The Cruzeros
are a roots/country recording act from Kelowna B.C. Their self-titled debut album released in 1996 resulted in five charting singles, four videos on CMT, two Top Ten CanCountry hits and dozens of award citations including a JUNO nomination for Country Group Of The Year.
Their second album, ‘El Niño’, released on August 7,2001, garnered impressive critical acclaim. The sophomore album won the Canadian Independent Music Award for Best Country Album for 2002. It was listed by Country Music News as one of the Top 12 albums produced in the year 2000 and was also voted one of the top 20 cd’s by members of the Fred Eaglesmith internet digest, the only Canadian album on a list including Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash. Four singles were released to radio and two videos to CMT. Three songs from El Niño were featured in The Barber, a major motion picture starring Malcolm McDowell.
Scandalosa is the group’s third offering and has already received four star ratings from critics. Produced by Joe Hardy (ZZ Top, Steve Earle, The Georgia Satellites), the cd was recorded at the Hum Depot, Nashville, TN and Rutland House Studio, Kelowna, BC. The disc includes 10 new original songs by the Cruzeros as well as covers of Donny Ray Ford’s “Cowboy Boots” and the classic 60’s hit “Wooly Bully” by Samudio Domingo, otherwise known as Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Joe brought in some of his buddies to help out on the project…session legends Greg Morrow, drums, Richard Bennett, guitar, Dan Dugmore, pedal steel and a special guest appearance by Dan Baird of the Georgia Satellites. The song November 11th was pre released in Canada in time for Rememberance day, 2004. A video for the new single, Load Me Up hit the airwaves in June and quickly climbed the CMT charts to #7 on the Big 12 and #15 on the Chevy Top 20. The Cruzeros hit the road all summer to promote the new record and a tour of Europe is being planned for 2006.
The band is equally at home performing unplugged or with full concert production and features Barry Mathers (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Curtis Tulman (12-string, harmonica, saxophone, penny whistle, bass, vocals), Mike Jervis (keyboards, bass, vocals), Kirk Bewer (drums) and Gary Smyth (guitar, bass guitar).
New album preview: Scandalosa
1 - Scandalosa
2 - The way it is around here
3 - Don’t drink the water
4 - Cowboy boots
5 - Helplessly
6 - Stuck with it
7 - The way you’re looking at me
8 - Rosalita
9 - November 11th
10- Load me up
11- Wooly Bully
12- This lucky
Band web site : www.cruzeros.com
