Friday, June 6, 2008
Personal Bottle from the Gambas of Gamba Winery
I LOVE GAMBA WINE!! It is simpmly unmatched among all producers of Red Zin in the world! I get no money for saying so--tyrust me! I Know what I'm talking about.
I've written a song entitled: "Leaving Me is Fine(But Don't Take My Gamba Wine). Go check it out on Youtube!
I've written a song entitled: "Leaving Me is Fine(But Don't Take My Gamba Wine). Go check it out on Youtube!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
More Early Reviews of "Trailer Park Angel"(on sale now at www.cdbaby.com)...
"...From gritty foot-stompers to jangly roots and blues belters to acoustic melancholy, Warren's debut brims with a rare and raw musical sincerity-one which proves his aim to be true..."-Gerry Krochak, Vex Magazine, Calgary, CN
"Doublenaught Records recording artist, Monty Warren's freshman release, "Trailer Park Angel", fires off a canon shot with the radio friendly "Lonely Girl" and continues to blast through another 13 tracks. Like Ryan Adams, Tom Petty,Warren wears his influences proudly and loudly...steeped in The Stones...rocking,touching and vulnerable..."- Afterhoursmusicblog.com
"****-From Monty Warren's first chord on "Lonely Girl" throughout the rest of this album, this boy rocks and writes songs that could have,should have, been on the likes of "Exiles"and "Damn The Torpedoes"...[y]ou will love this gem"-www.cdbaby.com
"Doublenaught Records recording artist, Monty Warren's freshman release, "Trailer Park Angel", fires off a canon shot with the radio friendly "Lonely Girl" and continues to blast through another 13 tracks. Like Ryan Adams, Tom Petty,Warren wears his influences proudly and loudly...steeped in The Stones...rocking,touching and vulnerable..."- Afterhoursmusicblog.com
"****-From Monty Warren's first chord on "Lonely Girl" throughout the rest of this album, this boy rocks and writes songs that could have,should have, been on the likes of "Exiles"and "Damn The Torpedoes"...[y]ou will love this gem"-www.cdbaby.com
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Look Out!
"Trailer Park Angel" is now commercially available at www.cdbaby.com!!
Early reviews:
"Ever wonder what Bob Dylan,Keith Richards,Paul Westerberg and Steve Jordan would sound like in a band together?"-Bill Meredith, Palm Beach Post
"Monty Warren and his band of sturdy veteran rockers bring the Rock'n'Roll big time on his debut, "Trailer Park Angel"(Doublenaught)! Stonesy riffs mixed with a little Ramones attitude. Burning rockers pausing just long enoough for a couple of tough but tender ballads. Trailer Park Angel grabs you from the first listen, and just gets better every spin."- Mike Elliott,host "The Homegrown Hour", WLUS 98.3 FM,North Carolina
"Trailer Park Angel" rocks!!- Phil Wolff frontman of WeRComin,Spain
" I really love this record!" Eric "Roscoe" Ambel(Steve Earle and The Dukes,The Yayhoos, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts,The Bottle Rockets)
It will soon be available on Itunes and in record stores all over the world. You can listen to half of it free at www.trailerparkangel.com
If you dig it, please pass the word to fans of authentic rock'n'roll everywhere. Only you can prevent the music world from being taken over by tasteless,tuneless,brainless dipshits! But I don't mean that in a bad way.
Early reviews:
"Ever wonder what Bob Dylan,Keith Richards,Paul Westerberg and Steve Jordan would sound like in a band together?"-Bill Meredith, Palm Beach Post
"Monty Warren and his band of sturdy veteran rockers bring the Rock'n'Roll big time on his debut, "Trailer Park Angel"(Doublenaught)! Stonesy riffs mixed with a little Ramones attitude. Burning rockers pausing just long enoough for a couple of tough but tender ballads. Trailer Park Angel grabs you from the first listen, and just gets better every spin."- Mike Elliott,host "The Homegrown Hour", WLUS 98.3 FM,North Carolina
"Trailer Park Angel" rocks!!- Phil Wolff frontman of WeRComin,Spain
" I really love this record!" Eric "Roscoe" Ambel(Steve Earle and The Dukes,The Yayhoos, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts,The Bottle Rockets)
It will soon be available on Itunes and in record stores all over the world. You can listen to half of it free at www.trailerparkangel.com
If you dig it, please pass the word to fans of authentic rock'n'roll everywhere. Only you can prevent the music world from being taken over by tasteless,tuneless,brainless dipshits! But I don't mean that in a bad way.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Happy Birthday,Mom!
