CONWAY, Ark. (March 9, 2015) – Hendrix theatre professor Danny Grace ’77 and his band The Frontier Circus recently released Made
in Japan, a new album titled on Max/Ironic Recordings.
Made in Japan features eight songs in the band’s signature psycho-Western style.
Track List:
- Made In Japan
- Lost To A Geisha Girl
- Window Up Above
- Pablo Picasso Never Got Called Redneckerson
- Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
- Everybody Wants A Cowboy
- Arkansas Twist
- Walk On The Wild Side
There is a special limited run of 100 hand-crafted Made in Japan boxed sets, which include four 7-inch multi-colored vinyl records, full-color cover art, inserts and pictures, as well as a digital download card, all in a specially-sealed plastic
bag.
From Arkansas Times’ Rock Candy blog:
“The Frontier Circus, the cosmic-cowboy post-funk collective led by Hendrix College professor Danny Grace, is readying a new release via Max Recordings: an eight-song collection called "Made In Japan" that comes in the typically offbeat form of a box set of vinyl 45s. With twisted new takes on songs by George
Jones, Skeeter Davis and The Modern Lovers, the album is a limited pressing and features contributions from members of the Boondogs and Bloodless Cooties.”
The box set is available at live performances as well as at Arkansas CD and Record Exchange in North Little Rock and Been Around Records in Little Rock. Digital purchase options include Amazon.com and iTunes.
Visit the
Max Recordings website for more information.
Listen to
“Walk on the Wild Side” on SoundCloud.
“It’s safe to say that this was my first psycho-Western music experience,” said Hendrix President Bill Tsutsui, who caught the band’s record release show at The Whitewater Tavern this weekend in Little Rock. “But watching an alumnus and professor play guitar and sing everything from Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed to Buck
Owens and Glen Campbell in a rock band … how Hendrix is that?”
About Hendrix
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. This year, Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide
to Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.