{"id":1776,"date":"2018-10-22T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2019-01-11T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:57:10","slug":"ike-reilly-and-johnny-hickman-set-to-hit-the-road-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/ike-reilly-and-johnny-hickman-set-to-hit-the-road-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Reilly and Johnny Hickman set to hit the road together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>For Immediate Release<br \/>\nOctober 22, 2018<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Ike Reilly and Johnny Hickman set to hit the road together<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rebel rocker Ike Reilly and guitar slinger Johnny Hickman (from the band Cracker) plan to trade songs and stories of love, lust, patriotism, and dissidence when they hit the road on tour together this fall.\u00a0 The friends will be playing on the West Coast in November, in the Midwest the first week of December, and in Colorado the second week of December.\u00a0 (Confirmed tour dates are listed below; other dates will be announced soon.)<\/p>\n<p>This politically charged collaboration is heartbreaking and hilarious. Hickman and Reilly\u2019s musical friendship goes back light years, and the rock \u2019n\u2019 roll camaraderie they share will be on full display.\u00a0 \u201cI was a fan of Cracker and Johnny before I even considered trying to make a living writing and singing songs,\u201d says Reilly. \u201cJohnny is a master of the killer riff, songs of anthemic defiance, and of the road itself. We\u2019ve become friends, comrades. Our love of real songs and the romantic lies we tell each other about being on the road as troubadours is what helps bind us together.\u00a0 We\u2019ve killed time in bars, clubs, studios, airports, bus stations, green rooms, and motels. Now we\u2019re gonna kill time and audiences from stages together as we set off in search of the slimy, noble America we believe is out there.\u201d Hickman is equally excited about this road outing: \u201cI\u2019ve been an ardent Ike fan for years and consider him one of the best songwriters of his generation, as well as one of my very best friends. We\u2019ve had a few great times performing, hanging, and recording together thus far and have often discussed hitting the road, just the two of us. I\u2019m thrilled and mildly terrified of what might happen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>About Ike Reilly:<\/b><br \/>\nChicago, IL-based indie rock singer-songwriter Ike Reilly released his seventh studio album,\u00a0<em>Crooked Love<\/em>, earlier this year via Rock Ridge Music.\u00a0 The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0has praised Reilly, writing: \u201cIke Reilly is a kind of natural resource, mined from the bedrock of music. All the values that make rock important to people\u2014storytelling, melody, rage, laughter\u2014are part and parcel of every Ike Reilly show I have ever seen. \u00a0One of the best touring acts in the country, Reilly&#8217;s band takes it as a personal challenge to upend and amaze every room they play in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since his major label debut, the groundbreaking\u00a0<em>Salesmen and Racists<\/em>,\u00a0Reilly has been making punk\/folk\/blues influenced rock \u2019n\u2019 roll records that lean heavily on stories of outsiders with keen details and broad strokes that insinuate a crack in the American dream.\u00a0Press praise for Reilly\u2019s music has been extensive over the years.\u00a0<em>\u00a0Chicago Magazine<\/em>\u00a0lauded Reilly\u2019s \u201coutlandish storytelling, underdog combativeness, and slapstick humor.\u201d\u00a0<em>Minneapolis City Pages<\/em>\u00a0said, \u201cEqual parts punk rocker, poet, and blue-collar barfly, Reilly&#8217;s stories are as bizarre and filthy and honest and pure as the people who come out to his shows. His songs reach out and grab people, shake them by the collars, make them jump up and down.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0admired that Ike \u201cmerges his affinity for folk-punk narrative and anthemic guitar chords with hip-hop\u2019s vocal cadences and rhythmic drive.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<em>PopMatters.com\u00a0<\/em>called him \u201cthe best songwriter in America\u2026 Hilarious, unsettling, raw\u2026 but mostly just rocking.\u201d\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0hailed Reilly as \u201cnever less than original\u2026 ferociously intelligent\u2026 always worth listening to.\u201d And\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/em>described Reilly\u2019s music as \u201c\u2026barroom rock narrated by a wiseguy who\u2019s as comfortable regaling PhDs and poets as he is pimps and porn stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikereilly.net\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"www.ikereilly.net\">www.ikereilly.