Mark Porkchop Holder New 'Let It Slide' LP Out Today

By: Feb. 10, 2017
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Guitarist, singer, harmonica player, and songwriter Mark Porkchop Holder is a founding member of the seminal Tennessee punk-rock/blues band The Black Diamond Heavies (with John Wesley Myers, aka James Leg, and Van Campbell of the band King Mud).

Holder plays the blues, and his music is the sound of the truth. He has traveled around the world and the U.S., and played at festivals, clubs, in the streets, at churches, in public toilets, army surplus stores and in a mental hospital or two. After more than a decade of struggling with depression and addiction, he has finally come back home, in Chattanooga TN, and assembled a first rate power trio.

His debut solo studio effort Let It Slide is a blistering blues album that marries both modern and traditional. Let It Slide has been described by the Chattanooga Pulse as "Boogie, sans bullsh*t. Dirty roadhouse music. Juke Joint jamming. Swamp rock. Too rock for blues, too blues for rock, the music is hungry, hard and mean."


MARK PORKCHOP HOLDER TOUR DATES:
February 10 @ Tremont Tavern - Chattanooga, TN
February 17 @ JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN
February 19 @ Sluggo's - Chattanooga, TN
February 24 @ Murphy's - Memphis, TN
February 28 @ The Thirsty Devil - Tupelo, MS
March 2 @ Hey Joe's - Cleveland, MS
March 3 @ Shipping and Receiving - Fort Worth, TX
March 4 @ Leftwoods - Amarillo, TX
March 6 @ Redwood Bar - Los Angeles, CA
March 7 @ The Torch Club - Sacramento, CA
March 9 @ Aptos Street BBQ - Santa Cruz, CA
March 11 @ G. Street Bar & Grill- Grants Pass, OR
March 12 @ Wildwood Hotel - Willamina, OR
March 16 @ Treehouse Cafe - Bainbridge Island, WA
March 29 @ Bayport BBQ - Bayport, MN
March 30 @ Hook & Ladder - Minneapolis, MN
March 31 @ Polack Inn - Wausau, WI
April 1 @ Lyric Room - Green Bay, WI
April 2 @ The Lift - Dubuque, IA
April 4 @ The Brass Rail - Ft. Wayne, IN (w/ Left Lane Cruiser)
June 3 @ Goat Fest IV @ The Shack Up Inn - Clarksdale, MS

Mark Porkchop Holder's Let It Slide is out now on limited edition vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.Click here to order the limited starbust vinyl LP



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