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LIVE TEXAS MUSIC




                                     Waves Band Of The Month



          Zach Tate Band set                  mah (Feb 6, 20, 22), The Hitchcock     “Deception, corrupted power fig-

        to release new CD on                  Post in Hitchcock (Feb 16) an Barge   ures, death and broken hearts are
                                              295 in Seabrook (Feb 17). Sharky’s
                                                                                    strong components in most people’s
       KPFT 90.1 FM Feb 1st,                  Galveston (Mar 1). Digital distribution   lives in some capacity - politically,
                                              will available through iTunes and Spoti-
                                                                                    religiously and socially. These ideas
                     2019                     fy beginning February 1st.            have always entered my songwriting,
       T
                                                                                    especially when talking about love
                     he sixth CD from
                     Houston’s Zach Tate
                     Band, Angels & Out-
                     laws - another rock,
                     blues, country infused
       journey across American landscapes of
       rebellion, deception, love, romance and
       loss, will be released in a live broadcast
       radio premiere on KPFT 90.1 FM in
       Houston (89.5 in Galveston) on Fri-
       day, February 1st at 11am (KPFT.org
       worldwide).

       The band will be in the KPFT stu-      Angels & Outlaws began recording in   – a place where everyone has felt
       dios with 3-time Texas Music DJ of     2016 at Wire Road Studios in Houston   inspired and betrayed at the same
       The Year winner, Roark Smith on his    with Grammy-nominated engineer,       time,” Tate said.
       critically acclaimed music show, “Wide   Andy Bradley. 26 songs were on the
       Open Spaces” playing selected tracks   table at the beginning of the sessions.   While some lyrics on Angels and Out-
       and talking about the album. From the                                        laws are quite literal in meaning, there
       haunting and heavy opening rock ballad   “In the end ‘the table’ becomes an   are plenty of metaphors. When asked to
       Outlaw, inspired by the 2015 Twin      emotionally violent chopping block,”   explain their deeper meanings Tate de-
       Peaks shooting in Waco, Texas to the   Tate said.                            fers to a line by Chilean poet Pablo Ner-
       album’s final song Angel, about losing                                       uda, as depicted in the 1994 Italian film
       a loved one, Angels & Outlaws growls,   Two years later, eleven original and   Il Postino, “When you explain poetry
       grins, dances and delights through its 13   two cover songs, were selected for the   (or music) it becomes banal. Better than
       songs.                                 album. Tate had never recorded a cover   any explanation is the direct experience
                                              song until Angels & Outlaws and said   of emotions that poetry can reveal to
       Physical copies of Angels & Outlaws    the two songs chosen, Reverend Jack   a soul predisposed to comprehend it.”
       will be available on CD at all of the   & His Roamin’ Cadillac Church by the   Tate added, “Some things are just better
       band’s shows throughout the month      1980’s husband and wife duo, Timbuk   said in a song, without further explana-
       of February and beyond including       3 (The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear   tion.”
       LaPorte’s Chantilly Room (Feb 2),      Shades) and Fiddler’s Green by legend-
       Baker St Pubs in Katy, Sugar Land,     ary Canadian band, The Tragically Hip,   For more information about
       Houston and The Woodlands (Feb         are deeply significant to him personally   shows, CDs and more visit:
       7, 13, 15, 28), Marina Bar & Grill in   and fit the theme of his own writing
       Galveston (Feb 9), Crazy Alans’s       over the last few years.                  www.ZachTate.com
       Swampshack and Monkey Bar in Ke-


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