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Latest NewsCowboys & CaviarDecember 6, 2007 Jokers Wild will headline the Cowboys & Caviar fundraiser for The Bastrop Children's Advocacy Center on March 1, 2008, in Riverbend Park, Smithville. Click here for information on reserving your table.
News FlashAugust 22, 2007 Jokers Wild's original recordings of "Please Catch Me" and "And The Rain" have been personally selected by Mr. Lawrence Erlichman, Music Editor of MTV, for inclusion into the MTV music catalog.
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News FlashAugust 12, 2007 Jokers Wild's single "Please Catch Me" has moved up the Music Row Country Break Out Chart 33 spots this week. Last week was its first week to show up on the big chart, and it opened in the 210 spot. This week it has moved up 33 positions to 177. Most impressively, "Please Catch Me" had a higher percentage of spin power (750%) this week than ANY OTHER SINGLE on the ENTIRE Music Row Break Out Chart. How cool is that? Your phone calls to the request lines of your favorite country stations is the magic that is driving this huge gain for us! Please keep up your support by calling your favorite country stations frequently and requesting "Please Catch Me"! We are winning the race!
Also this week, KXIA tested "Please Catch Me" and had a 100% positive listener response! This is seldom ever accomplished even by very large established artists. Doris Day "one of the finest ladies in the country radio business" had this to say about "Please Catch Me."
Solid Positive Love Song that KIX 101.1 listeners LOVE! That's it in a nut shell! Doris Day "Please Catch Me" gains in European popularityAugust 12, 2007Jokers Wild's new single "Please Catch Me" has rocketed to the number 5 position on the European Country Music Top-40 Chart, and is gaining amazing growth here in the US. Please call your favorite country radio stations and request "Please Catch Me." It is your radio requests that will drive us on up the US charts! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support of Jokers Wild.
Jokers Wild Radio Promotion Guitar ContestJuly 24, 2007 sample photo Here is all you have to do to win! Simply call or email the request lines of every country radio station you can think of (physical, Internet, US and foreign Country Music Stations are all illegible) and request that they play "Please Catch Me" by the Jokers Wild Band. Then simply email us back with the date, time, call letters and location of the station(s) you contacted @ JokersWildRadio@aol.com The person who has made the highest number of radio requests for "Please Catch Me" by the Jokers Wild Band by midnight December 31, 2007, wins the guitar. It's that simple! Contest RulesIntroduction: The Jokers Wild Band is offering this Online Contest ("Contest"). NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Eligibility: Entrant must be at least 13 years of age as of July 20, 2007, to participate. To redeem the prize, entrant must be a legal resident of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Employees of the Jokers Wild Band, it's subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and agents and the immediate family members of Jokers Wild (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents) of each such employees, and all those with whom such employees are domiciled, are NOT eligible. Timing: Contest begins at 12:00:01 a.m. CST on July 20, 2007, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. CST on Monday, December 31, 2007. Award: The above captioned prize (The Autographed Jokers Wild Band Guitar) will be awarded on Tuesday, January 1, 2008, to the person who has made the highest number of requests to country radio stations to play "Please Catch Me" by the Jokers Wild Band. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 on our Official Website located at www.jokers-wild-band.com and our My Space Page located at www.myspace.com/jokerswildband Your Responsibility: After making any such radio requests, it is your (contest entrant's) responsibility to notify Jokers Wild via email @ JokersWildRadio@aol.com of the radio requests you have made, so that the requests you have made can be verified and properly tracked and credited toward you. PS: This guitar could be worth a fortune someday on ebay! Good Luck Jokers Wild performs "And The Rain" on Great Day SAJuly 14, 2007 Mario and Frank perform an acoustic version of "And The Rain" on Great Day SA, taped on July 12, 2007. This follows with an interview about the Maurice Lamkin Jr. fundraiser, and finishes out the show with a short version of "Please Catch Me".
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A portion of all proceeds from the downloading of Jokers Wild's original music ("And The Rain" and "Please Catch Me") on ITunes will be donated to the Maurice Lamkin, Jr. Trust Fund established at IBC Bank. Thank you all in advance for your continued support of Jokers Wild, and your help in raising some much needed money for this wonderful young boy!
