DESCRIPTION Musically fearless, wildly entertaining and award-winning California-based Rick Estrin & The Nightcats return with another superb collection of blues and roots music full of sharpwitted songs and brilliant musicianship.
Celebrated throughout the blues world, the band has twice won the coveted Blues Music Award for Band Of The Year, and Estrin has won BMAs for Song of the Year, Traditional Male Blues Artist and Instrumentalist—Harmonica.
Superlative live performers have appeared at festivals and on concert stages all over the U.S. as well as UK, Norway, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, Israel, Estonia and Russia. Tour dates in support begin with shows in Northern California from street date to the end of May, then a Northeast tour in June. After a date in Switzerland, North American shows resume in the Paci!c Northwest and Western Canada. August includes
a date in Spain, a Midwest tour, and more shows in Western Canada.
Press, radio and social media focus on the new release and the tour dates, pitching stories and reviews to over 1000 print and internet media contacts around the world.
Radio-wise, Americana and specialty show radio airplay will be solicited from over 1400 programmers worldwide.
The Hits Keep Coming is modern blues at its most potent, with ten sparkling new originals ranging from from crisp, hooky retro-rock to intense, noirish blues, along with sublime interpretations of Muddy Water’s “Diamonds At Your Feet” and Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows.” The songwriting is whip-smart throughout, and the band’s ensemble playing is infectious and jaw-dropping. Tracks: CD
Somewhere Else
The Hits Keep Coming
The Circus Is Still In Town (The Monkey Song)
Everybody Knows
I Finally Hit The Bottom
Diamonds At Your Feet
911
I Aint Worried About Nothin
Learn To Lose
Sack O Kools
Time For Me To Go
Whatever Happened To Dobie Strange?

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