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January/ February 2008: New CD! MISS UNDERSTOOD on Bismeaux Feb 5 Nationwide Release! / Carolyn Wonderland Day in Austin, TX Feb 28 / In-stores at Waterloo (Austin-Feb 5), Cactus (Houston-Feb 9) / CD release parties: Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar (Houston-Feb 9) Granada Theater (Dallas-Feb 15) Antone’s (Austin-Feb 16) Bugle Boy (LaGrange-Feb 23)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:22:16 -0600

Bismeaux Productions is pleased to announce the national CD release of “Misunderstood” by Carolyn Wonderland February 5, 2008. Produced by 9-time Grammy-winner Ray Benson, and recorded in Austin, the album follows up the critically acclaimed 2003 release “Bloodless Revolution,” and features new songs from Carolyn, as well as never recorded before material from Bruce Robison, JJ Cale, Terri Hendrix & Rick Derringer. Guest musicians include Jamie Oldaker, Lloyd Maines, Ray Benson, and many other Austin greats.
Orignally from Houston, Carolyn virtually swept The Houston Press awards from the time she was a teenager, for everything from Best Guitarist, Vocalist, Songwriter, Blues, to Release of the Year and Musician of the Year. Upon moving to Austin several years ago, she took up residence at the famed south Austin club the Saxon Pub, and has become a “most valuable” collaborator in Austin’s fertile music scene.
Benson jumped at the chance to produce Carolyn, shortly after learning that she was a favorite of Bob Dylan’s. “I went backstage to meet up,” says Benson recalling a recent Dylan gig in Austin, “and the first thing he asked me was if I knew how to get a hold of her. She happened to be in Houston, but she dropped everything and drove back just in time to meet him after his gig.”
Miss Understood is Carolyn’s seventh feature release, and from the first notes of her lap steel guitar on the lead track, the album is clearly a career-defining record, as she brings into mature focus her triple-threat of talents: diverse songwriting, soulful vocals and guitar goddess chops. Wonderland's songs have been featured on NBC's "Homicide" and Fox's "Time of Your Life.” She has toured with Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter, sat-in with String Cheese Incident, Robert Earl Keen, and Los Lobos, and has been a hit contributor at the Sturgis Rally and the High Sierra Music Festival.
Bismeaux Productions is Ray Benson & Asleep at the Wheel’s new south Austin label. Benson recognized the improved creative opportunities in integrating label functions in house, enjoying national distribution partnerships through RED/MRI and digital partners such as iTunes and IODA, while advancing the careers of exceptional talents such as Wonderland’s.

CD Release Parties:
Feb 9 - Houston, TX - Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar
1031 East 24th Street 713-862-8707 www.danelectrosguitarbar.com with Texas State Musician of the Year 2008 Shelley King & her band opening. Doors at 8, show goes to 2 am!
Feb 15 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
3524 Greenville Ave 214-824-9933 www.granadatheater.com Carolyn plays 8-9 pm opening for Coco Montoya.
Feb 16- Austin, TX - Antone’s
213 West 5th Street 512-320-8424 www.antones.net All Ages! Early show! 8-9:30 pm at the legendary Antone’s Nightclub.
Feb 23 - La Grange, TX - Bugle Boy
1051 North Jefferson Street (Hwy 77) 979-968-9944 www.thebugleboy.com Early show in this intimate listening room! 8-10 pm

In-Store Appearances:
Feb 5 - Waterloo Records - Austin, TX
600 North Lamar Blvd. 512-474-2500 www.waterloorecords.com 5:30 pm show
Feb 9 - Cactus Music - Houston, TX
2110 Portsmouth (NEW location) 713-526-9272 www.cactusmusicandvideo.com 3:30 pm show

If you want to hear songs from “Miss Understood”...
We have a few tracks streaming at:
www.myspace.com/carolynwonderland
www.reverbnation.com/carolynwonderland

Carolyn Wonderland Day in Austin Texas February 28, 2008 !

Mayor Will Wynn declares Carolyn Wonderland day in Austin, Texas Thursday, Feb 28.

