Authentic Chicago Roots Pop Artist Elle Casazza Releases Rousing Love Ballad with Intimate Music Video Titled, “You” From Latest Album ‘Proof’!

Single Going for Radio Adds June 5th!

Chicago, IL, June 2, 2017 - Contemporary pop singer-songwriter Elle Casazza captivates listeners with her authentic and re-creative pop music style. The Chicago native adds and blends an invigorating mix of jazz, soul and funk rhythms into her songs. After releasing her pop-funk laden track “Too Bad,” Elle has followed up with a dynamic music videoentitled “You,” both taken from her recently released full-length album, Proof. The single will be available for radio add dates on June 5thfollowing the music video release on June 2, 2017.

“You” is an encompassed piano love ballad highlighting a devoted andtrustworthy relationship that is entirelytimeless. Elle expresses that each partner accepts the other’sflaws, mistakes and will be ever forgiving as they continue to learn and grow together as a couple.Casazza’s impassioned vocals and purely honest songwriting leads us into an empowering bridge that carries out the song with a full band and harmonic back-up vocals. The uplifting peak then shifts back to a soft ending as Elle gently sings “you take the good with the bad, you’ll stay forever my man,” closing out the entire piece.

The music video begins with Elle in her dressing room, serenading the camera as she walks through an endless hallway that leads her to a blue velvet curtain. Elle comes through the curtain and stops in her tracks in a blue-tinted room.As her journey continues, Elle reaches a spotlighted stage which closesthe video with a full band performance of “You.”

Elle Casazza reveals a uniquely live element that is incorporated into her retro-pop style and it has not gone unnoticed. She has been reviewed and featured on Paste Magazine, Midwest Action, WLUW’s Radio One show in Chicago and more. Elle Casazza hasperformed solo or with her five-piece band at some of Chicago’s premier venues such as Concord Music Hall, Martyrs, Mayne Stage and many others. Elle Casazza continues to add tour dates as the summer goes on to promote her recent album, Proof.

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Upcoming Tour Dates

Date: Time: Venue: City:
7/9/17 3pm City Winery Riverwalk Chicago, IL
7/22/16 6pm Local Palooza – Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
7/24/17 8pm The Electric Bowery New York, NY
7/26/17 8pm Joe Squared Baltimore, MD
7/27/17 7pm Barking Mad Café Gaithersburg, MD
7/28/17 6:30pm The Frick Pittsburgh, PA
7/29/17 9pm Spacebar Columbus, OH
8/3/17 3pm Uptown Art Fair Minneapolis, MN

Contact:
Chip Schutzman
Miles High Productions
PO Box 93157
Hollywood CA 90093
323-806-0400
Chip@mileshighproductions.com
http://www.ellecasazza.com/

Innovative Bluegrass Band Shotgun Holler recently released “Out in the Parkin’ Lot,” via Dry Lightening Records, off their latest album Loaded

“Out in the Parkin’ Lot” now in heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction

Booneville, KY, October 02, 2015 — The guys in Shotgun Holler aren’t given to sporting retro-rustic looks featuring suspenders, vests or bowler derbies. They feel no need to dress a part; that’s for actors. As soon as these five players start plucking their instruments and merging their voices in close harmony, they provide all the evidence necessary to establish their bluegrass bona-fides.

Besides, as they make clear on their debut album, Loaded, they like to go where tradition meets authenticity — and jump right over that intersection to head in their own direction. Releasing Sept. 18 on Lonesome Day Records’ new Dry Lightning imprint (with Sony RED distribution), the album is already earning serious attention. SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction has been spinning Shotgun Holler’s version of the Guy Clark/Darrell Scott tune “Out in the Parkin’ Lot,” an ode to what goes on outside those honky-tonks, in heavy rotation since June. Since the beginning of September, the band has joined program director/host Kyle Cantrell in the studio for a “track by track” discussion, which started airing on September 25th, several times a week.

“Shotgun Holler is bringing bluegrass a freshness I haven't heard in a long time,” says Cantrell. ”This is the sound that will help take the music to the next level.”

In July, they appeared on CMT’s Josh Wolf Show, where they delivered a masterful rendition of the “guilty pleasure” song: Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.” The fact that their version of the pop hit brought a totally new dynamic to the original speaks to the depth of this band’s talent — not to mention their propensity for tweaking conventional notions of bluegrass while having a little fun.

As for those “bona-fides,” this band’s got too many to list. Mandolinist Shawn Brock, born and raised in the Appalachian hills of Harlan County, Ky., has performed with some of the top names in country and bluegrass. He’s also a jazz player. His Shotgun Holler co-founder, guitarist/lead vocalist Matt Jones, is an Indiana native who grew up hanging out with, and learning from, many bluegrass greats. They’re supported by bassist/harmony vocalist Rod Lunger (another Kentuckian), banjo player Nathan Treadway (an Indiana farm boy) and fiddler/harmony vocalist Alex Benefiel (an Indiana state fiddling champion).

With producer Jim Van Cleve, they’ve crafted a knockout inaugural that is indeed loaded. On three Jones-penned originals (“I've Got Ramblin’ On My Mind,” “Miners Grave” and “One Lone Tree”) and eight other carefully chosen snapshots of life, they enter rich emotional territory, bringing to life an array of all-too-real characters: truckers, coal diggers, dirt farmers, men facing assembly-line futures … some of whom go off to serve their country — or serve time. The band gets poignant in the waltz-tempo “This Side of the Grass,” a heart-tugging tale of a mourning husband and father, and “One Lone Tree,” reflects on a life that didn’t end up as glamorous as it once looked from a simple Kentucky home.

In songs such as Son Volt’s “Methamphetamine,” Jason Isbell’s “Relatively Easy,” “Clovis Johnson’s Old Red GMC” and the ever-evolving classic, “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It,” they sing of addicts, suicides, moonshine-making reprobates and lonely, hooker-loving men with regrets. Oh, and romancing one moonshine-maker’s daughter. You’ve gotta have a love song, after all even if the title does reference a truck.

With the release of Loaded, Shotgun Holler is ready to fire away.

Loaded track list

“Out In The Parkin' Lot”

“I Hope Heaven Has a Holler”

“My Bucket's Got A Hole In It”

“Methamphetamine”

“Clovis Johnson's Old Red GMC”

“Relatively Easy”

“I've Got Ramblin On My Mind”

“This Side Of The Grass”

“Miners Grave”

“One Lone Tree”

“I Should Have Started Yesterday”

Shotgun Holler on tour
October 17 – Proud Mary Honky Tonk BBQ, Lexington, KY
October 31 – VFW Post 1108, Richmond, IN
November 27 – Roberts Park, Connersville, IN

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About Dry Lightning Records
Dry Lightning Records was established to give a broader range of Lonesome Day Records artists their own home while allowing the original label to continue building on its 12-year history in the bluegrass market Founder Randall Deaton now puts as much passion and energy into Dry Lightning Records as he still devotes to the label he founded in 2002. In partnership with Sony/RED Distribution, the label also includes the critically acclaimed acts Girls Guns and Glory and Sarah Borges. Both Dry Lightning and Lonesome Day, incidentally, take their names from the titles of Bruce Springsteen songs.

Contact:
Chip Schutzman
Miles High Productions
PO Box 93157
Hollywood CA 90093
323-806-0400

http://www.mileshighproductions.com