Maggie Walters
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Maggie Walters is an American
musician living in Austin, Texas
. She has released two full-length albums, Maggie Walters
(2005) and Midwestern Hurricane
(2008).
Walters' songs "Another Living Room" and "Be Careful Love" have appeared in the NBC
shows Life and Friday Night Lights
, respectively.
Walters is currently working on her third full-length studio album.
bar owned by Don Gibb, who played Ogre in the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds
. It was Gibb himself who auditioned Walters and chose to feature her several nights a week. Her first demo was recorded in the bathroom of her Wrigleyville apartment on a BR-1180. These songs would later become tracks on Maggie Walters
and Midwestern Hurricane
.
In 2004, Walters was invited to perform at the Campus Greens Convention in Austin, Texas. In addition, a local radio DJ from KLBJ's The Dudley and Bob Show, had seen Walters play at Gibb’s bar in Chicago and invited her to be a guest on his show while she was visiting. Soon after her performances at Campus Greens, Walters returned to Austin to collaborate with one of the musicians she had met on her first trip. Before her first album was complete, a few demos made it into the hands of a KGSR
DJ, who began playing a rough mix of “Fingerprints” on the station regularly.
In 2005, Walters released her self-titled debut album, Maggie Walters. To mark the album’s release, she played a CD release show at Austin’s renowned Cactus Café
. She received a four-star review from the Austin-American Statesman and gathered praise from Texas Music Magazine, the Austin Chronicle
and others. Soon after, Walters was chosen as a South by Southwest
showcasing act, at which time she also made appearances on such shows as KGSR’s Live from the Four Seasons, KUT’s Ekletikos and The Bob Edwards Show
. The independent release sold out and garnered more attention from the industry. Later that year, engineer and producer Dan Workman, co-owner of Houston’s SugarHill Recording Studios
, approached Walters and the two recorded an EP early in 2006, in time for a second SXSW showcase. It was at this showcase where she was signed to a record label. They wished to use four of the songs from Maggie Walters on the new album, thus the original self-titled album was removed from retail and digital distributors.
To produce the new album, Walters chose the Butthole Surfers
guitarist and Sublime
producer Paul Leary
. Walters again received support from notable musicians, including John Hagan (Lyle Lovett
), Ian McLagan
, and Ray Wylie Hubbard
.Midwestern Hurricane was mastered by Howie Weinberg
at Masterdisk
in New York City
. In 2008 Walters parted ways with her record label but retained the rights to the album.
In 2008, Midwestern Hurricane was released. Soon after, the other tracks from her debut album were re-released.
In 2010, Walters made an appearance on a Ray Wylie Hubbard album and announced that she would be contributing to a new album by East Bay Ray
of the Dead Kennedys
.
Walters has again teamed up with Leary and is currently working on her third album. The first single ("No Sex," featuring Guðrið Hansdóttir of the Faroe Islands
) was released in advance on iTunes
on Oct. 19, 2010. A video for the song was released on YouTube
on Feb. 22, 2011. The video was featured on the front page of the SXSW 2011 website.
In early 2011, Walters announced that she would be an official showcasing act of SXSW 2011. Later that year, Walters made appearances on several tracks on Sublime with Rome
's debut album.
(2005)
The Real Life Cowboy EP (2006, also known as The SugarHill EP, The Pink EP)
Midwestern Hurricane
(2008)
Ray Wylie Hubbard
- A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C) (2010, vocals on tracks "Pots and Pans" and "Opium" and editing)
Band of Heathens
- Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster's Son (2010, editing)
Sublime with Rome
- Yours Truly
(2011, vocals on "You Better Listen" and other tracks)
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
musician living in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
. She has released two full-length albums, Maggie Walters
Maggie Walters (album)
Maggie Walters is the first album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released in 2005.-History and re-release:This album was recorded independently by Walters before she had been signed to a record label...
(2005) and Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane is the second full-length album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released on March 11, 2008.It was produced by The Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary and mixed by James Vollentine...
(2008).
Walters' songs "Another Living Room" and "Be Careful Love" have appeared in the NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
shows Life and Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. The series details events surrounding a high school football team based in fictional Dillon, Texas, with particular focus given to team...
, respectively.
Walters is currently working on her third full-length studio album.
Career
Walters’ first standing gig was at a ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
bar owned by Don Gibb, who played Ogre in the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds
Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 comedy film satirizing social life on a college campus. The film stars Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, John Goodman, and Donald Gibb...
. It was Gibb himself who auditioned Walters and chose to feature her several nights a week. Her first demo was recorded in the bathroom of her Wrigleyville apartment on a BR-1180. These songs would later become tracks on Maggie Walters
Maggie Walters (album)
Maggie Walters is the first album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released in 2005.-History and re-release:This album was recorded independently by Walters before she had been signed to a record label...
and Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane is the second full-length album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released on March 11, 2008.It was produced by The Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary and mixed by James Vollentine...
.
In 2004, Walters was invited to perform at the Campus Greens Convention in Austin, Texas. In addition, a local radio DJ from KLBJ's The Dudley and Bob Show, had seen Walters play at Gibb’s bar in Chicago and invited her to be a guest on his show while she was visiting. Soon after her performances at Campus Greens, Walters returned to Austin to collaborate with one of the musicians she had met on her first trip. Before her first album was complete, a few demos made it into the hands of a KGSR
KGSR
KLZT is a radio station broadcasting an Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Bastrop, Texas, USA, the station serves the Austin area. The station is currently owned by Emmis Communications. The station is also broadcast on HD radio. It builds itself as La Z 107.1, -History:The station went on the...
