SHADOWDOGS: Halfway To Someday

Shadowdogs

Halfway To Someday

© 2005 Bruce Fitzsimmons, Franklin Jenkins, Jon Scarantino, Rich Maiora (825346904023)

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updated 10/26/05

San Diego Music Awards 2005
"BEST AMERICANA ALBUM" Nominee
www.sdmusicawards.com

ALL Profits from BOTH SHADOWDOGS CDs went (100%) to aid relief needed from KATRINA via THE RED CROSS for the month of September. An incredible $165,000 was raised by CDBaby Musicians and with CDBaby kicking an an additional 40 grand it brought the total to over $205,000. !!!THANK YOU!

DON'T MISS!!

Nov. 10th (Thursday night)
The COACH HOUSE (San Juan Capistrano)
33157 Camino Capistrano
San Juan Capistrano
DAVID ALLAN COE
JOHN CORBETT (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
SHADOWDOGS
8pm Tickets $23.50

David Allan Coe has been a pioneer of Outlaw Country. Having written "Take this Job and Shove It" for Johnny Paycheck and recording "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" This promises to be a raucous night of bar room blasts from 3 great bands that start with Shadowdogs at 8 PM.

Take the Camino Capistrano Exit and make your first three left turns. That will put you on Camino Capistrano. Follow it south approximately 1/2 mile. Just before the second stoplight you come to, we will be on the right hand side in the Esplanade Center. We are located directly behind the San Juan Tire Center.

Sunday, Sept. 25th 2005
ADAMS AVENUE STREET FAIR
ROOTS ROCK STAGE
11:15 AM to 12:00 PM
(Corner of Adams and 34th)
http://gothere.com/AdamsAve/StreetFair/
It was a blast. Best one we've done. Great crowds, great bands!

Sept 9th 2005
Lobster Fest
Grand Tradition 1602 So. Mission Rd.
Fallbrook, CA 760.728.6466
Doors open at 6:30 $55 per plate (price subject to change)
Shadowdogs perform at 7 PM
(900 tickets sold last year. Get your tickets early!)

July 30th 2005 (DATE CHANGE)
Lake Gregory Coffee Company 909-338-8211
23776 Lake Drive Crestline, CA 5 PM - 7 PM
Special Guest
Special Guest Robert Parlee 4 PM - 5 PM
www.lakegregorycoffee.com


RECENT SHOWS:

LIVE IN SAN DIEGO: SHADOWDOGS opened for THE MARK JACKSON BAND at the MJB RECORD RELEASE PARTY:
A celebration for the release of the Band's New CD featuring: Original Roots Country, Honky-Tonk Blues and Acoustic Americana with special guests Shadowdogs.

WHEN: March 5, 2005 at 7:00pm
WHERE: Acoustic Expressions: 2852 University Ave San Diego, Ca.
(619) 280-9035
Admission: $15.00 (includes a CD signed by the Band)
Call (619) 280-9035 or email mark@markjacksonband.com for reservations

MAY 15th
1 PM FUNDRAISER for the LARRY LEGGATE
A celebration of life.
1-4 PM.

LIVE in LAKE ARROWHEAD, CA

May 29th
Del Lagos 909-336-6884
28200 Hwy. 189 E 210 2 PM - 5 PM
Lake Arrowhead, CA

July 4th
Lake Gregory Community Picnic
On the lake at the San Moritz Ballfield
2 PM Lake Gregory, CA in the San Bernardino Mts.
Bands will play from 12-4 PM
* Shadowdogs will be joined by:
* Reggie Bannister Actor/Musician (Phantasm trilogy)
* John and Sallie McGill
* The DeCastro Family
Sponored by Rim Of the World Historical Society (ROWHS)
www.rimoftheworld.net





Encinitas (No. County San Diego, CA)
LOU'S RECORDS / ASK FOR A FREE POSTER w/CD
434 N Coast Highway 101
Encinitas, CA 92024 loubob@lousrecords.com
Main Store: 760-753-1382

Mindful Eye Music Proudly Presents
SHADOWDOGS' NEW CD RELEASE
"HALFWAY TO SOMEDAY"

The follow up to their debut CD "Somewhere South of the Clef" (also on CDBaby) is due for release in March 2005. The band delves further into their rock roots while delivering a mix of hard driving road songs and soulful ballads by members Bruce FitzSimmons, Franklin Jenkins, Jon Scarantino, and Kevin Glassel.

Shadowdogs, one of San Diego's hottest, hybrid bands first effort received rave reviews from print, TV, and radio. Songs aired by KPRI FM102 and appearances on KUSI and KSWB TV supported high praise from the San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times and Troubadour Magazine. When not playing benefits such as the Tsunami Orphans Relief Concert with Nickel Creek at Tom Giblin's Irish pub in Carlsbad, raising over $28,000, they were backing music luminaries such as Eagles' songwriter Jack Tempchin at the Bob Burton Center and will open next month for the Mark Jackson Band's Record Release party at Acoustic Expressions in North Park at 7:00 PM , Saturday, March 5th. Special guests live and in the studio have included pedal steel virtuoso Rick Schmidt, guitarist Jerry McCann, bluegrass session ace Dennis Caplinger & percussionist Ray Alicea.

