With it's Johnny Cash bravado...
Austin Hartley-Leonard's debut cd ""Franklin Ave"" delivers classic
Americana songwriting combined with the textures of Nick Drake and The Band.

Austin Hartley-Leonard began as a solo singer/songwriter in Austin, TX. His first demo, on which he played most of the instruments himself, earned him an invitation to the 2005
SXSW Music Festival. Soon after, he started looking for other musicians to round out the band, and the group St. James Inc was born.

St. James Inc has played a number of nationally renowned venues, including The Mercury Lounge in NYC, The Hotel Cafe and The Viper Room in LA, Stubb's and The Parish in Austin, Subterranean in Chicago, and the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in San Antonio. In 2005, the band performed at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, alongside such acts as Coldplay, Oasis, and The Black Crowes.

After releasing the ""8 Hours"" EP in 2006, St. James Inc performed at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago and then relocated to Los Angeles, where they continued to see great success. You can hear their tunes in the film ""Moving McAllister"", and the hit show ""Men In Trees"" on ABC.

After meeting producer Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields, The Bowmans, AM) in Los Angeles, the two began work on Austin's debut solo record in December 2007. With Mother West labelmates The Bowmans adding a sprinkling of harmonies, Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams, Teft Merritt) on pedal steel, Carrie Rodriguez on fiddle, and the St. James Inc band, recording was finished at Mother West NYC this past March. It's currently being mixed and mastered by Tom Rogers at Mother West / Atomix Studios in LA. Austin will be touring the US throughout the fall in support of the release.

	Austin Hartley-Leonard - Song 64762		Americana
	Austin Hartley-Leonard - Song 64763		Rock

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