After ten turbulent years of critical acclaim, multiple GRAMMY nominations, relentless touring, and personnel shifts that might have beaten down most acts, one group has survived to deliver their most surprising move of all: With their new Dualtone Records album Dog Days, BR549 stands tall as the hardest-rocking – and hardest-working – here-to-stay band in Country today.
“We called the record Dog Days because it seemed like the end of something, and the beginning of something else,”explains vocalist/guitarist Chuck Mead.
“It’s the start of a different way of thinking about BR549 and a different way of thinking about our lives and music.”The album, produced by John Keane (known for his work with R.E.M., Uncle Tupelo, and Widespread Panic) and recorded at Keane’s famed studio in Athens, Georgia, showcases 11 uncompromising songs from a band with fearsome instrumental chops, their own left field point-of-view, and an ever potent take on classic Country tradition. Now a lean four-piece of Mead, multi-instrumentalist Don Herron, drummer/vocalist Shaw Wilson and new bassist/vocalist Mark Miller, BR549 is a band defiantly reborn.
“It’s 10 years since we started this, and we’ve been through a lot recently,” says Mead. “On this record, we wanted – and needed – to do something that was beyond the norm.”
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