Texas Sapphires CD Release in Austin:
5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010: Waterloo Records & Video,
600A N. Lamar Blvd., 512.474.2500
11:30 p.m. Thursday, February 4: The Continental Club, 1315 S. Congress Ave.
Cover: $8; Information: 512.441.0202
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Band’s AS HE WANDERS a Triumph in Country-Bluegrass Storytelling

Austin, TX — The Texas Sapphires will celebrate the Feb. 2, 2010, release of its latest CD, the steel- and fiddle-filled and vocally commanding AS HE WANDERS with two Austin appearances.

The band will play an in-store show of cuts from the new album at 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 3, at Waterloo Records & Video, 600A N. Lamar Blvd., 512.474.2500.

The next night, at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, February 4, the band plays a release party at The Continental Club, 1315 S. Congress Ave., during the neighborhood’s First Thursday monthly street fest. Cover is $8; information: 512.441.0202. The Coveters (featuring Suzanna Choffel, Dan Dyer, Warren Hood and others) play at 10 p.m.

Texas Sapphires songwriters and lead vocalists Billy Brent Malkus and Rebecca Lucille Cannon have pulled together a collection of songs for AS HE WANDERS that tell of life’s high and lows and that highlight band members’ singular and collective talents for a wondrous country sound known, loved and well-respected.

In addition to the release shows in Austin, the band also celebrates February 12 at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes and February 26 at Dan’s Silver Leaf in Denton.