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THE MAVERICKS are still flying high from a year of unexpected accolades – Americana Music Awards Duo/Group of the Year, two GRAMMY nominations (Best American Roots Song for “All Night Long” and Best Americana Album for MONO), national television performances on Late Night With Seth Meyers and Conan and bringing a loyal legion to their feet on the successful MONO MUNDO world tour. Fans and music critics alike have continued to groove with a bit of The Mavericks’ magic, earning them top spots on several 2015 Best of Lists proclaiming:
“This is why human beings make music.”
The Los Angeles Times | Top 10 Albums of 2015
“…experience shows in the range of its sound and the utter confidence with which it navigates the ground connecting country with classic rock and roll with the Latin diaspora, all behind the unmatchable vocals of Raul Malo, heartthrob for the ages.”
NPR | Best Albums of 2015
“Lonesome accordion, percussive organ, warmly arranged horns and the chop-strum-and-wail of guitar all grab for attention. Yet front and center is Raul Malo’s mighty voice, which rings out with as much sensual authority as ever, whether he’s brokenhearted, seductive or proclaiming with chipper, existential assurance that ‘We’re All Waiting for the World to End.'”
Rolling Stone | 40 Best Country Albums of 2015
“The fact is, you can boil down The Mavericks’ appeal to one simple sentence: they make great music.”
Nash Country Weekly | Top 10 Country Albums of 2015
“Any given kind of music is rarely all things to all people, but MONO comes tantalizingly close.”
Musoscribe | Best of 2015: New Music
“…reinforces the daredevil dynamism of the band. In mono those horns sound even more vertiginous, that accordion even more mischievous, the keyboard glissandos even sparklier, and Raul Malo’s vocals even more powerful. […] lush, desperate seductions, emboldened by those Afro-Cuban horn lines and shot through with a life-is-short melancholy.”
Stereogum | The Year in Country Music
“The band’s freewheeling sound is no more definable than it was when Malo and company burst onto the scene back in the early 1990s […] but that doesn’t diminish Mono’s ample pleasures in the least.”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Top 10 Albums of 2015
“…the Mavericks are and continue to be the only band that matters.”
Red Dirt Report | Top Albums of 2015
The Mavericks also scored coveted reader-choice spots on No Depression’s Top 50 Albums of 2015 and Twangville’s Best Album of 2015, in addition to the Americana Music Association’s Top 10 Albums of the Year.
RAUL MALO (lead vocals), PAUL DEAKIN (drums), EDDIE PEREZ (guitars) and JERRY DALE MCFADDEN (keyboards) have consistently blended their unique sound across critically-acclaimed albums – MONO (2015) and IN TIME (2013) – and venues from around the world to bring generations and backgrounds together with the most universal language of all … music.
Taking it all in, the band returned to their musical roots in Miami to celebrate the year and embark on new adventures. Rather than the sultry dive bars where they honed their garage band ferocity, The Mavericks performed during a private event at the Orange Bowl finding a full circle moment with a longtime fan Orange Bowl Committee President and Chair Lee Stapleton.
Malo will help honor Willie Nelson during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song concert television special, airing on PBS January 15. A month later, The Mavericks will fittingly join a host of artists from various genres in Los Angeles for 2016 GRAMMY Awards air on CBS at 8:00PM ET.
For upcoming tour dates and more, visit TheMavericksBand.com.
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