Backseat Bordello Band is Now Open for Music

WOODLAND HILLS, CA, August 12, 2010

The band named themselves Backseat Bordello to create a colorful yet dark image in your mind, much the same as their music. With the immediacy of a cinematic shock cut, Backseat Bordello plays songs that transport you to places you may have never traveled.

The band is the layered acoustic duo consisting of Danielle Egnew and Kristen Coyner who are both well-versed in playing out and hitting the road because each is a founding member of power girl band Pope Jane.

"The Backseat Bordello project was conceived by Kristen," states Egnew, "and our collaboration has been an incredible emotional journey." Coyner, who has spent the last 12 years behind the drums in Pope Jane, was searching for a more expressive outlet for her songwriting, as well as a home for the more folk-oriented styles in Egnew's catalogue.

Produced and mixed by Danielle Egnew, Backseat Bordello is founded on the signature vocal blend of both Egnew and Coyner set within an intimate setting of carefully woven and orchestrated guitar work by both artists, featuring acoustic slide and lead guitar by Egnew.

Their eleven song debut CD, "End Times Diner," is thoughtful and reflective of concerns surrounding twenty-first-century living and dying. The song "Dashboard Mary," penned by Egnew, chronicles the last moments in a woman's life. As she reflects during her suicide, the lyrics are "And she cried to Dashboard Mary / Would she make way in the heavens for her kind?"

The anthem "Rise Up," written by Coyner, reaches out to oppressed peoples everywhere from an LGBT perspective: "You must rise up./ You must speak out / You must be brave now."

The album is also peppered with whimsical thoughts such as in "Miraculous," a lilting tune written by Egnew: "Looking up in the Hollywood Hills / She's wearing hundred thousand dollar espadrilles / Stitched together in Chinese mills for a dime a pair, but the brand's a thrill / It's not miraculous/ It's just the way it is."

The swampy, slide-heavy "Blind," written by Coyner, is an ode to all those who are obsessed with another person: "I can't seem to get you off of my mind / I can't seem to leave those things you said behind / You've been dancing around in my head / I wish I was blind."

As track eleven, Egnew and Coyner record a cultural favorite, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," in one of the most emotive and vocally stunning arrangements to date, ending with a dynamic 32 track layered chorus of Hallelujah that features choral arrangements by Egnew.

Backseat Bordello's CD "End Times Diner" is now available for ordering and will be later available for digital purchase through iTunes, CDBaby, and others, courtesy of Ave Vox Music Group and Maurice The Fish Records.

For more information, visit the Backseat Bordello website: http://www.BackseatBordello.com

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