Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome

Betsy Badwater and Lang Hollowman are once again extremely humbled and excited to perform as Hollowman Badwater opening for legendary New Orleans musician and ‘King of the 21st Century Blues’ Chris Thomas King at Vinyl Music Hall on Saturday January 21st, 2012. Expect to hear their set almost completely full of songs from the new album ‘Engine No.9′ still in production. Chris just recently released his most recent album ‘Antebellum Postcards’ from October 2011.
It’s his first new studio album in 5 (five) years and the 15th album of his award-winning career. Antebellum Postcards feature’s 10 new songs and was in stores worldwide on October 4, 2011.

Chris Thomas King is also celebrating the 10th anniversary of the multi-platinum soundtrack “O Brother, Where Art Thou.” The deluxe re-mastered CD hit stores worldwide on August 23, 2011 on Lost Highway/Universal Records.

As a New Orleans musician King has been the vanguard of blues and roots music in the 21st Century. King has sold more records and appeared in more successful films than any other blues artist this century. Steeped in tradition as a singer and guitarist on his now classic performances on the O Brother soundtrack King found crossover fame as a successful actor in the Coen Brothers movie as Tommy Johnson (the character who joined Soggy Bottom Boys and told them he’d sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads) opposite George Clooney.

Over the past ten years we’ve seen the multi-talented King in over a dozen Hollywood films including the Oscar winning “Ray” in which he played the band leader Lowell Folsom and scored the films Grammy winning music along side Ray Charles himself. King currently has a recurring acting role in the celebrated HBO series Treme.

Location: Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola, Florida
Date/Time: Saturday January 21st, 2012 – doors open at 8pm, show 9pm-12am
Tickets: $10/$12 online – http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/85807 or at Vinyl’s Ticket Booth
CTK website: Chris Thomas King

Chris Thomas King – Baptised in Dirty Water – Voodoo Experience 2011

This all seems like it happened yesterday, so here’s a recap of August & September and what is ahead. We had a great run through central & south Florida hitting several shows in Gainesville, Orlando, and Punta Gorda. Two new recordings were finished in a hotel room (“Dear Delilah” & “Letter from John”) that are now getting play on Punta Gorda country radio station 92.9 KIX Country,…contact ‘em and request us, and also listen live online, if you’re not in their radio area. Unbelievable love, turnout & show for our bass player’s (Joey Harrison) “Cancer Sucks” benefit at Vinyl Music Hall, one-love for the Harrison family & friends. All the family got in on Greg Guzman’s NPR/WUWF.org blues show “The Blue Plate Special” with our good buddies ‘The Jericho Road Show‘ (Rambling Steve Gardner, Bill Steber, & Cody Ruth) the end of August. And ‘WOW!!’, we just finished out our first show, that graciously hoot-n-hollered packed out at ‘The Dragon’s Den’ in New Orleans in the French Quarter…we cannot wait to get back there for another!! While going to this show for the early soundcheck, we ran into ‘Washboard Chaz’ half-a-block away while he was playing his show…he’s a friend of The Jericho Road Show and we’ve listened to him on countless albums, including his…it was wild!!
So, HOLLOWMAN BADWATER are continuing on with recording through October&November for the next album “Engine No.9″ to be released December 2011. We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with our good friend / HD video producer, Ryan O’Keeley (http://www.okeeley.com), who’s producing some down-home session videos of a few of the new songs that we think you’ll really dig…we’ll give you a peak as soon as production finishes. Many of the new songs you’ve been hearing at the shows, because we’re on fire playing them between us. The coal is getting heavy loaded in the burner as we burn up through some high-altitude steep mountains, the brakeman passed-out w/ a bad fever,…so when we hit the downhill run, it’s gonna be wide-open burnin’ fast on “Engine No.9″. C’ya soon folks!!
-HB

NEWS “Hey New Orleans!!!”: HOLLOWMAN BADWATER (Lang Hollowman & Betsy Badwater) will be playing a show in NEW ORLEANS this weekend! Saturday Night we’ll be at The Dragon’s Den in the French Quarter a block up Esplanade from the market! We’ll be introducing RAZORBLADE WALTZ, a super-sexy knife throwing, fire dancin’, coffin’ draggin’, hip-shakin’ BURLESQUE troup headed up by my dangerously beautiful friend, Mistress Natasha Borgia! We can’t wait!

Knife Throwing, Body Paint, LIVE Rock-n-Roll, Gorelesque, Sexxxy Striptease, Comedy, Games, Fire ,FREE HOMEMADE POPSICLES and popsicle eating contest.. and MUCH MORE!! Join us for Razor Blade Waltz Revue’s first full show in New Orleans! Prizes ,treats ,amazing tunes and EYECANDY!!! You dont want to miss this!!!
11pm…$10

Vinyl Music Hall Hosts A Benefit Concert, Auction & BBQ for Local Musician Joey Harrison

CANCER SUCKS! ….and local musicians, artists & foodies are banding together to make one family’s crappy situation just a little bit better. Friday September 9 from 6-11, Vinyl Music Hall hosts a benefit concert, auction and BBQ in support of a very special local bass player (most recently of Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome & Tribe Zion). Joseph Harrison was diagnosed with stage four terminal bone and lung cancer in May of this year, just hours before he was to take the stage with BB&HBC at The Vinyl. Joseph has been married for 19 years to Lavinia Harrison, they have three children: Jacob, Joshua, and Grace. Joey just had his 2nd chemotherapy treatment and needs financial support.

