Underground Blues - the new CD - is released!!

Hey Everybody!!  I'm happy to announce the release of my new CD, Underground Blues!!  I just want to take a moment to explain how this CD came about and to mention those who I was so fortunate to work with on this CD - without whom I could have never done it!

If you just want to jump to the music, you can hear samples from the whole Cd right now at my website:

www.martychristian.com

This CD has been a labor of love over the last year and a half and I am extremely grateful for the way it came out.   The goal was to produce an acoustic Blues CD that captured the feel of my solo live shows yet produced the sound quality of an intimate acoustic listening room with no electronics or microphones between me and the listener.  Turns out that's not an easy task!  Fortunately, I ran into Evan Jones one night during Fred's Fest in Fort Worth, TX and he suggested giving his studio a try.   I think he did an amazing job of capturing my sound and my soul on the 9 songs he recorded there because all of this was accomplished and more!   That's why the Cd will be released first at Fred's and I'll be accompanied by the fantastic Darrin Kobetich as well making this a killer kickoff show!!

Rounding out the CD are two duo cuts that came from an exciting session I recorded in Lafayette with Andy Cornett at Ivan Klisanin's studio producing two huge sounding Blues tunes with emotive harmonica and foot stomps from the depths of the Louisiana swamps that only Ivan could create!  Andy will be appearing with me at a the release party in Shreveport and also at the big bash in Lafayette with Henry Gray and the Cats and Carol Fran!!

For the CD cover,  I was extremely fortunate to get involved with the artwork of the Acadiana area's creative genius, Kelly Guidry.   The artwork that he created expressed the sound of my CD better than I could have ever dreamed possible.  It's a beautiful wood cut (chainsawed!) montage of the sounds of the Blues that inspired so much of the Louisiana music and that drew me here to explore it - all that beautiful Blues that's underground here and everywhere else in American music.  You can actually get a collectors edition archival print of the CD cover artwork from Kelly Guidry at his website: www.kellyguidry.com

All of this is being released once again courtesy of Chad Thibodeaux at Street Man Records!

For the next two weeks, the CD will be available at the CD release parties below.  Then it will be for sale worldwide online from the Louisiana Music Factory.

CD Release party schedule:

Fort Worth, TX - Thursday, March 5th 7pm-10pm at Fred's Texas Cafe - with special guest Darrin Kobetich!
Grapevine, TX - Friday, March 6th 8pm - 11pm at Into the Glass
Shreveport, LA - Friday, March 13th - 9pm - 11pm at Noble Savage Tavern
Lafayette, LA - Saturday, March 14th - 8pm at the Blue Moon Saloon - with special guests: Henry Gray and the Cats!! Andy Cornett!! and Carol Fran!!!
Monroe, LA - Saturday, March 21st - 9pm at Enoch's