Truckstop Coffee
One Damn Thing To Redeem
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With a passel of rootsy songs about whiskey, women, heartache and interstate highways, Truckstop Coffee cranks out a reviving take on the road-worn genre of Americana rock 'n roll.
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With a passel of rootsy songs about whiskey, women, heartache and interstate highways Truckstop Coffee cranks out a reviving take on the road-worn genre of Americana/whatever-u-call-it rock 'n roll. Named after the powerful stuff that helps keep you between the lines on those long lonely drives, this hard-working young four-piece blends overdriven tube amps, telecaster twang, and rough-hewn vocals for a vintage sound that'll break yer heart and sew it up again with steel strings.
In just their first three years together Truckstop Coffee has torn through more than a 100 shows, landed a gig as openers for Brooks & Dunn at south Florida's Sound Advice Amphitheater (canceled due to Hurricane Wilma), and was named the “Best Country Act - 2005 — with one foot firmly planted in rock" in southern Florida by City Link Magazine. Along the way, the boys have gained loyal fans and friends as well as valuable main-stage chops by opening up for national bands like Jimmie Van Zant, The Georgia Satellites, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Magnolia Electric Co. (aka Songs Ohia), John Ralston and Gasoline Heart. Through blood, sweat, and backbreak at big venues such as the Maltz Jupiter Theater, the Gosman Amphitheater at the Kravis Center, Markham Park, Revolution's Main Stage, and more, the band has earned a reputation for delivering honest, urgent performances everywhere they play.
In addition to playing heaps of shows Truckstop Coffee also found time to record and release a five song EP in 2004, and they just celebrated the release of their first full-length recording titled One Damn Thing To Redeem in December 2006 (now available on itunes). The 10-track debut is a wanderlustful journey through a blue-highway landscape of raucous roots rock and yesteryear country. It's loud overdriven guitars. It's pedal steel and fiddle. And, recorded one part in southern Florida and one part in Knoxville, Tennessee, this album of opposites is as much a documentary of where Truckstop Coffee has been as it is a road map for where they're headed.
“Truckstop Coffee plants one foot in country and another one firmly in rock... The quartet revels in the rapid-fire, rockin' side of alt-country.” – Dan Sweeney - City Link Magazine
“Rootsy elements of Wilco and Neil Young, and Son Volt crept into the rollicking Midwestern Holiday, a tune describing the kind of working vacation this future touring act envisions.” - Bill Meredith – Palm Beach Post
Pete Stein - Guitar/Vocals
Caleb James - Guitar/Vocals
Nick Orow - Bass Guitar
Ryan Shea - Drums/Vocals
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TSC-One Damn Thing to Redeem
author: Ninebullets.net/Stickstoffire.comTruckstop Coffee serves up a breed of alt.country / southern rock with songs about whiskey, women, heartache, and interstate highways. Their sound is probably best compared to fellow whiskey, women and heartache stalwarts Lucero or The Drive-by Truckers. Hailing from Lake Worth, FL, Truckstop Coffee is Pete Stein, Caleb James, Nick Orow and Venny Portalatin. In December of 2006 they released thier debut LP (a 5 song EP was released in 2004), One Damn Thing to Redeem. Partially recorded in South Florida and part in Knoxville, Tennessee. The cd opens up with a barn burner and possibly the best track on the cd, Way Down South, which is followed by Pretty Lil’ Smile, a fantastic song that sounds like it could turn up on the next Lucero disc. The cd then downshifts and cranks up the pedal steel for Madison County a fond recollection of someone’s hometown. There are stories of lost farms, lost women, and memories made sweeter with whiskey. The cd closes with a track about something I am probably way too familiar with, Whiskey Shivers, a song about trying to get out of a town you’ve become to comfortable in. Whiskey Shivers also contains my favorite lines on the entire album: “Whiskey bottle never got anybody very far / But it’s hard to leave town when you can walk to the bar / and take your old familiar place / You’re an old familiar face”. Ain’t that the truth. Although, I worry that the “whiskey soaked heartbroken miles on a midnight highway” sound might be so dominated that they may have a hard time getting noticed outside of the local market, but with over 100 shows under their belt, a gig as openers for Brooks and Dunn, and having earned the title “Best Country Band — 2005” by Florida’s Citylink Magazine would suggest otherwise.
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author: Jason Budjinski - New TimesMagazineTruckstop Coffee is a good enough live band — it's the reason the Palm Beach County quartet gets booked to play all those Honeycomb.com-sponsored street parties in West Palm. But even so, TSC through a live PA system isn't the same as TSC recorded. One Damn Thing to Redeem is easily the band's greatest accomplishment to date, and it exemplifies all that's right with studio recording: Every piano, fiddle, mandolin, and harmonica the band has added fits seamlessly into the mix, thanks to masterful knob-twiddling by Christopher Moll. And the songs themselves? There isn't a throwaway track on this disc. Guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter Pete Stein tears things up while carving out a sweet melody or two, starting with album opener "Way Down South," a scorching, Southern-rock-styled barnburner that wastes no time with polite introductions. Things slow down for a bit with the Replacements-like "Pretty Lil Smile" and the slide guitar-driven country of "Madison County." From there, it's an amalgam of uptempo romps and wispy ballads, ending with the soothing, introspective "Whiskey Shivers." Call it alt-country, Americana, roots-rock — whatever. It's good music, period, whether you're on the road to El Paso or on the subway to Manhattan. And if you're one of the first 100 to show up at Saturday's CD-release party, the album's free.