The Plain Dealers
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The Plain Dealers

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"2007 Update"

The band has experienced a good deal of success with their debut self-titled release, charting across the country on campus and community radio, hitting #1 in Edmonton, a Top 10 spot on Earshot’s National Folk/Roots/Blues Chart, May 2007. Former music editor of the Village Voice and Senior Editor at Billboard, Chuck Eddy, discovered the EP on CDBaby, touting it “one of the best cdbaby releases I've heard this year” in a blog review.
The Plain Dealers are a high draw headlining act and a first-call band to open for touring acts playing in the Edmonton area.
- Plain Dealer Press


"PLAIN DEALERS DOLE OUT DEBUT EP WITH GENRE TRICKS UP ITS SLEEVE"

PLAIN DEALERS DOLE OUT DEBUT EP WITH GENRE TRICKS UP ITS SLEEVE
Vue Weekly - April 26, 2007
Tara Zurowski (tara@vueweekly.com)

"We have a few slow songs, but we don’t tend to play them live very often,” begins Jordan Slator, guitarist/banjoist for the Plain Dealers. “At that point in the night, everyone’s up and having fun, and who wants to bring ‘em down?”


The Plain Dealers’ genesis was about a year and a half ago. After playing in a string of cover bands at too many weddings and parties, Slator and guitarist/mandolinist Gene Klenky managed to round up the talents of vocalist/guitarist Darren Weir, bassist Dave Visser and drummer Brent Beaudry and settled down to write as the Plain Dealers.

In a nutshell, the band is made up of five indie rock professionals playing outlaw country with a heavy metal drummer.

“That’s what it comes down to,” Slator says. “Brent keeps us from getting too folky or too twangy. He keeps it balanced. Brent in particular was really a hard rock and heavy metal guy—I wasn’t sure he’d be into it.

“Anyone can be coerced into country music,” he continues, laughing. “Ultimately, you’re playing, you’re having fun and as long as the music’s good it doesn’t matter so much what kind you’re playing.”

Slator admits that people always ask him what kind of music they play, explaining that he’s resigned himself to saying roots rock.

“It’s not terribly descriptive,” he says. “It’s kind of a cross section of outlaw country with more rock influences.”

Currently, the band is delighted that its self-titled EP is finally going to see the light of day.

“This took an embarrassing amount of time to record for five songs,” Slator notes. “Particularly when everyone’s got day jobs and families. We practice in my basement, so my wife [hears a lot of] noise. My two-and-a-half-year-old is by far our greatest fan ... potentially an untapped market!

“I think the album captures what we do fairly well,” he concludes. “We recorded it in my basement, did all the tracking down there and then a friend of mine mixed it for us with a fresh set of ears. We’re happy with the way it turned out.”


- Vue Weekly


Discography

"The Plain Dealers"- self titled 5 song EP
Release date: April 27th/2007
Independently recorded and produced

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Ask “ The Plain Dealers” about their musical backgrounds and you might consider them an unlikely bunch of guys to form a roots-rock band. With influences and playing experience that range from outlaw country to progressive hard rock, the 5 band members have a musical diversity that some might think impossible to blend. However, this Edmonton-based band uses these differences to their collective advantage, creating a unique brand of honest, rootsy music that occasionally twangs, often rocks and always leaves a sweet melody lingering in the listener's head. The music has touched people from Windsor to Vancouver, as illustrated by the community/campus support - the CD has charted well in various markets across the nation (as high as #1), and made an appearance on the Top 10 Folks/Roots/Blues chart in mid-2007 (www.earshot-online.com, search "Plain Dealers").