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Cool Hand Luke's "The Balancing Act" covers a lot of territory. Documenting well what Cool Hand Luke has been doing most of the last decade, creating sincere and expressive art rock while touring the country presenting their message of hope. These fourteen tracks attempt to balance ministry & art, message and poetry, the expectations of a large and devoted fan base against the artistic growth of an evolving band of musicians. This collection of tracks is sure to please the bands devoted following and seems destined to find an expanding audience. This record has moments of the bands earlier indy influenced sounds that will appeal to today's emocore scene, while several tracks are the piano driven anthems that have become the norm for this promising young band. The themes as always are serious: grace, consequences, finding truth and love in a fallen world. Mark Nick's vocals always sound powerfully sincere and the music sounds large and inspired.
Nashville's Cool Hand Luke have quite a story. In the early 00's The band recorded some demo's, played indie rock shows all over the Southeast and then in 2002 they signed to Floodgate Records. Floodgate released their CHL’s previous acclaimed albums: 2003's " Wake Up, O Sleeper and and 2004's "The Fires of Life". Since then the band hit the road hard playing nearly 300 shows including national tours with Norma Jean, Copeland and Switchfoot to name a few. Facing burnout and some personal difficulties, Cool Hand Luke decided to take a year break. Ironically their singer Mark Nicks spent most of this off year touring, first playing drums for hardcore fav's The Chariot and then spent a couple of months on the road with Thrice. Nicks didn't actually get to play any music on the Thrice tour but rather was asked to share the story of Uganda's "invisible children" at shows. See www.invisiblechildren.com. A long break like this at such a critical time in the bands career would leave most smaller indie bands forgotten but when Cool Hand Luke returned to the road in 2006, they found hundreds of people showing up at many of their headlining shows. The Band decided to release this collection of songs as an outlet for more recent fans to catch up with Cool Hand Luke while sharing some new songs for longsuffering fans as well. This long journeying band still feels like their best days are before them says Nicks. "We're writing some of my favorite material so far, and I am still the only one in the band old enough to rent a van." |
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Band: chlinfo@yahoo.com
Management: Timothy Eddings
timothyeddings@aol.com
Booking: Timothy Eddings
timothyeddings@aol.com
Publicity: Lori Lenz, Biscuit PR |
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