MP3 Gina Villalobos - Miles Away

âVillalobos has the restlessness of the most moving country music but she combines it with a rock spitit that is always forthright and never forcedâ Harp Magazine "Straight-up Rock, rooted but not roots music, with a twang and plenty of rough edges -

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ROCK: Roots Rock, COUNTRY: Country Rock



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Ginaâs nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. Sheâs the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are. Her songs serve as a map to roots rock heaven, where we hear music so gorgeous, raw, and sexy we wonder why we don't hear songs like them anywhere else. Gina's cool guarded voice, in it's restraint, elevates the songs to a subtle, cerebral ecstasy. Her band emits a narcotic blend of country rock and glistening harmonic shimmer, it's a powerful seductive thing.

Hailed as the new âQueen of Country Rockâ and seemingly out of nowhere. Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection. And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audienceâs out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts. Eventually nothing else exists...it is a truly transcendent experience.

Though sheâs been knocking around the music business since the mid 90âs, it wasnât until she released her critically acclaimed Rock N Roll Pony in 2005 that Gina made that all important international breakthrough, with an endorsement from BBC radio 2 DJ Bob Harris â making the record a must have commodity.

In October of 2003, âRock âNâ Roll Ponyâs â completion and release was interupted by a traumatic and life changing accident. Four major surgeries later, on Christmas day that same year, Gina learned the damage to her retina was unfixable and that she would not regain her vision and remain 100 blind in her right eye. âRock N Roll Ponyâ finally gained a US release in the summer of 2004 and a much-deserved wider release in the UK, Europe and Australia in February 2005 when she signed a deal with Laughing Outlaw Records. âRock N Roll Ponyâ received excellent reviews in national US magazines like No Depression, Acoustic Guitar Magazine and Harp as well as extensive coverage in other US-based regional and local press and websites like Popmatters.com. âRock N Roll Ponyâ ranked #12 in the list of the top 25 CDs sold at MilesofMusic.com in 2005. Since then the critical applause has continued with positive reviews in UK and European magazines and newspapers such as Uncut, Country Music People, Maverick, The Independent, The Scottish Daily Express and Rolling Stone (Germany) and from internet music magazines such as Americana-UK and NetRhythms. As a result, âRock âNâ Roll Ponyâ bounced around the top ten on the Euro-Americana charts finally landing in the number 3 position. Several tours in 2005 saw Gina performing shows in the UK, Europe, the Netherlands as well as Australia and New Zealand and a number of live radio and TV appearances saw her profile increase during the year, across Europe and further afield.

Avoiding the sophomore jinx, Ginaâs second offering succeeds. She unveiled her new album âMiles Awayâ in the UK on May 8th 2006 to the same, if not more enthusiastic, critical plaudits, and support from BBC radio 2 her acclaimed predecessor, Rock N Roll Pony received. This along with a 6 week US national tour supporting World Party sets the stage for her upcoming US release of âMiles Awayâ, which is widely anticipated in the Americana/Alt Country circles in which she first gained attention.