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Roxy Roca is here to heat up you cold nights this weekend. Hear them at night when Deep Pockets Jazz Radio gets wild.

An arctic cold front has settled over Dallas this weekend and I was preparing to pour a glass of wine and chill by the fire.  Then I came across the new release from Roxy Roca called Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy.  Come to find out that they are play Dallas on Friday and I’m trying to figure out how to dance in a parka. This Austin based band…

Tonight Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes the amazing Austin TX Soul & Funk Band Roxy Roca to the show! www.roxyroca.com "Fans of ’60s legends like James Brown and Al Green will have plenty to savor on Roxy Roca’s latest, Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy — a record full of powerhouse soul with a smooth, Southern finish. The lyrics are simple, but it’s the horn section and vocalist Taye Cannon’s impressive vocal chops that steal the show here, with hoarse shrieks, whoops, and hollers to beat the band. Roxy Roca’s tunes are dynamic, infectious, and, above all, fun, sure to inspire even the most reluctant to step out on the dance floor." ~ Texas Music Magazine For Media inquiries: Kelly MacGaunn kelleemack pr www.kelleemackpr.com

New videos from Roxy Roca, Split Screens, White Shadows

Roxy Roca has released the video for their first single from the upcoming album “Ain’t Nothing Fancy” (Stag Records, February 24). The video was directed by Nick & Josh Holden from MISHNOON, best know for their work with Willie Nelson, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, and Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears. Here’s “Love Maker DeVille” by Roxy Roca.

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We are thrilled to announce that our new album, “Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy,” will be released on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 on Stag Records! It will be available on CD and download formats on the release date, with a vinyl release planned for later this spring. Bonus: order the CD and receive the download version (mp3) for free!

Pre-order your copy today, right here: Stag Records web site.

About the Album:

ROXY ROCA is a powerhouse of southern soul, stirring up your spirit with a gritty and infectious sound influenced as much by soul and funk legends of the late 60s like James Brown, Joe Tex, and Al Green as by early rock ‘n’ roll pioneers like Chubby Checker and Little Richard and early 70s psychedelic funk rockers like War and Sly and the Family Stone. Formed in late 2010, the band quickly developed a reputation for getting a room on its feet and in motion with a sound that has been described as Dynamite Texas Soul — driving, horn-powered southern soul with a certain explosiveness and swagger that is distinctly Texas. The band went into EAR Studio with producer Lars Goransson (The Relatives, Jewel Brown, Kool & Together, Cornell Dupree, Little Joe Washington) to capture that energy the old-fashioned way: nine musicians in a room together, recording live, straight to tape. That whirlwind, four-day session resulted in ROXY ROCA’s Stag Records debut, “Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy,” due out on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 on vinyl, CD, and download. On it, green-eyed soul shouter Taye Cannon leads his crack band of veteran players through a tight, punchy set of funk and soul originals with the urgency of a man trying to save his own soul as much as the listener’s. The songs blend classic themes like heartache (in “I Don’t Wanna Dream No More”) and the oh-so-sweet comeback from it (in “Love Maker DeVille”) with contemporary subject matter like generational disillusionment (as in “Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”) and the fear of facing an uncertain future (as in “It’s Your Dream”), tied together with a message of hope and optimism that encourages listeners to put their spirits in charge of their minds, if only for this moment (and to make taking that advice just a little bit easier, the band handily rounds out the album with a few out-and-out club bangers like “Try My Love” and “Rainy Day”). “Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy” hits that elusive sweet spot that happens when a road-tested, polished band hitting its stride is allowed to just crank up and do what they do, with no second-guessing, no pitch correcting, and no focus groups — just hitting “record” and letting instinct take over. It’ll make you want to get up out of your chair!

Track Listing

Ain’t Nothin’ Fancy (It’s Love) (4:09)

Love Maker DeVille (3:08)

I Don’t Wanna Dream No More (4:06)

Try My Love (3:16)

Don’t Call Me (Maybe I’ll Call You) (4:17)

Cornbread (2:36)

Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (3:35)

When the Lights Go Down (4:31)

Rainy Day (4:28)

Bank Account (2:45)

It’s Your Dream (5:18)