It all came pretty fast for Holland’s Alamo Race Track- consisting of Ralph Mulder (deep John), David Corel (cuddly Paul), Leonard Lucieer (mystical George) and Guy Bours (happy-go-lucky Ringo). After releasing their well-received debut album Birds At Home in 2003 the band quickly found themselves getting more attention – and better gigs – in neighboring France. Concerts then followed in the Netherlands, supporting Dutch stalwarts like Daryll-Ann. But only after a Dutch blogger supplied YouTube with a video of the band performing an impromptu dressing room rendition of their single “Black Cat John Brown”, the band suddenly had a few hundred thousand new Internet friends. The Dutch media couldn’t get enough of the song, or the YouTube story, and were keen to boost their home-gown talent into the rock pantheon; as one Dutch newspaper had it, Alamo Race Track makes “ingenious, subtle pop music with roots in the post-new wave of Talking Heads and The Smiths, to the melodic pop of Sparklehorse and The Beach Boys. The album was originally released last summer, and the band is fresh off an appearance at SXSW.mp3:
Alamo Race Track: Website :: MySpace :: Bio :: Buy Black Cat John Brown
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