New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Liz
Cooper & The Stampede will continue their extensive headline tour through 2019 with stops at Nashville's The Basement East, Los Angeles' The Echo, Austin's Antone's and Portland's Doug Fir Lounge among others. Tickets for the newly confirmed shows go on-sale this Friday, February 8 at 10:00am local time. See below for full tour details.
Additionally, the band's Live At Relix session is premiering today. Watch/share here. The songs come from their full-length debut album, Window Flowers, which is out now on the band's own label, Sleepyhead Records, via Thirty Tigers-stream/purchase here.
Recorded at Welcome to 1979 in Nashville with co-production from TJ Elias, Window Flowers is the culmination of a yearlong dedication in which
Cooper pushed herself to spend every single day creating in at least one medium and saying "yes" to everything she was asked to do. Of the recording,
Cooper reflects, "Our first time working with an outside producer and our first time in a proper recording studio was when we recorded Window Flowers. TJ Elias' mad scientist ideas, an abundance of hot dogs, and lack of sunlight pushed us outside of our comfort zones to work more cohesively as a unit than we ever had before." Joined in the studio by bassist Grant Prettyman and special guests Leah Blevins, Will Brown, Steve Dawson, Emily Kohavi, Michael and Ben Ford and Gianni Gibso, the new album follows Cooper's earlier self-released EPs-Monsters (2014) and Live at the Silent Planet (2016). Alongside Cooper, "The Stampede" consists of Prettyman and drummer Ryan Usher.
Already known in Nashville for their electric live shows, Liz
Cooper & The Stampede experienced their first breakthrough in 2016 with the release of their Audiotree Live session, which has attracted over 220,000 views on YouTube, and over 1,000,000 streams on Spotify. Additionally, the band placed as one of NPR Music's runners-up during their 2016 Tiny Desk Contest. Of the submission, NPR Music's
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey hailed, "'Mountain Man' is a catchy, simple love song written with the clarity of a good cut of Nashville country. Liz
Cooper guides the song with her percussive, fingerpicked guitar and her crackling voice...a seamless balance of muted rhythmic sounds and propulsive drive that feels so good...It sounds like a car whirring past a field of trees, the light shining through."
Cooper grew up in Baltimore, MD later attending Towson University on a full athletic scholarship for golf, but after her freshmen year left to pursue a musician's path in Nashville. It was there that she discovered her sound and singular voice through a new creative community, which includes the likes of Ron Gallo, Rayland Baxter, Okey Dokey, Erin Rae, Cage the Elephant, The Weeks, The Wild Feathers, Jamestown Revival, Desert Noises,
Future Thieves and Caroline Rose.
WINDOW FLOWERS TRACK LIST:
1. Sleepyhead
2. The Night
3. Outer Space
4. Mountain Main
5. Kaleidoscope Eyes
6. Dalai Lama
7. Motions
8. Fondly & Forever
9. Lights
10. Hey Man
11.
Walls of White
LIZ COOPER & THE STAMPEDE CONFIRMED TOUR DATES:
February 16-Tampa, FL-Whigfest
Music and Arts Festival
February 17-Jacksonville, FL-1904
Music Hall
February 19-Charleston, SC-Charleston Pour House
February 20-Charlottesville, VA-The Southern
February 21-Washington, DC-Songbyrd Record Cafe and
Music House
February 22-Baltimore, MD-The 8x10
February 23-Philadelphia, PA-Boot & Saddle
February 25-Boston, MA-Great Scott
February 26-Northampton, MA-The Parlor Room
February 27-Brooklyn, NY-Rough Trade
March 1-Burlington, VT-ArtsRiot
March 2-Montreal, QC-Bar Le Ritz PDB
March 4-Toronto, ON-The
Drake Hotel
March 5-Pontiac, MI-The Pike Room
March 6-Columbus, OH-The Basement
March 8-Chicago, IL-Schubas Tavern
March 9-Neenah, WI-Short Branch Saloon
March 10-Milwaukee, WI-The Back Room at Colectivo Coffee
March 12-St Paul, MN-Turf Club
March 13-Madison, WI-High Noon Saloon
March 24-Omaha, NE-Reverb Lounge
March 26-Des Moines, IA-Vaudeville Mews
March 27-Columbia, MO-Rose
Music Hall
March 29-Oxford, MS-Proud Larry's
March 30-New Orleans, LA-Hogs For The Cause
April 4-Nashville, TN-The Basement East
April 27-Chattanooga, TN-JJ's Bohemia
April 28-Charlotte, NC-Tuck Fest
April 30-Tupelo, MS-Blue Canoe
May 2-Austin, TX-Antone's Nightclub
May 3-Houston, TX-White Oak
Music Hall (Upstairs)
May 4-Dallas, TX-Ruins
May 7-Phoenix, AZ-The
Rebel Lounge
May 8-San Diego, CA-Casbah
May 9-Los Angeles, CA-The Echo
May 12-San Francisco, CA-The Chapel
May 14-Portland, OR-Doug Fir Lounge
May 15-Seattle, WA-Tractor Tavern
May 16-Vancouver, BC-The Biltmore Cabaret
May 18-Spokane, WA-The Bartlett
May 21-Missoula, MT-Top Hat
May 24-Napa, CA-BottleRock Napa Valley
May 28-Salt Lake City, UT-Kilby Court
May 30-Fort Collins, CO-Downtown Artery
May 31-Denver, CO-Larimer Lounge
June 2-Kansas City, MO-The Record Bar
