Dale Watson & His Lone Stars | 3rd June, St Lukes Glasgow

PCL Presents
DALE WATSON & HIS LONE STARS
St Lukes, Glasgow
Monday, June 3rd 2019
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Doors 7pm
14+ u16 most be accompanied by an adult
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Tickets on Sale Tuesday 11th 9am via See Tickets and Tickets Scotland
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Dale
Watson is a honky tonk hero and country music maverick, a true outlaw
carrying on where Waylon Jennings left off. A member of the Austin Music
Hall of Fame, he stands alongside Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and
George Strait as one of the finest country singers and songwriters from
the Lone Star State.

Although Dale has made his name as a Texas
artist, he actually was born in Alabama. Moving to Houston as a
teenager, his musical journey began right out of high school as he
started playing clubs and local honky-tonks. In 1988, it led him to move
to Los Angeles on the advice of rockabilly singer-guitarist Rosie
Flores. He played in the house band at the legendary Palomino Club in
Hollywood for a couple years and recorded a few singles before moving to
Nashville to write songs for a publishing company run by Gary Morris
(writer of such country/pop hits as “The Wind Beneath My Wings”).
Commercial country did not fit the fiercely independent songwriter so
Dale relocated to Austin, Texas where he got a record deal and wrote
several songs poking fun at the industry side of Nashville, including
“Nashville Rash” from his Hightone debut Cheatin’ Heart Attack and “A
Real Country Song” from his 1996 follow-up Blessed or Damned.


After
making three albums with Hightone, Dale released The Trucking Sessions
on Koch Records in 1998. Including 14 original driving songs, the album
received high praise and caused critics to compare him to chart-topping
writer Red Simpson, who was responsible for some of the most iconic
trucking tunes in country music.


Just two years after this
success, Dale’s fiancee died in a car accident. As chronicled in the
Zalman King documentary Crazy Again (2006), he turned to drugs and
alcohol to cope with her loss and nearly died of an overdose. Dale then
checked himself into a mental institution and left a year later,
releasing his tribute album to her called Every Song I Write Is For You
(2001). After recording a few more albums, he decided to take a break
from touring and moved to Maryland to be closer to his daughters.


Back
in Texas and on the road in 2006, Dale has been trucking ever since,
touring around the world and acting in films (The Thing Called Love, On
the Borderline), on television (Friday Night Lights) and most recently,
on stage in Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a southern gothic musical
by Stephen King and John Mellencamp . His rumbling baritone has also
been heard on commercials for Shell, Monster.com and On the Border Restaurants.


Dale signed with Red House Records in 2011 to release his 20th album called
The Sun Sessions. Hailed as “one of the best country albums of the year”
(Atlanta Journal Constitution), it was recorded at Memphis’ legendary
Sun Studios with The Texas Two (bassist Chris Crepps and drummer Mike
Bernal) in the stripped-down style of Johnny Cash’s earliest recordings.
He followed this with El Rancho Azul, 14 fresh honky tonk originals
about marriage, heartbreak and honkytonkin, which propelled Dale into
the national spotlight with multiple appearances on late-night
television and NPR.

Web -


www.DaleWatson.com
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www.Ameripolitan.com
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