Rusty Truck in LA March 4

Recorded in Los Angeles at The Village Studios, and produced by Andres Levin and Mike Viola. Frontman Mark Seliger said, “I was pretty adamant about the sound of this record being country. Country and Western to be exact.” For the songs on Kicker Town, Seliger took unfinished material he had written over the previous four years and sat down with his band mates in August 2012 to finish them. Together they turned the bits and pieces into 11 complete songs. Seliger is a storyteller, and considers Kicker Town to be a country opera.

 

Rusty Truck includes includes drummer Joey Peters (Grant Lee Buffalo), guitarist Michael Duff (Chalk Farm), and vocalist Kristin Mooney. Other roving members include pedal steel/guitarist Eric Heywood (Sun Volt), Andy Gibson(Hank Williams III), and bassist Sheldon Gomerg (Ryan Adams and Warren Zevon) and is fronted by world-renowned editorial photographer Mark Seliger, this is the band’s second album in five years. Formerly chief photographer forRolling Stone and currently working for Condé Nast Publications including GQand Vanity Fair and Details. Some of his best-known portraits include Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Drew Barrymore and President Barack Obama. Seliger made many musician friends throughout his career who encouraged him to pursue music and went on to become his collaborators. He has gone on to record music with artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Jakob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Sheryl Crow, T-Bone Burnett and Willie Nelson.

 

Rusty Truck will perform new songs from their upcoming album Kicker Townat Hotel Cafe on March 4.