All-Star Monday Night
Series ROCKIN COUNTRY NIGHTS Debuts at the Sunset Strip's World Famous
Whisky A Go Go June 12 With Junior Brown
LOS ANGELES, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/01/06 -- Landmark Sunset Strip venue The Whisky A Go
Go has been the epicenter of rock and roll in Los Angeles since it opened
its doors in 1964. In fact, its hallowed walls have perhaps given shelter
to more legendary rock performances than every other club in America
combined. In the great tradition of showmanship that has defined the
Whisky, veteran music industry producers, promoters and men about town Cy
Langston and Benford Standley launch a new weekly Monday night series --
ROCKIN COUNTRY NIGHTS -- at the club on June 12 with a show from
Austin, TX-based singer/demon guitar player Junior Brown. The series is
produced under their banner RCN Presents, which also encompasses Standley's
West Multimedia, which will Webcast the entire ongoing series online at
StudioClub.com.
Brown, whose wild hybrid of rock 'n roll and kick-ass country has won him
major crossover success, is the ideal artist for kicking off the honky tonk
heaven of ROCKIN COUNTRY NIGHTS, which Langston and Standley describe as,
"so rock you can roll with it… so country you can step in it." The night
also features special guest Buck Page, "the last of the Singing Cowboys."
As the series builds, the partners guarantee that top acts featured will
encompass, "western, country, country rock, roots, alt-country, bluegrass
and country folk music from tune-town Nashville to the Austin Outlaw scene,
the Village in New York, the Haight in Frisco and back to our very own LA
Rockin' Country sound... with some blasts from the past each night."
Tickets are available through
www.studioclub.com/rcn/ and at the Whisky box
office (310-652-4202).
Future dates scheduled include June 19 with legendary singer-songwriter and
ultimate rock 'n roll session man Leon Russell (plus special guest Adam
Hood) and June 26 with Texas-born country/rock icon Joe Ely and special
guest Dave Somerville, former lead vocalist for The Diamonds. To be
confirmed soon are Mondays with contemporary trad-country hitmaker Jack
Ingram, Asleep At The Wheel, Rosie Flores, Commander Cody and others.
Appearing every week will be the RCN house favorites The Bunkhouse Band,
comprised of stellar members Skip Edwards, Jay Dee Maness, Larry Mitchell,
Cary Park, Taras Prodaniux and Mark Sellers, who have all played with a
who's who of music legends, and will get things going each week with a
raucous celebrity jam before the headliners take the stage. Rounding out
the evening's festivities are the smokin' RCN Go Go Cowgals, whose
dance/DJ/fashion show carries on the Whisky's legacy as the birthplace of
the go-go girl!
RCN's Cy Langtson started his storied career as a professional guitarist in
his native England. He went on to become an internationally renowned sound
engineer and producer, and has worked with artists including The Who, Led
Zeppelin, Humble Pie, Arthur Brown and Ginger Baker. His long association
with The Who, collectively and individually, has also involved sound
production on five of their films, including "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia." Cy
managed John Entwistle until his death in 2002, and continues to work
closely with Roger Daltrey. He is also actively involved with David Fishof
and JBL as a director for the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp.
RCN's Benford Standley -- who's been known to ride bulls and rodeos -- has
an amazing and colorful four decades experience producing concerts, music,
rodeos, wild west shows and more with luminaries including Kris
Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris, Hoyt Axton, Ramblin' Jack
Elliot, Aaron Neville and more. Recently, he has been working with the Eric
Clapton and Bob Dylan camps, Merle Haggard and other legendary musicians on
a DVD project related to "The Father Of Country Music," Jimmie Rodgers. A
pioneer in the world of webcasting, Standley's West Multimedia produced one
of the first-ever online audio/video webcasts in 1995 -- an all-star
concert from L.A.'s Troubadour nightclub -- and has continued to deliver
major online events including projects with Willie Nelson and Yahoo.com. He
launched StudioClub.com in 1998, "A Virtual Entertainment InterNetwork on
the World Wide Web" that will webcast ROCKIN COUNTRY NIGHTS for one and
all!
ROCKIN COUNTRY NIGHTS: So rock you can roll with it... so country you can
step in it!
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit
www.studioclub.com/rcn/Contact:
Michael Jensen
626-585-9575
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