11900 - GREYHOUNDS - CHANGE OF PACE (2016)

GREYHOUNDS
''CHANGE OF PACE''
APRIL 29 2016
41:45
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01 - Devil's Eyes 03:22
02 - Walls 03:30
03 - Gettin Out Alive 02:35
04 - Change of Pace 03:08
05 - Set Us Free 03:20
06 - Cuz I'm Here 04:16
07 - Before BP (The War is on For Your Mind) 03:54
08 - Late Night Slice 02:07
09 - For You 02:22
10 - Moonshadows 02:37
11 - Check The Gas 02:17
12 - B Sizzle 04:40
13 - It's So Good To Be Alive 03:31
Tracks By Anthony Farrell
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Andrew Trube/Guitar
Anthony Farrell/Keyboards
Dante Schwebel/Bass Guitar
Sam Patlove/Drums, Percussion
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''Change of Pace'' is Greyhounds' second - and finest - collection of funky, blues-and-R&B-laced rock and roll.

Where their last album, 2014's acclaimed Accumulator, focused on internal emotional turmoil and personal relationships, Change of Pace draws its inspiration from the outside world and the struggles the duo sees every day in Texas and on the road.

From the slow-burning anthem "Walls", to the lighter "Late Night Slice", to the deep wells of emotion that bubble up on the heartbroken "Cuz I'm Here" and the funky "For You", the album showcases the remarkable artistic maturation the band has undergone in the short time since releasing Accumulator.

Derek Trucks raved that "Greyhounds make real music, the right way and for the right reasons", while JJ Grey described their songs as "landing somewhere between a heartfelt hymn and the dirtiest jank you've ever heard in your life", and Gary Clark Jr. summed it up simply as Greyhounds "crushed it as usual". The war is on for your mind, and Change of Pace is without a doubt a win for the good guys.
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REVIEW/AMG
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Change of Pace is an accurate title for the third album by Austin-based retro duo the Greyhounds. While Anthony Farrell and Andrew Trube haven't thrown in the towel on their '60s infatuation, they have indeed dialed back the noisier, bluesier elements of their music -- the very things that made them seem like cousins to the Black Keys. In their place is an elastic groove that is sometimes underpinned by circular drum loops, bringing this within the vicinity of G. Love & Special Sauce. Ultimately existing in a realm far away from those blues bros, the Greyhounds love both the sound and songs of classic soul, so Change of Pace winds up as a salute to both the feel and the form. Occasionally, mood may trump melody but that's more a feature than a bug -- that tendency helps give Change of Pace a warm, weathered coziness that's catnip to anybody who loves classic Memphis soul and Southern rock as much as this duo.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Leggett
Rising out of the Austin, Texas music scene, the Greyhounds, a duo comprising guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell, feature a unique sound that mixes R&B, soul, funk, and the Bakersfield country of Buck Owens into a style that has been described as "Hall & Oates meets ZZ Top," and the duo's exciting live shows have earned them a large and loyal fan following. The pair met in the late '90s, and immediately began writing and playing together, placing tunes with artists like Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks while building up a songwriting catalog and gathering new fans with each show. The Greyhounds signed a three-album deal with a reconstituted Ardent Records (by this point officially called Ardent Music) and released Accumulator early in 2014. Two years later, the group released Change of Pace, a record that emphasized their soulful side.
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9776 - GREYHOUNDS - HEAVEN ON EARTH (2015)

GREYHOUNDS
''HEAVEN ON EARTH''
2015
43:25

1 It's So Good To Be Alive 03:52
2 Hot Sauce 04:18
3 What's On Your Mind 04:20
4 St. Louis 04:32
5 Set Us Free 03:50
6 It's Alright 04:50
7 Cuz I'm Here 04:24
8 Amazing 04:28
9 Yours To Steal 04:18
10 Yeah Yeah Yeah 04:27

Heaven on Earth was recorded throughout November 2014 while Greyhounds were on a West Coast tour with their good friends the Tedeschi Trucks Band. These live performances capture the unique energy and dynamics of Greyhounds shows, and aren't "touched up in the studio" or rerecorded.

BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Steve Leggett
Rising out of the Austin, Texas music scene, the Greyhounds, a duo comprising guitarist Andrew Trube and keyboardist Anthony Farrell, feature a unique sound that mixes R&B, soul, funk, and the Bakersfield country of Buck Owens into a style that has been described as "Hall & Oates meets ZZ Top," and the duo's exciting live shows have earned them a large and loyal fan following. The pair met in the late '90s, and immediately began writing and playing together, placing tunes with artists like Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks while building up a songwriting catalog and gathering new fans with each show. The Greyhounds signed a three-album deal with a reconstituted Ardent Records (by this point officially called Ardent Music) and released Accumulator early in 2014.

BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
Greyhounds are an American musical duo from Austin, Texas, consisting of keyboardist Anthony Farrell and guitarist Anthony Trube; both members share singing and songwriting duties.

Trube and Farrell first began playing together in 1999 after Farrell answered Trube's ad for a keyboardist in the LA Weekly. The pair toured and recorded in several places before returning to Tyler, Texas, Trube's hometown. Along the way, they wrote songs that were performed by musicians such as Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. The group's 2004 full-length, Liberty, was written inside the historic Liberty Hall in downtown Tyler, Texas by Trube, Farrell, and drummer Nick Pencis. The songs written for Liberty were then recorded at Truck Farm Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana and produced by Stanton Moore and Robert Mercurio of Galactic. The album features guest vocals by Ani DiFranco. The album was named Liberty as a tribute to the time spent in the theatre while composing the material for the album.

Greyhounds opened the 2009 tour of American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. In the late 2000s and early 2010s Trube and Farrell performed as part of the touring band of JJ Grey & Mofro. In 2013, Greyhounds signed a three-album contract with the newly reconstituted Ardent Records. Their first release for Ardent, Accumulator, was issued in April 2014.

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