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Here's something I had emailed to me with more info about the album...
Micah Schnabel CD release party
10 p.m. Friday
Rumba Café, 2507 Summit St., Columbus
Also performing: Stateline Sinners, The Razers, Ghost Shirt
By Lisa Miller
Just as the road has gotten a little less rough for a Bucyrus native making his living as a musician, he’s charting another course.
Micah Schnabel is showcasing his first solo CD, “When the Stage Lights Go Dim,” at a release party Friday at the Rumba Café in Columbus.
Frontman of Columbus-based band Two Cow Garage, Schnabel said he’s known since he was 15 that music was what he wanted to do with his life. Two Cow Garage was launched in 2001 with former drummer Dustin Harigle of Bucyrus. The band now includes guitarist Chris Flint of Columbus, fellow Bucyrian Andy Schell on keyboard, drummer Cody Smith of Marion and Shane Sweeney of Lancaster on bass. Two Cow Garage is just wrapping up its latest swing out west as part of a tour for label Suburban Home Records and will be back in the studio in February.
“I write a lot. I try to write every day,” Schnabel said by phone from Arizona before stops in Dallas and Little Rock and heading back to Ohio. While he might have a single line of words in his head, the 27-year-old spends lots of time sitting around with a guitar and usually starts with the music first rather than the lyrics.
“When the Stage Lights Go Dim” was created, at least in part, because Schnabel had a lot of songs that just didn’t fit the Two Cow Garage format. That rock and roll-meets-punk-and-flirts-with-country “format” evokes central Ohio in the band’s songs, from “Come Back to Shelby” with its paen to “short skirts and combat boots” and “The Great Gravitron Massacre,” sparked by a newspaper report of a ride malfunction at the Bratwurst Festival.
The new CD features more intimate storytelling songs than the band normally does, Schnabel said, describing this as a folk record. The 10 tunes are spare affairs, accompanied by acoustic guitar and in some cases, violinist Sam Kim of the band Ghost Shirt and vocals by Columbus’ Bernadette Celio.
Schnabel, who one music critic described as sounding like he gargles with razor blades and another mentioned Drano (and they meant that in a good way) writes and sounds like his heart is stationed right out there on his sleeve. The songs alternate between heartache and hope, spotlighting an uncertainty not only about relationships but also about the fame and rock star status that have so far shimmered on the horizon.
Leaving behind a small town hometown is another recurring theme.
“I just had a hard time growing up in Bucyrus. I don’t really know why … (there were) things I wanted to do” with music, Schnabel said. Made to feel “that just wasn’t a reasonable thing to do,” he said he felt “separated from everybody.”
Insisting that his feelings aren’t necessarily “Bucyrus specific,” Schnabel said, “I knew I wasn’t going to college” and that he would educate himself through and with his music – “I just had to go out and find that on my own.”
That attitude has led to four Two Cow Garage albums. The band has crisscrossed the country and done three European tours.
“We do pretty well over there,” Schnabel said. People come out to see Two Cow Garage as an American rock band, he added. “They don’t separate everything into these tiny little categories.”
Back home, he acknowledged there’s a reason for the phrase “starving artist.” But after years of grinding it out and sleeping on friends’ floors before hopping back in the van and heading for the next show, Schnabel said progress has been made. “It has gotten a million times easier,” he said, “a lot less floors.”
Suburban Home Records signed him last week as a solo artist. Confessing that he didn’t really go after that, Schnabel said, “It just really sort of happened … It’s a great thing.”
The feeling is mutual from the label. Owner Virgil Dickerson explained he’s working with Schnabel and the band “because they are the hardest working, hardest rocking, best songwriters I know of. I feel like we (Suburban Home) find so many talented, amazing acts, but it is so hard these days to get people to recognize honest, talented songwriters. It seems as though, you have to have some novelty or joke to get recognition. I am very proud to have Micah and Two Cow Garage part of our family and know that somehow they will finally receive the recognition they deserve.”
That works for Schnabel who intends to tour in support of “When the Stage Lights Go Dim” when he’s not out with Two Cow Garage, which has been releasing new material about every year and a half.
“This is what I do for a living,” he said. “So I need to be out working.”
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 07:41:14 AM » |
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I definitely need to get this one.
