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Deer Tick's "20 Miles" serves gritty 'Black Dirt Sessions'

TDR fave Deer Tick shares the first MP3 from The Black Dirt Sessions, track “20 Miles”.

Recorded late last year at Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York, lead vocalist and songwriter John McCauley proves all you need is a couple chords, a trashed voice and more heart than the next guy. Called the country-rock breakthroughs of 2009, Deer Tick live is a boozey, swaggering affair – like the dude from The Hurt Locker started a band; an especially apt comparison given that the Providence, RI act has performed for Pentagon TV several times, and hence become a huge favorite for military men and women. A documentary film about the band, City of Sin should come out this year 2010. Tour dates and June 8 album release details after the jump.

DEER TICK Tour Dates:

04/20 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom %

04/21 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret %

04/22 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern %

04/24 Santa Cruz, CA Crepe Place

04/25 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall *

04/27 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theatre *

04/28 Las Vegas, NV Beauty Bar

04/29 Santa Fe, NM Sante Fe Brewing Company *

04/30 Dallas, TX The Loft *

05/01 Austin, TX Emo’s *

05/02 Houston, TX Warehouse Live Studio *

05/03 Fayetteville, AR Majestic Lounge *

05/04 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz

05/05 Birmingham, AL Workplay *

05/06 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom *

05/07 Louisville, KY Headliners *

05/08 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern

05/09 Ithaca, NY Castaway’s

05/10 Albany, NY Valentines

05/11 Boston, MA Paradise *

05/12 Boston, MA Paradise *

05/13 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory *

05/14 Washington, DC 9:30 Club *

05/15 New York, NY Terminal 5 *

07/23 – 07/24 Floyd, VA Floyd Fest

08/06 – 08/08 Chicago, IL Lollapalooza

  • = w/ Dr. Dog
  1. = w/ Those Darlins
% = w/ Holy Sons
& = w/ One Wolf

The Black Dirt Sessions tracklist (Partisan) Street Date: June 8, 2010

1. Choir of Angels

2. Twenty Miles

3. Goodbye, Dear Friend

4. Piece By Piece, Frame By Frame

5. Sad Sun

6. Mange

7. When She Comes Home

8. Hand In My Hand

9. I Will Not Be Myself

10. Blood Moon

11. Christ Jesus