Beau Jennings Covers Dwight Yoakam's "Streets of Bakersfield" (free download)

BuffetLibre DJ's have their 80's cover-song project, "Rewind Part 2", going full force and there are some pretty cool songs from a wide range of bands available as free downloads.

Beau Jennings (solo artist and Cheyenne frontman) has contributed a cover of Dwight Yoakam's "Streets of Bakersfield". Beau says "I love "Streets Of Bakersfield", its one of those songs where the listener knows something that the narrator doesn't. But then again you don't realize that till you've listened to the song a few times, so its fun a lot of levels. Plus it sounds good coming out of a roadhouse jukebox."

Links:
Cheyenne's MySpace Profile

Beau Jennings CD Release Party for "Holy Tusla Thunder" is August 16th at Union Hall

Beau Jennings is having a CD release party next Saturday (August 16th) for his fabulous debut solo CD Holy Tulsa Thunder. The show is at Union Hall and Beau is playing with Bowery Boy Blue. Tickets are $8.00 in advance and doors are at 8PM.

Here is Beau's new video for the title track "Holy Tulsa Thunder". I love the Coney Island footage...


Beau and Zeb (from Bowery Boy Blue) just did an Artist-to-Artist interview which is posted here.

Links:
Beau Jennings' MySpace page
Bowery Boy Blue's MySpace page

Cheyenne Front-Man Beau Jennings Plays Solo Show Tomorrow

Cheyenne front-man Beau Jennings is playing a solo show tomorrow at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg. Beau is gearing up for the release of his solo disc, "Holy Tulsa Thunder", which is due out on July 8th. This should be a great show as I would expect that Beau will trying out a lot of new material and he doesn't have another local show scheduled until August.

"Holy Tulsa Thunder" is a fabulous disc (I'll be posting a review shortly). You can check out an advance track of Tulsa Sound and there are couple of other tunes from this release streaming on Beau's MySpace page.

Cheyenne Frontman Beau Jennings Releases First Track From Upcoming Solo Disc

Cheyenne's singer Beau Jennings is readying his first solo disc, Holy Tulsa Thunder, and just released an advance single of the disc's title track. This track is a rocker that has a great "Springsteen in his prime" sort of vibe so I'm looking forward to hearing the whole disc.

Links:
Beau Jennings' MySpace profile
Cheyenne's MySpace profile

Cheyenne Is Playing Piano's on March 1st

Cheyenne is launching a full scale tour behind their sophmore CD "The Whale" and are playing Piano's on Saturday, March 1st. Cheyenne released "The Whale" last December at a show at Joe's Pub. The video below is from the Cd release show and the band performs "Horsepower" and "Cimarron River".



Unfortunately, the show at Joe's Pub was delayed a couple of hours due to a fire alarm (or something) at the early show and the band went on stage well after midnight, so my filming wasn't the steadiest.

Here is the title track from the new CD, "The Whale", which was filmed at Cheyenne's show at Piano's last November.



Cheyenne is taking the stage at Piano's at 9PM (Don't miss Wynn Walent who goes on at 8PM) and tickets are only $8.00.

Links:
Cheyenne's MySpace page

Cheyenne - "The Whale" CD Release Show @ Joe's Pub, NYC 12/08/07

Cheyenne held their CD release party for "The Whale" last month at Joe's Pub. While the show started incredibly late (the early show was delayed due to a fire alarm which then pushed the start time of Cheyenne's set to 12:30AM), Cheyenne played to a full house.

The new songs sounded great -- there are three live songs on the video below -- and this is the first time at Joe's Pub that I have seen people get up to dance. The band played for a solid hour and barely had time to leave the stage before the crowd started cheering for an encore. If it were up to the audience, I think they would have had the band play all night.

Cheyenne - Live @ Joe's Pub, NYC 12-08-07


Cheyenne's new CD "The Whale" is available from Data Panic Distribution, iTunes, and eMusic. The band's next show is at Piano's on March 1st and this show kicks off the start of a Midwest tour.

