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NEW: Working (2012)

All This And Pecan Pie (1999)

Road Side Service (2004)

Koreatown
(2006)

Live In Bakersfield (2007)

Stand Up Man (2009)

WORKING UNTIL I DIE (2012)
1. I Fall For It Every Time
2. Trouble Knows
3. She Don't Have a Clue
4. Try Me
5. Coming For You
6. Working Until I Die
7. Sweet Little Girl
8. Along For The Ride
9. Little Less Fun
10. Everyone Loves Me When I Am Drunk
11. The Honky Tonk Special
12. Ain't That Kind of Cowboy

~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

"For the new record, Working Until I Die, Grant Langston has teamed up with producer extraordinaire Paul Q. Kolderie (Uncle Tupelo, Radiohead, Hole) to craft a collection of Americana and Honky Tonk that's long on hard edge and short on humour.

"In many of past records there's a through-line of fun and humor. This material was mostly created in the midst of personal stuff and an economic meltdown. I didn't sit down to write about these issues, but it just imposed itself on the attitude of the work. In fact, I didn't even realise it until I was working on the sequence for the record. It's serious stuff."

The arrangements run the gamut from horn-laced rhythm and blues (Along For The Ride), to driving roots rock (Try Me) to Langston's signature honky tonk country (She Don't Have a Clue). "Whatever songs I brought in ran through Paul's rock and roll sensibilities and together I think we've really evolved what I do." The first single and video is Trouble Knows.

The record was funded by a campaign on the artistic fundraiser site Kickstarter. "A small group of pre-buyers even came into the studio with us and sang some gang vocal parts. Check out Little Less Fun. I think it came out great!" Langston says.

A new generation of that classic country sound. Hard-nosed, Heartfelt and delivered with soul and that telecaster twang.

"Willie Nelson and Gram Parsons? Sure. Grant Langston & The Supermodels are the missing link between trad C&W and the modern, 'alt' variant."
- The Guardian UK

STAND UP MAN (2009)
1. Stand Up Man
2. Burt Reynolds Movie Brawl
3. Shiner Bock and Vicodin
4. 30 Days
5. Just Pretend You Love Me Tonight
6. Not Another Song About Califorrnia
7. The King of Sunset Hills
8. Call Your Bluff
9. Broken Clocks
10. I Give Up
11. Damn Good Day
12. Call Your Bluff (Swamp Version)

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~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

With Stand Up Man, Langston has found the perfect balance, capturing the rawness of the country records he grew to love and the drive of the rock records he'd become enamored of.

"I wanted to make good interesting songs in a genre that I feel is real and I can represent in an honest way," he says. "With this new album, Stand Up Man, I've got the closest to that yet."

For this record, he enforced a two-take rule on his band, The Supermodels and the various LA friends and musicians that contributed to the record. Some songs he wrote one day, rehearsed with his band the next and recorded the day after. The result is the first time he's been able to fully realize his alt-country/Americana dreams.

"I told my co-producer, Rich McCulley, that we had to check ourselves at every step of way," he says. "There will be times when we want to fix something, but we have to leave it be." It's the stuff of roadhouses, music to dance to and drink to.

They're already a leading light in the burgeoning LA alt-country scene, a loose collective of like-minded musicians and venues, and when not on home turf they've been packing them in in England and France and across the United States.

Roadhouse alternative country for those who like their country music rowdy and raw.

"What Live in Bakersfield has is a real timeless quality. This is a band that loves playing country music and riding it as hard as it can." - Maverick (UK)

LIVE IN BAKERSFIELD (2007)
1. Baby, It's Raining
2. Drunken Prince Charming
3. Him or Me
4. Divorce Number One
5. Koreatown
6. Burt Reynolds Movie Brawl
7. Broken Clocks
8. Working Man Blues
9. Prove Them Wrong
10. Ugly Women
11. Walk of Shame
12. Take The Devil Out of Me
13. Three Dollar Whore
14. Thank You Baby for Breaking My Heart

~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

"You guys outta do a LIVE record." Over the past 6 years I've heard that from many people. They come to the shows. They buy the studio records. But they want to try and take the live experience home with them, in a way that studio albums just don't deliver. So, here it is. Live in Bakersfield.

We've always loved playing in Bakersfield. It's the point of origin for so much of the music I love. But more importantly, it is a town that loves going out and hearing live bands. Some towns are just like that. About 3pm emails and IM's starting flying around, "Who are we going to see tonight?" Live honky tonk music is a way of life - ingrained in the culture of these towns. Playing music in a town like Bakersfield, must be like playing baseball in Yankee Stadium. You feel honored just to walk on the field.

