The Red Stick Ramblers Set May Release

03/16/2009
. (PR) The Red Stick Ramblers return on May 19th with My Suitcase Is Always Packed, their fifth album and second for Sugar Hill Records. That rare young roots band that both embodies and transcends their influences, The Red Stick Ramblers continue to hone their unique hybrid of Cajun, honky-tonk, and swing (Western and otherwise) on their most visceral, personal album yet. The eleven new originals (in both English and Cajun French) are structurally daring and lyrically evocative, while still resounding proudly with the echoes of the traditions that inspired them. A pair of vintage Cajun numbers cement the band's undeniable affection for and mastery of classic Louisiana music.

Featuring the twin-fiddle frontline of Kevin Wimmer and Linzay Young backed by the versatile rhythm section of Chas Justus (guitar), Eric Frey (bass), and Glenn Fields (drums), The Red Stick Ramblers have been astonishing audiences at dancehalls, festivals, and concert halls around the world since 2002, when they first emerged from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My Suitcase Is Always Packed, produced by the band with Grammy-winner Gary Paczosa and Brandon Bell, is their most wide ranging album yet - from the surging Cajun opener "Je T'aime Pas Mieux" and the haunting banjo and triangle driven "Nonc' Yorick" to the almost casually ingenious, charismatic swing of "Doggone My Time" and the title track. Brilliantly balancing the hard-driving and the heart-breaking, My Suitcase Is Always Packed is the sound of The Red Stick Ramblers in full flight, at once achingly familiar and infectiously surprising.

"Like all great bands," reflects fellow musician Dirk Powell in his powerful liner notes, "The Ramblers have grown over the years, grown together, grown individually, raised the stakes time and again. This time, they've dug deeper and reached further than ever."

2009 TOUR DATES

05/03/09 New Orleans, LA
05/28/09 Danville, IN
05/29/09 Chicago, IL
05/30/09 Green Lake, WI
05/31/09 Minneapolis, MI
06/06/09 Hiawassee, GA
06/26/09 West Vancouver, BC
06/29/09 Port Townsend, WA
07/04/09 Port Townsend, WA
07/09/09 Kent, WA
07/11/09 Harrison Hot Springs, BC
07/16/09 Oak Hill, NY
07/17/09 Oak Hill, NY
07/18/09 Oak Hill, NY
07/19/09 Brooklyn, NY
08/07/09 Brownfield, ME
08/20/09 Narragansett, RI
09/11/09 Remus, MI
09/12/09 Remus, MI

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