Dusty Rhodes & The River Band's First Ever UK Tour Kicks-Off Tomorrow

• 27th Mar 2008

Tipped by the Los Angeles Times as one of eight bands set to make a breakthrough in 2008, Dusty Rhodes & The River Band have just spent the last three months on the road with Blind Melon and then Flogging Molly.

Dusty Rhodes are not your typical young West Coast indie rock band. Inspired by 1978 Scorcese-directed documentary of The Band, ‘The Last Waltz’, their music came from a love of Brian Wilson, Hank Williams, Simon & Garfunkel, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Flaming Lips and Pink Floyd.

It is their diversity of influence, the delivery which places the sound right in the here and now that built their fanbase on the West Coast, attracting a fairly rabid following in their native Orange County from which they had raised enough money for studio time and began work on a debut album. Another of their influences, Isaiah ‘Ikey’ Owens from Mars Volta, had caught them live by chance and offered to produce.

Dusty Rhodes & The River Band will play:

March 28th – Nashville Babylon @ Luminaire, Kilburn (London)
March 29th – Cavern Club (Exeter)
March 30th – Bodega (Nottingham)
April 1st – The Fly, Soho (London)
April 2nd – 229 – Club Fandango, Borderline (London)
April 3rd – Water Rats, Kings Cross (London)