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Date Posted: 14:12:42 05/12/04 Wed
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Cowboy Mouth Returns to Cleveland May 27
Cleveland, May 10—New Orleans-based rockers Cowboy Mouth return to Cleveland with a show at Peabody’s DownUnder on Thursday, May 27, still supporting their 2003 release, Uh Oh. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and tickets, which are $13 ADV/$15 DOS, are now on sale at the Peabody’s DownUnder ticket office, all Ticketmaster locations, www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone at 216-241-5555.
Taking their name from a Sam Shephard play, Cowboy Mouth has released two albums on MCA, one on Atlantic and several on their own Cowboy Mouth Records label. Cowboy Mouth has so far enjoyed domestic sales of over 450,000 units, according to Soundscan. But the album figures are insignificant compared to the number of tickets the band sells to their live events. In 2001, the band played in front of over 1,000,000 people with a touring schedule of about 150 shows. Their live shows have become legendary, and as Cake Magazine says, "On a bad night they'll tear the roof off the joint and on a good night, they'll save your soul."
Cowboy Mouth is fronted by lead singer and drummer Fred LeBlanc, on his front and center drum riser. LeBlanc is extraordinarily intense, with vocal and style changes that keep audiences glued, usually leaving them as drenched and spent as the band. "To me,” he says, “Cowboy Mouth is all about an experience for everyone in the room when we play. It's meant to be an emotional, physical, spiritual and sexual release from the chains of life.”
Having recruited guitarist Paul Sanchez in their mutual hometown of New Orleans, LeBlanc and Sanchez are joined by lead guitarist and keyboard wiz John Thomas Griffith. Rounding out the team has been a succession of bass players including New Orleans' punk icon Steve Walters and more recently Rob Savoy, who also navigated the major label waters as a member of the Louisiana Cajun rockers the Bluerunners. In April 2003, Mary LaSang joined the band and has been rocking across the country.
Cowboy Mouth traditionally plays between 150 and 250 shows each year and has enjoyed playing with Better Than Ezra, Barenaked Ladies, Hootie and The Blowfish, Three Doors Down, Beck, Matchbox Twenty, Stone Temple Pilots, Eminem, and Southern Culture on the Skids, just to name a few. Their audience stretches from the festivals and colleges to the clubs and theaters they headline around the country.
Guitarist Paul Sanchez has arguably summed up the Cowboy Mouth experience best by saying: "Cowboy Mouth is about playing and singing for people around the country and seeing and feeling the response to our music. There is
nothing better in the world than seeing people smiling and singing along."
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