File Under Country …
…is the title of the brand new debut CD of Germany’s hardest working country band “Hillbilly Deluxe” and it is a hint of where on your CD shelf this record belongs. After listening to the first songs it is obvious: this is pure country music at its best. The ten original and two cover version songs of Hillbilly Deluxe talk about the smaller and bigger stories of life and they do it in their own sound and style. Country music can be so cool – Hillbilly Deluxe from Cologne, Germany have just proven it.
Country band? yes - that’s correct, Hillbilly Deluxe are playing country music. They will prove to the listener that country music can be great fun and the perfect party- and dance-music – far from your stereotypical trucker songs. Hillbilly Deluxe are not just ‘another rock band with a cowboy hat’. This is the real deal: grooving drum-beats, twangin’ tele, pumping bass-guitar, howling lapsteel…. Whenever the five guys around multi-instrumentalist Rufus T. enter the stage they will captivate their audience (this guy Rufus T. seems to have more instruments than a music-store). As soon as KayEm and Big John fire off their groove, Lil’Flo joins in with some show-off licks and the vocal duo of Rufus T. and Ino step up to the microphone nobody in the audience can keep still for long. No matter if in a small rock-, country-club or the biggest open air stage, in Germany or abroad, Hillbilly Deluxe will deliver doggone asskickin’ country music at it’s best – Yeehaw!
After three years of constant touring the country band from Cologne, Germany finally found the time to record their long awaited debut CD, titled “File Under Country“ with almost exclusively original material.
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