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City: SEATTLE
State: Washington
Country: US
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Monday, April 20, 2009 
UK Rock Magazine
It seems ages in coming, but this fourth CD from Seattle based drumless three
piece, the Roy Kay Trio is a rambling treat. The personnel of Roy Kay -
vocals/rhythm guitar, Robin Cady - upright bass/harmony vocals, and Mike Geglia
- electric guitar/harmony vocals has remained consistent throughout the trio’s
seven year existence. With each release, the covers have diminished in number to
this point where all the tracks have been written by Roy Kay himself. Each song
benefits from the fabulous lilt of Roy Kay’s lead vocal which is perfect for
the trio’s western bop style, complemented by spot on musicianship. There’s
some fine country jaunts to be enjoyed such as ‘Hearts Beat With Mine’,
‘Feelin’ Down’ and ‘So Tired’ and up-tempo boppin’ beats in
‘Wonder’, ‘Endless Night’ and ‘Hearts Unknown’. ‘Starlight’ has
a super stroll beat, look out for that as a festival floor filler. This is what
we have come to know, or for the sake of categorisation, pigeon-hole as roots
style Rockabilly/Country, stripped down to the barest minimum to maximum effect.
With fourteen of these gems on the CD this reviewer suggests that you plug in
your headphones, crank up the bass and let the sounds in. A real foot tapper in
every sense. - Andrew Smith
 

All Music
The Rhythm and Harmony of the Roy Kay Trio finds the trio sticking to its vintage
guns on its fourth album. Once again, the always drummer-less trio featuring the
talents of rhythm guitarist/lead vocalist Roy Kay, lead guitarist/vocalist Mike
Geglia, and upright bassist/vocalist Robin Cady delivers a set of old-school
rockabilly originals. The tracks, all written by Kay, are sweet little pop
nuggets of urbane roots rock that should appeal to fans of '50s-era rock &
roll. That said, while Kay has always had a knack for hummable, twang-inflected
foot tappers, here he has expanded some of his purest tendencies to include some
nifty chord progressions and sonic touches that also hint at early-'60s pop --
think the Everly Brothers minus drums of course. More over, such stellar cuts as
the lead-off track "Why Even Try" and the mid-album ballad "Heart
That Beats with Mine," while fitting snugly into the rockabilly tradition,
also bring to mind Your Arsenal-period Morrissey. It's actually a fairly apt
comparison as the Brit-rock icon has long drawn inspiration from the same well
of '50s rock and pop as Kay does here. If The Rhythm and Harmony is somewhat
lacking in flat-out rockers, it doesn't really matter as Kay's talent lies less
in ripping through high-octane rave-ups and more in crafting intimate and
melodically thoughtful songs that make the most of the trio's burnished harmony
vocals. In that sense, Kay is a real rockabilly gentleman and The Rhythm and the
Harmony of the Roy Kay Trio is pure class. – Matt Collar
 

Jumpin from 6 to 6
Released on the excellent Austin based label Texas Jamboree (Horton Brothers, Miss Lauren
Marie, Nick Curran…) and coming in a beautiful digipack the fourth album from
this drummerless trio shows a slight departure from their usual sound. Instead
of the rockabilly boppers you've been used to you'll find the band exploring
late fifties/early sixties territories. The result is fourteen highly melodic
(not that their rockabilly wasn't melodic) and very well crafted pop songs
written by Roy Kay that play in the same league as Buddy Holly (She's Trouble,
New Girl, I Wonder), The Everly Brothers (thanks to the fine harmonies of Robin
Cady and Mike Geglia). The more you listen to these sweet tunes the more they
grow in you and you find yourself playing the album over and over. These boys
don't have any equivalent on the scene, though you could rapproach them to The
Horton Brothers or The Bellfuries as they really try to bring new structures and
unusual chord progressions in their songs. Succumb to the charm of the rhythm
and harmony of the Roy Kay Trio. - Fred "Virgil" Turgis
 

Rock and Blog (Translated by Google Spanish to English)
What do you expect from n roclkabilly album? At the end everything can be simplified
in that, when we buy one, What do we expect from it? And if this is a
rockabilly? Let's see, as a genre sparse in instrumentation, but so dramatic in
the first sense idea that comes to mind is ... fun, wild, sharp guitars, basses
and slap and much babybabybbb-bbb-bbaby. Yet none of this you will find in these
grooves, what you can expect from this trio is very clear in it’s title, their
fourth album, RHYTHM AND HARMONY. And it's rockabilly friends, without drums,
with a bass and two guitars, vocal harmonies, and in almost all subjects in a
style that reminds me a lot that first delicious Bellfuries album, also
inevitably High Noon, and constantly recalls the Everly Brothers, Louvin
'Brothers and even the compositions of the great Buddy Holly. Because while
these guys have always worked as a trio, in this work they have overturned their
style, which until now was something much more aggressive with what we discussed
at the beginning, and now enters a new arena, with pop, focusing on the harmony
of the songs, fourteen in total, all of which are also self-penned. Not a disc
for destroying your shoes, not a disk to throw you on the floor, if that is what
you expect from a trio of rockabilly quickly get away from this plastic, but if
you really want something different, more for listening than for dance, then
this is the delight of 14 songs you need. Sleazy Records has been responsible
for editing large vinyl, the cover is beautiful and full size. If you like and
you want to see them live and remember that you were once in Spain, as part of
High Rockabilly in Cubelles and come back this year in the next edition of the
Screamin 'Festival Pineda Rock'n'roll. ROY KAY TRIO appearing at the show.
Unmissable. -Francho
7:21 PM 
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Monday, November 12, 2007 
We'll be releasing our next record in 2008! Right now we're working on finishing up the song writing.

details soon!
Roy
7:26 PM 
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Monday, November 12, 2007 
Hey all, check our calendar, we'll be playing in Boise, Grand Junction, Salt lake City and Bozeman at the end of November. It'll be a great time!

See ya soon!
Roy
7:22 PM 
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 

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Hey all, the new album is out! We recorded it last year in Berlin Germany with Axel Praefcke. 11 new originals and 3 more covers, we had a great time makin' it. Thanks Axel, Humpty, Lucky and everyone else who helped us out!!

You can hear samples here:

http://www.roykaytrio.com/discs.htm

see you soon,
Roy
8:57 AM 
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 
Two new songs, Travel Bound and One Year Ago Tonight. Red Vinyl, real cool! Thanks to Tex!
11:15 PM 
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