Today would have been my mother's 87th birthday. In celebration of that fact, I am taking myslef to Raleigh today and will be hopefully attending the opening day of The Durham Bulls with my recently discovered Raleigh brothers.
My mom loved baseball...and The Rolling Stones so I'm also gonna go see Shine A Light for the 3rd time once I hit RDU. Damn that is a great movie for any rock and roll fan to go see! If at all possible, try to hold out to see it in IMAX format-it is jaw dropping, grin producingly good!
Whatever good that happened in my life I owe to my Mom. She was really something else and I devoted much of my life trying to save hers. I will forever be grateful to the friends,family and lovers I had in my life who helped me help her through her very difficult journey and will silently be thinking and thanking each of you for all you helped me to do for her(even if today you hate me like poison)throughout the rest of this weekend.
So happy birthday, Mom and I hope you found a sharp looking guy up there to jitterbug with and that you're laughing all the time.
My mom loved baseball...and The Rolling Stones so I'm also gonna go see Shine A Light for the 3rd time once I hit RDU. Damn that is a great movie for any rock and roll fan to go see! If at all possible, try to hold out to see it in IMAX format-it is jaw dropping, grin producingly good!
Whatever good that happened in my life I owe to my Mom. She was really something else and I devoted much of my life trying to save hers. I will forever be grateful to the friends,family and lovers I had in my life who helped me help her through her very difficult journey and will silently be thinking and thanking each of you for all you helped me to do for her(even if today you hate me like poison)throughout the rest of this weekend.
So happy birthday, Mom and I hope you found a sharp looking guy up there to jitterbug with and that you're laughing all the time.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Hey! Come Here....I Wanna Show You Somethin....
Doublenaught Records has a pretty nifty website in the process of being set up. I've added a link to it but in case you're too lazy to darg your mouse, so to speak, down and to the right-go to www.doublenaughtrecords.com
The Doublenaught site is the ONLY place currently in the world that you can go to in order to buy my record,"Trailer Park Angel"(World Release will be May 20-after which PLEASE GO TO YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE AND ORDER IT!!!!!) Although I suppose I could sell it on my own website(www.trailerparkangel.com), I have decided NOT to compete against my brothers and am encouraging you, little one, to go over to their site, where you will receive a PRESHRUNKEN!!! Doublenaught Records T-Shirt AND!!!!??? A FREE Doublenaught Records Sampler with EVERY PURCHASE!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!Maybe if enough of you do so, Doublenaught will be able to budget some revisions to their website so that links to all their acts' webpages will be added to their site!Oh what joy dreaming can be!
And what a sampler it is! Not only will you get a version of "Lonely Girl" that is not on the album and is destined to become a collector's item, but you will hear some great music from labelmates The T's(www.myspace.com/thetttttt),The Cartridge Family(www.thecartridgefamily.org),The Bleeding Hearts(www.myspace.com/thebleedinghearts)Keith Christopher and ofcourse Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team(see link above and to the right).
So go! Go! My work is done. There's nothing to see here. Go! Don't look back! I said go!!
The Doublenaught site is the ONLY place currently in the world that you can go to in order to buy my record,"Trailer Park Angel"(World Release will be May 20-after which PLEASE GO TO YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE AND ORDER IT!!!!!) Although I suppose I could sell it on my own website(www.trailerparkangel.com), I have decided NOT to compete against my brothers and am encouraging you, little one, to go over to their site, where you will receive a PRESHRUNKEN!!! Doublenaught Records T-Shirt AND!!!!??? A FREE Doublenaught Records Sampler with EVERY PURCHASE!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!Maybe if enough of you do so, Doublenaught will be able to budget some revisions to their website so that links to all their acts' webpages will be added to their site!Oh what joy dreaming can be!
And what a sampler it is! Not only will you get a version of "Lonely Girl" that is not on the album and is destined to become a collector's item, but you will hear some great music from labelmates The T's(www.myspace.com/thetttttt),The Cartridge Family(www.thecartridgefamily.org),The Bleeding Hearts(www.myspace.com/thebleedinghearts)Keith Christopher and ofcourse Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team(see link above and to the right).
So go! Go! My work is done. There's nothing to see here. Go! Don't look back! I said go!!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Memories. Like the Colors of My Mind....
So my ex-wife(who has wisely decided to have nothing to do with me anymore)dropped a bunch of photos from 1979-80 in the mail to me. The envelope just contained a bunch of priceless pictures from my past-when I was in college in Atlanta circa 1980ish. There was a green sticky attached to the back of one which said,"I thought you might want these". She thought right. Since she could have burned them instead of taking the time to send them to me, I am once again in her debt and I am sharing some of them with you, you little lost 13 year old web surfer you. Enjoy-this is what rock and roll used to look like---more or less....
