CD:

LP:

About Centro-matic’s

Fort Recovery by Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers:

Centro-matic's music comes on like a sound from a distant dream, something new, yet unmistakably familiar. Clear images adding up
to something a little vague, but in such a comforting way. Once as a child, I watched part one of some two-part children's adventure
(NBC's Wonderful World of Disney circa 1972, no doubt) and that night dreamt the next week's conclusion verbatim. No one ever
believed me and I still don't blame them, not sure I believe it myself, but I know it happened. That's what Centro-matic is like to me. Their
music is somehow like something I heard in my head as a child, yet I know I didn't. I find myself singing along with their songs the first
time I hear them. They're the best live band in America and know how to make great records. Bunches of them (they're prolific as hell)
yet some how they keep getting better. All of this while playing an exhausting 150 shows a year.

At any rate,

Fort Recovery

is my favorite Centro-matic album. My favorite album by my favorite band. That's a beautiful thing that I hope

to never outgrow. One of life's pleasures that I look forward to passing on to my kids. When I was in fifth grade my favorite band was
Pink Floyd and my favorite album was

Dark Side of the Moon

, at fifteen it was Bruce Springsteen and

Darkness on the Edge of Town

.

At one point The Replacements

Tim

held that position. Big Star's

Radio City

hovers around there somewhere and lord knows I love

plenty of Neil Young and Bob Dylan records. If I could go back in time, The Stooges

Fun House

and Led Zeppelin's

Physical Graffiti

would all make some mystical list.

Centro-matic is my favorite band that is still vital and intact. All four of them together for ten years now. Their brand new album is their
best yet. My un-mastered CD copy is my favorite album of 2006 and honestly my favorite new album of the past five years. I have
listened to it several times a day for three weeks straight and like those great masterpieces of old I still find new things to love at every
listen.

"What makes (Will Johnson) such a phenomenal lyricist is that he opts for the simplest language when painting an

abstract picture." -- Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie in the

New York Times

"HOT LIST! Oct 2003 - It's hearty, stick-to-your-ribs fare that makes you proud to be an American." --

Rolling Stone

"These resonant fables of half-loved underdogs, essentially preposterous scenarios reported with apocalyptic

seriousness, call to mind the last two Flaming Lips discs... the band hugely rawks here in an unprecedented

approximation of their live show, often summoning the moldy hearts of Mould and Hart. Hell, a harnessed Cobain

twang even surfaces..." --

Pitchforkmedia.com

1. Covered Up in Mines 2. Calling Thermatico 3. Patience for the Ride 4. I See Through You

5. In Such Crooked Time 6. For New Starts 7. The Fugitives Have Won 8. Monument Sails

9. Triggers and Trash Heaps 10. Nothin’ I Ever Seen 11. Take the Maps and Run 12. Take a Rake

>>

Will Johnson of Centro-matic is spending the month of

February as part of a special collaborative package tour featuring

Vic Chesnutt

,

Mark Eitzel

and

Dave Bazan

(

Pedro the Lion

)

>>

Centro-matic (and Will Johnson solo) have played about 300

live shows in the past two years alone. They will tour extensively in
2006 to support

Fort Recovery

>>

Limited edition double LP with 3 non-CD bonus tracks.

>>

For fans of

Wilco, GBV, Replacements, Big Star

>>

Publicity by

Pitch Perfect PR

, Radio by

Team Clermont

, Retail

Promotion by

Flea Marketing

. Extensive advertising planned for

Paste, Harp, Magnet, Arthur, Pitchforkmedia.com

and more

>>

Previous tours with

My Morning Jacket

,

Death Cab for Cutie

,

Ben Kweller

,

Drive-by Truckers

,

John Vanderslice

and

American Music Club

>>

The press above is the tip of the iceberg. Features have

appeared in

CMJ, Harp, Amplifier, Devil in the Woods,

Ghettoblaster, Copper Press

and more

1405 Broadmoor Drive
Austin TX 78723
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MISRA

Centro-matic Fort Recovery

Label:

Misra

Catalog #:

MSR39CD/MSR39LP

Street date:

March 7, 2006

Format:

CD/2xLP

***CD not exportable outside North America***

***LP non-returnable***