Check Out This YouTube
Video Of Our Feb 15, 2009 Concert
From the Tortilla Factory in
Herndon, VA, we give you video of Peter Cooper and Eric Brace. They
were kind enough to let us tape some of their set from their new CD/ album
You
Don't Have to Like Them Both.

This Is The Final
Truman
Shows Concert
(we anticipate this show
to be a sell out, get your tickets early to avoid disappointment)
Peter Cooper
Eric Brace
w/ Special Guests
Janet Emma & Bill
Williams
September 13, 2009
(Sunday)
4 - 7 PM
The Tortilla Factory
648 Elden Street,
Herndon, Virginia 20170
directions
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Peter Cooper combines an excellent writer’s and songwriter’s perspectives
in his music. As a music and sportswriter for the Nashville Tennessean
paper, he has covered many memorable sporting events to include Hank Aaron’s
record breaking 715th homerun (the subject of his hit song “715”.
This represents a prime example of his ability to see an event and then
mesmerize you with his music.
“Peter Cooper looks at the
world with an artist’s eye and a human heart and soul. His songs
are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and
heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details.
Deep Stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them,” states
Kris Kristofferson. He is the same guy that writes about music for
the Nashville Tennessean and who appears as a talking head about music
on CNN, CMT, MSNBC, the BBC, and other outlets. He’s also a touring
singer/songwriter and instrumentalist who has played on the Tonight Show
with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, and Prairie Home Companion.
His songs have been praised by the New York Times, the Washington Post,
USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Cooper
has opened numerous tour dates for Todd Snider (and collaborated with Snider,
singing harmonies, playing bass and co-writing a song on Snider’s brilliant
“The Devil You Know” album) and has worked in the studio with EmmyLou Harris,
Nanci Griffith, Lloyd Green, Ricky Skaggs and other luminaries. He
recently produced Snider’s odds and snods album, “Peacel Love and Anarchy.
His own debut album is called “Mission Door”
More information available
at:
www.petercoopermusic.com
or www.myspace.com/petercoopermusic

Eric
Brace - Since 1997, Eric Brace has been the frontman and songwriter
for the acclaimed roots-rock band Last Train Home. With eight CDs and one
live concert DVD to its credit, LTH is one of the most prolific and admired
bands in the "Americana" world.
At the core of the band's
sound are Eric's evocative songs and his warm voice. "Brace's tenor, when
combined with his lyrics which evoke endless late nights on the prairies
without ever specifically referring to them, is one of the treasures of
the whole Americana genre," says roots-rock great Sid Griffin (Long Ryders,
Coal Porters) in a review in the peerless British music magazine MOJO.
The Washington Post proclaims
that "Brace hasn't let years of grueling road work compromise his songcraft,"
while the British audiophile magazine Hi-Fi Plus lauds Eric's "great grasp
of melody and song structure."
With his latest release,
"You Don't Have to Like Them Both," Eric steps away from the comfortable
surroundings of Last Train Home, and puts his own name on the cover of
the CD. It's a co-bill, a duo recording with Nashville songwriter Peter
Cooper. Eric and Peter have been friends since Eric's move to Nashville
in 2004, a friendship that was solidified in Peter's living room listening
to Tom T. Hall, Willis Alan Ramsey, the Seldom Scene, Charley Pride while
pouring screw top red wine. Pretty soon they were playing guitars and singing
songs together—first in that same living room, then on tour: Europe, Alaska,
and the Lower 48 too. Then came the recording sessions for "You Don't Have
to Like Them Both," where some of the greatest musicians in Nashville lent
their skills to songs of Eric's and Peter's, as well as covers by Jim Lauderdale,
Todd Snider, Kris Kristofferson and others.
Besides the collaboration
with Peter and his work keeping LTH rolling down the track, Eric's got
several other projects in the works. One currently on the front burner
is a musical (or song cycle or concept album or whatever you want to call
it) about the California Gold Rush. It's a collaboration with Washington
DC songwriter Karl Straub (whose songs "Tonight," "It Doesn't Matter,"
"They Dance Real Close There," and "Soul Parking" have been recorded by
LTH).
From 1992 to 2002, Eric was
a columnist for The Washington Post, covering first the local arts scene,
then the area's nightlife and live music world.
In 1997, the self-titled
"Last Train Home" CD was released, and it was just a matter of time before
word got out to the point where Eric could take LTH on the road full-time.
That happened in 2002, the same year that LTH won the Washington Area Music
Association's Wammie award for "Artist of the Year." Since then, the band
has appeared on the CBS's "Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson," the syndicated
public radio program "Mountain Stage," and on stage opening for the likes
of Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.
Living in Nashville has led
to recognition of Eric's strengths as a songwriter, and he has collaborated
with some of Nashville's finest writers, such as Jim Lauderdale, Walter
Egan, Amelia White. He recently formed the Red Beet Records label, releasing
two compilation CDs of music from East Nashville, as well as Peter Cooper's
"Mission Door" and Fayssoux's "Early."
Janet
Emma and Bill Williams (of Last Train Home) are performing in
support of Janet's newest release "Ghostfields" which goes to Americana
radio on November 16th, 2009 and was just released in New Zealand
in July!
From her Web Site:
" Okay, folks, the wait has been worth it! Jenni Finlay will officially
launch Ghostfields to Americana And Triple A radio on NOVEMBER 16th, 2009!
Also, a promoter in New Zealand has arranged to purchase 100 copies of
Ghostfields, and will promote to at least 15 Americana radio shows in NZ
in the coming months! How exciting!
Here's a blurb about Ghostfields...
"A hauntingly beautiful,
hip and rockin' collection of 8 originals, 3 penned by friends Walt Wilkins
and Kevin Welch, and a rousing rendition of Gram Parson's "Luxury Liner",
GHOSTFIELDS, promises to deliver a dose of soulful songwriting, country
rock, blues and bluegrass undertones, all masterfully layed down by Austin
musicians (the band on this record) The Mystiqueros and some VERY FINE
guests. Ellis Paul, Jon Carroll, Michael Lille, Austin Cunningham, Tina
Mitchell Wilkins, Corby Schaub, Ron Flynt, and Walt Wilkins are a few of
the reasons you don't want to let this one get by without a serious listen."
read more
Please register
by email so we can get an idea of how many will be attending this concert,
thanks, Truman.
We do not charge money for
the concert, but instead ask for a minimum donation of $22, all of
which goes to the artist.
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