DJ, who began playing a rough mix of “Fingerprints” on the station regularly.
In 2005, Walters released her self-titled debut album, Maggie Walters. To mark the album’s release, she played a CD release show at Austin’s renowned Cactus Café
Cactus Cafe
The Cactus Café is a live music venue and bar on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Located in Austin, Texas, a city frequently referred to as "the live music capital of the world," a number of well-known artists have played in the Cactus, and Billboard Magazine named it as one of...
. She received a four-star review from the Austin-American Statesman and gathered praise from Texas Music Magazine, the Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic...
and others. Soon after, Walters was chosen as a South by Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
showcasing act, at which time she also made appearances on such shows as KGSR’s Live from the Four Seasons, KUT’s Ekletikos and The Bob Edwards Show
The Bob Edwards Show
The Bob Edwards Show is an American radio program presented by Sirius XM Satellite Radio every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern, with repeats at 8 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, and the next morning at 7 a.m. Eastern...
. The independent release sold out and garnered more attention from the industry. Later that year, engineer and producer Dan Workman, co-owner of Houston’s SugarHill Recording Studios
SugarHill Recording Studios
SugarHill Recording Studios is a recording studio in Houston, Texas. The studio was important in launching the careers of such artists as Lightnin' Hopkins, The Big Bopper, George Jones, the Sir Douglas Quintet, Roy Head, and Freddy Fender. It is renowned for its collection of vintage regording...
, approached Walters and the two recorded an EP early in 2006, in time for a second SXSW showcase. It was at this showcase where she was signed to a record label. They wished to use four of the songs from Maggie Walters on the new album, thus the original self-titled album was removed from retail and digital distributors.
To produce the new album, Walters chose the Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...
guitarist and Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
producer Paul Leary
Paul Leary
Paul Leary is an American musician from Austin, TX, best known as the guitarist for American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also the producer of a number of songs and albums by other bands, including U2, Sublime, the Meat Puppets, Daniel Johnston, The Reverend Horton Heat, Pepper, Maggie...
. Walters again received support from notable musicians, including John Hagan (Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, "Cowboy Man"...
), Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan
Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
, and Ray Wylie Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard is an American Texas Country singer and songwriter.-Early life:Hubbard grew up in southeastern town of Hugo, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in south Dallas, Texas in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin Murphey, who had his own band at the time...
.Midwestern Hurricane was mastered by Howie Weinberg
Howie Weinberg
Howie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.- Career :He has worked at Masterdisk, New York City, since 1977...
at Masterdisk
Masterdisk
Masterdisk is an audio mastering and multimedia company in New York City, located on West 45th Street in Manhattan. They provide production services such as audio mastering, vinyl cutting and enhanced CD and DVD production....
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. In 2008 Walters parted ways with her record label but retained the rights to the album.
In 2008, Midwestern Hurricane was released. Soon after, the other tracks from her debut album were re-released.
In 2010, Walters made an appearance on a Ray Wylie Hubbard album and announced that she would be contributing to a new album by East Bay Ray
East Bay Ray
Raymond John Pepperell , better known by his stage name East Bay Ray is a guitarist best-known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys...
of the Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk music scene....
.
Walters has again teamed up with Leary and is currently working on her third album. The first single ("No Sex," featuring Guðrið Hansdóttir of the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
) was released in advance on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
on Oct. 19, 2010. A video for the song was released on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
on Feb. 22, 2011. The video was featured on the front page of the SXSW 2011 website.
In early 2011, Walters announced that she would be an official showcasing act of SXSW 2011. Later that year, Walters made appearances on several tracks on Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome is a musical collaboration between Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, formerly of the band Sublime, and singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. The group chiefly performed songs by Sublime, which was fronted by Bradley Nowell until his death in 1996...
's debut album.
Discography
Maggie WaltersMaggie Walters (album)
Maggie Walters is the first album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released in 2005.-History and re-release:This album was recorded independently by Walters before she had been signed to a record label...
(2005)
The Real Life Cowboy EP (2006, also known as The SugarHill EP, The Pink EP)
Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane
Midwestern Hurricane is the second full-length album by the American musician Maggie Walters, released on March 11, 2008.It was produced by The Butthole Surfers' Paul Leary and mixed by James Vollentine...
(2008)
Other Works and Appearances
The Tiny Tin Hearts - Last Flight of the Martyr Aviator (2009, editing)Ray Wylie Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Ray Wylie Hubbard is an American Texas Country singer and songwriter.-Early life:Hubbard grew up in southeastern town of Hugo, Oklahoma. His family moved to Oak Cliff in south Dallas, Texas in 1954. He attended W. H. Adamson High School with Michael Martin Murphey, who had his own band at the time...
- A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is No C) (2010, vocals on tracks "Pots and Pans" and "Opium" and editing)
Band of Heathens
Band of Heathens
The Band of Heathens are an American Rock and Roll band from Austin, Texas.The three principal songwriters - Colin Brooks, Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist - shared the bill at Momo's, an Austin club. Originally, each singer/songwriter performed his own set. However, they eventually started sharing the...
- Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster's Son (2010, editing)
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome
Sublime with Rome is a musical collaboration between Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh, formerly of the band Sublime, and singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez. The group chiefly performed songs by Sublime, which was fronted by Bradley Nowell until his death in 1996...
- Yours Truly
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album)
Yours Truly is the debut album by rock group Sublime with Rome, which was released on July 12, 2011. It is the first album since the original Sublime disbanded in 1996, due to lead singer and guitarist Bradley Nowell's death. According to the liner notes, the album is dedicated to him...
(2011, vocals on "You Better Listen" and other tracks)