Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires are playing the Jivewired Showcase in Austin, TX during SxSW at the 311 Club, 311 E. Sixth Street on Thursday March 14th at 4:40 PM
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Latest Release: There Is A Bomb In Gilead
Get it at:
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PERTINENT STATS
Hometown: Birmingham, AL
Genre: Rock
Label: Alive NaturalSound
Booking Contact:Jon Prine
Press Contact:Pavement PR
VIDEO
WHY I LOVE THEIR NEW ALBUM
"As a debut album, There Is A Bomb In Gilead is the standard-bearer for future Glory Fires' outputs. The band has set the bar insanely high, no doubt. Every song, every word, every note, every nuance -- Lee Bains III and The Glory Fires and their production team make them all count. Obviously their focus centered on making a true rock and roll record, one that leans on roots sensibilities as it's foundation and strong musicianship as it's support. It's a matter-of-fact recording, and that is meant as no slight, just that there's no messing around, no odd straying and no off-putting musical experimentation. There Is A Bomb In Gilead fits like a worn out baseball cap. Wide-bodied and centered, this is a spectacular album that wears it's pride, it's muscle, it's sweat and it's spit on the band's collective shirtsleeves. You'll want to play this as loudly as possible, and you should."
~ Michael Canter, Jivewired Radio
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE APPARENTLY
Link to the Pavement PR Site for about 100 similar opinions regarding Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires and their release There Is A Bomb In Gilead.
LEE BAINS III DIGS ON.........
Q: There’s a clear and unique set of influences — from seventies soul to country folk to emaciated punk. What new music excites you, if any?
A: Man, I like a good number of bands right now — a lot of them here in Alabama. Doc Dailey has one of the greatest voices in music, and a weary wistfulness to his songs that will break most any heart. The Alabama Shakes are of course great. The new Dead Fingers record is really pretty, and the forthcoming Black Willis E.P. is kickass. The last two 13 Ghosts albums were two of my favorite in the last year; Brad Armstrong can make the ol’ eyes get misty pretty easily. My buddy Blaine Duncan is about to record an album of songs that will make many a songwriter hang their head in shame. G-Side put out a pretty damn cool record this year, too, with several songs that ought to light a fire under Outkast’s ass. Anyway, that’s just Alabama, and there’s plenty more where that came from! In the last year, I saw some great bands, from places other than Alabama, including: Jack Oblivian, River City Tanlines, Fucked Up!, Paul Collins, Hans Condor (RIP), Elf Power, Mark Eitzel, Glossary, The Bohannons, Future Virgins. There’s great music everywhere.
BAND BIO
The title of LEE BAINS III AND THE GLORY FIRES’ debut album comes from Bains mishearing an old hymn as a child. In the soft accents of his elders around Birmingham, Alabama, “There is a balm in Gilead” sounded a lot like “There is a bomb.” It fits, really. The Glory Fires learned to construct music in the churches of their childhoods, and learned to destroy it in the punk clubs of their youths.
As much Wilson Pickett as Fugazi, as much the Stooges as the Allman Brothers, Birmingham, Alabama’s Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires have brought radical rock’n'roll to bear on their own experience and their own place. On ‘THERE IS A BOMB IN GILEAD,’ they deconstruct the music of the Deep South, strip it down and reassemble it, to make a righteous ruckus that sits at the vanguard of the vernacular.
In 2008, shortly after returning to Birmingham from college in New York, Lee Bains fell in with the Dexateens, a Tuscaloosa institution whose raggedy union of cock-eyed rebel pride and forward-thinking fury proved to be the perfect apprenticeship for a confused Southern boy, raised on Skynyrd and schooled in Faulkner. After Bains had played with the band for a couple or three years, a couple or three hundred shows, the Dexateens came to a reluctant end. Bains found himself off the road, back in Birmingham, without a band. He also found himself with a passel of powerful songs sitting somewhere between buzzsaw garage, classic power-pop and sweating country-soul. Casting his nets in central Alabama’s rock’n'roll clubs, Bains assembled the Glory Fires: drummer Blake Williamson (Black Willis, Taylor Hollingsworth, Dan Sartain), bass player Justin Colburn (Model Citizen, Arkadelphia), and guitar player Matt Wurtele. Chugging along with a fierce Muscle Shoals vibe, the Glory Fires brought a sense of urgency to Bains’s drawling, howling voice.
After tracking some demos under the powerful guidance of Texas punk pioneer Tim Kerr (Big Boys, Poison 13, Now Time Delegation) and a few months of shows, the Glory Fires traveled to Water Valley, Mississippi to record the tracks for their debut LP ‘There Is a Bomb in Gilead’ at Dial Back Sound with engineer Lynn Bridges (Quadrajets, Jack Oblivian, Thomas Function). The songs were mixed in Detroit, at Ghetto Recorders by Jim Diamond (The Dirtbombs, The New Bomb Turks, Outrageous Cherry). It is there — in that Mississippi grease and Detroit grit — that ‘There Is a Bomb in Gilead’ sits, fuse lit, ready to go.
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