Trouble Is The Prairie States

• 1Trouble Is02:34
• 2Rebel Phase03:11
• 3Waiting On You02:52
• 4Backroad (That 17 Summer)03:07
• 5Stack Of Vinyl03:27
• 6Nowhere Town02:30
• 7Heart Was A Place02:55
• 8Still Got Time02:42
• 9I Know A Guy02:34
• 10Slow It Down03:04
• Total Runtime28:56

Info for Trouble Is

Born out of the same creative space as Walt’s poem, a desire for a modern touch on a classic design. Focused on cadence and rhythms of 60’s soul, 70’s rock and teeming with a modern country vibe, the band is poised to cut its own swath through the Canadian music scene. Singer Mat Cardinal met the rest of the band through his relentless parade of open mic spots and cover shows in and around Edmonton AB. Band leader and guitarist Jeff Dick saw a spark and heard a roar from the young Cardinal and assembled a grizzled and veteran group to deliver this voice to the world. The band spent 2 years writing and woodshedding with some of Edmonton’s finest such as The Dungarees, The Boom Chucka Boys, and Jay Sparrow. They periodically took these new songs to the city with opening spots for Joey Landreth, Joey Wright and Todd Stewart. They saw which songs stuck and which needed to go. Armed with a undeniable 8 tracks they got in the studio with producer Jay Sparrow (Scenic Route To Alaska, Owls By Nature) and mixer/engineer Brad Smith (Nuela Charles, iamhill) to lay down their debut record Lost In The Right Direction. It's on track to be released in summer 2018 and the band is planning to hit the road to celebrate... put their boots on stages, let the strings and cymbals ring out over the prairie nights. Like Walt said: “Dense, joyous, modern… to justify the past.”

A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one, By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society, The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations, To justify the past. - Walt Whitman

The Prairie States

The Prairie States
Mixing the cadence and rhythms of 60’s soul and 70’s rock with modern country, The Prairie States was born out of a desire to put a fresh touch on a classic design. As recipients of the 2018 ACMA awards for Rising Star and Fan’s Choice, 2019 ACMA winners of Group/Duo and Video of the Year, as well as 1st place in the Project Wild Artist Development Program, it’s proof that this Edmonton based band is moving in the right direction.

Mat Cardinal, Jeff Dick, Mike Nash, Doc deGroot, and Jay Der formed The Prairie States in 2017 and immediately started writing songs for their full length album, Lost In The Right Direction. Independently released in June 2018, it was nominated for the ACMA Album Of The Year and included three radio singles, which all broke the top 100 Mediabase Canadian Country Chart.

Their current single, “Low Life,” is a bumpin’ tongue-in-cheek song about how the high life is no life for them. It’s all about finding joy in the simplest of things. To accompany the release of the song, the band teamed up with a home town business, Sea Change Brewing Co, to create a custom “Low Life” branded beer to accompany the song.

The Prairie States have been out on the road and wowing crowds with their undeniable live show. In their short time as a band, they’ve shared stages with Aaron Goodvin, Clayton Bellamy, and most recently Brothers Osborne and Canadian legend Charlie Major while kicking off the 2019 Big Valley Jamboree.

With a stack of brand new recordings already completed and even more underway with CCMA and Juno award winning producer Bart McKay, this band shows no signs of slowing down.

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