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NEW CD RELEASE DATE July 15, 2008 The New CD, "Between the Whiskey and the Wine" is set to be released July 15, 2008. This features all original songs written by Miss Leslie. ********************************************* |
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3rd Coast Music Review & Cover Article - November 2006 After eight members of her band died in a plane crash, Reba McEntire, overcome with emotion, broke down in tears during I’m Checking Out— every night. It was a piece of schtick as tightly scripted, cued and rehearsed as any aspect of any arena show. At the other end of the spectrum, the only thing the lead singer of British punk-rockers Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, despised more than rehearsing was singing the same song twice, so no one, least of all the band, knew what was coming next. Most acts, of course, fall somewhere between these extremes. Some have to stick to the set list because they only have so much material, or the pickup drummer didn’t bother listening to the tape. Depending on the audience’s knowledge of the repertoire and its depth, a set list can be derailed by requests— complicated by the number of people he invited to come up and sing, and his mastery at reading a room and making tactical changes, Don Walser’s set lists were pretty much scrap paper after the first couple of numbers. Apart from selecting what to play, and, in theory, you can, as Bad Livers used to demonstrate, get away with just about anything (though Mustang Sally is probably always a bad idea), the key to a successful set is sequencing. This can be obvious enough, mixing shuffles, waltzes and two-steps at country dance halls, or avoiding what DJs, who, come to think, need the same skill set, call ‘train wrecks,’ slow, quiet numbers back to back with raucous rockers, Last month, The Kennedys and Sean Mencher illustrated the art of the covers album, this month, although her second album has 17 covers and only two originals, Leslie Lindley of Houston may help us explore the intricacies of something rather different—set construction. Not that Lindley and her Juke- Jointers don’t have originals, about 20 in the set, another ten in the works, but they were either on their first studio album or will be on their next. Otherwise, this live recording is pretty representative of what you get when you hear Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers in a club. Randy & Leslie Lindley’s backgrounds are both in bluegrass, he as a professional with Karl Shifflet & Big Country, she as a local amateur, but Randy was tired of national touring and Leslie wanted to take music more seriously, so when Big Country imploded, they decided that as Leslie’s voice is much more suited to country and Randy plays mean Don Rich-style guitar, that was the way to go. On the plus side, there’s hardly any competition in the Houston area (the album, by way, was recorded at the Houston Continental), where country means either ‘Texas Country’ or Top 40 covers. On the minus side, there’s not much local support for real country, so the band is now touring regionally. Also, Leslie encounters the same resistance to female fronted bands as Austin women, “We’d do better if we just called ourselves The Juke Jointers and Randy made the calls.” Even so, Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers have made a lot of friends fairly quickly, Honky Tonk Revival designated FAR’s 2005 Debut of the Year and getting a stack of good press. Early on, Leslie and Randy focussed on the 50s and 60s. “We started out with some songs that were big hits, but over the last few months we’ve started phasing out anything that was ever in the Top 40.” Leslie kicks off with Glenn Barber’s stellar Yes Ma’am He Found Me In Honky Tonk which she first heard Leona Williams sing on a rerun of a 60s Country Carnival Barn Dance (“I about fell out of my chair”), followed by two George Jones numbers, Everything AIn’t Right and You’re Still On My Mind, then takes a break while her father, acoustic rhythm guitarist Country Jim Sloan, sings Bob Wills’ Bubbles In My Beer. Back at the mike, she carries on with Johnny Paycheck’s I’m Barely Hanging On To Me, Mel Tillis’ The Arms Of A Fool and Ray Price’s I Want To Hear It From You, then steps back again while the band plays Randy’s instrumental Bobo’s Boogie, returning for the excellent original I’ll Be Gone Tonight. Then it’s Jones again, a terrific reading of Things Have Gone To Pieces, followed by upright pianist Damian O’Grady (outstanding throughout) singing Johnny Cash’s Blistered. After that comes Cry, Cry, Cry, not the Cash standard but written by Shirley Wood, recorded by Connie Smith, yet more Jones, Ship Of Love, and more Price, Touch My Heart, then Randy sings Leon Payne’s You’ve Still Got A Place In My Heart, Leslie winding up with Empty Barstool by her sister Hilary Sloan, who also fronts a Houston area band, Little Ole Wine Drinker Me taken from Lefty Frizzell’s version and Hank Cochran’s A-11. Finally, steel guitarist Ricky