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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 14, 2008
Bluesy Singer Paula Nelson in New York City:
10 p.m. Friday, May 16
Hill Country BBQ, 30 W. 26th St.
Cover: None; Information: 212.255.4544
www.paulanelsonband.com
TEXAS SINGER PAULA NELSON
TAKING HER NEW LUCKY 13
TO NEW YORK CITY
Kick by Willie’s Daughter Felt ’Round the World Via YouTube Clip
AUSTIN, Texas — Bluesy singer Paula Nelson, who released her strong, sexy LUCKY 13 (Pedernales Records) in February, will play Hill Country BBQ in New York City next month — but not before the Tai Kwan Do black-belt gains a little more notoriety for kicking a guy on YouTube.
Nelson, backed by the guitar-driven Southern rock sound of the Paula Nelson Band, plays at 10 p.m. Friday, May 16, at Hill Country BBQ, 30 W. 26th St. No cover; information: 212.255.4544.
Nelson’s LUCKY 13 features her supple alto-to-soprano vocals (called “torchy” by Texas Monthly) and able keyboard playing learned at her aunt’s knee on songs like the steamy “Fire Below,” the tough anthem “Baby You’re Mean,” “Easy Money” and an extraordinary cover of “Jackson.”
The album also features her famous father, Willie Nelson, who adds voice and guitar to the elegant ballad “Day to Day Love” and a tender guitar solo to “Surrender.”
Paula Nelson told a Texas newspaper about recording with her father. “… Dad knew that I went through a pretty tough divorce, so his guitar solo on the song ‘Surrender’ was kind of his way of saying, ‘Hey, it’s going to be alright; you’ll get through this’.”
She plans to be behind the wheel of a stock car racing for charity later this month, but it is the video of her karate-kicking a man offstage during one of her regular Wednesday-night gigs at Austin’s Saxon Pub that is stopping people in their tracks.
Viewed hundreds of thousands of times at Web sites www.Break.com, Defamer.com, CelebrityVideoOfTheDay.blogspot.com, YouTube and on NBC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the clip shows Nelson delivering a Texas-size blow to the man’s belly. The clip was put up on YouTube for a friend, and the poor guy is Nelson’s boyfriend, Jeff Schwan, a TV/film stunt man who is stunt coordinator for “Friday Night Lights” and other TV shows.
Besides practicing the martial arts, Nelson has performed stunt work herself, including on “Friday Night Lights” and as a stunt driver, including in the hilarious Willie Nelson “You Don’t Think I’m Funny Any More” music video featuring Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson, with Paula serving as Jessica Simpson’s stunt double in the Bad Boy Lawn Mower Race.
Nelson grew up in the aura of her music-making father and his outlaw-country compadres, influenced by the vocals of such models as Rita Coolidge and the caring encouragement of Austin club owner Clifford Antone. In the early 1990s, she was performing all over Austin. She’s appeared with her father often, including the Farm Aid concerts in Fort Worth and in 2007 in New York City.
Interview times are available as well as press kits and review CDs.
For more information, visit http://www.mcguckinpr.com/mcguckin/paula_nelson/paula_nelson.htm
Also see www.paulanelsonband.com and www.myspace.com/paulanelsonband.
Media Contact: McGuckin Entertainment PR
Jill McGuckin, 512.217.9404; jill@mcguckinpr.com
Heidi Labensart, 512.478.0578; heidi@mcguckinpr.com
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