Country Westerns leave no "Money On The Table" with new track/video; dates w/Black Lips this winter

NASHVILLE ROCKERS COUNTRY WESTERNS LEAVE NO "MONEY ON THE TABLE" WITH NEW TRACK & OFFICIAL VIDEO - WATCH "IN THE STREETS" TOUR INCLUDES DATES WITH BLACK LIPS & BLOODSHOT BILL

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"This world-weary garage-rock trio’s music is tailor-made for a pre-pandemic era of basement shows... Their debut feels ragged in all the right places."

"It’s the kind of rock ‘n roll college kids would be praying to on beer-soused barroom floors if they weren’t all busy doing TikTok challenges."

"With confident production, tight songwriting and hooky lyrical turns, Country Westerns is a striking addition to 2020’s rock landscape."

"[Country Westerns are] shaking up the Nashville scene with their poetic punk rock sneer."

"[A] rocking post-Neil Young sound... underpins the group’s casually literate songs."

Nashville rockers Country Westerns have released the exhilarating new track "Money On The Table," produced by Matt Sweeney and out now via Fat Possum Records along with an official music video directed by Miranda Zipse (Miranda and the Beat). Look out for more new music in the coming months. Having just wrapped a run of dates supporting indie heroes Titus Andronicus, the band has also announced a new slate of November performances, several of them with kindred spirits Black Lips and Bloodshot Bill. Find the full list of shows below. "'No money left on the table' was Matt Sweeney’s mantra while making our new record," vocalist Joseph Plunket says about the new track. "Instead of crass commercialism or economic concerns, I took it to mean every song needed to be perfectly minted and we tried to comply. We came in with a lot of material ready to record but I still spent a lot of sleepless nights writing and rewriting between sessions. 'Money on the Table' is an ancient riff I’ve been kicking around for a decade-plus but never quite nailed it down.    "After a long day in the studio, I felt something was missing from the record as a whole and I went home, tackled the riff and wrote the lyrics in one sitting. We recorded the next morning in two takes. Even Sweeney agreed there was nothing left on the table." HEAR "MONEY ON THE TABLE" WATCH THE VIDEO Country Westerns' Matt Sweeney-produced self-titled debut album (Fat Possum) drew praise from all corners of the media world. Pitchfork called the album "ragged in all the right places" and named it one of the 35 Best Rock Albums of 2020. American Songwriter called "Gentle Soul," its first single, "the band’s not-so-subtle entrance to the Nashville rock scene" and praiased its "poetic punk rock sneer." Nashville Scene also weighed in, lauding the band's "rocking post-Neil Young sound" and "casually literate songs." Shortly thereafter, BrooklynVegan noted that "Country Westerns make twangy rock n’ roll with a punk energy that is in the same tradition as The Replacements or Old ’97s or Bottle Rockets." Glide Magazine shared their enthusiasm, noting that the band are "quintessential barroom rockers." Consequence of Sound had similar sentiments for album highlight "I'm Not Ready," calling it "a ripper of the classic kind." No Depression also praised the album, calling it "a striking addition to 2020’s rock landscape."

Work harder, not smarter: classically bad advice, but when it works, it works. Country Westerns are a force, punk rock lifers playing rock music with hearted-sleeves and punched-guts. They play loud and furious but with a nuance that belies their delicate and varied pedigrees.   Country Westerns are a three-piece band with a two-man engine: Joseph Plunket is an Atlanta hardcore kid turned singer-songwriter whose first solo gig was opening for Cat Power. He went on to lead Brooklyn alt-country legends The Weight during the height of NYCs mid-00’s garage rock bonanza and played bass on the side for King Tuff and Gentleman Jesse. Brian Kotzur is a swaggery metronome who drummed for Silver Jews and was a close collaborator of David Berman. The band’s first fan and an early champion of theirs, Berman would lurk in the back of dingy Nashville clubs and film their early shows on a flip phone.    The band’s early recordings were made in Nashville with esteemed engineer Andrija Tokic before a change of scenery led them to finish the album with Country Westerns enthusiast-turned-producer Matt Sweeney. They returned to Plunket’s second home, Brooklyn, and did their first sessions at Strange Weather Studios with Daniel Schlett. These new recordings caught the ear of indie label Fat Possum and by the time the record was done, they’d signed a deal.   Next came a Kotzur-produced pandemic EP. The band has a knack for choosing covers and the record is a surprising mix of Dead Moon, Jad Fair, and Richard Thompson and one original track, "Coming Down," that brings to mind Stiv Bators playing a county fair.   Catch ‘em on the road now. They’re making up for 2020 now in a city near you.

COUNTRY WESTERNS LIVE 2022 Nov 14 - Carbondale, IL @ PK's Bar Nov 15 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club Nov 16 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village Nov 17 - Ypsilanti, MI @ Ziggy's Nov 18 - Detroit, MI @ Outer Limits Lounge Nov 19 - Toledo, OH @ Ottawa Tavern Nov 20 - St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill * Nov 23 - Nashville, TN @ Basement East * Nov 25 - Atlanta, GA @ The EARL * * - w/Black Lips & Bloodshot Bill

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