Mike and the Moonpies will release their seventh full-length album ‘Touch Of You – The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart’ on Thursday, May 28. Produced by Adam Odor, this project features ten unreleased songs written by outlaw country music legend, Gary Stewart. Originally slated to come out later this year, the band finished the recording process during stay-at-home orders (working remotely from their home studios throughout Texas and yellow DOG Studios in Wimberley, TX) in time to release on Stewart’s birthday.
Special guests and highlights on the album include a sublime duet with Mark Wystrach from Midland (“Smooth Shot of Whiskey”); harmony vocal help from Jamie Lin Wilson (“Heart A Home”), Courtney Patton (“Heart A Home,” “Dance With Barbara”), Zac Wilkerson (“The Gold Barstool”) and Dave Percefull on piano (“Heart A Home”).
Dubbed the “king of honky tonk” by Time Magazine, Stewart co-wrote all songs featured on the album throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. A year and a half in the making, Mike and the Moonpies frontman Mike Harmeier has been working directly with Stewart’s daughter, Shannon Stewart, and best friend Tommy Schwartz to honor Stewart’s legacy in the right way. The result is a striking, nostalgic balance of sultry guitar licks and mesmerizing pedal steel; unwavering barroom anthems; haunting balladry and Harmeier’s impressively smooth cadence and vocal range.
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