Steve Morse Band - Out Standing In Their Field

PRESS RELEASE

For a musician as talented as guitar maestro Steve Morse, there are no boundaries between genres; there is only his unique sound. On November 17, The Steve Morse Band will release a new studio album Out Standing In Their Field via Eagle Rock Entertainment [pre-book order date October 23, MSRP $13.98]. This will also be released digitally on October 13.

Morse, who got his start in the Dixie Dregs in the 1970s, has enjoyed a fruitful career, earning himself a reputation as a “musician’s musician.” He’s spent the last sixteen years shredding for the legendary Deep Purple, in addition to fronting his own band. The release of Out Standing In Their Field will be the 12th album to date for The Steve Morse Band.

On this entirely instrumental album, Morse joins forces with bassist Dave LaRue and drummer Van Romaine to pound out un-tethered creativity. A multi-faceted blend of Morse’s influences, Out Standing In Their Field is a diverse sound spectrum, twisting together elements of rock, country, jazz, funk and classical. Unencumbered by lyrics, Morse’s guitar acts as a wailing, exploring siren, channeling emotion and raw power through the language of riffs. In addition to the ten brand new tracks boasted on Out Standing In Their Field, the band threw in an extra treat: a live recording of their song “Rising Power.” This bonus track invokes the goosebump-inducing power the Steve Morse Band conjures on stage.

Embarking on a North American tour with this new release, Steve Morse and his band have earned the right to be considered Out Standing In Their Field.

Eagle Rock Entertainment is an international media production and distribution company operating across audiovisual entertainment programming. Eagle Rock Entertainment works directly alongside talent to produce the highest quality programming output covering film, general entertainment and musical performance. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices based in London, New York, Germany, France & Toronto.

For more information regarding this and other Eagle Rock Entertainment releases, contact Carol Kaye at [email protected].

Track Listing:

1.) Name Dropping
2.) Brink Of The Edge
3.) Here and Now and Then
4.) Relentless Encroachment
5.) John Deere Letter
6.) More To The Point
7.) Time Junction
8.) Unnamed Source
9.) Flight Of The Osprey
10.) Baroque ‘N Dreams
11.) Rising Power (Live)

North American Tour Dates:

10/15/09 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head On Stage
10/16/09 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony
10/17/09 – Pittsburgh, PA – Diesel
10/19/09 – Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall
10/21/09 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center
10/22/09 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall
10/23/09 – Fall River, MA – Narrows Center For The Arts
10/25/09 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
10/26/09 – New York, NY – BB King Blues Club and Grill
10/27/09 – West Chester, PA – The Note
10/28/09 – West Springfield, VA – Jaxx
10/29/09 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
10/30/09 – Greenville, SC – Handlebar
10/31/09 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse

CONTACT:
Carol Kaye
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www.kayosproductions.com

Comments

[ridley]

I have my tickets already.

[Skippy]

I beg to differ with Steve being a master at all styles.Maybe he "physically" can play a larger genre of styles,but,he has no soul or emotion in his playing.His abilities are wonderful for sheer technique players,but for ones wanting to hear something beyond just "physical technique" he is rather lack luster!An example is the video with him playing along with Steve Lukather,on YouTube...an Ernie Ball event i think,and there are others.When you can put 2 players side by side,back to back playing...the truth is always revealed!......Just my experienced opinion

[Skimpy]

@Skippy: good point. as a looong-time Dregs fan I've noticed this...to some extent. But as with many artists, their vigor and variety often peaks in their youth, plateaus, and ultimately wanes...at least in my ears. (Please give me exceptions I can enjoy.) And Steve is "great", but his playing is so identifiable (at least to me) on any cut. An emotive, "bluesy" player is not something Steve has become - and I'm not a blues fan - but maybe I had hoped for more.... As a famous DJ (The Reverend Of Rock, now in Chitown, I think) once announced the Dixie Dregs cut (Road Expense) on an anachronistic AOR station (Q104) in the early 1980's: "like medicine for a dying man, the Dregs!".... he never surpassed those efforts.
Mike

[Greg]

Yes,Steve is an awesome player to behold,and his band has always been great!I do think that with advancement/technique and gained knowledge one becomes more sterile in their playing habits.To me,at least,there are few guitarist that has incredible skills and still maintained that earthiness and soul they originally possessed.Another guitarist that comes to mind for soul and skills is Oz Noy.He exhibits incredible technique and knowledge,but still has the soul and emotion in his playing.
Speaking of Steve,i use to pay .75 cents to hear the Dregs back in late 70's and early 80's :-).The Freefall "album" i do believe,so i have been,and am, a fan myself.Steve is a great player...