I hope you enjoy this show...March 10, 2007. I know we did.

Country, Americana, Roots Rock

"The kind of roadhouse country meets rodeo rock that will delight those who still mourn The Blasters" - Uncut Magazine

KOREATOWN (2006)
1. Divorce Number One
2. Drunken Prince Charming
3. Koreatown
4. Walk to Georgia
5. Baby, It's Raining
6. Pity Party
7. Working Man Blues
8. Prove Them Wrong
9. The Last to Know
10. Rub It In
11. Three Dollar Whore
12. Louisiana Woman Mississippi Man
13. Digging Graves
14. The End of The Bar

~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

Grant Langston is back with an all-new 14 song recording - Koreatown.

One of LA's brightest Americana lights, Alabama born and raised Langston uses a witty mix of danceable old-school honky tonk and mournful traditional ballads. While the focus of the new record is squarely on country staples like drinking and lost love...what makes Koreatown unique is Langston's songwriting voice - cynical, sad, self-deprecating and often very funny.

Koreatown looks forward with boot stomping rock-country riffs like "Divorce Number One" and backwards with a supercharged cover of Merle Haggard's, "Working Man Blues." The ballad "Prove Them Wrong" features Langston and his band at their softest and most tender.

Tracks like "Drunken Prince Charming" and "Three Dollar Whore" serve up the smart-ass storyteller that has become his stock and trade.

Alt Country and Roots Rock - The bastard love child of Lyle Lovett and Barenaked Ladies. Featured on The WB TV & various Indi films.

"Once you've become absorbed with this Alabama born and raised songwriter's ability to take over a story with a sharp wit and twangy tongue, you're sold." - Miles Of Music

ROAD SIDE SERVICE (2004)
1. Junkie
2. Over The Hill
3. Him or Me
4. My Wandering Ways
5. James Brown
6. This Town Stinks
7. The Story of Me
8. Crazy Fireworks
9. Fat Bottomed Girls
10. Carolyn Garner
11. Long Legs, Great Lips, and Baby Blue Eyes
12. Secret Rendezvous

~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

The mood of Grant Langston's "Road Side Service" is firmly rooted in the two places that have had the most impact on him - Hartselle, Alabama and Los Angeles, California. He pays homage to two separate traditions - The Alternative Country Storyteller and Roots Rock Smart-Ass, within the same heartfelt songs.

"I just know I like Lyle Lovett records, and Son Volt records, and Wilco records. I have no idea what kind of music it really is. I don't even know what it's filed under in a record store."

On "Road Side Service" Grant lets the songwriting set the agenda and the instrumentation, a mix of mandolin, lap steel, accordion, and organ, dress the windows. It's an inspired schizophrenia that feels perfectly natural as he finds the connective tissue between Lyle Lovett, Cake, Johnny Cash and Barenaked Ladies.

"Road Side Service" captures Langston's unique songwriting take like never before, with an all-new 12 song record that not only features his backing band, The Supermodels but some of the best producers and guest players as well: Brian Young of Fountains of Wayne, Jacqueline Grad of folk sensation Kaz Murphy's band, among others. Producer Dusty Wakeman (Minibar, Lucinda Williams) lent his touch to two tracks and Paul Du Gre (Tracy Chapman, Toad The Wet Sprocket) performed mix duties. It's a broad work, alternating between hillbilly shuffles and mid-tempo story songs, with one goal in mind - make something that sounds good live.

Alt Country...White Trash Pop

"Langston's ingenious writing is catchier than Hell, with lyrics that ooze clever cynicisms." - Kenneth Morton, Highwire Daze Magazine

ALL THIS AND PECAN PIE (1999)
1. Ugly Women
2. The Real Man
3. Homemade Peach Ice Cream
4. Alan Williams
5. Hopeless
6. Time of Day
7. Cameron Diaz
8. The Real Man (live)
9. Poor White Trash

~~ ALBUM NOTES ~~

"All This And Pecan Pie" marked Alt Country/Rocker Langston's first foray as a solo talent with an energetic romp into warm countryesque pop.

The 70's tones and 90's style backed by a compendium of industry all-stars (veterans of Sheryl Crow and The Wallflowers to name a few) makes for a charming old-school experience reminescent of Wilco and Lyle Lovett.

Highwire Daze Magazine's Kenneth Morton writes, "Langston's ingenious writing is catchier than Hell, with lyrics that ooze clever cynicisms."

Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Bob Salcedo
Executive Producer: Pete Cornell
All Songs by Grant Langston
©1999 Nasty Branch Music