Rock Bottom Choir Hits the Ground Running in Promotion of Upcoming Debut CD Release

NEW YORK (Blue Wind Records) Austin's newest All-Star alliance Rock Bottom Choir is set to release their debut CD "For All the Saints, Vol. 1" (Blue Wind Records) on March 4th, 2005. Singer-songwriter Matt McCormack leads his faithful congregation with the dueling guitars of Ryan Carter (Dewato) and Will Sexton, along with the rest of the Choir; George Reiff (Chris Robinson's New Earth Mud) on bass, Joey Shuffield (Fastball) on drums, and Bill Carter (hit songwriter) on mandolin and banjo.

RBC^�s sound fills you more from the righteous soul and less from the worldly body.

With a sound that lands sublimely between George Harrison's 1971 All Things Must Pass, which featured the classic "My Sweet Lord" and Bob Dylan's 1979 seminal spiritual rock album Slow Train Coming, Rock Bottom Choir's "For All the Saints, Vol. 1" will rock your soul right out of purgatory.

The eleven track CD, produced by Will Sexton, was recorded over the course of a year and a half with various local musicians and friends lending their talents to singer Matt McCormack's openhanded vision of forming a side-project to raise money for various charitable causes. What had once begun as a simple no-frills endeavor "to give back" has since exploded into a full blown mission with the music of Rock Bottom Choir taking on a life of its own.

The title track "For All the Saints" is an adaptation from a church choir hymn from the 1800's by which McCormack and Sexton rearranged and added new verses; thereby eloquently taking it out of it's religious confines and bringing it into the mainstream realm of today's music. With a profound Americana resonance, "For All the Saints" as well as other tracks such as "Roses" and "Seed", translate fluently into the Triple A radio format; while other tunes "All That You Want" and "Taste of Faith" would sound right at home on traditional Rock radio.

Rock Bottom Choir kicks off their busy promotional schedule for their debut release with a free Happy Hour Show at Antone's on Thursday February 10th from 7pm to 9pm in which all door donations will benefit the Capital Area Food Bank.

Additionally, RBC will be doing a series of radio and television appearances leading up to the street release date which will include:

March 1st - Local Licks Live- 10:30pm
March 3rd - Fox Morning Show In-studio performance- 7:30am
March 4th - The Big Mike Show on KLBJ- 3:30pm
March 4th ^� Waterloo Records In-store performance- 5:00pm

To top it off, RBC will celebrate with a CD Release Party/Industry Showcase at Antone's on March 4th at 9pm.