Links:
Cheyenne's Website
Cheyenne's MySpace Page

Cheyenne CD Release Party at Joe's Pub Tomorrow (12/8/07) + Beau Jennings Releases Xmas Song

Cheyenne's CD Release Party for "The Whale" is tomorrow night at Joe's Pub. The show starts at 11:30PM and tickets are only $10. Cheyenne just finished a 3-week residency at Piano's last month and drew a good sized crowd at each show so I would recommend getting tickets in advance.

If you haven't heard Cheyenne, here is a link to the title track from the new CD, "The Whale". In keeping with the holiday spirit, frontman Beau Jennings and friends just issued a pretty funny Christmas single entitled "All My Friends Are Snowmen".

Below are some pictures from the second night of the band's residency at Piano's.







Links:
Cheyenne's Website
Cheyenne's MySpace Page

Cheyenne - Interview w/ Beau Jennings + Live Performance of "The Whale"

Cheyenne closed their set last Saturday night (Nov. 10th) with "The Whale", which is the title song of the band's upcoming CD. The new CD will be released on Dec. 11th and the band is having a release party at Joe's Pub on December 8th.



After the show on the 10th, I had the chance to sit down and talk with Beau...

Background:
BrooklynRocks: How and where did Cheyenne come together?

Beau Jennings: The band started in 2002 in Oklahoma. We got to be good friends with one of the bigger bands in the area, the Starlight Mints, and played a number of shows at their venue, The Opolis, and toured with them as well. Cheyenne released its first EP in 2003 and played a number of shows around the mid-west.

After my girlfriend moved to New York, Heath [Fisher – Drummer] and I moved to Brooklyn in 2005. As more friends and acquaintances from Oklahoma relocated to New York, Cheyenne was reconstituted in New York.

Current:
BrooklynRocks: How often does the band play live and is Cheyenne your full-time job?

Beau Jennings: The band played a lot over the summer to support the release of “The Land Rush” EP (available on eMusic and iTunes) but all of the band members have full time jobs. Members of the band work as an architect, computer tech, writer, etc.

BrooklynRocks: How many releases does Cheyenne have out?

Beau Jennings: The band currently has out one full length (on the Record Machine label), a 7”, and “The Land Rush” EP. The new CD “The Whale” will be released on December 11th and the record release party is December 8th at Joe’s Pub.

NYC Scene:
BrooklynRocks: As a relative newcomer on the NYC scene, are there any bands or clubs that you particularly like?

Beau Jennings: Wynn Walent is great and they opened for us on the first night of the residency. Jaymay (who records for Blue Note) is another great artist. Piano’s and Lakeside Lounge are some of our favorite clubs to play. In terms of major acts, Springsteen at MSG was fabulous.

Piano’s Residency:
BrooklynRocks: I did an interview with Michael Nau earlier tonight and he mentioned that you had invited his band to play tonight. How do you know Michael & Cotton Jones? How was the first night of the residency?

Beau Jennings: We opened for Page France earlier this year and both Cheyenne and Page France are on the Murkville soundtrack. Page France also stayed with us when they played the Bowery Ballroom a few months ago.

The residency has been going well. It has been a lot of fun and we have been able to do some different stuff. We played an acoustic set the first night without a drummer.

The Oklahoma Scene:
BrooklynRocks: What is the Oklahoma scene like?

Beau Jennings: Most of the Oklahoma scene centered around a love of The Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie. The Evangelicals were a big band on the scene and were good friends of ours. The Oklahoma scene was big and close-knit so it was really hard to leave it.

What’s Next for Cheyenne in 2008:
Beau Jennings: The goal is to make Cheyenne a full-time gig. If I don’t have this as the ultimate goal, it will never happen. For so many good bands, the stars didn’t align so I plan on doing everything possible to make this happen.

Links:
Cheyenne's MySpace page

Cheyenne @ Piano's, NYC 11/10/07

Cheyenne played the second night of their Piano's residency last Saturday night. The band sounds great live and I am looking forward to hearing their new CD, The Whale, which will be released in early December.

I did an interview with Beau after the show and I will be posting the interview along with pictures from the show in the next few days. In the meantime, below is a two song video clip from the show.



Links:
Cheyenne's MySpace page
Cheyenne's Website