JOHN CARROLL & THE EPIC PROPORTIONS w s/g Andre M. Bluteau @ THE BLACK SHEEP MAY 6TH MATINEE
John & his band The Epic Proportions & special guest Andre M. Bluteau will be playing a Black Sheep Matinee on May 6th @ 4pm. Tix are $10 in advance, pick them up at either Compact Music locations, Vertigo Records, online at www.worldfamousmusic.net or in hand from John on Tues/Wed/Sun. nights at the Laff (42 York St. in the Byward Market). This show is also all ages! So bring the fam!
Also, for those of you looking for a ride to the show you can visit the facebook page Black Sheep Inn Car-Pool  Heading to Sudbury to promote the new Album! Gonna Rock the Rock at The Townehouse!
John & The Epic Proportions are heading North to one of Northern Ontario's finest live music establishments, The Townehouse in Sudbury. First time in Sudbury with the new album, John and the Band are stoked to show the Rock how they rock their latest collection of orignial country-blues & rockn' roll tunes! If you are any where within driving distance to this great minning town, come on down and check them out!
FRIDAY, MARCH 23RD, 10PM, $7 LIVE @ THE TOWNEHOUSE 206 ELGIN ST., SUDBURY, ON JOHN CARROLL & THE EPIC PROPORTIONSwith special guest JOE GRASS 'Everybody Smokes in Hell'
Elmdale Tavern, Ottawa
Saturday, March 10 - 2012
9PM Showtime
Tickets: $10 advance + HST
Tickets sold @ The Elmdale Tavern, Both Compact Music Locations, Vertigo Records and on line @ www.worldfamousmusic.net  One of the hardest working, most appreciatively celebrated and gracefully understated songwriters in Canada's National Capital, John Carroll follows up on his sold out album release show at the Blacksheep Inn back in January. 'Everybody Smokes in Hell' is agruably John's finest effort to date, continuing his legacy of creating original and authentic songs that combine influences in country blues, folk roots and rock n' roll. Performing on this occasion with the superbly talented guitarist and songwriter Joe Grass, well known by Ottawa audiences for his performances alongside the Vinyl Cafe with Stuart Mclean. Interview Before the CD Release with Alan Neal of "All in a Day"
Click here to hear John being interviewed by host of CBC Ottawa's "All in a Day", Alan Neal. Thanks Alan & "All in a Day"!
Patrick Langston's review of "Everybody Smokes in Hell"
EXCELLENT ALBUM PILLORIES THE GUILTY
Everybody Smoke in Hell
 (four stars)
John Carroll & The Epic Proportions
(Independent)
The cover art - a Gustave Dore engraving for Dante's Inferno showing sinners condemned to spend eternity upside down in flaming rock - suggests that John Carroll may be annoyed with wrong-doers. Sure enough, the excellent third album by the Ottawa country blues/folk man, who sometimes sounds uncannily like Mississippi John Hurt, pillories the guilty.
On the title track, it's the religiously righteous. The wealthy one per-centers scorned by the Occupy movement get soundly scolded in the rattling Piggy. And our tendency to overrate the intellectural elite is skewered from the vantage point of a paid but ignored house party entertainer in The Party.
Carroll is a wry, observant musician who elsewhere tackles perennially favorite subjects like a free-spending gal and, in the driving Frontal Lobotomy Blues, the dangers of television addiction.
(In addition to the CD launch tonight at the Black Sheep Inn, Carroll plays the Chateau Lafayette in the ByWard Market every Wednesday.)
Tickets for the release are now SOLD OUT
So all the tickets for John's January 14th Album release at the Black Sheep Inn are sold out (that includes bus tix too). Fret not if you did not manage to get your tix in time cause John and The Epic Proportions will be doing another show on March 10th at the Elmdale Tavern. Stay tuned for those details, and have a wonderful weekend!
Review of John's latest release in The Ottawa Sun by Denis Armstrong:
"At 42 and one of the hardiest of Ottawa’s singer-songwriters he urges listeners to relax and enjoy life more on this rambling and deliciously dirty album of want-to-be-bad blues. It’s the musical equivalent of a noir crime novel."
Denis Armstrong of the Ottawa Sun had much to say about John's soon to be released album "EVERBODY SMOKES IN HELL," and all of it very positive. See the online article HERE. The article will be published in print today, a great thing for the album's release this Saturday at The Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield QC. Tix ($10) for the show are almost sold out, you can buy them on line HERE or at both Compact Music locations, The Record Shaap and Vertigo Records in Ottawa or from John. For Bus ($15) tix you need to see John at his show tonight at The Chateau Lafayette (42 York St. Byward Market) 8pm. Six days to CD RELEASE at THE BLACK SHEEP!!
The days are winding down to our "Everbody Smokes in Hell" Album release party on Saturday, January 14th at The Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield, QC. John will be joined by his band of top shelf musicians The Epic Proportions: Fred Guignon on lap steel/electric guitar, Olivier Fairfield on drums and Phil Charbonneau on upright bass.
You can avoid driving out to Wakefield for the show by grabbing what is left of our bus tickets, $15 to get you there and back. The bus will pick up in Kemptville from the front of the Branch Restaurant at 6:30pm (time may change to 6:15, but we'll keep you posted) and from The Chateau Lafayette at 7:30pm the day of the show. Pick up in Wakefield at the Black Sheep after the show will occur at 12:00am. You can see John or Birdie at the Laff for bus tix and show tix on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, or by special arrangement by emailing john@johncarrrollmusic.com Some show tix are still available for $10 + HST from World Famous Music or from Ticket Web JOHN CARROLL & THE EPIC PROPORTIONS ALBUM RELEASE PARTY JANUARY 14TH, 2012 ~ 753 RIVERSIDE DR. WAKEFIELD QC ~ DOORS @ 8PM
CATCH OUR BUS TO JOHN'S ALBUM RELEASE PARTY AT THE BLACK SHEEP INN!!Bus Tickets are now available for purchase! One $15 bus* ticket will make its first stop in Kemptville, at the branch restaurant (15 Clothier St. East) at 6:30pm on Jan. 14th, 2012. The bus's second stop will be at the Chateau Lafayette (42 York St. Byward Market) in Ottawa at 7:00pm the same day. Pick up in Wakefield will be at 12:00am after the show to take you back to either of our two stops. At the moment, you can purchase bus tickets (and show tickets) from Tiah on Tues. nights (from 9pm) at the Chateau Lafayette and from John on Wed nights ( from 8pm) same place. We will put out a notice here and on John's facebook to let you all know when they will be available for purchase from both Compact Music locations, The Record Shaap and Vertigo. You can also reach us at john@johncarrollmusic.com *ticket price for cd release not included: show tickets are $10+HST and can be purchased by seeing Tiah or John at the Laff, heading down to the four music store locations above or by visiting www.worldfamousmusic.net to purchase your ticket on line. 
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