DIAMOND RUGS reveal debut album due April 24th + share first single

photo credit: amie ledford

Diamond Rugs is a collaboration between John McCauley (Deer Tick), Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pé (The Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate) and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite). Last fall McCauley decided he wanted to make another record during his downtime in his new home base of Nashville with producers Adam  Landry and Justin Collins (Middle Brother, Deer Tick).. While attending a Los Lobos show (one of his all-time favorite bands), he made his way backstage and met Steve Berlin. McCauley convinced Berlin to come to Nashville to play on the record. Over the course of the next month, he also managed to convince Saint Pe (whom he'd met once before), Morris (who had opened for Deer Tick on tour) and his good friend from his hometown of Providence, RI, Dufresne. McCauley also recruited Deer Tick keys/sax player Robbie Crowell to play bass on the album. What happened next was entirely unexpected; the musicians McCauley had recruited to play on his record, ended up contributing their own songs to the album and a fully-formed band emerged, rather than a group of musicians playing on another artists' record. The Diamond Rugs long player is going to be released in the spring of 2012. It was recorded in Nashville and produced by Adam Landry and Justin Collins (Middle Brother, Deer Tick). DIAMOND RUGS DIAMOND RUGS APRIL 24th, 2012 PARTISAN RECORDS 1. Hightail 2. Gimme A Beer 3. Big God 4. Call Girl Blues 5. Out On My Own 6. Country Mile 7. Totally Lonely 8. I Took Note 9. Blue Mountains 10. Motherland 11. Tell Me Why 12. 100 Sheets 13. Hungover And Horny 14. Christmas In A Chinese Restaurant