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RUSTY BLADEN / 2010 / PRESS KIT

" Mixing Tom Petty's hooks, John Mellencamp's kick and Jimmy Buffett's audience participation, Bladen's sound is gritty swaggering American party rock"
-- Americana Rock Online

“Rusty is familiar to anyone who has spent time in the live music establishments of Indianapolis. It's for good reason he's one of the most popular live acts. ...Audiences love him.”
-- NUVO Newsweekly
Rusty Bladen takes the crowd on a ride with his music, party songs, and American rock and roll.
:: BOOKING INFO :: River Road Records - 812.265.3075
WHO IS RUSTY BLADEN?
A crowd favorite of the Indiana music scene, Bladen powers his shows with an atmosphere of party songs, sing-alongs and a whole lot of fun. Rusty has cultivated his longtime and extremely loyal Midwestern fan base with memorable band and his solo performances.

WHAT'S A SHOW LIKE?
Rusty's solo show is a high energy, freewheeling tour-de-force
of Bladen originals, songs from the radio, and some excellent hippie country-rock tunes. The band show is an exhibition of what five guys holding onto the same roots rock and roll rope can pull an audience into.

WHAT DO THEY SAY?
Rusty Bladen is an indispensable part of the Muscatatuck River Music Festival. His fans ahve an expectation that he will put on an exciting, high energy show, and he never fails to deliver. He wins over fans who have primarily come to see others."
Hugh Partridge, Promoter
Muscatatuck River Music Festival



QUOTES:
" My bar was rockin' like it has rarely rocked before!

Rusty Bladen has so much energy we had to put in a new breaker system just for him. He's fun, talented, and really works the room. Call the paramedics because he knocks the crowd dead. I partied so hard I'm still taking aspirin. I can't wait to see him again."
Jimmy "Mad Dog" Matis

owner of Longacre Bar & Grill 



CONTACTS:
Rusty Bladen Booking
River Road Records
Madison, IN - office /
email
812.265.3075

Rockforward Digital Media
Digital Media / Web
317.430.4626
rob@rustybladen.com


Websites
rustybladen.com
myspace.com/rustybladen


Rusty's shows have been proudly sponsored by Budweiser since 1997


MORE ABOUT RUSTY BLADEN

Homegrown Treasures released in 2010, featuring 11 new originals.

→ Rusty has sold 15,000 albums to his Midwest audience, making Bladen one of the best selling independent artists in Indiana. Rusty's mailing list and rustybladen.com builds and maintain his growing fan base.

→ In 2009, Rusty headlined the Jasper Strassenfest, Swiss Wine Festival, the Mount Adams Music Fest in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also headlined events at Salem Speedway, WJAA Radio Bustock in Seymour, Muscatatuck Blues Festival, and Bedford Fall Festival and has played at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Verizon Wireless Music Center.

→ MORE: Plays from a song list of over 400 popular cover songs and original music, performing solo or full band....released "Feels Like Christmas" with Dane Clark (Mellencamp's drummer) producing. The album was mixed by the legendary Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams)...An acoustic version of "Molly's Song", a song about missing person Molly Datillo (from Rusty''s hometown of Madison, Indiana) was first released as a web-only MP3 offering at rustybladen.com and on Rusty's myspace page, and was been downloaded more than 8,000 times. It is on his Homegrown Treasures album.

"Rusty Bladen is coming off a home-turf gig with his band at the Madison Regatta before a wild riverfront crowd of 3,000.
Bladen emerges from behind a large black, logo-emblazoned backdrop, grinning and pounding a foot on the stage..."

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read full Evansville Courier article

COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY
Homegrown Treasures
2010



Feels Like Christmas

2007


charity complilation album

2005

Are You Happy Now
2004/1994


Ride That River
2003


Rockin' Your
Houseparty (LIVE)

2001
 
Everything for Everybody
1999