Shaw Blades’ "Influence" Release Moved To March 6th

Press Release
January 4, 2007 -- The album release date for "Influence"  by Shaw Blades—led by Styx/ Damn Yankees guitarist/ vocalist Tommy Shaw and Night Ranger/ Damn Yankees bassist/ vocalist Jack Blades--has been moved to March 6.

Originally scheduled for February 20, "Influence" is the duo’s first album since their recently re-released 1995 debut, "Hallucination." Like the debut--and unlike their history-carving decades as icons in the more hard-rock minded Styx, Night Ranger and Damn Yankees--the latest release is rooted in acoustic guitar and organic production, harvesting a decade of musical influences into 11 tracks (on which Blades and Shaw played all the music except for drums and the occasional keyboards). With classics from the ‘60s and ‘70s including the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’,” Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Steely Dan’s “Dirty Work,” "Influence" offers a track-by-track chronology of the musical era that helped define modern rock.

The band has an upcoming U.S. tour, which is currently being confirmed for March and April.