Tristen will release the Decks The Halls 7″ just in time for the holidays. Fans can help fund the production of the 7″ by pledging to Tristen’s “Decks The Halls Kickstarter,” where they can gain access to additional options such as hand made journals, signed limited edition prints, a knitted scarf made by Tristen, and even a private concert from Tristen for friends and family in their own home.

Visit the Kickstarter page at the link here: http://kck.st/TristenKickstarter

Decks The Halls 7″ Track Listing
Side A: “Frosty The Snowman” & “Winter Is Blue”
Side B: “Blue Christmas”

This December Tristen will tour the east coast with Justin Townes Earle, playing a few newly announced headlining gigs in between. See below for updated tour dates including stops in Brooklyn, Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Charlottesville.

Upcoming Tour Dates:

* = w/ Justin Townes Earle

NOVEMBER
12 – Chattanooga, TN – JJ’s Bohemia
23 – Nashville, TN – The Basement w/ Jonny Corndawg, Andrew Combs

DECEMBER
01 – Cincinnati, OH – MOTR Pub
02 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
03 – Oneonto, NY – Foothills Performing Arts*
04 – Fall River, MA – Narrows Center for the Arts*
05 – Lewiston, ME – Olin Arts Center at Bates*
06 – Brooklyn, NY – The Rock Shop
08 – Milford, CT – Daniel Street Club*
09 – Hudson, NY – Club Helsinki*
10 – Boston, MA – Royale Nightclub*
11 – Easthampton, MA – The Flywheel
12 – Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea

Hope you can make it out to a show!

American Myth Recordings

If you’re in the Cincinnati area next month, we’d love for you to come have a listen at the Midpoint Music Festival where Tristen will join 180 global artists (including acts like Booker T. Jones and Kaki King) in a three day musical shindig.

Tristen will be performing on September 22nd at 10 p.m.

In other news, Vogue loves our gal – and Tristen was named the mag’s “Artist of the Week” in July.

Take care, and we hope to see you at a show soon. In the meantime, keep listening!

Fresh off a successful Bonnaroo debut, Tristen is hitting the road with The Elected in June and July ahead of her run for the Canadian border and the Ottawa Blues Fest July 17^th. The tour kicks off in Atlanta June 21st. Check out the full list of dates below!

Tristen’s Bonnaroo debut was successful from the outset as she was named by Spin as one of the “Must Hear Artists” artists at the fest, and by American Songwriter as one of the “Top 10 Bands We’re Excited To See.” Living up to the hype, her sets were met with kind words like “mesmerizing” (Cincinnati City Beat), and “refreshing” (Mountain Express). On Saturday night Tristen had the unenviable task of going up against the re-united Buffalo Springfield. The atmosphere was actually quite memorable, and the competition was nothing Tristen couldn’t handle. “A freak thunderstorm came up,” wrote Jim Riddley of Nashville Scene, “and I didn’t really feel like getting struck by lightning while listening to Buffalo Springfield. Besides, who was that terrific singer who kept drawing people from the fringes of the Buffalo crowd to her nearby tent — well, blow me down! There was Nashville’s Tristen.”

Aside from playing, Tristen kept busy, speaking with fellow artist Nicole Atkins for Paste, and snapping Polaroid shots for Stereogum and The Impossible Project.

For even more Tristen, take a listen to her live in office performance at Rolling Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cahjtHksDbQ&feature=relmfu

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Upcoming Tour Dates Below

* = w/ The Elected

JUNE

21 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn*

22 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506*

23 – Washingotn, DC – The Red Palace*

24 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s*

25 – Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory*

26 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwells*

28 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall*

JULY

01 – Cleveland, OH – The Grog Shop

02 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern

03 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club

14 – Cincinatti, OH  – MOTR Pub

15 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme

16 – Toronto, ON, Canada – The Drake Hotel

17 – Ottawa, ON, Canada – Ottawa Blues Fest at Lebreton Flats

18 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Casa del Popolo

19 – Buffalo, NY – The Ninth Ward

20 – Louisville, KY – Uncle Slayton’s

Congratulations guys! Keep your eye on the mail.  Your 7″s will ship later this week.

