Michael Lee Austin Puts 'Country' Back Into Country Music With New Album 'Labor Pains'

Michael Lee Austin Puts 'Country' Back Into Country Music With New Album 'Labor Pains'

RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Just a few years ago, Michael Lee Austin was singing cover songs in bars across his adopted home state of North Carolina, dreaming of what it would take to become a famous country music artist. The answer: lots of charisma (check), vocal talent (check), an uncanny ability to write and pick great songs (check) and most importantly, Labor Pains - which not coincidentally is the title of his eagerly anticipated debut album.

Labor Pains marks the debut release from Alive Records, which will market its artists via both mainstream channels and through alternative and new Internet marketing strategies.

Labor Pains' clever and witty title track, an instant crowd-pleaser featuring the tag line "don't tell me about labor pains, just show me the baby," is currently being promoted to country radio stations across America, and building momentum for the album with extremely positive feedback from radio programmers all across the USA.

"I wanted to come out with an honest to goodness traditional country record, instead of a pop album with a fiddle in the middle," he adds. "I grew up in Massena, a small town far up in upstate New York. I was so far north I was south again. The music I heard came from spending a lot of time at my grandparents' house, where they had an old record player and albums by Hank Williams and Charley Pride. I think what makes a strong country record is the sound and the feeling it brings out."

"From the time we decided to go ahead with this record and set about finding the best music to record, we kept asking, 'what makes me different?'" Austin says. "But it's not about what makes an artist different, because there are only so many ways to play country. It boils down to the song, how that song feels and makes you feel, how you deliver it and get the message across."

"When people listen to my music," he continues, "they tell me it doesn't sound like anyone else, and that's because of the way I hear the songs. I want people who hear Labor Pains to feel like they've heard it someplace before, but they're not sure where ... offering them something comfortable yet completely fresh."

"Country songs are all about the story," says Austin. "They make people feel good because they're about everyday life and everyone can relate to them. Singing a great country tune is all about taking the listener's mind off the troubles of their day for three minutes, giving them a release, and making them laugh, cry or feel something new. Thirty seconds into Labor Pains, people hear the tag line and start laughing, and that's when I know I'm connecting with them."

Official Michael Lee Austin Website: http://www.michaelleeaustin.com/

Media Contacts: Steve Levesque/Guy McCain Luck Media & Marketing, Inc. 310-860-9170, info@luckmedia.com

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Source: Luck Media & Marketing, Inc.

CONTACT: Steve Levesque or Guy McCain, Luck Media & Marketing, Inc., +1-310-860-9170, info@luckmedia.com

Web site: http://www.michaelleeaustin.com/

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