We are excited to announce the musical lineup for the debut Chattahippie Music Festival, featuring the best talent in Americana, Rock, Blues, Jam, Country, Folk and Bluegrass from around the nation! With over thirty artists from ten states, this promises to be a great celebration of peace, love and music!

Northwest Georgia Bank presents the 2008 Chattahippie Music Festival featuring: Pure Prairie League, Chris Knight, The Derailers, Charlie Louvin, Walt Wilkins & The Mystiqueros, Two Tons of Steel, Elizabeth Cook, Dallas Wayne, The Gougers, Gary Nicholson, Jason Eady & The Wayward Apostles, Laura Cantrell, Buzz Cason & The Love Notes, Beggars’ Caravan, Lou Wamp, Roger Alan Wade, Dane Varese, Joe Moss, Trent Summar & The New Row Mob, Jimmy Davis, Michael Johnathon, Band of Heathens, Doug & Telisha Williams, Miles from Nowhere, Michael Hearne & South by Southwest, Tommy Alverson, Billy Block, Whitey Johnson, Penguin, Tressie Seegers, Darryl Lee Rush, and The New Binkley Brothers.

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Review by Mary Jane Farmer

I’ll admit I fell down on the job in getting notes about this CD out to you sooner. The reason, I’ll also admit, is that MFN had grown so between the first time I heard them live and this production, I didn’t think it showed them off. I told producer Joshua Jones it was good, even great, but not MFN. I was wrong, I learned, after putting miles on my little car to hear Miles From Nowhere live again and again. They have grown professionally, and this CD authenticates that growth and the chemistry of the band, stemmng from their own mix of musical influences.

Produced by Jones on Shiner Records after Miles From Nowhere became their 2006 competition winner, “Bloodline” came out at least six months ago. MFN fans already have their copies. For others, go get it.

Miles From Nowhere is unique in that they combine country with a fine sense of easy listening, rock, and danceable ballads. Someone said the band is as like a huge scrambled egg, only its scrambled music. You have to listen close to determine if Merrol Ray or Adam Walker is singing lead or playing lead guitar, or if they are switching leads back and forth. Ray, Walker, and another band member, drummer Wesley Joe Malone,  penned most of the songs, with Jones providing “Queen of California” to them, never expecting to get the quality cover they gave. The fourth band member is bass guitarist Joe Allen Jordan, a steady-as-she-goes sort of musician.

“When I Get Mean” moved along the Texas Music Chart for a while, as did the title cut before it.

This, too, is distributed by Palo Duro Records, and those who don’t want to wait until the next time Miles From Nowhere plays in their area can order the CD online, www.palodurorecords.com.

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There are times and moods that call for country music to be a bit rough around the edges and ornery. On Bloodline, Miles From Nowhere deliver on this belief. Echoes of country, rock, the blues and the Outlaw movement mingle together to make this album a contemporary southern rock success. Produced by Dan Baird of Georgia Satellites fame, Bloodline, is full of crunchy guitars that bounce and good ol’ boy lyrics that bite.The title track kicks off the album and the rolling guitar intro and vocal delivery demonstrate a strong Neil Young influence. “Give Me the Road” is exactly what one would expect it to be based on the title. Continuing in that vein, like every good southern rock band dating back to the days of Skynyrd, Miles From Nowhere know how to deliver a good power ballad, between boastful batches of bravado. “Faces” fills that role here and does so very well, with perhaps the best lyrics on the album and the hook of: this face in the mirror is getting harder and harder to see. It’s a classic tale of being unsure of your past, confused about your future and the difficult task of trying to reconcile the two. “Hard Livin’ Man” and “I Can’t Win” are honky tonk barn barn burners of songs that harken back to the golden age of 70’s Outlaw movement. “Mona Sue” has a plucky bass line and a rocketing chorus featuring Doobie Brother-esue harmonies. While not reinventing the wheel by any stretch of the imagination, Bloodline, illustrates a band delivering an outstanding dose of blues filled southern rock. Miles From Nowhere seem to realize, rightfully so, that sometimes music is just mean’t to be fun. When the mood calls for something just a tad bit rowdy and rocking, this might be the record you should reach for… Story by Brad Beheler, Lone Star Music Magazine

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