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Rowdy roots rockers The Mallett Brothers Band have a new album on the way—Vive L’Acadie!— and are unleashing a new single, “Timberline (High Times)” today. The song is a road-worn rocker, barely contained as it barrels down a dusty musical road. “Timberline,” a hopeful song about struggles faced by returning veterans, was written lakeside on an overcast evening at the Mallett family camp (which is what folks in Maine call a cabin), nestled in the Piscataquis County, Maine woods.

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Anthemic acoustic guitar riffs mixed with contemplative finger-picked melodies. Lyrics spanning from reflective to whiskey-drunk. Dramatic vocal builds alongside gentle harmonies. Waves of folk crashing against shoals of rock and blues. Together, these traits define both the heart of Americana music as well as the soul of Great Peacock’s new album, Gran Pavo Real.

It may seem improbable how well these rising folk rockers feel the pulse of the Americana genre, yet trace their roots to an alcohol-fueled night of creativity among the band’s founding duo, singer/guitarist Andrew Nelson and fellow guitarist Blount Floyd.  Somehow the country-rock loving Nelson and the 90’s country-music-influenced Floyd hit on the idea, almost joking, of creating a folk band…with an animal in its name…thus creating the blurry vision that is now Great Peacock.  Perhaps the band’s unorthodox heritage is what allows Gran Pavo Real to stand out as its own sound in a musical landscape inundated with “authentic,” cookie cutter, offerings.

With Gran Pavo Real, the band has taken a remarkable step in the complexity of their lyrical songwriting. On “One Way Ticket,” Nelson muses about a restless spirit taking flight: “I’m a Rolling Stone/Yeah I can’t sit still/I’m a one-way ticket/heading straight downhill/ I’m a backroad Baptist with stories to tell/Got a one-way ticket to keep me out of hell.” On the album, whether pining, reflecting, or simply going on a bender, the lyrics have a poetic flow that allows them to impact with deeper meaning.

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“It was the worst of times, it was the best of times, that’s more like it. The worst came first,” laughs Kellen Wenrich of the birth of his most recent project, Kellen of Troy, formed amidst life transitions, a breakup, and the demise of his band, Apache Relay. “There were a lot of things coming to an end then. But, I met my now wife during that time, and it was a renaissance period, a good time of change in my life.”

Wenrich, who was always a fixture on the Apache Relay stage (and now onstage in the backing band for The Devil Makes Three) with his fiery fiddle skills and mane of long red hair, began playing violin at age five. “My mom asked if I wanted to play violin or piano; when I chose violin she asked me why, and I said, ‘Because I can’t carry a piano,’” he laughs. “I started writing in high school like everybody does, and it was pretty grim. Every couple of years since then, I’d go in spurts of writing, but I’d never found a voice that worked for me until I started Kellen of Troy.”

Kellen of Troy moved from casual side project to main gig, as he spent the last couple of years writing songs for his 2017 EP The Sad Bastard and his brand new LP Posthumous Release. “I started writing to work through some personal stuff and force myself to do something uncomfortable,” he explains. “It’s a lot easier to be the side guy, you don’t have to put yourself out there emotionally, you just put the frosting on top of what’s there. To be the frontman is a bit more taxing, but way more rewarding. I’ve learned not to compromise what I want to say artistically, and not to whitewash anything, to chip away at anything that will obscure what you’re trying to accomplish,” he continues. “It’s an ongoing battle, but I’m getting better at it.”

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In the midst of a cold and dreary winter, and just when the world-famous weather-forecasting groundhog’s shadow has predicted that there’s no end in sight, guitar-wielding blue-eyed soul man Jamie McLean comes through with a little ray of sunshine with his new single, “Let’s Get Out Of Here,” a modernized boy-meets-girl story.  The tune is featured on McLean’s forthcoming album, One And Only, out February 23rd.

“A fella is interested in a lady. There’s some dancing. Her friends are around to judge a bit. There’s so more dancing. He proposes that they take this party elsewhere,” McLean explains of the song. “It’s funny. When I started this song it had almost a reggae feel to it. I was working with Brett Dennen at the time and almost thought about giving him the song instead of recording it myself,” he continues. “I kept hearing a sax solo on this one so I called up my buddy Jeff Coffin from Dave Matthews Band. He totally kills it! Perfect summer vibe!”

As it happens, the band relied on their drummer to keep them focused on the summery vibe. “He played the entire song with a whistle in his mouth. You can hear it at the very end,” McLean reveals. “We kept asking him ‘what time does beach volleyball start?’ By the end of the song he was drooling and looked like a Saint Bernard,” he adds with a laugh. “It kept the whole song beachy and fun.”

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Baby Robot Media is a music publicity and media service agency with employees in Los Angeles, Memphis, Atlanta & New York and represent musicians from all over the world. We specialize in promotional ( PR ) campaigns for albums, singles and videos, tour press, radio, music video production, music marketing, social media campaigns, Spotify campaigns and creating promotional content. Our mission is to help great unknown bands reach a wider audience and to help already successful artists manage their brand identity and continue to thrive. Our music publicists have over 50 years of combined experience in the music industry. We are known as one of the best in the business.