Party Girl is Tom Ovans’ 11th
album and his 6th on the London-based label Floating World/Evangeline. The
reviews have been glowing, including 4 star mentions in UNCUT, Q, and MOJO magazines.
Party Girl is being released in the US by 00:02:59.
TOM OVANS BIO
Itinerant song man Tom Ovans has long been an outsider,
a restless traveler on the spin. Born just outside of Boston, Massachusetts in 1953,
he’s lived a life on the margins. If music has been his one constant, still he has
always faced what had to be faced, done what had to be done – whether that be
carpentry, painting or roofing, working in construction, factories or warehouses. Prissy,
overwrought singer-songwriters everywhere, today as always, can talk the big talk, but
craftsmen think with their hearts and work with their hands.
As a chronicler and troubadour, Ovans has trod a rough
and ragged musical path across the States. In the early ’70s in New York City he
walked the walk with a junked-out Tim Hardin and knocked-out loaded Phil Ochs. Over the
years he has drifted, been homeless, stood proud, lain low, dug deep but always moved on.
Following stints on the east coast, west coast, a short
spell in New Orleans and 18 long years in Nashville, Tom Ovans landed in Austin, Texas,
six years ago with his painter wife Lou Ann Bardash. Together, they continue to live on
the edge, away from the spotlight, fame or glare. He only rarely gigs or tours.
A self-taught musician, Ovans released his first album,
‘Industrial Days’, in 1991. Attracting increasingly widespread respect and
acclaim, an impressive series of raw and gritty, moving and inspired albums followed.
‘Dead South’ in 1997 was his first masterpiece, 1999’s ‘The Beat
Trade’ was even better. ‘Tombstone Boys, Graveyard Girls’ in 2003 probably
topped the lot. For Ovans, integrity counts over Success. He don’t wave no flags for
no-one, doesn’t preach to the choir, and never chooses easy.
GOOD QUOTE
"Tom Ovans makes the dark end of the freeway an
essential place to visit."
****Fred Dellar Q Magazine UK
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