at the House of Blues. The Last 10 Days is now available at www.rosavelt.net in limited edition, hand-painted recycled CD sleeve format. Also available on all digital outlets. Check back soon for limited tour dates to finish out 2012.
In other news, the newly reformed Rosavelt will open for the Del Fuegos at the Beachland Ballroom!!! February 24, 2011.
We just finished recording a new ROSAVELT record with A.K. Grasha, Tom Prebish and Don Dixon at Mitch Easter's Fidelitoreum. It will be mastered this month by Greg Calbi for a Spring 2012 Release.
Acetate Arrives to Critical Acclaim
We just finished recording a new ROSAVELT record with A.K. Grasha, Tom Prebish and Don Dixon at Mitch Easter's Fidelitoreum. It will be mastered this month by Greg Calbi for a Spring 2012 Release.
Allen's latest work, ACETATE, has arrived. Produced by Don Dixon (Smithereens, R.E.M., Counting Crows), it commences with the Replacements-like anti-anthem "Love Not Born" and then proceeds to show just how much Allen has grown as a songwriter... Said Dixon to the Plain Dealer about ACETATE, "Chris Allen is the most underrated songwriter in the country..." Read the entire album overview here.
MAVERICK MAGAZINE-UK REVIEW OF ACETATE IN AUGUST ISSUE
Chris Allen-ACETATE (4 out of 5 stars)
Former front-man for alt-country band Rosavelt, Chris Allen emerges with his third solo album as a highly skilled songwriter and distinctive vocalist. He mastered the difficult task of merging memorable melodies and thoughtful lyrics that often read like short-three minute novels. Typical is I Don't Live Here Anymore, a mid-tempo yarn full of angst and attitude with an easy-going rhythm that has you humming along to the strident lyrics.
There's a raspy edge to The Man Who Shook the World whilst Boy Meets Girl is a bittersweet ballad that again easily infiltrates your senses and begs to be heard again and again. That's very much true of so many of these cleverly written tunes that loosely straddle the American and alt.country genres.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MAVERICK MAGAZINE:
March 11: The Happy Dog. 9:30 pm. BFCH.
March 13: Treehouse. Cleveland, OH. 9 pm.
March 15: The Southside. Cleveland, OH. 10 pm.
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