"After ten turbulent years of critical acclaim, multiple GRAMMY nominations, relentless touring, and personnel shifts that might have beaten down most acts, one group has survived to deliver their most surprising move of all: With their new Dualtone Records album Dog Days, BR549 stands tall as the hardest-rocking – and hardest-working – here-to-stay band in Country today.

“We called the record Dog Days because it seemed like the end of something, and the beginning of something else,” explains vocalist/guitarist Chuck Mead. “It’s the start of a different way of thinking about BR549 and a different way of thinking about our lives and music.”

The album, produced by John Keane (known for his work with R.E.M., Uncle Tupelo, and Widespread Panic) and recorded at Keane’s famed studio in Athens, Georgia, showcases 11 uncompromising songs from a band with fearsome instrumental chops, their own left field point-of-view, and an ever potent take on classic Country tradition.

Now a lean four-piece of Mead, multi-instrumentalist Don Herron, drummer/vocalist Shaw Wilson and new bassist/vocalist Mark Miller, BR549 is a band defiantly reborn. “It’s 10 years since we started this, and we’ve been through a lot recently,” says Mead. “On this record, we wanted – and needed – to do something that was beyond the norm.”

Most of all, Dog Days is the sound of a band with an unshakeable legacy of integrity and the still-stunning ability to rattle the foundations of Country. “Some people think that there’s a music rulebook that was written a long time ago,” says Wilson. “BR549 never owned a copy of that handbook, and never will.” “We never sold millions and millions of records, but we’ve sold enough to continue to do what we do,” agrees Mead. “And because we never did bullshit anybody, we still have friends and fans from the very beginning. We still work our asses off, and there were plenty of times we’ve played 300 dates a year. We were always willing to do that for something we believed in. We still believe in BR549 and plenty of other people do, too. We owe it them and us to keep it growing. And that’s what Dog Days is all about.” - BR549

The single from Dog Days, "After the Hurricane" was introduced to Americana radio on Shut Eye's The United State of Americana, Volume Four ironically just a few short months following the Katrina hurricane disaster on the Gulf Coast. The album hit #1 on the Americana radio chart.