Davis leads an outro of Lloyd Green’s Little Darlin’. A pretty great Hard Country evening, but is it a tad on the obvious side? Now there’s a trick question. You might, for instance, think of Bubbles In My Beer as a standard, but, apart from Wills tributes, it’s not really been covered that often since 1948 (Jones, Price, ET, Charlie Walker, Hank Thompson, Willie and Cornell Hurd), and these seem to be the first ever covers of Cry, Cry, Cry and I’m Barely Hanging On To Me, which even Groovy Joe Poovey, who wrote it, didn’t cut. Thing is, you and I may know most all this stuff (Jones’ Ship Of Love was new to me, though, useless 3CM trivia, I do have The Nutmegs’ original doo-wop version), but, except on left end of the dial specialist shows, none of it’s been on the radio in decades. As for sequencing, well, you can’t hardly go wrong when you’ve got this class of material, but Randy, the band’s musical director, does a pretty flawless job, opening big, keeping them coming and neatly spacing the numbers on which Leslie doesn’t sing. Maybe that’s all it takes, an excellent singer, a crackerjack band and great songs. Pretty simple, really, more bands ought to try it. JC |
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Academy of Western Artists 2006 Awards Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers are proud to announce nominations for the following Academy of Western Artists Awards: Contemporary Classic Country Group or Duo Contemporary Classic Country Song (I'll Be Gone Tonight) Contemporary Classic Country Album (Honky Tonk Revival) The 11th annual awards show takes place in conjunction with the First Annual Classic Country Broadcasters Convention on September 26th at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas. Miss Leslie will perform a showcase that day at the convention.
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Houston Press Music Awards 2006 Nominations Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers are proud to announce their nominations for the following Houston Press Music Awards: Best C&W Band Local Musician of the Year Best LP (Honky Tonk Revival) Best Female Vocalist (Miss Leslie) Best Guitar Player (Randy Lindley) The band will perform at the Houston Press Music Awards showcase on Sunday, July 30th, at Live Sports Cafe on Main St at 9pm. They will also perform at the Houston Press Music Awards Show on August 2nd. Voting ends July 30, 2006.
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KHOU-TV (Ch 11) in Houston - "Great Day Houston" Appearance on March 9 March 2, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mike Baxter, 281-222-4775 MISS LESLIE TO PERFORM DURING PREMIERE WEEK OF KHOU-TV’S NEW MORNING SHOW, “GREAT DAY HOUSTON” Houston-based* retro honky-tonk artists, Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers have been chosen to perform during the premiere week of KHOU-TV’s new morning show, “Great Day Houston,” shown weekdays at 9 a.m. beginning March 6. “Great Day Houston” is an hour of entertaining and compelling morning talk show television combined with fashion, celebrities and live entertainment by performers such as Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers. On Thursday, March 9 Miss Leslie and the boys will be entertaining GDH’s broadcast audience, as well as its studio audience, with original tunes reminiscent of those sung in barrooms and honky tonks during the 1950s and ‘60s by classic country crooners such as Patsy Cline and Ray Price. Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers continue to perform across Texas with a standing date every Wednesday night at Houston’s Continental Club on Main Street during “Honky Tonk Happy Hour”. For more information, please visit www.missleslie.com or email info@missleslie.com. -30- |
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Miss Leslie talks to KHOU-TV about the closing of Cactus Records Local artists lose place to grow dreams with Cactus closing
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The new full length CD release, "Honky Tonk Revival", on Zero Label Records - available August 2005! Here's what folks are saying about it: "It kicks off with this shuffle that conjures up memories of vintage Loretta Lynn. . . this disc will do quite nicely." Robert Oermann, Music Row. "Connie Smith is the most obvious influence on the singing, but Lindley is well on her way to her own voice, offering an engaging persona deep enough to convincingly portray both the woman who misses her honky-tonkin' man and the one who hits the bars on her own"--Jon Weisberger, No Depression, Nov/Dec 2005 "What Miss Leslie and her Juke Jointers have done is taken us back to the days when country music was “country”….steel guitars, fiddles, telecasters, upright bass and snare drum. . . these guys have put their time in listening, learning, and living REAL COUNTRY MUSIC and it shows in this great CD."