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ikereilly\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"www.facebook.com\/ikereilly\">www.facebook.com\/ikereilly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IkeReilly\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IkeReilly\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/IkeReilly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>About Johnny Hickman:<\/b><br \/>\nJohnny Hickman is best known for co-founding the band Cracker in 1990 with David Lowery, his childhood friend from Redlands, CA, but his talents and musical styles run far deeper. His spirited co-writing and fiery lead guitar sound achieved platinum status with Cracker&#8217;s alternative radio hits \u201cTeen Angst,\u201d \u201cLow,\u201d \u201cGet Off This,\u201d and \u201cEurotrash Girl.\u201d Cracker released ten albums, and Lowery and Hickman together are seen as godfathers of the alternative music scene, who turned gently away from plaid-clad grunge in the 1990s with more countrified and bluesy stylings.<\/p>\n<p>Hickman is also a successful and critically acclaimed solo artist with two releases to date:\u00a0<em>Palmhenge<\/em>\u00a0(recipient of NYC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Village Voice<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Voices Choice&#8221; accolades) and the more recent critically acclaimed and successful\u00a0<em>Tilting<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<em>No Depression<\/em>\u00a0magazine called\u00a0<em>Palmhenge\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;wildly diverse &#8211; from the arena rock of &#8216;Harvest Queen&#8217; to the Bakersfield country of &#8216;Friends&#8217; to the splendid folk rock of &#8216;Little Tom&#8217; and &#8216;The San Bernardino Boy&#8217; &#8211; it blends those genres with a dash of alt-rock to create a surprisingly coherent whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, Hickman ventured away from solo work and Cracker to spearhead side projects, including his Colorado-based outlaw country band The Hickman-Dalton Gang. Retired side projects include All Thumbs Trio (with moe. guitarist Chuck Garvey, and East Coast guitarist Gibb Droll), and Crazysloth, an Arizona-based band he formed while recording\u00a0<em>Palmhenge<\/em>. Film and TV work to date include one full film score for the independent \u201cRiver Red,&#8221; placement of \u201cLucky\u201d from\u00a0<em>Palmhenge<\/em>\u00a0in the FX series \u201cSons of Anarchy,\u201d as well as the placement of Cracker songs in several popular movies and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnyhickman.com\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"www.johnnyhickman.com\">www.johnnyhickman.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnny.hickman.7\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"www.facebook.com\/johnny.hickman.7\n\">www.facebook.com\/johnny.hickman.7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ike Reilly &amp; Johnny Hickman Tour Schedule<\/b><\/p>\n<p>November 10 &#8211; Redlands, CA &#8211; house concert (<a href=\"http:\/\/https\/ikeandjohnnyredlands18.bpt.me\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 11 &#8211; San Juan Capistrano, CA &#8211; house concert (<a href=\"https:\/\/ikeandjohnnysjc18.bpt.me\/\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 12 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Hotel Caf\u00e9, Second Stage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelcafe.com\/tickets\/?s=events_view&amp;id=8401\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 13 &#8211; Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Hotel Caf\u00e9, Second Stage (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotelcafe.com\/tickets\/?s=events_view&amp;id=8402\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 14 &#8211; San Francisco, CA &#8211; The Lost Church (<a href=\"https:\/\/thelostchurch.secure.force.com\/ticket\/#details_a0S6A000002HLU7UAO\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 16 &#8211; Boulder Creek, CA &#8211; Skyhouse Music Series (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/3741257\" data-type=\"url\" data-name=\"tickets\">tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>November 29 &#8211; Youngstown, OH &#8211; West Side Bowl<\/p>\n<p>November 30 &#8211; Pittsburgh, PA &#8211; Kollar Club<\/p>\n<p>December 1 &#8211; Ft. Wayne, IN &#8211; B-Side<\/p>\n<p>December 5 &#8211; Milwaukee, WI &#8211; Shank Hall<\/p>\n<p>December 6 &#8211; Madison, WI &#8211; The Condon&#8217;s Folk Punk House<\/p>\n<p>December 7 &#8211; Libertyville, IL &#8211; Diamond City Studio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release October 22, 2018 Ike Reilly and Johnny Hickman set to hit the road together Rebel rocker Ike Reilly and guitar slinger Johnny Hickman (from the band Cracker) plan to trade songs and stories of love, lust, patriotism, and dissidence when they hit the road on tour together this fall.\u00a0 The friends will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/ike-reilly-and-johnny-hickman-set-to-hit-the-road-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ike Reilly and Johnny Hickman set to hit the road together&#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-1776","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\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}