Jubilee Jubilee Is About Heartbreak and Overcoming Heartbreak
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About Jubilee Jubilee is about heartbreak and overcoming heartbreak. You'll hear acoustic music, you'll hear music with the resonator. You'll definitely hear a more eclectic sound of music compared to Songs of a Renegade. The words are better and the playing is better. – Greg Sover About the Greg Sover Band Greg Sover is starting out 2018 on all cylinders! Greg’s new EP Jubilee is releasing on January 8th. And the Greg Sover Band will be competing at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis beginning January 17th, representing the Steel City Blues Society of Phoenixville, PA. Jubilee is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Songs of a Renegade, Sover’s 2016 debut album, which put him on the map and announced that he is one of the top emerging blues artists in Philadelphia and beyond. Sover has gotten airplay not only on his hometown station, WXPN in Philadelphia, but Jubilee Credits on blues radio around the country and around the world. 1. Emotional 4:23 2. Jubilee 3:42 Sover’s success is due in large part to his band of three Philly veterans with 3. Hand on My Heart 5:59 extensive resumes – bassist, musical director and co-producer Garry Lee, 4. As the Years Go Passing By 4:42 guitarist Allen James and drummer Tom Walling. The three are best known as 5. I Give My Love 4:11 Deb Callahan’s solid backing band. 6. Temptation (live) 5:35 7. Hand on My Heart (short edit) 4:29 So if you haven’t heard Greg Sover, what are you waiting for? Greg Sover: lead guitars, resonator guitar, acoustic guitar and lead vocals Press Garry Lee: electric bass, background vocals and percussion “Promising young vocalist and guitarist Greg Sover, operating out of Allen James: electric guitar Philadelphia, is a highly charged interpreter of blues-rock who employs a Tom Walling: drums thunder-and-lightning style for most of the originals on his debut album. A Wally Smith: keyboards different musical personality, a more soulful one, emerges when he dials down the aggressive fury to put across the undisguised blues “After Me” and Additional Musicians: two tuneful hybrids, “Déjà Vu” and “Cherie.” Francois Zayas: percussion on “I Give My Love” Yoni Draiblate: cello on “Hand on My Heart” – Frank-John Hadley, DownBeat, November 2017 Joseph Arnold: violin on “Hand on My Heart” Songs of a Renegade introduces us to a guitarist and singer… who reaches Mikey Junior: harmonica on “Jubilee” Garry Lee and Leslie “Shoegirl” Waxman: hand claps out to touch us with his exhilarating music. on “Jubilee” – Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Living Blues, October 2017 All songs written by Greg Sover except “I Give My “Songs of a Renegade is an exceptional debut release for Greg Sover, an Love” written by Greg Sover and Garry Lee and artist from whom we should be hearing much more from in the future.” “As the Years Go Passing By” written by Don D. Robey, – Graham Clarke, Blues Bytes, September 2017 © Universal Music Publishing Group. All rights reserved. “A self-taught guitarist, singer, and songwriter, [Greg Sover’s] debut release, Produced by Garry Lee with Greg Sover. Songs of a Renegade, is a blues-rock gem.” All songs except “Temptation” engineered by •• JD Nash, American Blues Scene, August 29, 2017 Pete Tramo. “Temptation” recorded live by Kenneth C. Homer and David Saul at Steel City Coffeehouse, Phoenixville, PA. Artists Supported All other songs recorded at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Johnny A. ▪ Jeffrey Gaines ▪ Indigenous ▪ Garland Jeffreys ▪ Davy Knowles Philadelphia, PA. Additional recording by Mike Tarsia at MT Recording, Marcus King Band ▪ Ana Popovic ▪ Rusted Root Philadelphia, PA. All songs mixed and mastered by Mike Tarsia at MT Recording, Philadelphia, PA. Greg Sover Development Team Greg Schultz - album design and photos Greg Schultz ▪ artist representation Greg and Karen Schultz - executive producers [email protected] ▪ 267-481-5396 © ℗ 2018 GSGS Music, BMI © ℗ 2018 Greg Sover & Grounded Soul Records William (Biff) Kennedy Charterhouse Music Group ▪ marketing [email protected] ▪ 215-641-0459 Greg Sover Online Fern Brodkin ▪ publicist and booking agent Website: GregSover.com [email protected] ▪ 610-933-4050 EPK: GregSover.com/epk Facebook: Facebook.com/gregsover Frank Roszak, KBA Awardee 2014 ▪ publicist Twitter: Twitter.com/gregsover [email protected] ▪ 818-679-7636 YouTube: YouTube.com/gregsovervideos frankroszakpromotions.com .