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« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 10:23:07 AM » |
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I'm not sure when SubHome is releasing it but if you want a copy now you can email Micah's dad John ( cledus56@adelphia.net) and he'll mail you a copy. |
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2009, 05:26:15 PM » |
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Thanks a million for the head's up!
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« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 05:16:16 AM » |
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So I just got this email from Micah's dad. They're giving away a digital copy of the album for the next two weeks only. Please pass this on to other fans you may know. Good News and more good news......Suburban Home has picked up the new Micah Schnabel cd and will be releasing it soon with some very cool extras available. To celebrate this awesome happening, we are extending this free wma. copy of the new cd. All we ask is that you "pay it forward". Send this to at least 3 of your friends and spread the word about Micah and all of the Two Cow Garage music. There will be short tour announced soon, but I can tell you for certain that Micah will be opening for Slobberbone and Lucero during the first week in December in Little Rock. Please spread the word, and if you like it, buy a copy of the Suburban Home release and go see him/them if they're in a city near you. Thanks for giving a damn and supporting music in America!! I also have the artwork which I neglected to include here but you are welcome to...just e-mail me, you know my name. Hey, this technology is new to me so if you can shoot me an e-mail to let me know you received it that would be great. Don't forget, the deal is you have to tell as many people as your address book holds about Micah and Two Cow. Peace. John Sent by: cledus56@adelphia.netFile to pick up: When the Stage Light Go Dim.zip File will remain active for: 14 days Link to file: https://rcpt.yousendit.com/749254083/3b16b2acf827f9d26a0d9e9c6b483479 |
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 08:47:47 AM » |
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The first edition disc is now available for pre-order at Suburban Home.
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2009, 10:34:53 AM » |
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this album is really good. They're one of my new favorites ever since I saw them.
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 12:19:09 PM » |
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this album is really good. They're one of my new favorites ever since I saw them.
Haven't heard the solo record yet but looking forward to it. Two Cow kills it live. I've seen them twice now and it is refreshing as hell how much they put into it, even if the crowd isn't giving it back. |
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 07:14:57 PM » |
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this album is really good. They're one of my new favorites ever since I saw them.
Haven't heard the solo record yet but looking forward to it. Two Cow kills it live. I've seen them twice now and it is refreshing as hell how much they put into it, even if the crowd isn't giving it back. yeah they were really good live they put there hearts into it, I felt bad caus there were like 5 people at the show. |
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2009, 04:16:19 AM » |
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Micah's dad is slowly announcing tour dates for December. Already confirmed: Little Rock (2 dates), St. Louis, Raleigh, and Denton
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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2009, 08:44:54 PM » |
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Just got this tonight. It is damn good. "Cut Me, Mick" is my favorite track so far.
Can't wait to see the whole band again. Considering flying out to Denver for the Chad Price, Two Cow, Pete show.
Seriously ... the end of "Cut Me, Mick" is fucking good.
Get this record.
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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2009, 09:07:00 AM » |
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I cant get access to YSI from my job... cant wait to get home to get a hold of this...
anyone knows if it'll be released in LP format?
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2009, 09:15:48 AM » |
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I cant get access to YSI from my job... cant wait to get home to get a hold of this...
anyone knows if it'll be released in LP format?
Knowing Suburban Home, I would guess it would be at some point. Virgil you'd better make a matching pint glass too! |
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2009, 09:50:38 PM » |
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If I recall correctly, it will be available on vinyl and CD (assuming with more elaborate cover art or whatever) once the initial 500 copies of the disc sell out. I believe Vinyl Collective got 250 copies to sell and Micah got 250 copies to sell at shows. I'm wondering if my pre-ordered copy will arrive faster than the new Lucero (currently clocking in at 13 days of wait time).
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« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2009, 11:12:21 PM » |
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I've had this album for a week or so now, (I followed a link from this forum somewhere after reading about it on ninebullets.net) and I have to say beg, borrow or steal this thing it is a great album, it's vintage Lucero or even just Ben's songwriting starting out... you know what I won't even compare it to Lucero because that does injustice to both since it's great songwriting but different styles(or at least about different themes) so forget the Lucero comparison just know that if you like great songwriting then you need this album, Cut Me, Mick as well as American Static are great songs that any true lover of music should have. I apologize for not being able to post the link, I just wanted to increase the desire for people to pursue it.
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