1 Hopeful Rd. Vintage Trouble

• 1Run Like The River03:40
• 2From My Arms03:01
• 3Doin' What You Were Doin'04:02
• 4Angel City, California02:54
• 5Shows What You Know04:12
• 6My Heart Won't Fall Again03:22
• 7Another Man's Words04:51
• 8Strike Your Light03:27
• 9Before The Tear Drops03:26
• 10If You Loved Me03:24
• 11Another Baby02:35
• 12Soul Serenity03:58
• Total Runtime42:52

Info for 1 Hopeful Rd.

Over the past few years, Vintage Trouble have wowed audiences across the globe by opening for The Rolling Stones in London's Hyde Park, touring with legends like The Who and AC/DC, and playing sold-out headline shows worldwide. Now, on their first album for Blue Note Records, the Los Angeles-based foursome - singer Ty Taylor, guitarist Nalle Colt, bassist Rick Barrio Dill, and drummer Richard Danielson channel the vitality and passion of their live show into a fresh and urgent take on guitar-powered rhythm & blues. Produced by Blue Note president and three-time Grammy Award-winner Don Was, 1 Hopeful Rd. finds Vintage Trouble building off the groove-fueled sound that Yahoo! once painted as „James Brown singing lead for Led Zeppelin“ and blending blues, soul, and riff-heavy rock & roll with joyfully gritty abandon. As heard on lead single „Run Like the River,“ 1 Hopeful Rd. matches Vintage Trouble's emotional intensity with a raw yet sophisticated musicianship that's prompted the New York Times to name the band modern-day answer to Otis Redding and BBC Radio 6 to anoint them „the heirs of rhythm and blues.“

Ty Taylor, vocals
Nalle Colt, guitars
Rick Barrio Dill, bass
Richard Danielson, drums

Vintage Trouble
Since the release of their debut album, The Bomb Shelter Sessions, Los Angeles-based band Vintage Trouble has gone from playing intimate hometown clubs to opening for The Rolling Stones in London’s Hyde Park, touring North America and Europe with The Who and playing sold-out headline shows worldwide. “Like an M-80 in church, Vintage Trouble lands with a hiss and then blows apart what’s come to define modern soul, blues and rock,” observed Paste Magazine while Yahoo! Music said, "imagine James Brown singing lead for Led Zeppelin and you'll get an idea of Vintage Trouble's muscular, in the pocket sound." The band has performed on such television shows as Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (four times, including Leno’s second-to-last show), Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Later…with Jools Holland. They have also been seen and heard in a national Honda commercial that featured the band performing the song “Today Is Pretty Great.”

So Vintage Trouble’s Ty Taylor (vocals), Nalle Colt (guitar), Richard Danielson (drums) and Rick Barrio Dill (bass) will be the first to tell you: yes, today is pretty great. What is especially remarkable is that all of this success came before the band had even signed to a major record label.

In the spring of 2014, Vintage Trouble inked with Blue Note Records. Label president Don Was recalls being knocked out by the band’s show at L.A.’s El Rey Theatre. “There were lines around the block and tickets were sold out based solely on word-of-mouth. They played a two hour show...half of the songs were brand new and totally unfamiliar to the audience...yet the place was rocking from the first notes straight through to the final encore,” says Was. “Do you know how hard it is for a new band to pull that off? It requires tremendous charisma, thundering power, incredible grooves and top notch songwriting.”

It also helps to have one helluva fanbase. Vintage Trouble’s fans – who branded themselves as “TroubleMakers” early on – have been instrumental at every stage of the band’s career. To thank the TroubleMakers for their unwavering support, Vintage Trouble unplugged and recorded a special five-song EP in 2014. The Swing House Acoustic Sessions – which is available only at Vintage Trouble shows and on the band’s website – features three brand-new songs plus completely re-imagined versions of two tunes from The Bomb Shelter Sessions. Vintage Trouble performsone of the new tracks,“Another Man’s Words,” live in the studio in this video.

Formed in 2010, Vintage Trouble cut its teeth playing weekly residencies at L.A. clubs like Harvelle’s – and attracted a massive following in the process. The resulting underground buzz led to legendary manager Doc McGhee taking notice and signing Vintage Trouble to his roster after hearing only a single chorus. Doc's first order of business was to break the band in England. Their first venture overseas resulted in a similar groundswell with Music Weekly naming them 2011 Breakout Artist of the Year and HMV hailing them as their "Next Big Thing.”

The band’s performance on Later… with Jools Holland was one of the most talked about of the year, blowing up Twitter as the 6th most tweeted topic worldwide just hours after it aired. The very next day, their self-released debut, The Bomb Shelter Sessions, entered the charts, becoming the No. 1 R&B Album and No. 2 Rock Album on Amazon UK—No. 6 on Amazon overall and No. 13 on iTunes. It was in the UK Top 40 by the time it was officially released in July 2011.

Between opening for Brian May's Anthems tour, supporting Bon Jovi in stadiums and arenas, and headlining smaller venues, after-hours clubs and pubs, Vintage Trouble performed for an estimated 400,000 people throughout the UK and Germany, as chronicled in the documentary 80 Shows in 100 Days, which is available here. Ty was invited to front Queen for Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday celebration in London, setting the stage for Vintage Trouble to embark on their third overseas tour.

The 2012 U.S. release of The Bomb Shelter Sessions, combined with their electrifying live show, catapulted Vintage Trouble into the limelight at home. The band performed on numerous national television shows and earned praise from NPR, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal and Billboard. The New York Times noted, "Like Otis Redding, Vintage Trouble makes music that is a little bit of everything...you can slow dance, groove, rock and let it all go." Their first video, "Nancy Lee," filmed entirely with an iPhone, won at the Original iPhone Film Fest, not just taking the Music Video category, but the festival's grand prize as well.

Vintage Trouble has continued to tour non-stop, with frequent forays across the US, UK and Europe and trips to Australia and Japan. In addition to opening for such artists as The Who, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi and Lenny Kravitz, the band has played numerous festivals, including Bonnaroo, Coachella, SXSW and Rock In Rio. Vintage Trouble headlined the 2014 Montreal International Jazz Festival, playing to an estimated crowd of 100,000. During its return to Glastonbury, lightning forced the closure of the stage when the band was only two songs into its set. Undeterred, Vintage Trouble turned in a riveting acoustic set in front of the stage for the multitude of standing in the rain – a set that became one of the 2014 festival’s most talked about events.

It’s that kind of passion, together with hard work, talent and luck, that are taking Vintage Trouble right where they deserve to be: on our radios and our televisions, in our headphones and our cars, at our favorite venues and on the soundtrack of our most memorable moments in life.

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