A hearty thanks to everyone who came out to our Calgary CD release for Call Me When You’re Single last week! As a show of love and appreciation we’ve added 11 of the album’s 13 songs to our music section for your listening pleasure. Your new favorite songs are waiting to be heard!

This Thursday we’re helping our buddies No River release their new album at Calgary’s Broken City. Then on Friday we’re in Edmonton at the Baby Seal Club with Sam Masterton and in Lethbridge on Saturday at The Slice with Toques and Beards.

If you’ve ever wanted to book a show with us, check out our rider so that you know what you’re in for. That is all.

Ladies and gentlemen. We are releasing our new CD “Call Me When You’re Single” tonight at The Republik. It is located downtown in Calgary, Alberta, Canada: 219 17th Avenue SW. We are doing it with our good friends Cam Penner and The Dojo Workhorse. Yes we will!

You can still BUY TICKETS ONLINE in advance to make sure you get in. I am a robot.

Ground rules:
#1 – Bring your mom. She gets in for free.
#2 – $15 gets you three live shows and a copy of the new record.

Matt and Harley expressed those sentiments on-air with X92.9 this morning.

Also, Calgary’s arts and entertainment weekly Fast Forward did a preview of us this for this week’s edition – check it out!

They may have painted this town brown on more than one occasion, but celebrating a recent coronation as the best new band according to the 2011 Calgary Beer Core Awards has local rock-posse Cowpuncher seeing gold.

The Metro, which is given to transit riders and downtown bigwigs/secretaries, also did a piece:

“We spent about four months jamming a few times a week and planning how to best approach each song prior to recording. We were knocking off three or four songs a day,” he says. “Then, we recorded it in an old church in the dead of winter. Over the course of two weeks, we were struck by this horrid flu. Each of us took a turn crawling around sick but no matter how sick we were, we still pulled ourselves together and spent about 10 hours a day recording.”

With a humorous tone, Olah insists you can hear the cold and aching on the record; however, tonight’s event is sure to be hot.

Thank you for your time. And love.

The Calgary Herald‘s Mike Bell wrote an article about us. Here’s a sample:

Thursday night, Cowpuncher will make another claim to that perimeter by releasing their new album Call Me When You’re Single with a show at the Republik.

It’s the band’s first since its 2010 release, The Brown Album, and it’s an easy, honest, exceptional statement that goes down as smooth as if it were swigged straight from the still.

On a musical level, it shows the artistic growth and stylistic evolution of the band, one that Olah and Co. have hard-earned through gigging relentlessly in the city’s clubs and around the rest of the prairies. And it’s a definitive and distinct sound they’ve rustled up — informed by their original twangier beginnings but never letting the dust settle as it honky-tonks, rockabillys, bluegrasses and lazily rocks.

“It’s like a soup,” Olah says. “The base is country but we put in a lot more ingredients.”

We received the new CDs in the mail today and you’ll be able to take one home just for showing up at the Republik on Thursday! They look great. Which reminds me, BUY TICKETS ONLINE in advance to make sure you get in! And if you bring your mother she will get in for free!

Tonight (Monday the 3rd) we will doing an album preview on Joan’s show: The Spin Evolution – CJSW 90.9 FM. You can also listen online.

Fraser Tuff interviewed us for SHAW and x92.9. Watch channel 10! Or watch it below!

Off the bat we’d like to express a humble thanks to The Distillery and the Calgary Beer Core for giving us the nod as Best New Band last Saturday @ the 2011 CBC Awards. The golden beer bottle prize came with a bottle of whiskey and it took less than a day to crack it open and taste the joy! Frankly it’s a real honor and and it means a lot to us.

And while we’re expressing a bit of gratitude, the media has been kind to us this past month and our thanks go out to the good folks at CKUA (Allison), CBC, CJSW (Joan), CKXU (Gillian), SHAW-TV, FFWD, Beatroute (Brad), The Herald, and especially x92.9 (Fraser Tuff, you’re the man).

Shaw channel 10 has a spot with Matt and Ryan being aired right now on the teevee. CJSW 90.9 FM will be giving the band some love Monday the 3rd during the 10-11PM spot. And tune into x92.9 on Thursday the 6th for the 9-10AM show.