--Tommy Alverson “ . . . the band play like they were born forty years too late, while Leslie Lindley’s strident, Connie Smith-style vocals perfectly capture the spirit of the honky tonk.” – Julie Flaskett, Country Music People - 4 star rating "There's no modern polish found on the music made by Miss Leslie and Her Juke Jointers. This exciting local band creates a shoe-shuffling honky-tonk that sounds like it was pulled from a time machine that left Nashville in the mid-'50s. The old-style songs are driven by Miss Leslie's whopper of a voice, one that recalls some of country's timeless singers." --Andrew Dansby, Entertainment Editor, Houston Chronicle "My exposure to Miss Leslie's music began only last year, but I've been in love with Leslie's sound since I saw her open for rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson at the Continental Club. Not only did Leslie hold her own, she earned a lifetime fan in me. I've enjoyed watching her grow musically and vocally, and I've also taken every opportunity to give Leslie the coverage and respect she so richly deserves. Does that make me biased? No, it just makes me a good journalist with great taste. (LOL!) Miss Leslie's vintage--but vibrant--sound makes me believe in country music. Real country music. "--Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle "On the album-opening shuffle, "I'll Be Gone Tonight," Miss Leslie showcases all of her talents: her fiddling, her songwriting, her singing and the top-shelf band she has put together."--John Nova Lomax, Houston Press, October 20, 2005 "Revival is an apt description of Leslie Lindley's debut disc. Backed by a crack outfit capable of recreating the classic sounds of both Bakersfield and Texas honky-tonk, Miss Leslie convincingly portrays the barroom chanteuse of eras gone by."--Ken Burke, Country Standard Time, October 2005 "Lindley and her veterans, including her guitarist husband Randy, have a lot going for them, mainly her clear as a bell Connie Smith style voice. . . and the songs of Jake Jenkins."--John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music, "Recently I received a wonderful CD in the mail for airplay and I just wanted to write a review here on KMK for this new CD because it is exceptionally good. I normally don't write reviews on this forum, but because I love this young lady's talent and believe in her music so strongly, I want to urge each and every one of you to get in touch with her and get this CD!"--Richard White, WQMV - on Kountry Music Korner@msngroups "It seems that one thing common among most fans of traditional and honky tonk country music is that we like to dream about where we will head to first when a safe time machine is made available to us. . . I have some good news. Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers have made that trip possible without you having to take any of the risks.--Sam Houston, Real Country Music.org " It certainly tends to make you want to find the hardwood floor to dance to music that has that familiar country sound of the old days, but could also be a new tune written by her main songwriter, Jake Jenkins."--Miss Lana Miss Lana.com
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Houston Chronicle Best of 2005 From Handstamp, the Houston Chronicle's music blog: "There's no easy way to recap my year of music in 2005. Not only did it mark the beginning of this groovy little thing called HandStamp, it also, in a bigger sense, expanded my musical horizons more than ever before. Sounds cheesy, I know, but 2005 was really a year of revelation for me. The Houston scene is brimming with undiscovered, untapped, unappreciated talent. And most of these folks have nothing to do with Mike Jones, Paul Wall or Destiny's Child. Don't get me wrong. There's definite cause for celebration at those breakout successes, but they hardly paint a whole, accurate picture of Houston's musical medley of talent. I thought long and hard about the best way to assemble a recap. A top albums list seemed too narrow; a straight-ahead feature seemed a bit dull. So here, I humbly offer a smorgasbord of events, moments and musical memories that rocked my world in 2005. I hope you'll find something among the melodies that rings true for you. • Sister, sister Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers -- who else? -- provided the perfect entry-point for my ongoing affair with Houston's honky-tonk scene. The group continues to refine its classic sound with live dates in and around Texas. It's all expertly captured on Miss Leslie's oustanding debut disc, Honky-Tonk Revival. I expect big things from this outfit in the coming year."--Joey Guerra The Soundtrack to My Local Life in 2005
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FAR Chart #1 Debut Album Pick for 2005 DEBUT ALBUM #1 Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers: Honky Tonk Revival (Zero Label) 2 Sarah Borges: Silver City (Blue Corn) 3 Amber Digby: Music From The Honky Tonks (Yellow Rose) 4 Abigail Washburn: Song Of The Traveling Daughter (Nettwerk) 5 Shooter Jennings: Put The O Back In Country (Universal South) 6 Hacienda Brothers (Koch) 7 Robyn Ludwick: For So Long (Late Show) 8 Dave Insley: Call Me Lonesome (self) 9 Twilight Ranchers: Who Stole That Train (Cow Island Music) 10 Wayne Scott: This Weary Way (Full Light) |
