Roman Candle announces January dates with Alejandro Escovedo; Oh Tall Tree in the Ear in stores

Roman Candle have announced new January tour dates in support of Alejandro Escovedo.

The tour will take the Nashville by way of Chapel Hill band throughout the southeast, beginning January 15, 2010 at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC, and wrapping up January 23rd at Headliners in Louisville, KY.

Roman Candle’s third album Oh Tall Tree in the Ear was released May 12th by Carnival Recording Company. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus and Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, the smart, lyrical album is a loose meditation on the connection between music and longing, full of hooks and impassioned vocals.

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Oh Tall Tree… has been earning the band some of the best reviews of their young career, with USA Today declaring, “…These are simply witty, sturdily built and charming pop/rock tunes that owe their debt to Wilco, The Jayhawks, Ryan Adams, perhaps even My Morning Jacket. That’s great company, and these songs should accompany you on summer road trips.”

Summer is over, but Roman Candle will continue to warm up and keep fans company on these winter dates.

Roman Candle tour dates with Alejandro Escovedo:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

January 15 ASHEVILLE, NC – THE ORANGE PEEL
January 16 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – JEWISH MOTHER
January 17 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – JEFFERSON THEATRE
January 19 KNOXVILLE, TN – THE BIJOU
January 21 BIRMINGHAM, AL – WORKPLAY THEATER
January 22 MEMPHIS, TN – MINGLEWOOD HALL
January 23 LOUISVILLE, KY – HEADLINERS

At the core of Roman Candle are Skip (vocals, guitar), Logan (drums), and Timshel (Wurlitzer, Farfisa) Matheny – Skip and Logan are brothers; Skip and Timshel are married.

Formed in Chapel Hill, NC, in 1998, the band released their debut album Says Pop on small indie Outlook in 2002 and quickly rose to prominence in the ever-burgeoning music scene of the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Triangle, even catching the eye of Rolling Stone, who deemed them Chapel Hill’s “darling” band on the rise.

Roman Candle re-tooled the songs on Says Pop with the help of producer Chris Stamey (Yo La Tengo, REM, Whiskeytown) to create The Wee Hours Revue, and after some unfortunate turmoil with another would-be label, the album was picked up and released by V2 Records, eventually landing at #38 on Paste’s Best 100 Albums of 2006 list.

Sadly, V2 folded in 2007, but the band continued working and wrote Oh Tall Tree in the Ear while staying with friends in the English countryside outside of London. Roman Candle began recording the album themselves at their family studio in Wilkesboro, NC, and finished the album with the help of producer Jason Lehning in their adopted hometown of Nashville, TN, after signing with Carnival Recording Company.

“…a modern-rock masterpiece. Oh Tall Tree In The Ear is part the kind of ragged, sprawling travelogue you’d imagine Paul Westerberg would pen if he was a roadie for Oasis at the height of Britpop, and part barrage of hallucinatory Dylanesque visions…” – Paste

“…It is rooted in the past, recalling songs that are more likely to be found on dusty vinyl than from streaming kilobytes: refreshingly earnest and brazenly straightforward anthems that both rattle your floor and stick in your head…Do I dare, then, call Oh Tall Tree in the Ear a classic? Grab the vinyl passenger seat and listen close: it is.” – Popmatters

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