National Grain Announces Release of Self-Titled CD

Atlanta, GA April 6, 2006 -– At a time when country music is dominated by manufactured pop stars, Atlanta’s National Grain is here to make things right again. The band is pleased to announce the release of their full length, self-titled debut.

The band maintains an emphasis on the traits that defined country music decades ago, and marries them with the influences they grew up with. Echoes of George Jones twang alongside songs that evoke the beer-fueled frenzy of The Replacements. It’s a match made in honky-tonk heaven that “twangs with authority with pedal-steel swathed songs that sound like lost country classics” – Atlanta Journal Constitution.

National Grain’s self-titled EP garnered the band national attention and found the boys playing for new converts at home, as well as up and down the east coast. A reputation as a scorching live act grew as the band shared the stage with performers such as Alejandro Escovedo, Patterson Hood (of the Drive-By Truckers), and The Wrights. Creative Loafing goes on the record to declare the band’s music as “not pop masquerading as alt-country or adult contemporary pretending to be Nashville country, but honest-to-goodness, tears-in-your-beer country music.” While Paste Magazine declares “These steel guitar-blanketed slow dance tunes and country-rock stompers come highly recommended for fans of Gram Parsons and Commander Cody.”

The band has now translated their reputation for tight, high-energy shows into a well-received full-length album. Recorded with producer Jeff Bakos (Jason and the Scorchers, The Woggles, The Vidalias) and mastered by Rodney Mills (Allman Brothers, Pearl Jam, Merle Haggard), the self-titled record rocks and twangs, “buoyed by honeyed harmonies and toe-tapping choruses that should make even Southern transplants sing along with an exaggerated drawl” (***1/2 out of 4 stars) – The Sunday Paper.

So, belly up to the bar and have the barmaid pour up another glass of that Colorado Kool-Aid. National Grain will be right there with you under those party lights.

The CD is available on the band's web site, as well as Amazon and CD Baby.