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CD Review - No Depression, Nov/Dec 2005 "Houston singer and fiddle player Leslie Lindley and her guitar-slinging husband Randy, a former member of honky-tonk bluegrassers Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show, front a convincing hard-country band on this promising debut that features a bunch of originals by Randy's former bandmate Jake Jenkins and some well-selected covers by the likes of Loretta Lynn and Bobby Osborne. Texas music enthusiasts will recognize steel man Ricky Davis' touch, but the Juke-Jointers are more than competent on their own behind Leslie's big voice, and it's a pleasure to hear how deeply grounded they are in the style. Connie Smith is the most obvious influence on the singing, but Lindley is well on her way to her own voice, offering an engaging persona deep enough to convincingly portray both the woman who misses her honky-tonkin' man and the one who hits the bars on her own". - - Jon Weisberger |
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CD Review - Houston Press, October 18, 2005 http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2005-10-20/music/localrotation.html
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Houston Chronicle CD Review - Talkin' Bout a Revival, September 2005 "A song like Turn Around typifies Leslie's sound: confident, focused and respectful of heroes Connie Smith, Tammy Wynette and Ray Price. Even so, it's awfully hard to pick a stand-out here. Just when you think Heavy on the Lonesome is tops, along come the strains of Stranger in Your Mind, a Jenkins original wrought with pain and emotion."--Joey Guerra
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The Bulletin - October 10, 2005 "While a lot of today’s country music is deeply indebted to Southern rock and 70’s pop and power ballads with more to do with Broadway than boot scootin’, one talented local lady is keeping it pure country, putting the twang in her sound and bringing back the fire to a homegrown musical form known as honky tonk." -- Mark Williams The Bulletin's Guide to the 16th Annual Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival
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Live Performance and Review (8/12/05 show at Borskis) - Conroe Courier "Watching their live show it didn't take long to understand why they are the darlings of the media critics and one listen through their new CD and you realize this group of talented musicians led by Leslie Lindley and her husband Randy Lindley are the real deal and heavily steeped in the tradition of "honky tonk" cry in your beer, real country music of the 50s and 60s."--Jay Ross Martin, Conroe Courier Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers stir up a "Honky Tonk Revival"
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Cover Story - The Bulletin - August 12, 2005 "The music is as timeless as it is a roadhouse wonder, country music the way it should be: simple and soulful, at once joyous and melancholy - the sound of a party in full swing and the night is still young, music to make you dance with your favorite partner or miss them terribly as you cry in your beer. . . " --Mark Williams Solid Country Gold: Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers bring back Hardwood Floor Country on "Honky Tonk Revival"
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Live Review - July 24 - Houston Press Music Awards 2005 Showcase Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle: • So I admit it. I've got a thing for Miss Leslie & Her Juke Jointers, much in the same way Sara does for Tody. Leslie's music just makes me smile, tap my toe and move my hips. I love me some old-time country music. MLJJ's performance at the Speakeasy was confident, fun and focused -- everything a great band's set should be. The aforementioned Collis popped up again, bringing the total onstage count to seven. Seven people, plus a piano, a steel guitar, Leslie's high heels and a slew of cowboy hats piled on the Speakeasy's small -- small -- stage. Don't try this at home, folks. The group has just released its first full-length CD, Honky Tonk Revival, a solid collection of originals and obscure covers. MLJJ's all-too-brief set featured a number of songs from the disc. Honky Tonk Gal, Heavy on the Lonesome, I'll Be Gone Tonight, Midnight Angel -- all highlights, anchored by Leslie's brassy, classy vocals and Bill Howard's crying steel guitar. The crowd even demanded an encore -- and got a pitch-perfect take on Willie Nelson's Three Days. In the end, I was happy. Happy to have heard so much original music. Happy to have seen Houston's local scene so vibrantly alive. And happy to know that every single one of you -- yes, you too -- are going to check out Miss Leslie's music. So how about it? 9 p.m. Friday at Blanco's. Come on, I dare you. There will be role-call. Posted by Joey at July 24, 2005 11:59 PM Houston Chronicle Handstamp Blog - Must Be the Music in Me
