the single... "Don't Believe I Heard You (Ever Say Goodbye)",
one of the originals from the Twang-ucopia album...
Get it on iTunes &
Apple Music
... or on Amazon
... or Spotify
the single... "Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)",
a Rockpile tune from the Twang-ucopia album...
Get it on iTunes &
Apple Music
... or on Amazon
... or Spotify
and the... a west coast roots-rockization single,
"Love Isn't The Same Without You",
one of the originals
from the new Twang-ucopia album...
Get it on iTunes &
Apple Music
... or on Amazon
... or Spotify
New Copasetics deliver "Semi-acoustic, Back Porch Americana & Tropicana:"
Roots Rock, Twang, American Roots and a little R&B plus a side of Cuban & Hawai'ian ...
on real instruments, telecaster guitar, steel guitar, acoustic string bass, acoustic piano, acoustic guitar and drums.
The Twang-ucopoia (Balanced Diet) album is the debut release of New Copasetics. This project has been developing for several years,
with a few personnel changes and honing of the musical directions, and is now ripe for release. This recording was done live in a
Big Pink-style living room session, with minimal overdubbing highlighting the band's Roots Rock, Americana, Rhythm and Blues & Western
Swing influences. (more below)
~ Reviews ~
"New Copasetics cook up a balanced diet of roots
rock on this dance-friendly debut featuring some of my favorite musicians -
Tim Eschliman on bass and vocals; keyboardist-singer Dallis Craft; electric guitarist Sean Allen; and drummer Kevin Hayes.
With 14 tracks of tasteful covers and tuneful originals,
this album is one of my favorites of 2019."
From the moment that I dropped the needle on New
Copasetics - Twang Utopia (Balanced Diet), the joy began. It is American roots music at its best. Soul, Jump,
New Orleans, sweet R & B, even Hawaiian. All performed energetically in the living room of Globe Studios "Big Pink style."
It's hard to imagine a recording this superb, every note, every guitar strum, every low note on the dog
house bass, every vocal inflection, is really thick, as in fat sounding. Mr. Eschliman engineered one fine record.
Every tune is a keeper. This year as we're in the midst of the COV-19
pandemic it's really heartbreaking to watch how it has decimated the music industry. So to say that this is the best new LP that I've
heard in 2020 is an understatement. For music to bring so much joy in these times is certainly a miracle.
"...this is roots Americana of a high order... there's
plenty of good stuff in such genres as soul, rockabilly, country and get this, 1970s English pub rock... Twang-Ucopia is very
much a bunch of mates having a good time knocking out their set live in the studio with minimal overdubs..."
"... a healthy dose of Americana, soul and roots music in a melting pot of sound... the four-piece outfit specializes in male-female
vocal harmonies sung over roots-rock rhythms.... recorded live in studio, and the result is an immediately catchy, often upbeat and
sometimes even sublime mix of both originals and selected covers."
This is a damn good album...out of 14 cuts, there is not one bad song.
[Eschliman] wrote 3 of the songs & co-wrote another with fellow Commander Cody alumnus Austin DeLone,
and I'm sure Delbert McClinton would enjoy the New Copasetics version of "Old Weakness."
"Got some Stephen Bruton in you! ...really like your originals. This CD needs to be heard and
"Love Isn't the Same Without You" should be on every Americana play list. Something old, something new,
something borrowed (we're talking music here, folks) and something blue. It has it all. Good album! Kudos!"
- John Allen Burtner, winemaker (TexSon/Tejano, Meeker), California Culinary Academy A.A.,
Former Bar Manager at Armadillo World HQ, Austin, TX
4 Song Promo Mashup of tracks from the "Twang-Ucopia" album
"I have to say that we are LOVING your new CD! It's crazy good!"
- Ann Hutchinson, Author, Sonoma County Dance Beat
"AWESOME CD AND I'M ONLY ON SONG 8!!!!!"
- Ed Shulz, I.A.T.S.E Local 16 (sound crew / stage hand Union) Hardly Strictly Bluegrass crew
- Susan Scholz Hammel, Lead Vocalist, Wheatfield, the Hamdogs
"Roots rockabilly from a wily crew with a load of credits ... Whether kicking it out on originals or covers,
they understand the genre and the groove and deliver accordingly and appropriately."
- Midwest Record Recap
"Album sounds great. Nice Job!"
- Mike Emerson, keyboardist for Tommy Castro & New Copasetics alumnus
The music ranges from originals to their own take on select material from great artists such as Rockpile (Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds), Ry Cooder,
Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson, Little Feat, Don Covay, The Simms Twins, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Manual Galban and L. D. Armstrong.
The New Copasetics players have ridiculous credits:
Tim Eschliman (acoustic string bass, vocals, worked with Etta James, Commander Cody & His Western Airmen, Jesse Colin Young, The Christmas Jug Band, played on the Grammy-nominated Garden Of Joy album by Maria Muldaur),
Sean Allen (electric guitar, lap steel, vocals, worked with Carlene Carter, Commander Cody & His Western Airmen, Tommy Thomsen, member of Western Swing Hall Of Fame),
Dallis Craft (piano, vocals, worked with Bruce Willis, K.T. Oslin,), and
Kevin Hayes (drums, worked with Robert Cray, Bonnie Hayes).
Additional players: Mike Emerson (piano, Tommy Castro Band), Bowen Brown (drums, John Lee Hooker, Tommy Castro Band), Gailene Elliott (guitar & vocals, George Porter's Runnin' Partners)
Produced by Tim Eschliman.
Recorded in a live Big Pink-style in the living room studios of Global Mobile at Global Mobile, Napa County with minimal overdubbing.
Engineered by Tim Eschliman and Ed "Skip" Sitkin.
Mastered for Vinyl and CD by George Horn and Anne-Marie Suenram at George Horn Mastering, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Photos by Kevin Frazier, Jerry Horn, Ed Sitkin, Meadowgate Media & Scott Hales
