Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Doug & Telisha Williams and the DT's in Millheim PA

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ELK CREEK CAFE + ALEWORKS HOST 
DOUG AND TELISHA WILLIAMS AND THE DT'S - SAT 3/19
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"Every now and again you run across something that just knocks your socks off. This was one of those times...it all combines to obtain near perfection." 
--Rod Ames, No Depression

Doug and Telisha Williams' recently released sophomore album "Ghost of the Knoxville Girl" just spent 15 weeks in the Americana Music Association Radio Top 40 chart, named one of the Top 100 Records of 2010!   

What do you get when you mix dead right, honest songwriting, a Telecaster and an upright bass with a little whiskey, a Hammond B3 and some rocking drums?  You get Doug & Telisha Williams and the DT’s.  Doug and Telisha come from a place where old time religion, superstition, run down bars, gravel parking lots, and boarded up factories all mingle together.  Their most recent release, “Ghost of the Knoxville Girl”, received wide critical acclaim, and spent 15 weeks in the Americana Music Association Top 40 Radio Chart, landing a spot as one of the top 100 Americana Albums of 2010.  Doug & Telisha Williams and the DT’s take the hauntingly beautiful, yet gritty delivery that Doug & Telisha are known for and turn it up a notch.  Catch them in 
Millheim PA at Elk Creek Cafe + Aleworks
 
on Saturday, March 19th at 8:00. For further information on this performance, go to www.DandTW.com or http://www.elkcreekcafe.net

Doug and Telisha Williams hail from Martinsville, Virginia.  When they write and sing songs about dying small towns, they know what they’re talking about.  The unemployment rate where they live is 20.2 %.  When you hear them sing songs about a couple of  hard luck kids who made some bad decisions and wound up in jail, you’ve got to remember that Doug & Telisha are still good friends with those kids' family.  The songs for their latest record, Ghost of the Knoxville Girl, weren’t written by people who like to imagine what it’s like “out there,” instead they came from stories told across kitchen tables or between friends after a couple of pitchers at the Ten Pin.  

Their hometown sits in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains and you can hear, smell and taste that influence on their new record, Ghost of the Knoxville Girl.  Like the very best singer-songwriters, this duo gives a voice to the struggles of everyday people, as well ghosts of the past. The characters in this collection of songs are resilient spirits who face their troubles straight on, never looking away.  Telisha’s voice rises from way down deep and delivers the honest truth with a frank clearness that never wavers.  You never for one minute doubt that the emotion is real.   Having played and written together since they were teenagers, Doug’s guitar and harmonies follow suit giving soul to heart.  

The past few years have been filled with hundreds of shows and thousands of miles for Doug and Telisha.  They’ve traveled from Florida to Oregon and Michigan to Texas, they’ve played with some of their most beloved heroes -  Lucinda Williams, Darrell Scott, Charlie Louvin, and Joe Ely – and been on stage at Anderson Fair, The Birchmere, The Carolina Theater, Godrey Daniels, Madison Square Park and Floydfest. 

No matter how far they roam, Doug and Telisha always find their way back home.  A place that holds tight to the intricacies and contradictions of life in the south today.  A place where in just one set, Doug & Telisha can still send audience members to their feet in applause, to their knees in prayer, and back to the bar to buy another beer.

Join Doug and Telisha’s fans at Elk Creek Cafe + Aleworks on Saturday, March 19th at 8:00 to find out why Darrell Scott says "They now have the old-time, pre-70’s country, mountain & honky-tonk road house music all blended together into their own whiskey - open the jar and have a pull!” 
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For print-ready photos and all tour dates, go to www.DandTW.com.
 
For further information and to schedule interviews, contact Jackie Maddox at Dark Dog Management at darkdogmanagement@gmail.com -or- 
Doug Williams - doug@DandTW.com, 276-252-4350
 
For booking, contact John Laird at the Americana Agency, (johnlaird@americanaagency.com), 919-489-4824.

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