[IMC] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Steve Davenport and Bruce Bruiser Rummenies CD Release Party

[YooJin Hong]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

*CONTACT*: Bruce Rummenie

brummenie at comcast.net

*CONTACT*: YooJin Hong

217-721-0860

indigo.coop at gmail.com

*Steve Davenport and Bruce "Bruiser" Rummenie's CD Release Party*

Steve Davenport and Bruce "Bruiser" Rummenie's CD Release Party will happen
on Saturday, October 6th, at the

indi go Artist Co-Op, starting at 7pm.

Come hear a musical collaboration between a long-time local musician and a
poet. For twenty-plus years, minus that one he spent in Austin playing for
tips in a couple of Texas blues bands, Bruce “Bruiser” Rummenie has been a
mainstay—“rock royalty” according to one local reviewer—on
the Champaign-Urbana music scene. Beginning with the Mudhens in 1985, he
has also been guitarist, singer, and songwriter for The Freak Brothers, The
Javelinas, The Impalas featuring Dawna Nelson, and Bruiser and the Virtues,
which in 2004 won the Illinois Central Blues Society Challenge and went on
to compete in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, performing at
B. B King’s Nightclub on Beale Street.

Steve Davenport id the author of two books of poetry: Uncontainable Noise
(Pavement Saw, 2006) and Overpass (Misty, 2012). His poems, stories, and
essays have been anthologized, reprinted, and published in dozens
of literary magazines. A recent story received Special Mention in the 2011
Pushcart Prize anthology. His Murder on Gasoline Lake chapbook (New
American Press, 2008) was listed as Notable in Best American Essays
2007. Recent songwriting projects include the “Honey and Glue” experiment
with Art Box Collective, easily found at Reverbnation.com, and the work
he’s done with Bruiser. These songs began as a conversation for a series of
podcasts about poetry and song. When Rummenie said he had never written a
song with anyone, Davenport went home, wrote a first song lyric that
evening, and sent it to Rummenie, who spun the words into a song by the
next day. The conversations continued, and within a few months the one song
had become seven. They wrote in separate rooms, but the result was a
collaboration that surprised both of them: Davenport, who plays no
instrument beyond the words he writes down, and Rummenie, who learned he
can write songs with a partner.

Come hear Bruiser and friends play some of the songs off the CD,
independently produced on their Bruised River label. Americana, Lo-Fi.

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-- 
YooJin Hong
Gallery Director
indi go Artist Co-Op
9 E. University; Champaign, IL
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www.ind-go-art.com
217-721-0860
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