Hot Apple Pie

Review Decades of road and studio experience, top-notch songwriting and picking chops galore, they are having the time of their lives. -- Musicrow.com Product description Hot Apple Pie About the Artist Brady Seals – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, accordion Mark "Sparky" Matejka – vocals, guitar, banjo Keith Horne – vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar Trey Landry – drums, percussion, accordion The recipe for Hot Apple Pie includes a Virginia-bred flat-picking guitar champion/bass player, a Cajun drummer/accordionist, a Texan guitarist with a degree in jazz, a proven hit singer-songwriter and a dash of that indefinable something called musical charisma. "Hot Apple Pie is the perfect name for a band, isn’t it?" comments Trey Landry. "This is 100% natural, no artificial ingredients," says Sparky Matejka with a laugh. "From the very first day we played together, we knew this was a great mix," recalls Brady Seals. "And, yes, that’s really us playing on the record," adds Keith Horne. What a concept. In an era when teen-heartthrob pop vocal quartets are called "boy bands" and when country "groups" hire session musicians to play on their records, the sound of Hot Apple Pie is indeed refreshing. You can hear it in every groove of its DreamWorks Records debut – this is an honest-to-goodness band. These four musicians have an astonishingly full and diverse sound. "I wanted my next musical project to have integrity," says Brady Seals. "I wanted something that’s fresh and new, a little edgy and yet mainstream. Hot Apple Pie is that something." The band’s story begins with Brady. He was on the road as a country musician by age 16. He sent his early songwriting efforts to Uncle Troy in Nashville to have them critiqued. Then he moved to Music City and during his tenure in Little Texas, he blossomed as a writer. After leaving Little Texas to pursue a solo career, Seals released CDs in 1997 and 1999. He had six charting singles as a solo artist. However, Seals says "in every interview people would ask me about Little Texas. I really had a hard time trying to move on and have people embrace my new music." He spent a lot of time in Los Angeles writing and he made a critically acclaimed 2001 pop/rock album called Thompson Street. But the country boy never "fit in" with the West Coast crowd. He returned to Nashville to resume cowriting. In 2002, Brady Seals had a brainstorm. "I had the name and the whole vision from the beginning. I started to call the band The Apples. Then it turned into Apple Pie. Then, thanks to my wife, it turned into Hot Apple Pie. The guys all liked it. We chose the name because it means so many different things. It means home. It means comfort. It means country. It means rock ‘n’ roll. And it’s so American." "Sparky Matejka and Trey Landry had been in my band when I was a solo artist. I loved how both of them played, and I always thought they should have more than a sideman role. They were really talented good guys. So I called them up and said, ‘Let’s put a band together.’" Virginia native Keith Horne was a guitarist from the age of 6. After winning a number of guitar-picking contests in his home state, he formed a jazz band that backed Ramsey Lewis on the BET cable channel. In February 2003 Keith Horne joined the other three at Richard Landis’s studio. The chemistry was instantaneous. By the end of the day, Hot Apple Pie had recorded four tunes. All four wound up on their CD. When everyone’s life settled down, Landis took Hot Apple Pie under his wing. He funded its recording sessions and rehearsals. Then he took its extraordinary music to James Stroud, who signed the band to DreamWorks. "This all took place within six months," says Brady. "It was that quick. We all just knew it was going to work. This is a big sound for just four guys. There’s a bunch of stuff going on." Brady laughs, "We play so many instruments that we’re like the male version of the Mandrells!"
ASIN: B0009NCQIW
VSKU: DBV.B0009NCQIW.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:HOT APPLE PIE
Binding: Audio cd
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