chrisjoseph
02-21-2009, 08:40 PM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 22, 2009
Contact: Chris Joseph (310) 733-7062 or (310) 709-7263
chris@threadheadrecords.com
PAUL SANCHEZ TO RELEASE HIS FIRST BOOK – 'PIECES OF ME'
With the release of his first book, talented New Orleans musician, singer and songwriter Paul Sanchez invites the reader to share his journey from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to a renewed life and a new New Orleans.
What he lost in the flood was his stuff. What he has found since is his life.
“Pieces of Me” is a very personal collection of essays, initially written as a series of blogs, documenting the torment of Sanchez's life after Katrina, leaving the band Cowboy Mouth and facing an uncertain future, before finding himself in a new world filled with the kind of love and music he had long been searching for.
"I have been looking for a connection to something for a long time and I found it right here where I started. The music, the people, the feeling that life is for living and work shouldn't be taken too seriously. The sense of community in the streets, talking to people you know and people you don't with the same familiarity.
The magic hasn't been lost and that was, I guess, what we all feared the most as events of the Thing unfolded. Ultimately the magic is in each of us anyway. The moment that feels like sublime perfection when a John Boutté sings or a Shamarr Allen plays his horn on a night when you know the rest of the country is tucked in, is only wonderful if you open up and allow yourself to experience it."
Fans of Sanchez know that when he takes to the stage and begins to sing you are unwittingly swept up in his pain, his joy, and his love for life and for New Orleans. Through this honest, heart warming and, at times, laugh out loud funny book you will also become better acquainted with Sanchez and many of the musicians he calls friends.
About Paul Sanchez: Paul Sanchez was born in New Orleans, in a neighborhood called The Irish Channel. The Channel was hard working, hard drinking Irish and German immigrants who worked the docks, drank hard and played harder; where love came as easily from a backhand slap across the face as it did in a hug. When anyone asks Sanchez when he started to sing he says, "I started singing at age five, when my father died. I don't know if I was such a wonderful singer but I think the voice of a five year old singing was better then a house full of people crying so I got a lot of encouragement.”
Sanchez released ten albums with Cowboy Mouth in his 15 years with the band; during that time he also released nine solo records. His songs have been used in films, television shows and are the sound track to what many people think of when they think of New Orleans. He has traveled the country and world singing and playing guitar and loved the adventure.
Since leaving Cowboy Mouth after the flood, he released his own, critically acclaimed album, “Exit To Mystery Street,” which featured some of the finest New Orleans talent in the city. Simultaneously he wrote songs with John Boutté, and with Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) producing went into the studio with Boutté to record the award winning “Good Neighbor” disc, the title cut of which has become an instant New Orleans classic.
Sanchez and John Boutté returned to the studio to record their first duo release, “Stew Called New Orleans,” due out in April 2009. “Pieces of Me”, tentatively scheduled to be released in April 2009, is the first book published from Threadhead Records.
About Threadhead Records: Threadhead Records is an unprecedented non-profit record company formed out of the love for New Orleans, its music, and its musicians. Its mission is to help New Orleans musicians who were victims of the flooding that occurred from the failed levees, which took place in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. To this day, most of the musicians in New Orleans are still attempting to rebuild their lives. Each project is funded by the fans themselves and is paid back by the musicians with an additional 10 percent charitable return to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. The musicians own their own work; Threadhead Records does not sign artists nor are they involved in creative decisions or ownership of songs. THR exists solely to help musicians get their projects completed. No more, no less. Threadhead Records is helping to rebuild New Orleans, one song at a time.
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February 22, 2009
Contact: Chris Joseph (310) 733-7062 or (310) 709-7263
chris@threadheadrecords.com
PAUL SANCHEZ TO RELEASE HIS FIRST BOOK – 'PIECES OF ME'
With the release of his first book, talented New Orleans musician, singer and songwriter Paul Sanchez invites the reader to share his journey from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to a renewed life and a new New Orleans.
What he lost in the flood was his stuff. What he has found since is his life.
“Pieces of Me” is a very personal collection of essays, initially written as a series of blogs, documenting the torment of Sanchez's life after Katrina, leaving the band Cowboy Mouth and facing an uncertain future, before finding himself in a new world filled with the kind of love and music he had long been searching for.
"I have been looking for a connection to something for a long time and I found it right here where I started. The music, the people, the feeling that life is for living and work shouldn't be taken too seriously. The sense of community in the streets, talking to people you know and people you don't with the same familiarity.
The magic hasn't been lost and that was, I guess, what we all feared the most as events of the Thing unfolded. Ultimately the magic is in each of us anyway. The moment that feels like sublime perfection when a John Boutté sings or a Shamarr Allen plays his horn on a night when you know the rest of the country is tucked in, is only wonderful if you open up and allow yourself to experience it."
Fans of Sanchez know that when he takes to the stage and begins to sing you are unwittingly swept up in his pain, his joy, and his love for life and for New Orleans. Through this honest, heart warming and, at times, laugh out loud funny book you will also become better acquainted with Sanchez and many of the musicians he calls friends.
About Paul Sanchez: Paul Sanchez was born in New Orleans, in a neighborhood called The Irish Channel. The Channel was hard working, hard drinking Irish and German immigrants who worked the docks, drank hard and played harder; where love came as easily from a backhand slap across the face as it did in a hug. When anyone asks Sanchez when he started to sing he says, "I started singing at age five, when my father died. I don't know if I was such a wonderful singer but I think the voice of a five year old singing was better then a house full of people crying so I got a lot of encouragement.”
Sanchez released ten albums with Cowboy Mouth in his 15 years with the band; during that time he also released nine solo records. His songs have been used in films, television shows and are the sound track to what many people think of when they think of New Orleans. He has traveled the country and world singing and playing guitar and loved the adventure.
Since leaving Cowboy Mouth after the flood, he released his own, critically acclaimed album, “Exit To Mystery Street,” which featured some of the finest New Orleans talent in the city. Simultaneously he wrote songs with John Boutté, and with Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) producing went into the studio with Boutté to record the award winning “Good Neighbor” disc, the title cut of which has become an instant New Orleans classic.
Sanchez and John Boutté returned to the studio to record their first duo release, “Stew Called New Orleans,” due out in April 2009. “Pieces of Me”, tentatively scheduled to be released in April 2009, is the first book published from Threadhead Records.
About Threadhead Records: Threadhead Records is an unprecedented non-profit record company formed out of the love for New Orleans, its music, and its musicians. Its mission is to help New Orleans musicians who were victims of the flooding that occurred from the failed levees, which took place in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. To this day, most of the musicians in New Orleans are still attempting to rebuild their lives. Each project is funded by the fans themselves and is paid back by the musicians with an additional 10 percent charitable return to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic. The musicians own their own work; Threadhead Records does not sign artists nor are they involved in creative decisions or ownership of songs. THR exists solely to help musicians get their projects completed. No more, no less. Threadhead Records is helping to rebuild New Orleans, one song at a time.
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