Jonathan Patty
Laurabeth Brown
William Towne
Jessica Appert
Johnny Le
Spandau Ballet Tobin
Chris Holloway
Jayme Helgeson
Amy Jo Damitz
Gregory Oberle
Nathaniel Mendoza
Tiffiny Kallina
Amanda Evans
D. Suniga
Rick Salemi
Jan Lundberg
Tom Morgan
David Cooke
Leslie Jones
Ivana Zovko
Eoin Galvin
C.D. Hermelin
Lizzie Smith
Joshua Jones
Sokolov Vyzcheslav

If you didn’t win, we still have a limited quantity of 7″s left at our store.  If collecting vinyl is your thing then act now because we’re almost sold out.

Right now at www.tristen.com you can enter to win a copy of the “Eager For Your Love” 7″.  All who enter will receive a hand written “Greetings From Nashville” postcard in the mail from Tristen and get 4 free songs from the album Charlatans At The Garden Gate.  If you’re looking for a 7″ though, don’t leave it to chance.  We’re almost sold out of the first run.  So head to the American Myth store to pick up a 7″ and maybe a copy of the full-length on Vinyl too.

Upcoming Tour Dates:
* = w/ Ezra Furman & The Harpoons and The Apache Relay

APRIL
03 – Nashville, TN – 12th and Porter*
05 – Charlottesville, VA – Twisted Branch Tea
06 – Vienna, VA – Jammin Java*
07 – Allston, MA – Great Scott*
08 – New York, NY – The Studio Webster Hall*
09 – Philadelphia, PA – North Star Bar*
12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE*
13 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom*
14 – Columbus, OH – The Basement*
15 – St. Louis, MO – Firebird*
16 – Champaigne, IL – High Dive*
19 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop
20 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
21 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry*
22 – Madison, WI – The Frequency*
23 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean*
24 – Cincinnati, OH – MOTR Pub
28 – Iowa City, IA – The Mill*
29 – Lawrence, KS – Bottleneck*
30 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive*

MAY
01 – Colorado Springs, CO – Triple Nickel Tavern
04 – Tucson, AZ – Plush
06 – Los Angeles, CA – The Satellite*
07 – La Jolla, CA – The Loft UCSD*
12 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill*
14 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern*
15 – Doug Fir Lounge, Portland OR*
17 – Sacramento, CA – Blue Lamp
18 – San Jose, CA – The Blank Club
20 – Pioneer Town, CA – Pappy And Harriets
21 – Tempe, AZ – The Sail Inn
23 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk

“Nowadays, it’s hard to come up with a fresh take on the pop hook. Sure, there’s some scholarship involved, but listening to Tristen, you realize that not everything about a killer hook can be taught. Part of it comes under the heading of “pure inspiration.” This album has plenty of that.”

Rolling Stone meanwhile, is taken with the record as well.

“When Tristen Gaspadarek belts “show me how your daddy and your mama made you” on the twangy rocker “Heart And Hope To Die,” it takes a second for the come-on to register. Her addictive debut is full of such moments: catchy refrains with multiple meanings, ear-tugging melodies with hidden hooks. She flaunts a philosophy major’s palette amidst echoes of vintage rockabilly and girl group pop: Gods battle, queens bid their rule, girlfriends enable druggy lovers.”

You can also find the album at Insound.com and Amazon.com among many other online retailers that sell physical CDs.  Of course you can always pick up the Album and/or Tristen T-Shirts direct from us at the American Myth Store.

We’d like to thank the press for some of the nice things they’ve had to say about the album over the last few weeks.  See below!

“Tristen Gaspadarek has crafted a confident, poignant folk-pop debut that never wants for hooks, and manages to undercut its sing-songiness at every turn with unflinching lyrics and mature songwriting.” - The Onion AV Club

“Tristen comes from Nashville, TN and the Jenny Lewis school of modern, God-fearing country, but she caught up to her contemporaries and surpassed them in one fell swoop. As soon as the vocals kick in on the opener “Eager for Your Love,” it’s impossible not to listen to this record all the way through. Man this girl can sing.” -Bust

“With or without Tristen’s acute capacity to portray relationships and ideology gone wrong, Charlatans is a musical document billowing over with rich, vintage hues and irrepressible hooks, her reverence for the lions of pop music and confident sense of self all meted out in the same breath.”-Nashville Scene

“This week, with the release of her confident debut, Tristen reminds us just what it was we loved about her to begin with.”- Paste

Visit Tristen on iTunes or Amazon.com

Or visit the American Myth Store for the CD or LP if you can’t wait.