Ed Burleson's 'Cold Hard Truth' Climbing the Charts, Winning Acclaim

Current Tour Includes Show at Old Coupland Inn & Dancehall on May 29

AUSTIN, TX (PRWEB) May 28, 2004 -- Ed Burleson is one singing cowboy who's all over the place.

His recently released second CD, "The Cold Hard Truth" (Palo Duro Records), is climbing the charts -- #4 on XM Radio's X-Country, #10 on the Texas Music Chart and #23 on the Americana Chart --- and garnering fans like Chet Flippo, who writes of Burleson, "His new CD is probably the strongest honky-tonk album I have listened to in the last five years."

The CD -- 14 classy honky-tonk and bluegrass songs delivered with complete honesty in Burlesons signature Texas twang -- is due for review by Texas Monthly magazine, which will hit news stands and subscribers' homes about the same time it will be featured on CMT's hugely popular "Listening Party" at www.cmt.com, which nets about 1 million visitors a day from around the world.

Burleson's busy spring of show dates at clubs, seminars and festivals and Lone Star State radio station stops behind the release of "The Cold Hard Truth" continues this month with a show on Saturday, May 29, at a genuine honky-tonk, The Old Coupland Inn and Dancehall, in Coupland. Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 at the door. For more information, call 512-856-2226.

His "The Way You're Treatin' Me" will be part of Palo Duro Records' Texas Unplugged compilation, an all-acoustic recording of originals by Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, TC Taylor, Larry Joe Taylor, Eleven Hundred Springs and others set for release this fall.

And music lovers will be able sail the high seas with Burleson on Palo Duro's Texas Music Cruise, October 31-November 5 aboard Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas.

As Chet Flippo accesses Burleson and "The Cold Hard Truth":
"Ed Burleson does write songs, and he writes some very good ones. And he sings them with a hardcore honky-tonk edge that you may not have heard in a long while. ... Whenever you hear radio executives and record label wonks complain that some country music is simply 'too country,' it's a singer like Ed Burleson they're talking about. He is way far too country for record industry wimps. No Saab or Hummer drivers need listen here.
Burleson is an uncompromising Texas roadhouse singer whose first album was produced by the late Texas Tornado Doug Sahm just a few years ago. Sahm himself was too country for Nashville, with songs like 'Cowboy Peyton Place.' On Burlesons new CD, a taped Sahm introduces Burleson's live version of 'Heart Break Highway' as 'too country for his own good.' And that song is all that modern honky-tonk should be -- balls to the wall, rockin', spiritual, roadhouse honky-tonk. Long live righteous excess."
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