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CHANCE, JOHNNY CASH’S RIGHT HAND MAN SHARES
“BLUE MONDAY”
IN SEARCH OUT JULY 16 ON PARADISE OF BACHELORS
“BLUE MONDAY”
IN SEARCH OUT JULY 16 ON PARADISE OF BACHELORS
"...deep, authoritative pipes and sagely storyteller vibe made fresh with bits of wayfaring troubadour and intergalactic shaman." - Consequence of Sound
Nashville’s Chance Martin (aka Alamo Jones, the Voice in Black, aka the Stoned Ranger) finally shares his whimsical psychedelic break-up ballad “Blue Monday”, from the first-ever reissue of his 1981 private-press masterpiece In Search, which comes out July 16 on Paradise of Bachelors. Chance worked and toured for eight years in the 1960s and 1970s with his friend and mentor Johnny Cash, as cue card man, stage manager, and lighting designer. At age 31, he had already worked stagehand gigs for all the greats, hung and partied backstage with Cash, Cowboy Jack Clement, Tanya Tucker, David Allan Coe, Ozzy Osborne and others. Chance took a turn and began a new life in 1977 - shut off all outside influences, hunkered down and began writing songs on Johnny Cash’s D35 Martin, gifted by the Man in Black himself. Check out “Blue Monday” on Soundcloud HERE (please post and share).
Ringleader, maestro, and indomitable troubadour of Nashville’s most private, elusive and exclusive far-out scene – the Dead End – Chance could have seemingly stepped from the pages of a Charles Portis novel or Coen Bros. script. Under the direction of Chance as a guru, his band spent five years in secrecy recording this fierce, inimitable collection of mythmaking countrydelic tunes in a “bonus room” above his parents’ garage in Nashville. Despite its intensely personal origins, long gestation, substantial financial costs, and deadly serious deliberation, In Search shows minimal signs of outside influences or traceable authorship. Commanding, aggressive, and unabashedly masculine, the closest comparisons run from the gamut of Waylon Jennings, The Bob Seger System and Frank Zappa: a strange Southern Gothic.
In Search is the first-ever reissue of this long-coveted collector’s item and comes complete with dozens of outrageous photos and a 13,000 word oral history chapbook recounting Chance’s adventures with all the legends. It will be available on 150g virgin vinyl, in a deluxe, limited edition, as well as on CD and all digital formats. The album stands as a singular transmission from the underground realms of outsiders and weirdos prowling their own private, dimly lit lairs on the stoned periphery of the ubiquitous Nashville machine, in the company of like-minded eccentrics and heroes. You can pre-order the album from Paradise of Bachelors HERE.
In Search
Paradise of Bachelors
July 16, 2013
Side A
1 – High Test
2 – Love By Chance
3 – Sunn Of Gunn
4 – Just Your Way Of Tellin’ Me
5 – Blue Monday
6 – Don’t Cry Wolf
Side B
1 – Mr. Freedom Man
2 – Angel
3 – Dead Medley
4 – Loser Till You Win
5 – Dusty Roads Of Yesterday
6 – Too High To Land
7 – Drema
CHANCE
CHANCE - IN SEARCH
PARADISE OF BACHELORS
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