Press Release

06/24/2014

(Laramie, WY) - Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band announced this morning that their new video release “She Loves Me Anyway,” had more than 25,000 YouTube Views in May. Now the band will embark on the biggest tour of their history, playing nearly 170 dates. A late summer stop is Central States Fair Sunday August 17th.

Already attracting record label attention with their large grass roots fan-base, relentless touring and upcoming participation in the planned reality television series “Real Cowboys of Wyoming,” the Wyoming natives decided it was the perfect time for a major video release.

“People really like the song when we do it live,” commented Chancey Williams, “and we wanted to do a video that really captured the spirit of our fans, because they are the reason we can make a living playing music.” When it came time to decide who to work with on the project, Williams deployed a strategy that has worked well for him over the years, finding talent in the Cowboy State. “Brian Guice is a friend of mine that studied film and Digital Media out in California, but is from Laramie. I knew he could capture what we are all about and I couldn't be happier with the final product.”

Guice, who owns Brian Guice Media, shot the video live on tour at the famed Grizzly Rose in Denver and at the fabled Cowboy Bar in Laramie, where the band has something of an unofficial residency. “Actually both the Grizzly and the Cowboy are super comfortable for us,” said Williams, “the operators and staff members are almost like family and we wanted to show off two venues that have really made a difference to us on our way up.” “Echo,” the latest album release from Chancey Williams, immediately charted on the Billboard Heatseekers chart for the Mountain region and this summer he’ll hit the road for a summer tour that is pretty crazy, even by the standards of the seasoned band and crew. They will share the stage with, among others, Gary Allan, Trace Adkins, Alabama, Billy Currington, Craig Campbell and Dean Alexander. Tour stops include numerous State Fairs, Music Festivals, swings into
Las Vegas, Arizona, California and the legendary Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. But, in a summer of highlights, it is a big night at Cheyenne Frontier Days that, above all others, reminds the band of how far they have come. “It will be our third
consecutive year on the main stage at Cheyenne,” said Williams, “It still seems unreal when I hear it come out of my mouth. That’s a hallowed place to us.”

Chancey and his drummer, lifelong friend Travis DeWitt, started the Younger Brothers Band with the humble initial goal of entering a high school talent contest. The pair had no idea it would lead to wedding receptions, small fairs (then big fairs,) small bars (then large clubs) and become a fulltime career. In 2008 they were joined by the amazing harmonies and lead guitar of Wyatt Springsteen and then Brooke Latka with stunning fiddle and a 3rd part to their harmonies. More recently, Jack Robbins joined the band on bass. Along the way, playing for friends became playing for wild fans. The result is Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band, a rowdy, raucous, unapologetic, memorable stage show that is on the road pretty much all the time. The
band will play almost 170 dates in 2014. The studio album “Honky Tonk Road” was released in 2008, “Highway Junkie” in 2011 and, recently, the Billboard Heatseeker Charting, “Echo.” Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers have sold, between digital downloads and CD sales, more than 40,000 records, almost unheard-of for an independent artist without the aid of major distribution or a record label.

“She Loves Me Anyway” is published on YouTube and the full Chancey Williams catalog is available on iTunes, among other sources. Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band will be live in the Grandstand with Billy Currington at the
Central States Fair on August 17.