About
As frontman Michael Donner entered the Dallas music scene in 2011, he had partnered up with old friends Eric Pearson and Jackson Giles to help bring some of his songs to life and get them out in the open. The trio put their heads down, drawing from influences such as Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, and The Band, and they constructed a cohesive Americana/Alt-Country album that took them to a studio in histo
ric Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Michael Donner & The Southern Renaissance's debut album, "No Better Time", released in September 2011, earned them high marks from the local music scene, being deemed "not only one of the best under the radar releases of the year, [but] one of the best releases period." (Chip Frazier, Twangville). The Dallas Observer even listed it as one the "Four North Texas Albums You Need".

Now in 2012, the group has added a full-time rhythm section with new members John Aisner (drums) and Blake Butler (bass). Riding on the popularity of their debut album and by their memorable and energetic live performances, the group has been given the opportunity to open up for major artists such as The Civil Wars, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Wayne Hancock, Dylan LeBlanc, Will Hoge, The Wheeler Brothers, and Junior Brown. With a full time five-piece band, the group has undertaken a much more collaborative writing process as they construct what will become their next album, and they are now known only as The Southern Renaissance.





Southern Renaissance
2013-12-20

Dallas, TX --usa--
Granada Theater


opening for the band of heathens



source1: Soundboard [Main Mix]

source2: Onstage [Rode NT1 Mic x2]

source3: Audience [Rode NT4]
>Tascam DR-680 [44.1kHz, 16bitWAV]

taped by joshua cain


mixed in audacity by hanwaker 2014-01

TT
57:00

01
02
03 living tree
04
05 old fashioned way
06 you ain't going nowhere (byrds)
07
08 annalee
09
10 wrong and right
11
12
13
14


special guest "KAT" on fiddle
tracks 5 to end of show

http://thesouthernrenaissance.com

all pics from their facebook page courtesy of bill ellison ( house photograper of the granada)

a joshuaCain recording .. a hanwaker mix and upload to dime 2014-01