GT-420 Celebration | Electric Blue Yonder | Kaydee Mulvehill | Rob Aldridge

3501 1st Avenue South,Birmingham AL 35222

20 April, 2022

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Celebrate your insatiable right to a good time with Ghost Train Brewing (New Location) & a concert performance Rock through your week with us. Electric Blue Yonder Space folk Rockers. Kaydee Mulvehill is one of Birmingham's own favorites. Rob Aldridge Rocks. The origination of Electric Blue Yonder is in the harmonies of Beth Hataway and Johnny Veres. The two Montgomery Alabama natives met during the summer of 2010. Beth was headed out of her home town, and Johnny had returned to make a difference. He embarked on a quest to show her the heart & soul of the city before she left, and they quickly became friends along the way. Only three weeks before her departure, Johnny realized he loved her so he told her, and they kept in touch even though it felt like they were galaxies away. The distance in their early relationship sparked their interest in travel and living life in an experiential way. They were married in 2015, and together they work to make the world around them just a little bit better, cultivating an arts and music scene in their hometown while still honing their own crafts. As their relationship grew, Beth and Johnny began shaping their experiences into songs and eventually formed the project Electric Blue Yonder. Writing and arranging as a team, they released their first EP, Born of the Sky, in 2017, touring along the way. As their songwriting and orchestration expanded, they brought in Russell Thomas Bush as a core collaborator along with a rotating cast of musicians. In 2020, just before the world shut down at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic, their first full-length, Between Space and Time, proved to fans and critics that they have what it takes to withstand just about anything, so long as they’re doing it together. With a space folk sound influenced by Lena Hughes, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and David Bowie, the band can bend, but never break. In 2021, now that the world has opened back up, freedom of creative exploration can once again be found. On September 29, 2021 the band released a new full-length called Mourning Sounds that’s sure to snap you back to life and blast you off to exciting new pathways of sonic imagination. Time to open the door, and step outside into the Electric Blue Yonder. Check out "1000yrs" on Youtube! Discover more music by Electric Blue Yonder: https://music.electricblueyonder.com/ebyMourningSounds Kaydee Mulvehill taught herself to play guitar at 16 years old and has been playing live ever since. She formed a band, Abram and Sarah, with her sister that same year. Mulvehill’s decade-plus tenure in the music world has seen her perform all over the SouthEast. Her life in one of the more rural areas of the United States has molded her songwriting into a narrative style of Americana-Roots. Storytelling is a long-held tradition in the South, and Mulvehill subtly nods to the front-porch oracles of yesteryear with her songbird voice and unexpectedly gritty lyrics. Kaydee Mulvehill released her debut solo EP in 2018. https://kaydeemulvehill.bandcamp.com/ Alabama-based rock and rollers Rob Aldridge & the Proponents leaned into a two-part strategy for their upcoming second album Mind Over Manners: speak thoughtful truths and back them up with tasteful grooves. To that end, they dodged the dreaded sophomore-slump by a mile, delivering a twelve-song collection strong enough to break through into the ranks of fellow-Alabaman contemporaries like Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit or Alabama Shakes. The Proponents recorded Mind Over Manners at Studio 144, a smokey clubhouse-like loft space in Green Hill, Alabama. Aldridge produced the album with Jay Burgess of Shoals psych-rock/power-pop band The Pollies. In addition to the Proponents’ current lineup—guitarist Rob Malone (Drive By Truckers), Nick Recio (Great Peacock) on drums, and the late Stone Anderson on bass—Burgess’ bandmate Clint Chandler contributed keyboards on “Mind Over Manners,” and the strings were courtesy of cellist Caleb Elliott and violinist Kimi Samson. Grammy-winner Gary Nichols, formerly of The Steeldrivers, contributed lyrics to the song “Devil on Sunday” and Freddie Hewitt did so on “Poor Taste.” For a talented band that’s paid its dues, the release of Mind Over Manners should be a triumph. And it is. But it’s a bittersweet triumph. In April of 2021, Proponents bassist Stone Anderson died from an accidental drug overdose. His passing shook the North Alabama music scene and of course the band. For Aldridge, it’s been especially tough. He and Anderson had been tight since they were little kids. Even now, Aldridge will sometimes catch himself reaching for the phone to text Stone a new music idea or just a funny thought. As the finishing touches were being put on Mind Over Manners, Aldridge was haunted by the fact this was the last thing he’d ever work with Stone on. Anderson’s death at age 27 was truly tragic, but Mind Over Manners is a fitting final statement from a musician destined for bigger stages. “[On] The first record Stone was still learning how to play the bass,” Aldridge says of Anderson, who was also an accomplished singer, guitarist, and drummer. “His talent and potential were all very much there, but he hadn’t quite figured it all out yet. On this album, his bass playing is just fantastic.” For live shows, The Proponents have added Matt Ross, who played with Malone in the popular regional band The Fiddleworms, to play bass. “Matt showed up to the first rehearsal and knew everything already,” Aldridge says, “without even using charts or anything. And he loved Stone. It was an easy decision.” So yeah, a lot of miles, smiles, pain, crescendos, and whispers went into making Mind Over Manners. It’s the kind of album that’s meant to live life to. Media contact: IVPR/Allison Mahal, [email protected] or 630 640 3256