My band is setting up a very short tour up the Mississippi corridor
from Austin to launch the record that we'll be finishing any day now.
We'd like to have (gasp!) people at the shows, even though we don't
get out of Austin too much, so we're trying to find media outlets that
we can barrage with hookers and blow. I'm thinking radio appearances,
reviews of the record, in-stores, mentions in "recommended" lists,
etc.
The band is the Barkers; we played at Twangfest II and have a song on
the Edges/P2 comp CD. We're more pop than alt-country but there's a
significant amount of country in there.
It looks like we are going to go to the following cities, in more or
less this order:
Memphis,
St. Louis,
Chicago,
Columbia MO,
Kansas City,
Lawrence/Topeka/Manhattan? somewhere in Kansas.
I'm trying to find out what the weekly entertainment rags and left-end
FM stations might be pliable; what record stores might be willing to
do in-stores for a band with self-released product; what DJs might set
up studio appearances in a likely time slot.
Any info for me?
Thanks,
Bill Gribble
The Barkers