Monday, March 24, 2008
I Am Blessed....
Too much is occuring to report timely. Since my last dispatch, "Kill A Love" received it's first air play on a COUNTRY station (98.3 fm WLUS-see www.us983.com and click on 'Homegrown Hour'),The Friggin Whatevers and I played a rockin gig on March 15 at The Pourhouse in Raleigh(videos can be found on Youtube under montywarren1960),got booked to HEADLINE at The Pour House on May 31,2008 for an allstar reunion to celebrate the release of "Trailer Park Angel"(distributed worldwide by Burnside),reunited with my long lost mate, John Bemiller-one of this country's best all around guitar players(we were in "The Fallen Angels' together about 15 years ago and he received recent national recognition in'The Hell Hounds'),received an offer of promotional help from a Spanish rock star(Phil Wolf of WeRComin-look him/them up on Myspace),got tickets to take my friend and producer, Jack Cornell, to see The New York Dolls for Jack's birthday present,and this is all just off the top of my head.
In addition to the above,I've maintained my professional business practice and, at the same time, maintained my cool(more or less) in the face of adversity.
Who the Hell am I and what have I done with your regularly scheduled blogger???
In addition to the above,I've maintained my professional business practice and, at the same time, maintained my cool(more or less) in the face of adversity.
Who the Hell am I and what have I done with your regularly scheduled blogger???
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Happy Anniversary!!!
A year ago today my life changed-I played with Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin team(Jack Cornell,Dave Bartholomew,Greg Rice)for the first time and the universe,as I understood it, exploded. 1 year to the day after I first shook their hands,the first commercially packaged CD of "Trailer Park Angel" arrived in my mail box. And get this...same day as that: this month's Uncut Magazine featuring-on the COVER NO LESS, Mick n Keef! If that isn't a sign of something I don't know what is!
One year after meeting these guys,I have a completed record that is going to be released-WORLDWIDE(by Burnside Distribution)May 20. This means that y'all can right now go to your local Target,Best Buy-what have you, and place an advanced order for "Trailer Park Angel" recorded by "Monty Warren' on "Doublenaught Records"and they should be able to find it in their computer(or at least by April they probably will be able to find it). In the last few days, several COMMERCIAL radio stations have expressed an interest in playing the record-and we have not even started making any 'come ons' to them. Virtually every single radio,music or media person who has heard this stupid thing has gotten excited...so, damn it-guess I will too!
Since my last dispatch, things have happened at such a brisk pace I couldn't keep up with it on the blog. I've formed a hellava backing band called "The Friggin Whatevers" and we've played several great gigs-each one getting even better than the preceding gig,received the warmest possible reception form the great rockin folks of Raleigh,N.C. and my outlook on life has radically changed from a year ago today.
Today, I am grateful to have gotten to know the most sincere, funny, generous,giving and intelligent folks in Raleigh who seem to genuinely root for and help each other rather than to backbite and sabatoge each other out of petty jealousies. I am grateful to still have great clients and co-workers who continue to support me and root for this music thing while sticking with me professionally too. And I am grateful to have,finally,some validation that what I have spent my life believing would be music that most folks would relate to and enjoy-seems to have turned out to be correct(though,it is still way too early to probably reach this conclusion safely-but it's my blog so screw you).
To all of the folks who have helped make me a happy person for once in my life-I will never forget you or be able to repay or thank you enough. To all of those folks who are beginning to get on board and have expressed excitement and enthusiasm-I love you more than you know. To those folks who yawn or dismiss this-know what? I forgive ya-why do you think we're called "The Friggin Whatevers"?
So keep checking www.trailerparkangel.com for more videos,new tracks,tour dates, record sale and merch info..and advice column updates.
I luv ya-even if I shouldn't.
One year after meeting these guys,I have a completed record that is going to be released-WORLDWIDE(by Burnside Distribution)May 20. This means that y'all can right now go to your local Target,Best Buy-what have you, and place an advanced order for "Trailer Park Angel" recorded by "Monty Warren' on "Doublenaught Records"and they should be able to find it in their computer(or at least by April they probably will be able to find it). In the last few days, several COMMERCIAL radio stations have expressed an interest in playing the record-and we have not even started making any 'come ons' to them. Virtually every single radio,music or media person who has heard this stupid thing has gotten excited...so, damn it-guess I will too!
Since my last dispatch, things have happened at such a brisk pace I couldn't keep up with it on the blog. I've formed a hellava backing band called "The Friggin Whatevers" and we've played several great gigs-each one getting even better than the preceding gig,received the warmest possible reception form the great rockin folks of Raleigh,N.C. and my outlook on life has radically changed from a year ago today.
