Dayton Dean and the River Kings
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New Album"Black Gold" $12.99 "These guys stand out with personality, style and a unique originality. A class act with a lot of musicianship, they have a huge fun entertainment factor to their show and blend authentic blues and traditional chops effortlessly in a modern upbeat contemporary presentation."-Craig Chaquico Grammy Award Winning Musician (Former Jefferson Starship)
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The Story... From the deep backwoods of The Pacific Northwest, sounds of awe-inspiring upbeat old-time Swamp/Dixie rock n’ roll music have risen to the music scene. Dayton Dean and The River King is a project devoted to keeping all music genre listeners feeling good and entertained! Its boomy, bright and boldly exciting to watch, it sounds like there is a 5 piece rock band on the stage and it never stops being fun to dance with.. It all starts with Lead vocalist and songwriter Dayton Dean plays a unique dixieland style of guitar on an solid steel bodied amplified resonator. He even has a real bayonet attatched to the end of his guitar, which he uses to hit his crash cymbals! His powerful soul-rusty vocal melodies are appreciated among the most critical of listeners and although, the real entertainment stems not from watching Dean play guitar or sing, but watching him simultaneously keep these solid upbeat rhythms on his custom built foot operated drum set; This features a bass drum, high-hats and tambourine, crash cymbal and even a old washboard and shaker played with four different foot pedals. Dean’s solid and fascinating muti-talented performance blows all other hokey “one-man-bands” off the map! This huge full band sound is only completed by the addition of The River King, James "Dean" Egan keeping the backbone solid on Double bass and vocals. Listeners are amazed when they hear such a full band sound coming from two men. In addition, this rock and roll tuo is often accompanied by feature guest members on violin, piano and blues harp on most performances and recordings. It’s safe to say that it’s all quite a sight to see and it’s guaranteed you will leave the show inspired and humming the songs the whole way home. read full biography...
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News Stand..
11/23/10- So We've got an awesome new shirt design in! What? Thats right, an old west shootout scene with skeletons-yeehaahaha,, Anyways, they are available in addition to plain white with black, we have purple and black shirts with gold ink! Also womens green shirts with gold and also black hemp hoodies with gold and last but not least sweet trucker hats with real fabric not that foam shhit! Check out the STORE or go to the listen page for store photo updates
11/22/10- About a week before tour take off! Things are lookin good, what started out to be a solo tour has become the real deal, We have added dedicated tour bassist Cole Stitleman into the picture, aka the Time Traveling Bass Player. Very excited to have him along for the ride, he has learned an immense amount of music in just 2 weeks! All you ladies out there don't get yer panties in a bunch, cuz ole Jimmy Bones is still gonna be around too!
9/1/10'- Two new videos up, check em out on the LISTEN page, and also dates for my Deep South/West solo tour up on the shindigs page soon..
8/4/10-Hear us from our tour, Live at the Walnut room in Denver our traditional cover rendetion of "Tell it to me" or as we have it as our "Coccaine Song#1" Check it out playing on our shindigs page!
7/10/10-Our old friend Craig Chacuico from Jefferson Starship dropped by and said some nice words about a recent show he saw, his quote is right there<<<<
5/10/2010-Now that our tour is over , we have some serious new album songs to write, more recording and tour again. thanks so much for making it a great tour you rowdy bunch of peeps!
4/3/10-New LP, "Black Gold" is out, Buy it now off the listen page, Old Jimmy Bones designed it all, check the LISTEN page out.
4/2/10'- Great Western Tour has Started! Come see us out on the road in your hometown, check shindigs page for dates near you!
Upcoming Shindigs
OFFICIAL DEEP SXSW TOUR DATES:
Wayside Grille- 11/19
Mt.Shasta, CA
Bar of America- 12/2
Truckee,Ca
The Brass Lounge -12/3
Las Vegas, Nevada
Granite Creek Vineyard-12/4
Chino Valley, Arizona
Flagstaff Brewery -12/5
Flagstaff, Arizona
Burt's Tiki Lounge-12/6
Santa Fe, NM
Belle Isle Brewery -12/7
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Enjoy Life Alternative Arts Centre - 12/8
Little Rock, AR
Government St. Grocery-12/10
Ocean Springs, MS
The Brickhouse -12/11
Houma,LA
Hole in the Wall-12/12
Austin, Tx
La Diosa Vineyards-12/15
Lubbock, TX
Santa Fe Pub and Grill -12/16
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sundances Place-12/17
Prescott,AZ
Goldmine Tavern-12/18
Henderson,NV
Henflings Tavern -1/29
Ben Lomond,Ca
8/7/10-SouthSide Tattoo Car Show-Ashland,OR
8/14/10-Tease-Ashland,OR
8/20/10-Cold Stream Tavern-Fort Jones,Ca website
8/21/10-Klamath River Benefit Bash-Etna,CA website
9/10/10-Cattlemen's Saloon- Rogue River,OR
9/11/10-Blackstone Audio-Ashland,OR
10/8/10- Johnny B's (W/The Whiskey Chasers)-Medford,OR
10/22/10-The End Up-Red Bluff,Ca
10/23/10-Hunter's Ball @ The Cold Stream Tavern, Fort Jones,ca
10/31/10-Tease Halloween Party!-Ashland, OR
11/5/10- Luckey's Club Cigar, Eugene, OR
11/6/10- Waucoma Club-Hood River,OR website
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