RJB Release the title cut for the new CD

Hey fans!

Tired of waiting for the CD?

We are releasing the title song from the "outlaws Today" CD this Friday!

This is just a sample of the AWESOME music that you can get on the CD

Don't forget to advance purchase the Cd at a great bargain (the first run is selling out pretty fast)

You can get the CD at http://rowdyjohnsonband.com/buy.htm

New CD almost finished

We have just finished the last tracks on our new CD "Outlaws Today"  Now we have to do the final mixes, mastering and production.

The target date is the end of this month.  In the meantime, you can follow the link above and pre-purchase the CD at a special price and with no shipping charges!

Our T-shirts are included in this special sale, so take advantage of it while it lasts (we are running it until we have the CDs in hand)

Click here to purchase:  http://rowdyjohnsonband.com/buy.htm

Video COmpleted for Elly May's Biscuits

Justin at Taz Entertainment delivered our new Video on the 13th of November.  We shot up to over 300 hits the first day and have been climbing steadily.  Be sure to take a look at the video and share it with your friends.  If we get enough buzz on the video we can get it picked up by CMT!

New Band member

Dan is originally from Wisconsin. His first group was a polka band where he played lead guitar.  The group eventually turned into a Country/Rock group, which was too rock to play in country venues and too country to play in Rock venues. One of his main groups was a band called Broken Bow which played Country and Contemporary gospel music in and around Taos NM.  Dan also spent some time on tour with Michael Martin Murphy, playing the pedal steel guitar.  In 1992 he retired from music to raise a family and moved to Sierra Vista, AZ where he played lead guitar for the Christian rock group Remnant. 

On a lark, Dan went out to Tombstone one night to check out RJB for possibly playing in a video of a song he wrote.  The band asked him to sit in for a bit and that was all he needed to realize that we were playing the music closest to his heart.  From that night he was hooked and joined RJB the very next day!

Monument Fire

 

I was up in Tucson on Sunday picking up some PA gear.  on the way back I got a call from a friend saying that they were evacuating my home area.  By the time I got to the road entrance to my community, the evacuation was in full force.  The only way I got in was that I had a pet there.  They told me to go get her and return immediately.  Needless to say, I also hitched up the band trailer with all our gear in it, put the computer, important papers, photo albums and some cloths and medicines in the jeep and we hightailed it out of there.  The file got to within 3/4 mile of the house. (the picture above taken while we were leaving is as close as it got.

 

We sat down the road a couple of miles and watched the fire waiting to get back into the house. Took a bunch of pictures, and this one is really neat time exposure which shows the wing light of one of the fire fighting tankers going across the picture.  We were allowed back in at 9pm. 

I took this picture from the front porch shortly after 9:30

The fire burned mostly on the mountain all Monday, but on Tuesday it came roaring down Ash Canyon and destroyed a bunch of homes.

Hope that today will be better.  It was burning on the other side of the mountains when I got up at 4am this morning.

RJB back into the Studio!

Due to pressure from our fans and from our booking agents, we are heading back into the recording studio to finish our CD "Outlaws Today"


We will promise to make all of you happy with our selection of some of our best original songs, and a cover of one of our Outlaw Heroes

We are tentatively scheduled for the 15-17 of July, and the CD should be available around the second week of august.

If you have not already signed up on our fan list, please do so now by clicking on the button on the home page.  We will let all of our fans know when the album is finished and available on Itunes

Video shoot of Elly May's Biscuits

Had the greatest time in Tombstone last weekend! 

We started out on Saturday night to a crowd of Hundreds at the Dragoon Saloon.  It was Wyatt Earp days, and the crowd in town was awesome.  earlier in the day Rowdy did and interview with Dana Cole from the Sierra Vista Herald.  They are going to do two articles on us in the very near future.

On Sunday Justin Kreinbrink of Taz Entertainment in Tucson brought all his equipment and crew down to shoot a video of us doing Elly May's Biscuits at the Helldorado Town Amphitheater.  After about 20 times playing the song, they got enough footage to take it into the studios at Old Tucson and complete the Video.  They are going to bring in some other actors and create a story line around the video footage they shot.  Can't wait, CMT here we come!


We played that night in the amphitheater. It was the grand opening of the music venue.  What a great place to play.  Thanks to Jim Ferguson and crew we all had a great time and are looking forward to coming back.

Radio Play

Thanks to Patty, we are now playing on KWCD 92.3 Radio here in Sierra Vista.  That make two mainstream radio stations that have picked us up!  The first was KRDE 94.1FM "The Ride" in Globe Arizona.  KRDE is a 100,000 watt station with an antenna up on top of Pima Mountain and can be heard all over Phoenix and Tucson.

Wounded Warrior Benefit Concert in Tucson June 4th

Hey fans!

 We have just been told that we will get to put up some billboards in Tucson for the Benefit.  Looking to get some art that will be appropriate for the Billboards.  We will put the billboard art up on the site under our posters on the pictures page http://rowdyjohnsonband.com/RJB%20Posters

New Lead Guitarist

We have recently added our last lead guitarist to the band! 

Dr. Vance Cast is an internationally best selling author of both children's science books and some thrillers that you should read.  He has played guitar for many years, starting out in classic rock, and gravitating to country music over the last few years.  He has played with Diamond Lil in Branson for the last few years, and has recently returned to Tucson, his birthplace. 

"Doc's" classic rock background helps RJB put an edge on our music, as all of you fans know that is what we are about.  You can continue to expect songs that are in the style of other "Country Outlaws" as long as Vance is puttin' in the licks for us.

We all welcome him to the RJB family and look forward to a long association!

Welcome to our new Blog page

Hey fans!

Rowdy and I decided to put a blog page on the website for those of you who want to get more of the inside scoop on what is happening with the Rowdy Johnson Band.  All of us band members are new to the blogosphere, so bear with us as this page develops.


We are really looking forward to our Benefit concert for the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) on June 4th.  Rowdy and I have been busy coordinating the various aspects of the project.  We have the approval of the WWP to go ahead, and are just finalizing the details.

We have Neil Russell opening the music for us and look forward to working with him on other projects in the future.  Still waiting to see what the Charlie Daniels Band is sending us for the auction!

Ken & Rowdy