Carolyn plays a song & says a few words, just one block from where she
was arrested during a peace rally...City Hall, Austin, TX 5 pm
& Live on Austin Access TV channel 6.

Join the Street Team for Carolyn Wonderland! Sign up here...

November / December 2007: videos/ Netherlands & Wonderjam in review / Jerry Lightfoot memorial- benefit for Texas Pete Mayes at Fitzgerald’s / Asleep at the Wheel at Antone's with Paul Shaffer, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Bobbie Nelson & Billy Gibbons / Austin Music Hall unveiling with Del Castillo, Bobbie Nelson, Nakia & Kacy Crowley / Dylan Documentary hosted by Patti Smith / KGSR’s 17th anniversary broadcast with Jimmy LaFave, Beau Soleil, Big Head Todd and the Monsters / Ginger Leigh, Patrice Pike in Dallas & Austin / NYE Freak-in with Guy Forsyth at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar / “Miss Understood” CD coming soon!

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:03:59 -0600

The band has played some very fun shows in Austin! We had the thrill of playing the grand re-opening of the Austin Music Hall with Del Castillo, Bobbie Nelson, (check out her new CD!!!)
Nakia and his Southern Cousins, and Kacy Crowley on Monday,
Nov 26. We were greeted by men and women in hard hats.
(They just secured permits that afternoon) The show was a hoot! All money raised goes to the SIMS & HAAM foundations.

Another damn good time was held at Antone’s Saturday Dec 1.
We opened for Asleep at the Wheel & then I had the honor of sitting in with the Wheel on “Judgment Day Blues”. It was a parade of talent with folks like Paul Shaffer (David Letterman’s Band Leader), Bobbie Nelson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Billy Gibbons all jamming with AATW. Heck, there was even core-E-ography involved! Get down, RAY! (photo from myspace.com/asleepatthewheel)

From KGSR radio Austin...
“DYLAN ON SUNDAY NIGHT NEWS!
The latest news from Bob Dylan's world is the release of his new 3-CD career spanning compilation, "Dylan". And this week (11/25)
on the KGSR Sunday Night News (8-10 p.m.) we present Part II of "The Dylan Documentaries".
Hosted by Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Patti Smith, we'll feature 2 hours of Dylan music, as well as interviews with the likes of Roger McGuinn, Ray Benson, Carolyn Wonderland, John Hammond, Tom Morello, John Hiatt and many others. With production assistance from Jody Denberg, it's ‘The Dylan Documentaries’ coming to the KGSR Sunday Night News!” ...you can find info on this interview at www.prx.org/pieces/20582

You can also tune in to the live broadcast Sat. Dec 8 7:30pm on KGSR and hear Cole & me playing with Jimmy LaFave! It’s KGSR’s 17th Anniversary Party at the Texas Union Ballroom with Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Jimmy LaFave & BeauSoleil. You may never hear these songs this way again! www.kgsr.com

Austin & Dallas music fans have the rare opportunity to catch Ginger Leigh, Patrice Pike & me in the round & with our bands!

Dec 7- Dallas- Poor David’s Pub- Austin Dames in Dallas. This is a round robin with the 3 of us on stage together semi-acoustic.

Dec 29- Austin- the Parish- All of us with our bands. (btw- Cole, Lefty & I will be in Ginger’s band!)

October 2007: Kathleen Hudson’s new book/ Folkest Concert from Slovenia with Ginger Leigh is televised/ WonderJam in Amsterdam 2007

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:29:20 -0500

Broadcast of this Summer’s Folkest with
Ginger Leigh Band and Carolyn Wonderland Band
This October our friends in Slovenia can see the
national telecast of the Ginger Leigh and
Carolyn Wonderland concert in Koper
from this summer's Folkest festival in Italy and Slovenia. Ginger, Carolyn, Cole El-Saleh, and Eldridge Goins toured Europe together as both the
Ginger Leigh Band and Carolyn Wonderland Band
(the only US bands invited to perform at Folkest 2007)!

Stay tuned for details on an Austin screening!