NIPP: Ten Cent Redemption

Ten Cent Redemption

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Ten Cent Redemption’s sophistication of music and lyric moves the listener across wide ranging emotions and involvement. These four experienced musicians and writers produce a sweet symbiosis of original material and masterful musicianship. Lead singer, Rhett Lee, guitarist John Waggoner, bassist Tony Burke and drummer Bill Thomason have come together at the right time, in the right place and the product is Ten Cent Redemption’s exceptional debut album, Worst Plan Ever. It’s a tight package that grabs with soulful vocals, ripping lead, driving beat and solid bottom, then takes you many places. Sometimes it’s a bundle of sweet chords that transforms into driving need as in Turn Out the Lights. Sometimes it’s the dark menace and urgency on a wave of fear in Bring Your Gun or Murder on the Dance Floor. Sometimes it’s a ballad of longing for love or a eulogy for something or someone past. Articulate, jangly, alternative country, Brit-pop or Americana — call Ten Cent Redemption’s music anything you want, but listen and you will be swept along on a powerful ride. Worst Plan Ever made Westword Music Editor Dave Hererras top list of 2005. “Fusing elements of ethereal Brit pop and Americana, Ten Cent Redemption’s debut aches as much as it twangs.” Redemption through alt-country Ten Cent Redemption arose from the ashes of Carolyn’s Mother, a band that packed clubs in Denver and on college campuses in the region for more than a decade. Former Carolyn’s Mother lead singer, Rhett Lee, formed the new group with John Waggoner on guitar, Tony Burke on bass, and Bill Thomason (the original drummer for Carolyn’s Mother) on drums. The new group combines the jangly pop sound of Carolyn’s Mother with a new alt-country influence. “We’re just a rock band with a twang,” Lee said. Ten Cent Redemption spent the spring recording its first album, “Worst Plan Ever,” which takes it name from numerous complications the band members went through during the recording process. … It’s a quality recording, remarkably consistent for a local debut even for a group of experienced players. Highlights include “Somewhere in Between,” a heartfelt goodbye ballad to Carolyn’s Mother, and “Set Closer” with guest vocals by Rachel Simring of Rachel’s Playpen and Elana Rogers. ~ Kat Valentine – Denver Post, July 8, 2005

Bio

Ten Cent Redemption’s sophistication of music and lyric moves the listener across wide ranging emotions and involvement. These four experienced musicians and writers produce a sweet symbiosis of original material and masterful musicianship. Lead singer, Rhett Lee, guitarist John Waggoner, bassist Tony Burke and drummer Bill Thomason have come together at the right time, in the right place and the product is Ten Cent Redemption’s exceptional debut album, Worst Plan Ever. It’s a tight package that grabs with soulful vocals, ripping lead, driving beat and solid bottom, then takes you many places. Sometimes it’s a bundle of sweet chords that transforms into driving need as in Turn Out the Lights. Sometimes it’s the dark menace and urgency on a wave of fear in Bring Your Gun or Murder on the Dance Floor. Sometimes it’s a ballad of longing for love or a eulogy for something or someone past. Articulate, jangly, alternative country, Brit-pop or Americana — call Ten Cent Redemption’s music anything you want, but listen and you will be swept along on a powerful ride. Worst Plan Ever made Westword Music Editor Dave Hererras top list of 2005. “Fusing elements of ethereal Brit pop and Americana, Ten Cent Redemption’s debut aches as much as it twangs.”

Redemption through alt-country

Ten Cent Redemption arose from the ashes of Carolyn’s Mother, a band that packed clubs in Denver and on college campuses in the region for more than a decade. Former Carolyn’s Mother lead singer, Rhett Lee, formed the new group with John Waggoner on guitar, Tony Burke on bass, and Bill Thomason (the original drummer for Carolyn’s Mother) on drums. The new group combines the jangly pop sound of Carolyn’s Mother with a new alt-country influence. “We’re just a rock band with a twang,” Lee said.

Ten Cent Redemption spent the spring recording its first album, “Worst Plan Ever,” which takes it name from numerous complications the band members went through during the recording process. … It’s a quality recording, remarkably consistent for a local debut even for a group of experienced players. Highlights include “Somewhere in Between,” a heartfelt goodbye ballad to Carolyn’s Mother, and “Set Closer” with guest vocals by Rachel Simring of Rachel’s Playpen and Elana Rogers.
~ Kat Valentine – Denver Post, July 8, 2005