The event includes music from 7 bands, including Encore, Precise, Tribe Zion, HOLLOWMAN BADWATER, The Jeff Glickman Trio, and Fat Lipped Fish, a fine-art/rock-n-roll memorabilia silent auction, temporary tattoos from Black Sparrow Tattoo Studio, door prizes, chances to win cash, freebies for all attendees, and a back yard BBQ. Cover charge for this all-ages event is only 5 dollars, and ALL proceeds from the event go directly to the Harrison family.

Sponsors include: Al Graham Photography, Blues Angel Music, Bob Burt Guitar Pedals, Black Sparrow Tattoo Studio, Custom Pins, Dirty South Glass, Innerlight Surf & Skate, Jay’s Gun Shop, Jef Bond Photographics, Paddy O’Leary’s Irish Pub, and many more are being added daily. Don’t miss this great show! Bring the whole family and support this special local musician!

To donate rock-n-roll memorabilia for the auction, contact: Nora Jones at nora@cleverogre.com.

To submit art to be included in the fine art auction, send an image of your piece to Jef Bond at jefbond@gmail.com

To contribute to the BBQ, contact: Ken Smith at smithsixstring@yahoo.com.

All other inquiries, sponsorships, or to volunteer for the event, contact Betsy Badwater at betsybadwater@hotmail.com.

BANDS: Tribe Zion, Fat Lipped Fish, Jeff Glickman Trio, Hollowman Badwater, Precise
& More!
DATE: Fri, September 9, 2011
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 6:00 pm (event ends at 11:00 pm)
Location: Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola, FL – http://vinylmusichall.com
TICKETS ARE $5 AND AVAILABLE @ THE DOOR ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT… ***Additional $5 cash surcharge at the door for under 21

Grammy Award winning Chris Thomas King is the “King of the 21st Century Blues” and we are so excited to be able to spend a night opening for such Legend. He has been a major influence in our background of top musicians styles and approaches to songwriting, so this really puts a giant ‘smile on our faces and contentment in our hearts’ . Songs such as “Wanna Die With A Smile On My Face”, “John Law Burned Down the Liquor Store”, and his cover of Skip James’ “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” should definitely be where you should start if you’ve never really listened to this great bluesman. Expect Mr. King to be playing with his band through rounds of traditional, electric, & solo acoustic blues…and of course he’s a seasoned performer, so you can always expect some fun surprises that he’ll pull off. Read More about Chris Thomas King full Bio, Touring Dates, Movies he’s starred in or scored, Albums, etc. at his website: http://ChrisThomasKing.com – go there NOW!!!

- video from Martin Scorcese presents “The Blues”

Betsy Badwater and The Hillbilly Chrome will be starting off the show for a full 1 & 1/2 hour set at 9pm. Anticipate us to be 6 members deep in the line-up (Badwater on kick/guitar/vocals, Hollowman on slide/National/vocals, Harrison on Bass, Glickman on percussion/harmonica/guitar, Brian Vogel on trumpet, and a new member that we want to save the announcement for the night of this show). Expect that most of the songs in the 1.5hr set to be almost all new songs Hollowman & Badwater have written & performed over the past 6 months. Of course, we can’t keep out some of the good favorites from last years album “TALES of the WAYWARD”. You come and you’ll get a complimentary FREE BB&HBC ROOSTER BUTTON, and CD’s will be for sale.

Date/Time: Saturday, June 25th, 2011 – Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 9:00pm – June 26 at 1:00am
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Location: Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox St., Pensacola, FL
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Tickets: $10-$12 at Vinyl Music Hall Box Office or online purchase at http://ticketf.ly/emeOw0

TONIGHT!!! Tuesday June 14th, 2011 – Dirty Bourbon River Show & BB&BHC join up for a Southern good time at The Handlebar.
BB&HBC are really excited to share a show with such an authentic New Orleans band….well, need we say more than the following:

“A circus-like barrage of sound serving as entrance music for a magical mystery tour of whiskey-soaked French Quarter back alleys,” – Rory Callais, Offbeat

“Genetically theatrical… appetite-whetting… a snow-globe carnival segueing seamlessly from kazoo- and clarinet-blown circus shenanigans to smooth-croon lounge, and finely fingered folk ballads to banjo hoedowns, jazzy sax solos and staccato piano jams” – Noah Bonaparte-Pais, Gambit Weekly

“Riotous… racuous… swashbuckling sea chanteys, paranoid polkas, and carnival jazz, often in the same song… now that’s my kind of party!” – Aaron Lafont, Groovescapes

