{"id":1335,"date":"2017-01-09T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2017-05-23T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:07:21","slug":"levi-petree-to-release-new-album-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/levi-petree-to-release-new-album-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi Petree to release new album in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 9, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LEVI PETREE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM IN MARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Petree blends British punk and new wave,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Outlaw country of the 1970s,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>and classic heartland-rock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Levi Petree is set to release a new album,\u00a0<i>It\u2019s Country<\/i>, on March 3, 2017.\u00a0 Described by some as \u201cif Johnny Cash fronted The Clash,\u201d Petree is a ragin\u2019 Cajun from Lafayette, Louisiana; Petree was born on the bayou and infuses that area\u2019s unique spirit into his music and performances. \u00a0With songs that are lyrics- and guitar-driven and boasting a healthy dose of humor and a touch of American swagger, Petree\u2019s album was recorded at Exposition Studios in Culver City, CA, with Chad McKinsey at the production helm.\u00a0 The record was mixed and mastered at Exposition Studios, with additional mixing done by Paul Broussard at Leap Studios in Lafayette, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe in the promise of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, and our aim is to remind people it\u2019s out there,\u201d says Petree.\u00a0 \u201cOne of the most consistent comments I get from people who see us play live is that, as a band, we go for broke. I take pride in that and hope it\u2019s something that comes across on the record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To complete<i>\u00a0It\u2019s Country<\/i>, Petree worked at Exposition Studio on trade and eventually built up enough credit to record 11 tracks, of which 10 made it onto the final album. Over a year of Tuesday nights, Petree worked with his producer and drummer McKinsey, to shape and layer the tracks. Most of the songs recorded had been in the live repertoire he had built up with his backing band, The Radio Publica. Sean Novak, bass player and Petree\u2019s right hand man, was the key force in guiding the songs to the finish line. \u00a0John Salgado, Jr., who\u2019d joined the band after befriending Petree at an East L.A. Morrissey-oke bar, provided the guitar fireworks. Wanting to go all out on the production value, Levi called in favors from the network of musician friends he\u2019d built up in Los Angeles. Liz Beebe, of Americana darlings The Dustbowl Revival, lent her voice and washboard to a few songs, and John McKenna, of L.A. Irish band Slugger O\u2019Toole, added his accordion on the album\u2019s back half. Aedan MacDonnell (accordion) and Erick Szabo (piano\/organ) provided additional backing.<\/p>\n<p>Levi Petree\u2019s music has been described by critics as \u201crallying, thrashing, and infectious\u201d (<i>The Daily Country<\/i>). About his sound, Petree says, \u201cI\u2019d learned to play by sitting in the back of these Irish jam sessions I\u2019d been invited to, so it was a very \u20183 chords and the truth\u2019 beginning. It was a really great lesson, though, in learning how much emotion, or racket, you could fit into a simple structure. When I started writing, I tried to keep my focus on lyrics, melody, and that simple joy of playing.\u2019\u201d Petree still takes his cues from those roots, cranking out songs he hopes people would turn to as a perfect road trip companion, or perhaps a good partner in crime for karaoke night.<\/p>\n<p>The title of his debut album,\u00a0<i>It\u2019s Country<\/i>, said with a wink and tongue planted firmly in cheek, was (verbatim) the response given by a friend when asked to describe her thoughts on Levi\u2019s first public performance. It was always meant for a laugh, but whether people were thrown by the occasional twang in Levi\u2019s voice, or the presence of guitars on a classic structure, the country comparison started to happen more and more. Rolling his eyes at what he felt was a generalization, Levi began to embrace the description \u201cit\u2019s country\u201d as a smartass\u2019 act of defiance, an inside joke that maybe this is just what people called rock \u2019n\u2019 roll nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>The songs on<i>\u00a0It\u2019s Country<\/i>\u00a0showcase a range of styles and influences. Yes, there\u2019s a little Americana thrown in on tracks like the hopeful \u201cFight On\u201d and humorous story song \u201cThe Habanero Do-Si-Do,\u201d but you\u2019ve also got barn-burning rave-ups (\u201cThe Rapture,\u201d \u201cEyes So Blue\u201d), an ode to Morrissey and &#8217;50s pop (\u201cI Know You\u2019re Gonna Haunt Me\u201d), a Beatles-esque sing-a-long (\u201cRockaway\u201d), an early-Elvis era ballad (\u201cLover\u2019s Cove\u201d) and the snarl of the Sex Pistols (\u201cDo What You Want\u201d). The closest the album ever comes to truly tapping into its country namesake is the song \u201cWhat\u2019s It Gonna Take?,\u201d an emotionally charged, Springsteen-esque response to a movie theater shooting in Levi\u2019s hometown of Lafayette in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo finally have it out there is exciting and a little scary, but I\u2019m eager to get on the road and support it in front of people who aren\u2019t familiar with us,\u201d Petree says. \u201cI obviously can\u2019t control where it goes once it\u2019s out there, but I\u2019ll show a little faith and hope it reaches the people it was meant to. If it becomes at least one person\u2019s album they do Saturday morning chores to&#8230; then we got it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.levipetree.com\/\">www.levipetree.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 9, 2017 \u00a0 LEVI PETREE TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM IN MARCH \u00a0 Petree blends British punk and new wave, Outlaw country of the 1970s, and classic heartland-rock &nbsp; Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Levi Petree is set to release a new album,\u00a0It\u2019s Country, on March 3, 2017.\u00a0 Described by some as \u201cif Johnny &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/levi-petree-to-release-new-album-in-march\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Levi Petree to release new album in March&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}