Reigning Sound's debut LP
"Break Up, Break Down" LP (Sympathy)
Originally released in 2001

Ask your local vinyl shop to order it!

Compulsive Gamblers reunion at GonerFest 6! Sept. 25, 2009 @ Hi Tone in Memphis "Sour & Vicious Man" "Bad Taste"

BUY the NEW Greg Cartwright "Live at Circle A" LP (solo/acoustic)
from Dusty Medical Records!
It comes with a FREE 7-inch, featuring Greg w/ Goodnight Loving!
LINK:
CLICK here to BUY the LP from Dusty Medical

"Greg Cartwright: Live at the Circle A"

A new Greg Cartwright LIVE/SOLO/ACOUSTIC LP will be released SEPT.15, 2009.
The "Live at the Circle A" LP is on DUSTY MEDICAL RECORDS!
Listen to two of the songs, which are posted here on the Reigning Sound MySpace.

Contact the label:
CLICK HERE to contact Dusty Medical Records

FOR THE LOVE OF SHIRLEY
September 18th – 19th at the Hi-Tone Café

With Jack O and the Tennessee Tearjerkers & more.

**Greg plays on SAT. the 19th


Shows start at 9:00 PM both nights.

For more information, contact Scott Rogers at (901) 485-2851 or memphisscottrogers at yahoo dot com, Dan Holloway (901) 278-8663 or hitonecafe at gmail dot com, or Andria Lisle at (901) 274-3186 or alisle at comcast dot net.

Friday night Sept. 18th
Jack O. and the Tennessee Tearjerkers
Impala
Angel Sluts
John Paul Keith & the One Four Fives
Bullet Proof Vests

Saturday night Sept. 19th
Snowglobe
Greg Cartwright
Vending Machine
Jeffery James & the Haul

about the show:

For the last 33 years, Miss Shirley Williams has worked as a bartender at Midtown's Lamplighter Lounge (1702 Madison Ave.), serving pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon, her famous Shirley Burgers and hand-cut fries.

Five nights a week, for three decades, she's also served as mother, sister, friend and confidante to thousands of customers, who have ventured in for a cold beer and a kind word.

Along the way, Williams has developed a clientele that includes musicians Alex Chilton and Jack White, authors Robert Gordon and Ace Atkins, filmmaker Craig Brewer, and the late Memphis painter Charlie Miller. The Lamplighter has appeared in numerous film projects, including music videos for Cat Power and the Country Rockers, and, most recently, in documentary films about Jack Oblivian and Jay Reatard.

The resolutely honest Williams has a tough side as well – she's occasionally wielded a club at rowdy drunks, and, in a legendary incident that made the pages of New York Magazine, she banned photographer William Eggleston from the Lamplighter for years after he tossed one of her just-made cheeseburgers at her head.

Eggleston has a precarious relationship with the Lamp, one of his favorite haunts. In fact, he's barred from entering. "I got really drunk one time," he admits, "and I threw a hamburger at Shirley, who had just made it. But we're still friends."
Shirley concurs. "He calls me up every now and then, asks how I'm doing, and I say, 'Good,'" she says, fond but firm. She is pleased to own an Eggleston photograph at home and proud of his success, but, like the Lamp's regulars, her feelings for her famous neighbor are complicated. "I like Bill, but he can't come in here. Will you be sure and tell him I said hello?"

– from New York Magazine, November 2, 2008.

Now Miss Shirley needs our help.

Faced with health problems in early August, Williams has been unable to make many of her shifts at the Lamplighter. Although she has some health insurance, she is faced with mounting medical expenses; simultaneously, her income is disappearing along with her connections to her work family.

That's why some of Williams' biggest fans have organized "For the Love of Shirley," a two-night benefit at the Hi-Tone Café featuring many of Memphis' finest musicians and the Lamplighter's best customers, who will be performing gratis.

The $10 per night cover charge (with additional donations welcomed and appreciated) will go directly to Miss Shirley. Photographer Don Perry will be hosting a "Prom Picture Photo Booth" at the Hi-Tone as an additional fundraiser. The Hi-Tone will also be donating ten percent of all bar sales that evening, so be sure to lift many glasses to our favorite bartender.

VINYL! iTunes! Reviews!


Here is a link to BUY the "Love & Curses" on vinyl or CD
Midheaven Mailorder
http://www.midheaven.com/b..in/search.cgi/datedartist=..reigning%20sound

or BUY it from In the Red Records
http://www.intheredrecords...com/pages/mail%20order.ht..ml

or get the MP3s from iTunes!
here:
http://itunes.apple.com/We..bObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/vi..ewAlbum?id=318281958&s=143..456&uo=1&v0=9988&v0=WWW-EU..SE-ITUHOME-TOPMUSIC.

Reviews for "LOVE & CURSES":
*
"Here is something that I can write concisely and definitively: After nearly 20 years, Cartwright has finally found solace in consistency, making Love and Curses arguably the best release of his stoic career."
-Obscure Sound
http://obscuresound.com/?p..=3126

*
"Love and Curses features 14 songs driven by soul, strength and fierce belief, and with a voice as strong as Greg Cartwright fronting a band this tight and effective, Reigning Sound are just about unbeatable; they're one of America's great bands and they're firing on all cylinders with Love and Curses."
- Mark Demming, All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/cg../amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9fw..xzqaldse

*
"In an era where kitsch too frequently trumps class, it’s a proud moment hearing a band driven by none more than their love of the material. Love and Curses is a rock ‘n’ roll record with neither pretense nor manicure, a clean glimpse into rock’s exposed essence.
- Ethan Covey, Dusted
http://www.dustedmagazine...com/reviews/5183

*
"In addition to his open-wound rasp-- few singers today can convey grievous pain so easily-- (Greg Cartwright) also has an eye for the cruelties and ironies of romance, which slice through every track. On the stand-out "Debris", he sings about a lover's heart turning to stone and his own turning to rubble, straining his voice like he has to cover his eyes but can't look away."
- Stephen Deusner, Pitchfork Media
http://pitchfork.com/revie..ws/albums/13297-love-and-c..urses/

*
"Cartwright has absorbed his influences to such a degree that he can generate instantly likeable songs like “Trash Talk,” “The Bells,” and “Broken Things” seemingly off the cuff, proving anew how a brisk tempo and the warm buzz of organ and guitar can make even the most desperate pronouncement sound like an invitation."
- Noel Murray, AV Club
http://www.avclub.com/arti..cles/reigning-sound,31437/

*
"... there’s a soulful grit, an understanding that a garage band can expand their remit a little without sacrificing any of their elemental power and thrust."
- John Mulvey, Uncut
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blo..g/index.php?blog=6&p=1321&..more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more1..321

*
"From rowdy stompers to soulful ballads—all sauced with a wailing organ and punchy riffs—Reigning Sound’s Love and Curses in undeniably romantic. And you can trust Cartwright is telling the truth. He knows. You can hear it in his voice."
- Aaron Richter, Self-Titled Daily

*
" Cartwright revisits 1960s pop and soul sources. You can hear the worried-mind volatility in his voice… and hey, you can hear his voice! On the band's last studio album, 2004's Too Much Guitar, Cartwright buried his vocals deep in a menacing onslaught that lived up to that title, denying easy access to one of rock's best instruments. But in Love and Curses he returns to the top of the mix, peppering his delivery with howls and snarls that makes for an album full of reckless urgency."
-Spectre
http://spectremusic.com/re..views.php


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