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Chris Allen Music
Special Announcement
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Brothers Lounge Show. It was a great way to finish up a busy summer of band show and start switching gears again.
I will begin work on a Christmas album next week for release for this Holiday Season. It will be recorded by an all star collective of friends under the name The Ohio City Singers. I"ll keep you all posted on it's progress.
In the meantime I have added a solo acoustic show opening up once again for The Saw Doctors, this Friday at the House of Blues, Cleveland, OH.
See you all soon!
Latest News
The new album Things Unbroken has finally arrived from the press. Many thanks to all the folks in Washington, New York and Cleveland for the amazing album release shows...and to Don Dixon for coming along with us.
In other news I have signed a deal with Bug Music Publishing to distribute my album world wide over the internet and it is NOW available at most outlets including iTunes, Amazon, Emusic and more. Things Unbroken can also be purchased in old school physical format here at the site and at CD Baby.
To read more about the album in some of the early press:
- Free Times: "Unbroken Promises", Jeff Niesel
- Cleveland Scene Magazine: Fastforward, Michael Galluci
- HearYa: Chicago album release review, Craig Miller
See you all soon and special thanks to Executive Producers for making this album happen, and to Bug Music for joining the team.
*The Big Apple Circus is not affiliated with this album or its creator Chris Allen, nor does it endorse or is it responsible in anyway for the lyrics contained therein"*
Featured Articles
Singer-songwriter Allen sounds fine when he's down and out. When he gets to feeling good, it's downright contagious. Things Unbroken – the second solo record by the former frontman for Cleveland's alt-country darlings Rosavelt – is a more optimistic outing than 2006's Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus. Producer Don Dixon – who's polished R.E.M. and Marshall Crenshaw – gives the album a vintage college-rock gloss. Songs like "She's a Fighter" and "Renegade" bounce and jangle like Paul Westerberg jamming with the Pixies. There isn't one downer here. Even the morosely titled "One Day Our Bad Luck Is Going to Save Us" chugs along like a freight train headed for happy days.
"…writer/singer Chris Allen here comes into his own as a chronicler of life's minor ups and downs. While Allen doesn't shy away from big themes—'Emerald Hope' is a decidedly non-idealistic requiem for the hippie dream and 'Saturday 3am Blue' is a beer-soaked ballad that threatens existential despair—he injects an equal dose of poignancy into the raggedy roots rockers that give this record its soul…If you miss the straight-talking side of Jeff Tweedy…you'll want to get to know Chris Allen"
SCENE MAGAZINE 2006 CLEVELAND BEST OF ISSUE "Chris Allen cut his teeth in Rosavelt, playing a rugged roots-rock sound reminiscent of Exile-era Stones and The Replacements. Now, on his solo debut, Goodbye Girl and the Big Apple Circus, Allen has created the perfect soundtrack for the broken hearted. Whether pining after "Sweet Lorraine" or pondering a "Guilty Heart," Allen has a way with tales of longing and loss, delivered in a gritty, baritone drawl."
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