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Live
Music By Hurricane Mason
Request Hurricane Mason!
call 918-343-7913 or email charlie7_913@hotmail.com
& request Hurricane
Mason
You can listen live to 91.3 KRSC The Wave in streaming audio by
following this link...http://www.rsu.edu/krsc/fm/krscfm.html
Request Hurricane Mason on 97.5 KMOD!
918-460-KMOD (5663)
or email your requests to robhurt@clearchannel.com
The cd is available at CD Warehouse 61st
& Sheridan, Starship Records &
Tapes 11th & Delaware, Borders Books & Music 21st &
Harvard, Seasick
Records 2nd & Elgin as well as Music Go Round at 71st &
Mingo in Tulsa
or buy it online
here
Cast
Iron Constitution
Cast
Iron indeed,
which happens to be the name of the first album by Matt
Mason under the moniker Hurricane Mason. Matt writes, plays
guitar, bass, mandolin, harp and sings to deliver a diverse
album that showcases strong songwriting, incendiary guitar
playing and sounds seldom heard anymore in the modern day world
of heavy rock. “Basically I just made the kind of record I
would like to buy,” says Mason. “I’m a big fan of over the
top guitar stuff but at the same time great songs really mean a
lot to me.” There’s straight up rock ala Black Crowes and
Ted Nugent, some Sabbath-esque heavier rock tunes, moody ballads
bringing to mind Crazy Horse-era Neil Young and a couple real
jam tunes that sound like they might be at home on a classic
Allman Brothers, Santana or Jeff Beck album.
Stylistic
comparisons also read like Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd in a
fistfight with Slash and Zakk Wylde on guitar while Leon Russell
and Ronnie Van Zandt trade off on vocals. 
The
album was recorded over the course of 4 months by Mason with the
help of some friends both old and new. “I had been through a
bunch of different drummers over the last year or so doing live
dates and I remembered one guy I hadn’t called yet. When Shawn
Montgomery came out to the shop, sat down behind the kit and
started playing Grand Funk Railroad and Mountain I knew we might
be onto something here. Most of what I had were rough demos from
back in the Stillwater days and I really have to credit him with
making this stuff come alive.” Longtime Hurricane Mason fans
may recognize a couple other names in the credits. Tracy Lee
Bull contributed bass to 7 of Cast Iron Constitution’s 11
tracks and Mark Alan sings background vocals on “Hell Bent and
Glory Bound”. While making original music can be both
frustrating and rewarding, Mason enjoys the artistic pursuit.
“It just came to a point in my career where I was really ready
to get an album together. This year everything lined up to make
it happen and I am really excited to finally have put together
something that I’m very proud of.”
Cast
Iron Constitution be available at Music-Go-Round, Starship
Records and Tapes, CD Warehouse, Borders Books and Music and at
live gigs. Point
your browser to www.hurricanemason.com for more information.
Hurricane
Mason will also host a CD release party on July 19th, 2002.
It will be held at Curly’s at the East End, 216 N.
Elgin, Tulsa, OK. Show
starts at 8:00 p.m.
Contact
info
(918)809-5398
Email:
matt@cosmic-cowboy.com
Photos by Donna Bouman
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