Things have been busy at Cowpuncher headquarters as we prepare to release our new album next week @ The Republik (Thurs Oct 6). We have brand new T-Shirts that are going to be unveiled this Saturday, October 1st, at Mikey’s Juke Joint. We have promised Mikey we will keep our shirts on whenever we play his bar. So rather than show our nipples, we now have a box of newly designed size small and size large T-Shirts to reveal!

We’re also looking forward to playing The Palomino this Friday with Chron Goblin. It’s their CD release!

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Oh more coming shows:

We are having a massive party October 6, 2011 at The Republik to celebrate the release of our second album “Call Me When You’re Single.”

We’d be pleased if you’d join us!

Call Me When You're Single

Our brothers in arms The Dojo Workhorse and Cam Penner will be manning the sails with us.

$15 – cover includes a copy of our new album.

Our second album, Call Me When You’re Single, is nearly finished. The mixing is done and a few days ago we sent it to Nashville to be put through some gear that’s been called the Willie Nelson machine. We look forward to letting you hear it ASAP!

So on October 6th we’ll be releasing it in Calgary at The Republik with our friends Cam Penner and Dojo Workhorse. The 7th of October we’re driving it to Edmonton. And on October 8th we’ll be back in Calgary to do an all ages show for the kids (TBA).

Here’s the schedule for the next little bit:

Wanna check out our previous shows? Look no further!

May went by and June is nearly over. In that span we finished our tour of the western corridor. It was great seeing y’all. Thanks for the cheers, jeers, beers and floors to sleep on!

In Vancouver we played on CiTR’s Barn Burner (that’s a radio show). You can download the podcast mp3 here.

After we got home there was no rest. We hit the road for a ranch and finally became men. We branded cattle, cooked pig and ate prairie oysters. That same night we played in a field under open skies in the cold of night until our hands froze up. That was the start of a good spring (and now summer).

Some of us fell in love.

The album is nearly done. It’s an exciting time for us.

Sadly one of our members is concentrating on fatherhood and has left  the punchers to focus on the family. Rock and roll ain’t easy on a personal life… We’re gonna miss you Papa Shawn Canning. You’ll always be part of our family.

Stampede is around the bend. Here are some shows:

See yah there.

The first leg of our tour in BC is wrapped up — Kamloops, Vancouver and Nelson. It’s good to see our old friends on the coast and in the mountains again!

This afternoon we’re off to the Crowsnest Pass.

I’ve spent the day giving this here website a spitshine and I’m excited to talk about all of the new zaaazz!

• First, the old “songs” section has been replaced with “Music” — you can buy the Brown Album online or stream the entire album song by song now.
• Our “Shows” section was getting neglected –  it’s completely up-to-date and in a slicker style (thx for the idea mspace)
• The “Punchers” section has little pictures of us and a bio of the band.
• A “Contact” section has been added with booking information, our facebook feed and links to our twitter accounts (which are also streaming in the sidebar now).
• Most of the pictures in the “Photogramatry” section were old — I’ve added a ton more that appear in a random order to keep things fresh. We also have a Flickr account now. We laughed; we cried. Good times!
• Finally, there’s another new section: “History.” It has links to some of the press we’ve received and a list of the stages we’ve played. That’s a long list…

Take a look around and please enjoy!

So back to the main objectives… we’re still working hard on the new album and busy playin’ shows. At the end of the month we’ll be hitting the road with Brooke Wylie & The Coyotes for a few weeks to tour BC and AB.

APR 21 Pogue Mahone Kamloops, BC APR 23 The Media Club Vancouver, BC APR 25 The Royal Nelson, BC APR 28 The Greenhill Bellevue, BC APR 29 TB County General Store Twin Butte, AB APR 30 Auditorium Hotel Nanton, AB MAY 3 The Legion Jasper, AB MAY 4 The Legion Jasper, AB MAY 5 Wunderbar Edmonton, AB MAY 6 Tracks Pub Olds, AB

fBook: Brooke Wylie and the Coyotes/Cowpuncher Tour 2011

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-RK