Today, I am grateful to have gotten to know the most sincere, funny, generous,giving and intelligent folks in Raleigh who seem to genuinely root for and help each other rather than to backbite and sabatoge each other out of petty jealousies. I am grateful to still have great clients and co-workers who continue to support me and root for this music thing while sticking with me professionally too. And I am grateful to have,finally,some validation that what I have spent my life believing would be music that most folks would relate to and enjoy-seems to have turned out to be correct(though,it is still way too early to probably reach this conclusion safely-but it's my blog so screw you).
To all of the folks who have helped make me a happy person for once in my life-I will never forget you or be able to repay or thank you enough. To all of those folks who are beginning to get on board and have expressed excitement and enthusiasm-I love you more than you know. To those folks who yawn or dismiss this-know what? I forgive ya-why do you think we're called "The Friggin Whatevers"?
So keep checking www.trailerparkangel.com for more videos,new tracks,tour dates, record sale and merch info..and advice column updates.
I luv ya-even if I shouldn't.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Thank You,Caitlin
A year ago, if you had told me that my first solo record was about to be mastered and prepared for worldwide distribution, I would have asked you to pick me up an extra tube of the same glue you were sniffing. If you would have then told me that,not only would the record be supported by the likes of Terry Anderson(who wrote one of my favorite songs,"Battleship Chains" as well as :"I Love You Period")and Rick Richards(who sang "Battleship Chains"and charted with it,plays with Izzy Stradlin and The Ju Ju Hounds)but that also Caitlin Cary(Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams/Tres Chicas) would play violin and sing a duet with me on it-I probably would have spoken very calmly to you and gently escorted you to the nearest involuntary psychiatric admission.
But life is very,very strange.
Yesterday, I was having a rough day when I received an e-mail from...Caitlin Cary...THANKING ME for "INCLUDING HER" in this record. I was completley sober at the time so i am sure that this was not a delusion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, when you hear the track that she sang and played on you will only wish that, instead of it having been a duet,she would have sang the entire song by herself. She has a beautiful heartbreaking voice and her violin is an extension of that beautiful,painful voice.I wrote the song and have heard it replayed now without her on it probably 300 times. But as soon as she made her appearance, that song was changed forever.
What's more-it's probably the song that was the most painful for me to write as well as the song of which I was most proud when I wrote it, yet was least sure of including on the record-until Caitlin blessed the song with her gifts.
The song is called "Kill A Love" and here are the lyrics:
If you kill a love
It don't die fast
It shakes and it shudders
'fore it breathes it's last
If you kill a love
You'll hurt the most
You'll find yourself haunted
By Love's lonely ghost
Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never be free
Now son, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You won't walk away.
If you kill a love
Be ashamed of yourself
Don't look in the mirror
Or up on the shelf
Cuz if you kill a love
And you get up the nerve
You'll find in the long run
You'll get what you deserve
Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You can never walk away
Now son, are you listening to me
You kill that love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say,
Don't you kill that love.
["Kill A Love" Monty Warren/Son Of A Pup Music c 2008]
Thank you again,Caitlin, for making a dream come true.
But life is very,very strange.
Yesterday, I was having a rough day when I received an e-mail from...Caitlin Cary...THANKING ME for "INCLUDING HER" in this record. I was completley sober at the time so i am sure that this was not a delusion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, when you hear the track that she sang and played on you will only wish that, instead of it having been a duet,she would have sang the entire song by herself. She has a beautiful heartbreaking voice and her violin is an extension of that beautiful,painful voice.I wrote the song and have heard it replayed now without her on it probably 300 times. But as soon as she made her appearance, that song was changed forever.
What's more-it's probably the song that was the most painful for me to write as well as the song of which I was most proud when I wrote it, yet was least sure of including on the record-until Caitlin blessed the song with her gifts.
The song is called "Kill A Love" and here are the lyrics:
If you kill a love
It don't die fast
It shakes and it shudders
'fore it breathes it's last
If you kill a love
You'll hurt the most
You'll find yourself haunted
By Love's lonely ghost
Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never be free
Now son, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You won't walk away.
If you kill a love
Be ashamed of yourself
Don't look in the mirror
Or up on the shelf
Cuz if you kill a love
And you get up the nerve
You'll find in the long run
You'll get what you deserve
Now son, are you listening to me?
You kill a love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say
You kill a love
You can never walk away
Now son, are you listening to me
You kill that love you will never get free
Now boy, better hear what I say,
Don't you kill that love.
["Kill A Love" Monty Warren/Son Of A Pup Music c 2008]
Thank you again,Caitlin, for making a dream come true.
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