Centro-matic

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/05/song-premiere-centro-matic-cross-path/

Spring is rolling onward and we’re viciously proud to announce the release of our 11th full length, Take Pride In Your Long Odds, available June 3rd.  We have a Pre-order for the album available through PledgeMusic. You can get the digital download, a diorama, some of Scott’s salsa or even a full blown, high decibel rock show at your house. Check out the pre-order HERE.

Track listing runs like this:

1. Take Pride In Your Long Odds
2. Every Mission
3. Salty Disciple
4. Cross Path
5. Anything Torn Out
6. Academy Of Lunkers
7. Calling You Glad
8. Cynthia Glass
9. Hey There, Straps
10. Relative Unto The Aces
11. On The Ride Back
12. Through The Fog, Then Down

We’ve announced some new Texas and Midwestern dates for June and plan to be on the road more a little later in 2014.  Here’s what’s confirmed at the moment:

• May 30 – San Antonio, TX/Sam’s Burger Joint
• May 31 – Austin, TX/Mohawk
• June 6 – St. Louis, MO/TBA
• June 7 – Chicago, IL/Beat Kitchen
• June 8 – Madison, WI/The Frequency
• June 9 – Minneapolis, MN/The Icehouse
• June 10 – Sioux Falls, SD/Icon Lounge
• June 14 – Dallas, TX/Kessler Theater

Our song Salty Disciple was unveiled by Paste last week, and a video for it, directed by Downstate Illinois’ pride and joy, The Galassi Brothers, will be coming along very soon.

Thanks as always.  Hopefully see you down the road.

-Will J.

We are thrilled to launch the pre-order for our new album TAKE PRIDE IN YOUR LONG ODDS!

Since this event is very special to us, as are you, we wanted to do something equally special with our pre-order for this album and we have teamed up with PledgeMusic to make this a little more unique where we can better connect with all of you. We are offering up some very exclusive merchandise and interactive experiences that we’ve never made available or done before. Hope you will join us and get involved!

We are pleased to announce that our new record Take Pride In Your Long Odds will be released on June 3^rd 2014! To coincide with the release of our 11^th studio album and due to popular demand we will also be re-releasing Redo the Stacks as a limited edition double vinyl for the first time ever. Redo the Stacks will be available in stores and available online beginning April 22.  If you live in Texas there will also be a 30 copies available at BOTH Waterloo Records in Austin & Good Records in Dallas  this Saturday April 19 for Record Store Day!

Paste Magazine is premiering a track from Take Pride In Your Long Odds check out ‘Salty Disciple’ here: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2014/04/song-premiere-centro-matic—salty-disciple.html

Pre-order and tour dates to be announced soon! 

After about nine hours of driving I pulled into Roswell and stopped at the Circle K on North Main Street to get some beer. The first person I spoke with was a lanky, young guy in a black satin jacket and a dirty Miami Dolphins cap.  He had what looked like traction encasing the entirety of his right arm. I almost bumped into him at the cooler, and we wound up talking at the register. He told me he’d been stabbed in the chest and in the arm, had just been released from the hospital, and was finally regaining some movement in his wrist. He continued his story to the clerk, who he seemed to know, and I stood at the door and wished him well with his recovery. He turned and flatly said: “I’m really happy to be alive. I’m just happy to be living this life.”

I couldn’t know what led him to this condition, or this chapter.  I’ll never know if I was talking to the bad guy, the good guy, or just the wrong place, wrong time guy. But as he talked, and as his eyes and smile lines expressed hope for healing and betterment, I realized, after the most difficult and surreal stretch of my own life, that it felt great to be back out in the world again. As rough as things looked for this guy, there was a centeredness about him, his other arm waving about as he excavated the air in the room for a shred of positivity. Keeping on.

There’s a comfort in the driving, the interacting, in making time for a walk to go watch a sunset, in playing some shows again. In smelling the supper of the contract workers cooking on the grill just outside my hotel room door tonight, and finding some trails to run just after sunrise tomorrow.

It feels good to be back in the American West. It feels good to see signs of Spring.

Maybe see you at the show.

-Will J. / April 2014

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