Puritan Rodeo


Bio:

Puri­tan Rodeo’s lat­est, self-titled LP harkens to a time when har­monieswere clean, lyrics were somber, and whiskey was served by the­bot­tle. Through a dozen tracks, Puri­tan Rodeo welds rock, blue­grass, and vaude­ville tunes to Amer­i­cana instru­men­ta­tion. Blend­ing twangy gui­tar riffs, the deep thrum of a cello, fid­dle the­atrics, a rock beat, and a hearty dose of sto­ry­telling, the album defies easy­cat­e­go­riza­tion. The album’s sec­ond track, “Con­fi­dence Man,” is one part coun­try anthem, one part epic trav­el­ing song with a chaser ofsen­ti­men­tal rock bal­lad for good mea­sure. Frontman/songwriter John Pardue’s voice is the whiskey to vocal­ist Gillian Egan’s pure moun­tain moon­shine. Tak­ing turns on “Once in a While,” the pair’s con­trast pro­vides bal­ance while Egan’s sor­row­ful vocals on “Birds of Prey” serve to join her in a heart­bro­ken lyri­cal con­ver­sa­tion with Par­due. The seven-piece Puri­tan Rodeo has grown from its hum­ble roots as a four-member coun­try band in 2003. Never a group to be tied down to one musi­cal style, Puri­tan Rodeo has made a busi­ness of cre­at­ing lyric-driven, genre-busting crowd pleasers that have kept them a favorite in the North Car­olina Pied­mont music scene. Puri­tan Rodeo is avail­able on iTunes and CDBaby.com, as well as at all Puri­tan Rodeo shows. Lis­ten to Puri­tan Rodeo online at MySpace, Face­book, Reverb­Na­tion, Band­camp, and puritanrodeo.com.

Music:

Lady Luck

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Red­lined

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What I’m Wait­ing For

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Press:

“Puri­tan Rodeo’s song writ­ing is bril­liant. Along with the melodies that will sear them­selves into your unsus­pect­ing brain, their lyrics are pure genius…‘I had a pump made out of wood. I would use to push my blood, through these old and dusty, and rusty veins (from Heart Pine).’”
Tom Tut­tle — trianglelive.tv

“…inspired…“
Jor­dan Lawrence — The Daily Tar Heel

“…a won­der­ful new album“
John Howie Jr. — 8th House Records

“Wran­gling three musi­cal gen­res into one cohe­sive unit is never easy, but the boys of Puri­tan Rodeo take the prover­bial bull by the horns and ride it just right.“
Kathy Jus­tice — The INDY

“…if this CD is an indi­ca­tion of what Puri­tan Rodeo are capa­ble of they’ll be keep­ing toes tap­ping for years to come…It’s a strong and well-produced effort. “
review — Per­former Magazine

“…Puri­tan Rodeo walks with a honky tonk swag­ger, a blue­grass rol­lick and a songwriter’s sin­cer­ity.“
CD Review — The Daily Tar Heel

“The only band that I found on myspace this year that sent me an album I could just lis­ten to the whole thing over and over again.“
TJ the DJ — WLUW 88.7

“It’s just plain good! Well-produced, great vocals and instru­men­tal con­tri­bu­tions. It’s good and lively and cer­tainly fits what most of us Tex­ans think roots rock ought to be.…“
John Roths — KEOS 891 FM

“Puri­tan Rodeo’s sec­ond album, “The Magic Suit Ball—offers the won­der­ful sense of spin­ning on a demented, out-of-control car­ni­val merry-go-round.”“
Andrew Ritchey — The Inde­pen­dent Weekly

“It’s strangely hyp­notic and relax­ing, even when it’s mov­ing like a des­per­ate jam­boree, like singing “What shall we do with the drunken sailor”… but only if the sailor was actu­ally a cow­boy.“
CD Review — The Big Takeover

Con­tact:

John Par­due
john.pardue@gmail.com
OR
Misty Dawn
Mistydawn(at)westerncivrock(dot)com