Media release: Austin outfit Shinyribs covers Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money"

 

SHINYRIBS COVERS RIHANNA? MUST BE THE NEXT WALTZ!   Austin band’s treatment of Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money” intersects with the Doobie Brothers’ “Long Train Runnin’” for the unexpected mash-up of the year Rolling Stone Country premiered the song: https://bit.ly/2KV4Rnp

AUSTIN, Texas — The Next Waltz, the innovative label/platform launched by singer-songwriter Bruce Robison, issued its latest vinyl compilation, The Next Waltz, Volume 3, on November 27, and released the song “Bitch Better Have My Money” by Shinyribs (contained in the compilation) as a digital single on that day as well. The music video for the Shinyribs song will be released on Friday, December 4, 2020.   The Next Waltz, Volume 3 is the third installment of singles recorded at the Bunker in Lockhart, Texas with no digital shenanigans, compiling the best all analog tracks of the past year into one neat package.    Emblazoned with a motel motif designed by legendary Austin artist Kerry Awn (of Armadillo World Headquarters/Armadillo Art Squad fame) and a striking “sunset swirl” colored vinyl, the LP is an auditory guestbook of greatness featuring talent such as Jack Ingram, Flatland Cavalry, Charley Crockett, Robert Ellis, Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis and more!   Volume 3 can be purchased on its own, with a special slip mat, or a bundle of both that also includes a “vintage motel key” USB that features digital files of Volume 1 through 3 along with bonus content.   According to Robison, “Austin is the ultimate Texas music melting pot. The Armadillo World Headquarters music is unclassifiable. Doug Sahm is the ultimate unclassifiable musician. People move to Austin because of that freedom. That originality — that ambition (or lack thereof) ... that weirdness — would not only be accepted but possibly celebrated in the fabulous history of Austin furry freaks.   “Kevin Russell has always been as hard to pin down stylistically as our other Austin heroes from his time with seminal Austin band the Gourds through the live music explosion Shinyribs, who have been tearing a conga line through the culture for years now. For Kevin, good music is good music. The groove is the thing and those vibrations can sometimes be enough to connect people across any walk of life. Is it weird to cover a Rhianna song? Yep, if you are doing it right. Try to sit still when the horns get cookin’ — I dare you.”   About Shinyribs: Once you’ve seen Shinyribs’ Kevin Russell onstage, it’s impossible to forget him. Known for his outrageous outfits and antics, Russell is a regular Austin fashion icon, liable to turn up in anything from his lime-green sherbet leisure suit to a flashing LED cloak, which he donned for a soulful performance of “East Texas Rust” on the award-winning PBS show Austin City Limits.    Born and raised in Beaumont, East Texas, Russell has been dubbed (mostly by himself) the Baryshnikov of the Big Thicket, the Pavarotti of the Pineywoods, the Shakespeare of Swamp Pop or the Shiniest Man in Showbidniz. Balding with a scraggly beard and an unapologetic gut, Russell boasts the indelible spirit and nudge-nudge, wink-wink playful quality of a man forever young, who points to the likes of Tony Joe White and the Coasters for his rib-tickling, mind-expanding, butt-shaking “is he for real” sense of humor. As a member of the Gourds, Russell took his musical inspiration from the fertile Ark-La-Tex turf and became a pioneer of Americana.   About The Next Waltz (in their own words) So, what exactly is The Next Waltz? Hard to describe what we do here, but would have to say The Next Waltz is the world’s most innovative record label. Established in 2016 in Austin, Texas by Bruce Robison, we’ve tried to spend as many days as we can making great music while coming up with a bunch of crazy ideas along the way to pay for it.   We have released over 20 singles and worked alongside artists as varied as Turnpike Troubadours, Carrie Rodriguez, Carson McHone, Jerry Jeff Walker, Shinyribs, and Shakey Graves. From those singles, we have taken some of our favorite songs and turned them into two collections, The Next Waltz Volume 1 and Volume 2. In 2020, we released our first full-length LP from Texas supergroup the Panhandlers — Josh Abbott, John Baumann, William Clark Green, and Cleto Cordero. Along with making great music we also manage a handful of artists who share our vision of artistic integrity and the value of ambitious and authentic music.   That said, our secret weapon is our recording facility — The Bunker — just south of Austin on the outskirts of Lockhart, Texas. We record in a way that has never been bested: Two-inch tape, 16-track recording, all-analog reverbs, and the greatest musicians on the planet in a room playing together. This is the way all our favorite recordings were done and it's as close to hearing in-person you can get.