[Dissertation Abstract]

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[EBP23]

skippy, he has no soul or emotion in his playing? you my friend are wrong, he knows how to put on a good show and one hell of an exciting one from the last time i went to his band's show(Get it right!"Exciting" Not "emotional"), steve always improvises getting to a point where your not going to hear the same soulful lick or playing you want to see in a guitarist, he's not a robot like some people expect in other musicians, he takes on wanting something new & different, he's probably gone thru every lick in the world anyone can think of, i would like to see what you can do.
Your "experienced opinion"? yeah right.

i have enjoyed steve's playing from the dregs,SMB, and deep purple but as far as soul/emotion goes in his playing it was set in deep purple from 1996-1999

[alyn heath]

just got my first cd of yours. what can i say,it is just the greatest ive ever heard. thank you. yours alyn heath

[William Dill]

Methinks Skippy doth not know WTF he's talking about. I've been watching/listening to Steve for 30 years now and he just keeps getting BETTER - an amazing feat for someone of his caliber. No "soul or emotion" in his playing? Where the hell have you been, Skippy? Do you mean he doesn't have dark skin and endlessly play 16-bar blues with a turnaround? That he doesn't play a Stratocaster hooked up to a 100-watt Marshall with a whammy bar, getting loaded on booze and babes every night after the show? How about 4 or 5 attempts at rehab? At what point does a guitarist evoke this "soul" you mention? Steve has been playing for 40 years, most of them on the road - and at a level we can only dream of. From his modest beginnings with the Dregs in 1975 until their breakup in 1983, he (along with his long-suffering bandmates) made only a subsistence living, driving all over the country and enduring a lifestyle that most of us would recoil at - just to do something they loved: to play their music. After the Dregs broke up (and after a brief commercial piloting career), he formed the Steve Morse Band and continued to go on the road for months at a time, playing small venues while he continued to hone his formidable chops and putting out self-produced albums. Finally, he found stability in taking over the lead guitar duties in Deep Purple and has been doing it for the last 15 years straight. In between playing for DP (whenever possible to arrange), he still makes time for touring with SMB on both coasts of the USA. Mind you, there is no financial reason for him to do so, as his touring with DP has no doubt (finally) made him a very wealthy man. He does it because he loves it and wants to keep giving to his fans. In addition to this, at his SMB shows (like the recent one at Toad's Place in New Haven), he comes out after the show and signs autographs, takes pictures, and talks to anyone who wants to meet with him (Dave Larue and Van Romaine as well) until the very last person leaves. The day before this (on his only day off of the tour), he gave a free guitar clinic in Manchester, CT for over 2 hours - at the end of which he (and Dave) once again sat for autographs, etc. until the very last person departed. No soul? Listen to his playing on "Northern Lights" in 1992 - in a bar! Watch the woman at the end crying. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIu7UA-823Y&feature=related

Now fuck you.

[Daniel]

To the guy that said he has no metion, you are insane. You haven't listened to an album, obviously. I guess you saw a video of an up tempo song that is supposed to be played in an aggreisve, fast paced style. Steve Morse is MORE about soul than technique to be honest. Listen to Ghost Wind, one of the most beautiful songs ever written and played. Or, listen to an album, not a video cut on a website.

[Johnnyo]

Skippy, you are crazy my friend. Maybe it's your ears which only hear the fast lines and cannot detect the soul coming out of Steve's playing when he slows down. A perfect example of this is on his new record, when you listen to the beginning of 'Rising Power' - take a listen to the intense vibrato and bends he adds to the notes in the beginning about 1:40 into the song. When Steve 'holds' a note, he squeezes everything out of it beyond emotion. This has always been my favorite thing about Steve Morse, when he plays those 'one notes' forever. When he does, he kicks in his powerful finger vibrato, stomps the pedal on his delay amp to give that huge sound, and closes his eyes while draining everything out of the note he can. It's GD powerful... and that's all I need to say about that.

[Dissertations Writing]

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