Angie
Heaton & The Gentle Tamers - The Rumor Mill
 Artist:
Angie Heaton & The Gentle Tamers
Title: The Rumor Mill
Catalog#: Spur-CD-005
Price: $10.00 
Official Release Date:
October 2, 2007
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| The
Rumor Mill (listen) |
| Hide
& Seek |
| Next
Year’s Garden |
| Lucky
In Love (listen)
[Free
MP3] |
| Blue
Sky Days |
| Train |
| Prayer
For You |
| Sometimes
I Feel The Bruise (listen) |
| Heaven’s
State Line |
| God
Shaped Hole |
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for digital download October 2nd. |
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ANGIE
HEATON LIVE SHOWS:
NOVEMBER 8 CHAMPAIGN, IL. @ THE COWBOY MONKEY
- 10P
DECEMBER 6 URBANA, IL. @ KRANNERT - Uncorked
Wine Tasting - 5P
DECEMBER 21 URBANA, IL. @ CAFFE PARADISO
- 8P
FEBRUARY 9 URBANA, IL @ ILLINI UNION - Writers
in the round 8P
The Rumor Mill is the new album by Illinois singer-songwriter
Angie Heaton, former member of Corndolly,
Liquorette, and The Tractor Kings.
On The Rumor Mill, Angie’s 4th album. she’s
joined by a full-on country backing band, The Gentle Tamers:
two guys named Josh (Walden on bass and Quirk on drums), and
a former Nashville session player, Bob Watson, on guitar,
banjo and pedal steel. These gents help take Angie's songs
and sounds from the rock club to the barndance. Angie’s
phrasing falls comfortably behind the beat like Willie Nelson,
with a voice recalling Lucinda Williams,
Kasey Chambers, and Neko Case.
Country enough that our label-hopping lass’s latest
found a home on Parasol‘s Americana imprint Spur Records,
after previous releases on both Mud and Parasol Records.
This time around Angie shows us just how much a little bit
country (like Marie Osmond), and a little bit rock n roll
(like Marie’s brother Donny) she really is! Having given
us three albums in the past decade that leaned more on indie-rock
(her mid-90s Mud Records releases Calamities
& Restitution and Sparkle),
with a country-ish turn in the new millennium (2005’s
Let It Ride
on Parasol), with The Rumor Mill she and Marie have
left Donny in the dust and gone Dollywood, with an edge.
On The Rumor Mill, Angie gives us 10 more songs about
crushes, death, and being crushed to death; including a Tex-Mex-ed
version of the Trembling Blue Stars’ “Sometimes
I Still Feel The Bruise”.
Reviews for The Rumor Mill...
ALL
MUSIC GUIDE: "Though a rootsy sensibility
has always been at the heart of Heaton's aesthetic, The Rumor
Mill is a flat out country album. It's barely even alt country:
the best tracks here, like the mournful bad-girl-blues "Heaven's
State Line," would sound great on mainstream Nashville
radio alongside Gretchen Wilson and Miranda Lambert singles.
Indeed, if they're smart, Wilson and Lambert will fight among
themselves for the right to cover the galloping title track,
and will hire lead guitarist Bob Watson to re-create his killer
Duane Eddy-like twang guitar hook."
AURAL
PLEASURES/CITY LIGHTS GUIDE: "Fluctuating
between boisterous alt-country compositions and the occasional
plaintive indie pop tune, Angie Heaton and her backing band
the Gentle Tamers construct a lovelorn world where folks convene
at the end of dusty desert roads to share drinks and stories.
From its first strains, The Rumor Mill feels like a conversation
between friends at an old haunt, intimate and familiar."
Past Press…
MAGNET: “Playing stylistic roulette is actually
a very shrewd move on Heaton’s part… Anyone who
can write pop songs, rave-up ballads, and dirges as well as
Heaton doesn’t deserve to get stuck being called the
next anybody."
NEW YORK PRESS: "Angie Heaton showcases
her own charming skills as a cowgirl diva."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: "Her sharp sense
of humor, melodic deftness, and cow-punk verve are hot enough
to pop her out of the corn belt."
SPLENDID E-ZINE: “Angie Heaton voice
may evoke Liz Phair or Amy Rigby with its wry, rough edges,
but don't be fooled. Let It Ride is a heartfelt folk-rock
journey down the dusty roads and endless interstates of romance.
In "Drive", the line "They say that home is
where the heart is / my heart's been looking for a home"
sets us off on Heaton's quest.”
Angie Heaton’s label-hopping Parasol Label Group
Discography…
The Rumor Mill - Spur Records 2007
Let It Ride
- Parasol Records 2004
Sparkle -
Mud Records 1998 (out of print)
Calamities & Restitution
- Mud Records 1996 (out of print)
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