COUNTRY MUSIC GOES TECHNO

COUNTRY MUSIC GOES TECHNO

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- Country artists like Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard are getting the techno treatment, thanks to Los Angeles based musician Kelli Lidell. Lidell is pioneering a new sound she calls "urban country" which combines the fiddles and crooning of country music with the heavy bass and thumping drum beats of dance music. She plans to make "urban country" out of classic country tunes like Cline's "Crazy" in the near future, but her first tune in the format is a song she penned herself called "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow." The new urban country song will hit airwaves in the U.S. and the U.K. tomorrow (Mar. 30), and Lidell hopes it will encourage club kids to become more interested in classic country tunes. However, she admits her new brand of rump-thumping country music may leave some radio programmers wondering "What the heck are we going to do with this?"

CONTACT: Kelli Lidell, ****; Arrange thru Scott Ross; (323) 654- 8677, ext. 2