JOHNNY CASH REMIXED SET FOR OCTOBER 14 RELEASE
Iconic Artist's Sun Records Masters Remixed -
Artists featured include Snoop Dogg
(Houston, TX) Compadre Records/Music World Music has
announced the release of JOHNNY CASH REMIXED, featuring bold
new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from top music
remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original
master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology
of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music. The
album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be
available in stores and online on October 14. A vinyl deluxe-edition
will be available on September 23 in select independent record
stores.
Johnny Cash Remixed is a tribute to the legacy of an American
music icon whose work has touched every contemporary genre,
and has the blessing and support of the custodians of Johnny
Cash's legacy.
"My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted
way of things," says John Carter Cash, son of Johnny Cash and
June Carter Cash and Executive Producer of the Academy
Award©-winning film Walk the Line. "He set the standard at the
same time. He would have loved this remix record. While it stays
true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered
ground. This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition
while creating groundbreaking new music."
Johnny Cash classics were licensed from Cash's first record label,
the legendary Sun Records, also the first record label home of
luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison.
The original tracks, recorded with Cash's first band the Tennessee
Two from 1956-1959, were pure and stark, with only the essentials;
guitar, light percussion and Johnny Cash's unmistakable voice and
presence. The new mixes maintain this fantastic charm and
personality while filing out the sound and creating daring
re-interpretations.
The remixed tracks (and remixers) include "I Walk The Line"
featuring Snoop Dogg (QDT, the new production team led by Snoop
Dogg - featuring Snoop, Teddy Riley and DJ Quik), "Country Boy"
(Sonny J, whose album will be released in August on Astralwerks
US), "Get Rhythm" (Philip Steir, the only remixer allowed to work
with the Reprise Records Frank Sinatra collection), "Leave that Junk
Alone" (Alabama 3, creators of The Sopranos theme song),
"Folsom Prison Blues" (the legendary Pete Rock), "Hey Porter"
(Mocean Worker, whose remix of Elvis Presley's "Burnin' Love" was
used as a soundtrack to Honda's Superbowl TV commercial),
"Sugartime" (Kennedy, cornerstone of the new UK Dirty Pop
movement), "Trail to Mexico" (indie favorite Mexican Industry of
Sound/MIS), "Doin' My Time" (The Heavy, critically-acclaimed
UK-based band) and "Wide Open Road" (Count de Money) among
others.
A documentary following the making on this album is also in
production, produced by Phear Creative in NYC. This short film
features interviews from select remixers, filmed in their home
studios, including Snoop Dogg captured at the Cash Recording
Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Johnny Cash Remixed is Executive Produced by John Carter Cash,
Snoop Dogg, and Mathew Knowles for Music World Productions,
Inc. and Co-Executive Produced by Brad Turcotte for Compadre
Records/Music World Music and Gregg DeMammos for
DeMammos Entertainment.
For more information and track samples, please visit:
www.JohnnyCashRemixed.com
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COMPADRE RECORDS LAUNCHES COMPUTER FISHING GAME IN
SUPPORT OF NEW TRENT WILLMON SINGLE “COLD BEER AND A
FISHIN’ POLE”
HOUSTON, TX - Compadre Records, PlanetCazmo.com, and
Country Weekly are proud to announce the new computer game
Trent Willmon’s Cold Beer a Fishin’ Pole Fishing Game. This on-
line casual interactive game was created by PlanetCazmo.com in
support of Willmon’s current radio single, “Cold Beer and a Fishin’
Pole,” which goes for adds on August 5, and will be accessible on
the following websites this summer: Country Weekly
(http://www.countryweekly.com/), Compadre Records
(http://www.compadrerecords.com/) and Trent Willmon
(http://www.trentwillmon.com/).
Trent Willmon first captured country music audiences with songs
like “Beer Man,” “Dixie Rose Deluxe’s” and “Home Sweet Holiday
Inn” (which was used in a national commercial for the hotel chain)
and his sophomore album, A Little More Livin’, produced his first
Top 25 single, “On Again Tonight.” He recently celebrated his first
number one single as a songwriter for Montgomery Gentry’s “Back
When I Knew It All.” He plays the lead role in Palo Pinto Gold, a
family friendly Western releasing this summer and his third album,
Broken In, (Compadre Records/Music World) is currently in stores.
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