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Houston Chronicle Article - June 23, 2005 South County Woman Plays Top Fiddle in Band by Charlie Bier THERE are plenty of spotlights and late nights in smoky barrooms for Leslie Lindley, but the retro country crooner doesn't have time to sleep her days away. The Oak Ridge North resident is a stay-at-home mom and college instructor trying to juggle a blossoming music career. In a year, Lindley has taken the band she fronts, Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, from startup act to a group poised to break onto the national stage. The band already has played at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and finished production on a soon-to-be-released compact disc and will receive exposure on a pending documentary about country legend Tammy Wynette. Juggling act Since the band was formed in April 2004, the quick success is sometimes enough to make Lindley want to stop and pinch herself, she said. "Things have taken off really, really quickly, which has been surprising, but fun," she said. "It really is a lot of work when you're an independent artist and don't have a record label." Married for 11 years to husband and guitar-playing band member Randy Lindley, she spends her days rearing their three small children. For the past four years, she has taught computer-related evening classes at the main campus of North Harris Community College, 250 N. Sam Houston Parkway East in Houston. It's a heavy schedule for anyone, much less the lead singer of a band. So to play music and keep her dreams of stardom alive, the full-time wife, mom and musician has made the band a family affair of sorts. Musical family Blending music and family was a trick she learned at a young age. In addition to her husband, other family ties to the band include Lindley's dad and acoustic guitarist, Jim Sloan, who sent her to bed as a young girl to drift off to sleep to the sounds of his living room bluegrass jam sessions. Born in South Carolina, Lindley lived in Kentucky for a few years, but says she grew up mostly in Fort Worth and Houston. "My dad plays with us as well and that's a connection I've always had with him, and I really enjoy sharing that onstage," she said. Lindley's sister, Hilary Sloan, has also found local success with her band, Aunt Erma's Fillin' Station, for whom Randy also performs. Those musical connections weren't something Lindley was always able to enjoy when her children were younger. "In the past, Randy played music professionally and I was being supportive of him. Today, we perform together. It's a part of our hearts and souls, and a way of relating to each other that is different from most other ways," Lindley said. Randy Lindley has played with many national acts, including the Sullivan Family, David Davis and the Warrior River Boys, and the Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show. Texas tour Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers are in the early stages of their "Honky Tonk Revival Tour" that will take them to venues in Houston, Austin, Victoria, Temple, the Fort Worth Stockyard, Gruene and elsewhere. The video documentary celebrating the career of country music legend Tammy Wynette features Lindley speaking about the icon's influence on her songwriting. Lindley said she feels lucky to be in the documentary, which is part of a country legends series packaged by BCI/Navarre scheduled for release in September or October. "It's a 60-minute documentary and I'm actually in about seven minutes of it, which is quite a bit considering it's not a documentary about me. That really was an honor to be included in that. I'm really excited because their biggest distributor is Wal-Mart. It's going to be everywhere," Lindley said. The Juke-Jointers' new compact disc, ``Honky-Tonk Revival,'' is scheduled to be released in August. Traditional country Carey Wise, owner of the Fourth Creation Studio in Conroe where the CD was recorded this spring, said the band's sound borrows heavily from traditional country and bucks many of the trends of modern country music, which some purists say has been made to sound too much like popular music. "What they're trying to do is probably have the soul and feeling and sound of country back in the earlier days. It's different than listening to what's coming out of the music mills in Nashville," Wise said. The band plays a range of venues, with the only prerequisite being it's a place where the crowd - large or small - is passionate about their country music. Hard work pays off For Lindley, the success with this band has been rapid, but is the result of years of hard work. Lindley said she figured out at age 4 of 5 she had a voice good enough to match her love of singing. She also began taking fiddle lessons at the age of 5. "I just always loved to sing. That was something that never left. I got tired of playing the fiddle a lot. I would go back and forth, wanting to quit that, but I never got tired of singing," Lindley said. Original style The band's sets fuse original music and old country songs, often quality yet lesser-known tunes that might not have been chart toppers. "I would say anything we play, whether it's an original tune or whether it's an obscure cover, it's going to sound like country music that was played back in the '50s and '60s. It's a real retro sound," Lindley said. |