Shadowdogs debuted live in San Diego, when they opened for Jack at the 2003 Adams Avenue Street Fair in front of over 1,000 appreciative new fans. Many of the songs performed that night such as "Rolling Away", "Amanda", "Open Road", and "Desert City" appear on their new release and this promises to be a significant sophomore effort by a band that is considered by many, even better live than on record. "HALFWAY TO SOMEDAY" will not disappoint as they took that energy into Golden Track Studios with Engineer Steve Wetherbee to capture their unique sound and here it is. Available in stores and online at:

WWW.SHADOWDOGS.COM

CityBEAT Magazine March 23, 2005
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=2987
Local Music Scene
Notables...

Pedal steel player Rick Schmidt of local Americana band The Shadowdogs got the opportunity of a lifetime on March 13 when he received a call from an assistant producer on a video shoot for country superstar Shania Twain. With a video being shot in an old Tijuana building for the tune "I Aint No Quitter," director Wayne Isham (Metallica, Dave Matthews) needed extra musicians for key scenes in the clip, and Schmidt fit the bill. Schmidt's son Cole was also used as an extra, but a few hours of watching Twain's dancers strut their stuff couldn't have been too shabby, either.

NOW AVAILABLE AT LOU'S RECORDS In Ecinitas, CA

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  • ....the warmest vocal harmonies you'll ever hear.
    author: North County Times/Jim Trageser

    CD REVIEW North County Times - March 5th, 2005 "Halfway to Someday" Shadowdogs Mindful Eye Music North County's Shadowdogs have a great new collection of songs on their upcoming CD, they play those songs with virtuosity and a sense of fun, and the band has some of the warmest vocal harmonies you'll ever hear. The challenge? Finding a niche for their music in today's radio formats. Broadly classifying themselves as Americana, the Shadowdogs (opening for the Mark Jackson Band on Saturday) are more country than most bands found under that banner. But they're too rock for a country station. Like Poco, the Shadowdogs inhabit the mellow side of country-rock. Not quite as mellow as Pure Prairie League, the Shadowdogs can bring a bit of muscle to their music. And on some songs, like "Best of Me," they even sport an updated alt-country-rock sound not so far from, say, Widespread Panic. Fallbrook's Bruce FitzSimmons (lead vocals, guitar) is a wonderfully melodic songwriter. If we still had Top 40 and/or AOR FM radio stations like we did when Poco was popular, "Abilene" would be all over the radio. But FitzSimmons (who had his song "Two Hearts" covered by San Diego's Mark Jackson Band on its new CD) is only part of what makes the Shadowdogs so alluring. Franklin Jenkins also knows how to turn out hook-laden tunes ("Open Road" is every bit as radio-friendly as "Abilene"), provides the lush vocal harmonies to FitzSimmons, and can also take on lead vocals. The entire band plays with confidence but not arrogance. Tasty guitar solos, a rock-solid backbeat and intriguing interplay lend a touch of the Allman Bros. to this release. -Jim Trageser Staff Writer - North County Times

  • I especially like ....the the constant element of elegance.
    author: San Diego Troubadour /Frederick Leonard

    CD Review By: San Diego Troubadour - issue April 2005 SHADOWDOGS "Halfway to Someday" Mindful Eye Music By Frederick Leonard So, yer boots are a bit dusty, are they? Feelin' kinda parched, are ya? Long day? Sounds like you could sit a spell, pop a brew, and mellow out on the porch as you stare out over the high desert ridge in the distance, listening to the new Shadowdogs release, Halfway To Someday. This dreamy-drowsy Americana sound rolls through your personal space like a tumbleweed in slow motion strolling down and old Arizona highway. Halfway To Someday contains 14 very polished tracks that would take a likely slot on the record store shelf halfway between the Allman Brothers and the Eagles. Pedal steels and guitars are the signature of this sound supported by a snappy rhythm section, piano, and generous dosages of harmony. This is the kind of effort that explores the traditions of the music the Shadowdogs love over any determination to set new-fangled trends. You can hear respects paid to Dickey Betts and Don Henley as well as Jack Tempchin - all the while the while remaining true to the Shadowdog point of view. Bruce Fitzsimmons, Franklin Jenkins, and Jon Scarantino do the bulk of the writing and singing. Scarantiono plays bass while the other two play a variety of guitars. Kevin Glassel keeps the band together on drums and percussion, along with an able roster of special guests who also contribute more guitar work. Steve Wetherbee is credited with this slickly recorded bare-bones documentation of the sometimes melancholy, sometimes dreamy, and at other times upbeat band. The thing I especially like about the work is the constant element of elegance. Every song is graceful and beautiful regardless of tempo or mood. And every song - all overtly Americana in style - seems to contain one extra layer of influence that lends its subtle complexity to each track and, therefore, its own identity. Well done. You can see where the tumbleweed wanders at Shadowdogs.com

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