Date/Time: Tuesday June 14th, 2011 – Doors open at 7:30pm, show starts at 9:00pm – June 26 at 1:00am
Location: The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St., Pensacola FL. 32501, 850-434-9060
Tickets: $6
Venue Website: HandleBarPensacola.com http://www.handlebarpensacola.com/
Band Website: The Dirty Bourbon River Show http://dirtybourbonrivershow.com/

Thursday May 12th, 2011 – The Architects (Kansas City), COCKFIGHT, BETSY BADWATER & THE HILLBILLY CHROME, SWIM WITH SHARKS
BB&HBC (Badwater, Hollowman, & Harrison lineup) will be burning it down loud and hard for this show, so be prepared. The set consists of 90% new songs that no one can get from the albums or recordings. If you’ve been waiting to catch them at one of the best music venues in the south, then Thursday night is your time. FREE Buttons and the album ‘TALES of the WAYWARD’ will be available for purchase as well.

About The Architects: True to The Architects form, The Hard Way resonates with big, classic rock sounds like those of late 70’s groups. Cases in point- “This Wasted Ocean” rattles and shakes with Isle Of Wright-era The Who, propelled by explosive frenzies of drums and roaring guitar. Elsewhere, “Death Rides a Horse” brings Sabbath’s epic dirge face to face with ZZ Top’s dark and dusty Deguello while “Big Iron Gate” takes home a blue ribbon for best confluence of AC/DC and Bruce Springsteen influences ever.
“I have an axe to grind with law enforcement and the way we treat crime and punishment in this country.” Says, Brandon about the aforementioned “Big Iron Gate” – a classic sounding jail-song in nearly every sense. “ I love that song because I happen to feel strongly about the subject matter and because the particular style of the song allowed me to break out my snottiest Midwestern drawl.”
That snotty Midwestern drawl and hard-nosed Midwestern work ethic will serve The Architects well as they embark this summer on the entire 2009 Vans Warped Tour to bring The Hard Way and The Architects certifiably stellar live performances to kids across North America through a gauntlet of dust, grit, sweat, three-two beer, dehydration and sunstroke- you can bet your ass it won’t be easy and you can bet your ass that The Hard Way is where The Architects thrive.

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
Venue: Vinyl Music Hall
Location: Pensacola, FL
Tickets: $5.00 – Online Tickets Here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/38167

Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome are very excited to be hosting and participating in an evening that includes folk/americana singer/songwriter Stijl Calhoun, and the great Miss Izzy Cox accompanied w/ Mississippi’s best modern upright bass player and our good friend, Mr. Cody Ruth.

“Izzy Cox is generating quite a buzz, when Rick Rubin, Quentin Tarantino and Nan Warshaw are singing your praises you know she must be good. Izzy Cox is an anarchist crooner who has coined the style Voodoobilly Jazz as her own. Influenced by old movie soundtracks, old time bar room blues and country singers her lyrics are like diary entries. Stories of serial killers, buckaroo cowboys, snake handlers and sports of nature.

After a career on the East Coast Izzy caught a Greyhound to Hollywood, CA. At a backyard vegan barbeque hootenanny in Silverlake, she met guitar player Billy Pitman, who has played with Jimmie Vaughan, Hubert Sumlin, Janis Martin, Gatemouth Brown, LouAnn Barton, Billy Gibbons, Rev. Horton Heat and Eric Clapton. After only five years she put out four albums and has opened up for Wayne Hancock, Jr. Brown, Jack White, Big Sandy and the Fly Rite Boys, Devil Doll, The Jim Rose Circus and counts among her fans Todd the Surfer, Quentin Tarantino, the late Gene Autry and producer Rick Rubin (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica) who dug her stripped down sound from live appearances on college radio stations.

Her new record Killing My Kind is an amazing piece of work that combines many formats including Alt-Country, Rockabilly, Jazz, Blues and Western Swing.

Izzy has dedicated her life to touring, playing music and writing songs about her experiences. She now resides in Austin, TX.” – Music City Roots

… this is where your Thurday night needs to be going into GOOD FRIDAY.

Date: Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Location: The Handlebar – Pensacola, FL
Tickets: $7 for 21 & over ; $9 for under 21 – tickets at door
Time: 9pm – 2am
Izzy Cox’s website: http://www.IzzyCox.com

Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome’s album ‘Tales of the Wayward’, is now available at CDBaby.com – Click Here To Purchase

This Friday March 4th w/ doors open at 6pm & show at 7pm sharp, Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome will be performing at the Amos Theater for the taping of the last show for this season of STUDIO AMPED for PBS&WSRE Television. The studio is very nice with 500 available theater seating, great lighting, effects, and has a very large theater sound. Additionally, the album ‘TALES OF THE WAYWARD’ will be available for purchase, as well as everyone’s favorite free Rooster Heart buttons that have been a sought after item at every show for the past 6 months. And to top it off, this show is FREE to the public with food and refreshments provided. Betsy & the Chrome will be performing from 7pm-7:45pm, and local touring act RUMOR MILL will be following with their new batch of originals for another 45 minute set also. So bring the family and have a great Friday night out in a pristine theater like no other space on the Gulf Coast!!!
For more info, directions, etc., visit the Studio Amped website at: WSRE Studio Amped