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CountryStyle, TX Magazine - April/May 2005 "Miss Leslie and Her Juke Jointers has taken a retro route to revive the style of Country music made popular in the fifties and sixties." --Mike Baxter Bluegrass in Their Blood
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Houston Chronicle Article - December 9, 2004 "Lindley's sound is decidedly her own, but anchored by a gutsy, confident vocal style that echoes Patsy Cline. (Seriously, folks.)" --Joey Guerra Miss Leslie Keeps It Country
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New Classic Country from Miss Leslie, The Conroe Bulletin, November 2004 "In an era when Shania Twain rules a generation of country girls vying to be a pop princess, Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers keep it real -- playing country music with a timeless feel" --Mark Williams www.thebulletin.com/archives/2004/november/music1119.htm
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Tammy Wynette DVD Documentary Coming Soon! Miss Leslie has finished filming her part in a Tammy Wynette DVD Documentary that will be included with a Greatest Hits CD that is to be released sometime in September/October 2005. It's part of a "Country Legends" series produced by a company called BCI/Navarre and you'll be able to find this compilation nationally along with others on Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Bobby Goldsboro, Roger Miller and Conway Twitty. Wal-Mart is a big distributor of their stuff. Miss Leslie spends time talking about Tammy's influence on her music and country music in general and you'll get to hear a clip of MLJJ on the documentary! We'll keep ya posted!
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HOUSTON AWARDS NOMINATIONS Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers have been nominated for a 2005 Houston Press Music Award for Best Country & Western Band. The showcase is July 24th. You can vote then, vote by mailing in a ballot found in a Houston Press newspaper, or vote online at: Houston Press Music Awards 2005 Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers will showcase on July 24th at the Speakeasy on Main at 9pm. For more information, see the above link. In addition, MLJJ has been nominated for Best Original Band in the Ultimate Houston 2005 Awards with the Houston Chronicle. To vote, go to the link below: 2005 Ultimate Houston Reader Picks Thank you, Houston!
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GET YOUR HOUSTON TEXANS TICKETS HERE! Want to buy tickets to the December 18 Houston Texans v. Arizona Cardinals game before everyone else and avoid those nasty brokerage fees? Or maybe you just want to enjoy your honky tonk WITH your football? We have the solution! Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers will be performing in Budweiser Plaza just before the December 18th game and that means YOU can buy tickets before anyone else! Starting on July 19 at 12 noon until July 21 at 5pm, go to the link below and pre-purchase your tickets for the December 18 Houston Texans game. Note the password is honkytonk!
Link: Houston Texans v. Arizona Cardinals
PLEASE REMEMBER that this link will NOT be hot until the 19th of July at NOON and will close at 5:00 PM on the 21st.
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Houston Rodeo Lineup Announced - MLJJ on Armed Forces Night As many of you have seen from our schedule, we are going to be playing at the Texas Coca-Cola stage at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Thursday, March 3, 2005. The headliners for March 3 are Neal McCoy, Charlie Daniels Band, and Lee Greenwood doing an Armed Forces Salute. We are proud to be a part of this night and are very grateful that we're playing on the same nights as some Country Legends. I am disappointed after last years' tremendous response to Ray Price that they did not have him back, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't try. I guess it could have been a scheduling conflict or contractual issues or something like that. Regardless, we are excited to be a part of this particular evening and hope that you can come and join us for fun at the HLSR! |
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TRUE STORY, FOLKS!! Miss Leslie: “Hi, this is Leslie Lindley and I’m following up about the promotional package and CD I sent you. How did it sound? Do you still want to go ahead and book the band for the gig?” Potential Client: “Yes, um, I played it over the phone for our Marketing Manager, who is in Atlanta right now. Um, he thought the music sounded too old country and the girl sounded too much like Patsy Cline. . . ." Folks, was this supposed to be a NEGATIVE thing?
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