I keep hearing Tony Bennett crooning the refrain from that fine old song:

“… The falling leaves
Drift by my window.
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold.”

What a wonderful time of year. (Less than 2 weeks to Thanksgiving Day time off and pumpkin pie).  What a wonderful week we have going here. Two FREE In-Store CONCERTS, Wednesday JJ Grey 5pm, Friday 4pm The Waybacks, then Friday at 10pm The Black Diamond Heavies rock the Café unmercifully. In between that the noble staff of Horizon Records is here at your service daily tirelessly organizing hundreds of money saving used CDs, LPs, DVDs, and BOOKs to set out for your shopping, listening and economic pleasure. We are also happily knee deep in a slew of recent releases that are making the rounds. The hotness includes everything from Q-Tip to The Old Crow Medicine Show to the amazing new Live Lou Reed concert CD/LP of his classic Berlin just out. I could go on for hours about the huge stacks of classic rock LPs we just took in or the rare indie punk 45’s that landed here yesterday or the batch of sparkling like new classical CDs now on the shelf and all over the floor for $2.99 -7.99 in our classical room or the you-won’t-find-it-anywhere-else-in-town LPs Spiritual Jazz, Carolina Funk, and Bad Boy Butch Batson we now have stock on (while they last!). Oops don’t forget the indie store only stuff like Ollabelle Live.
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“Smoldering Otis Redding-inspired ballads…full-bore blues-rock, down-home roots and country-soul — uproariously funky and melodic homespun tales that are gritty and deeply personal. Grey’s resonant vocals are potent and authoritative, mature beyond his age.” —Harp

JJ Grey & Mofro’s newest release Orange Blossoms hit the streets in late August and we will have JJ and the band in Greenville for a performance at the Handlebar on Wednesday, November 19, at 8:30 PM.

So, what better way to celebrate the release of their second release for Alligator Records than with a special solo, acoustic in-store performance with JJ Grey at Horizon Records!
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Just Us Kids, the much loved recent release from our snarly workingman’s Texas song rocker James McMurtry has been selling every day since it’s release back in April. James rocks and rambles through stories and rants from tales of the roving eye to laments for aging black sheep to a few stern slaps at the corporate war mongers all filtered through grit of small town grief, anger, and redemption. These 12 tracks are the first new studio offerings since 2005’s firebrand “Childish Things” and are really not very different in a good way. Jack-slap you blue collar stance, rip-roaring swamp raw ravers and sultry bar room melancholy, all shot through with great guitar often blazing blues rock and some tasty slide here and there. Can you say nitty gritty? Oh yeah. James McMurtry brings it again. Political correctness and the delicate sensibilities of the country club set just aren’t on his check list, and never were thank goodness. Love ya James, keep bringing the real songs. The lunch is on us.

www.handlebar-online.com or CALL 864-233-6173.
Then come get any of James McMurtry’s CDs right here. Tickets also available here at Horizon.

James McMurtry - Just Us Kids, $12.99, on CD

The Waybacks in Concert with Ron Dunbar Band & Town Mountain scheduled for 7pm at the Skink Farm HAS BEEN CANCELED due to extreme weather.

However, the 4:00pm in-store at Horizon in the Bohemian Café is ON! See Waybacks in-store Concert info here.

More details at albinoskunk.com

The “Buck the Recession” Party with The Waybacks, scheduled for 7pm Nov. 21, has been CANCELED due to extreme weather. More information at albinoskunk.com

For The Waybacks, musical evolution is a way of life and a spectator sport. They’re as uninhibited and unpredictable as the eclectic San Francisco Bay area that claims them, but their experiments are invariably sharp-witted and musically dazzling. They’ve been through changes for sure. Now configured as a four-piece with a full arsenal of acoustic and electric instruments, The Waybacks introduce Loaded, the boldest, rangiest and most exciting album of their career. Produced by Nashville bassist Byron House, the folky underpinnings are still there, but after years of playing a huge range of venues and festivals (including some major gigs with Grateful Dead founder
Bob Weir) and reconfiguring themselves around the hot guitar of James Nash and the fiddle virtuosity of Warren Hood, The Waybacks are enjoying a refreshed repertoire — one that’s touched by Memphis soul, roadhouse boogie, Parisian swing, classical, vintage blue pop and much more besides.
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For over thirty years Gene Berger has been at the helm of his independent record store Horizon Records. His store has become an institution, not only in Greenville, SC but within the music industry on the whole. When major and independent record labels think of the key independent record stores in the South, Horizon Records is one of the first that comes to mind. Gene and his staff are first and foremost lovers of music and it shows when you walk inside to shop at his store. Gene has also been someone that I could call and pick his brain about the music industry. People like Gene insprired me to start my own record label. So, Ramseur Records is honored to offer a $200 shopping spree at Horizon Records on November 1st to a lucky winner of a contest we are throwing. You must have a ticket for the Avett Brothers show on November 1st at the Peace Center in Greenville, SC.

Congratulations to our winner, Jenna Ralphs of Huntersville, NC!
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