Great Day SAJuly 12, 2007 Frank Lisenbee (President of Scorpio Productions and Jokers Wild's Co-Producer) , Kristina Guerrero (Host of KENS TV's Great Day SA) and Mario Flores (Jokers Wild's Lead Singer) on the set of Great Day SA.Mario will appear on an upcoming Great Day SA broadcast to promote the band's July 14th show at the benefit fund raiser for Maurice Lamkin Jr. Look for a clip from the Great Day SA broadcast on our web site.
"Please Catch Me"July 11, 2007
"Please Catch Me" is now available for purchase at:
 Apple iTunes
 Napster
Jokers Wild Band to Headline Benefit ConcertJuly 7, 2007From Music News, Nashville, TennesseeThe Jokers Wild Band will be headlining the Benefit Fundraiser for Maurice Lamkin, Jr., the 5-year-old boy who suffered a major allergic reaction when he received his flu shot. The fundraisder will be held on July 14 at the The Bucket Brigade in San Antonio, TX, from 8pm until midnight. In addition to music, Brooks Air Force Base will be doing an F-16 fly over. Lamkin, who is now severely brain damaged, needs mental therapy not covered by the family's insurance. When he received his flu shot, Lamkin's mother took him to the hospital after he began running a high fever. He later suffered multiple seizures, meningitis, and encephalitis, and passed away about three times while at the hospital. The Jokers Wild Band, a 6-piece country / rock band, based in San Antonio, Texas, was formed in the first quarter of 2002 and has since entertained crowds from South Texas to Northern Montana. In 2006, Jokers Wild was honored to perform for former President George Bush, Sr. Jokers Wild's release of the single "Please Catch Me" follows their first release, "And The Rain," from January. "Please Catch Me," an up-tempo country tune, was written by co-producer and keyboardist Buck Aaron Thomas and lead guitarist Gary Wayne Zaiontz. "If you are so totally in love with that special somebody that they take your breath away every time they enter the room, then this is your song!" says Buck.THE JOKERS WILD BAND RELEASE’S IT’S SECOND SINGLE “PLEASE CATCH ME.”June 22, 2007The Jokers Wild Band has released their second original single "Please Catch Me." “Please Catch Me” can be found on CDX #426, CDTEX, Mark Trail’s comp disc, and July’s Hot Disk (Europe). It is also available to the public on I Tunes and available in high resolution broadcast format for radio stations to download at www.airplaydirect.com.
The Jokers Wild Band, a 6-piece country / rock band, based in San Antonio, Texas, was formed in the first quarter of 2002, and has since entertained thousands of audience members all the way from South Texas to Northern Montana. In 2006 Jokers Wild was honored to perform for former President George H.W. Bush, Sr. Jokers Wild has also been fortunate enough to share the stage with such legendary internationally recognized musical talent and comedic celebrities as Lee Ann Womack, The Eagles, Brooks & Dunn, The Steve Miller Band, Jeff Foxworthy and Terry Bradshaw.
"Please Catch Me," a hard driving country up tune, was written by owner, co-producer and keyboardist Buck Aaron Thomas and lead guitarist Gary Wayne Zaiontz. “If you are so totally in love with that special somebody, that they take your breath away every time they enter the room, then this is your song!” says Buck.
Jokers Wild's release of the single "Please Catch Me" follows their first release “And The Rain” in January of 2007. “We were honored to have “And The Rain” reach the #10 spot in the Hotdisc Most Popular Tracks Chart as voted on by the most influential DJs in Europe and some even further afar. Only the most elite tracks from Hotdisc deemed good enough by the greater European DJ community get into this chart on their merit, so this is a wonderful achievement for Jokers Wild. There are many international major label acts jockeying for position on this Top 40 Chart as well” says Buck.
“Please Catch Me” is the result of one complete year of recording, fine tuning, mixing and mastering. "We like to refer to this recording as the place where high quality Texas Music meets Nashville Recording Standards”, says Gary Zaiontz. “Some have said that the song is actually a rock up tune cleverly disguised as an upbeat country dance song. However it comes across to the listener, few can argue with the hard-hitting emotional power of its lyrics, and the listener’s complete inability to stop tapping their foot. This song really drives! We took great care to construct it with amazing sounding instrumentation and seamless vocals and harmonies. It just had to be as perfect as we could get it!" says Frank Lisenbee, Co-producer and President of Scorpio Productions and Green Toaster Music LLC (BMI).
"Gaining a strong presence in the international radio market, and attracting a well funded indie or major label are both very daunting tasks, even for a well established regional performance band like Jokers Wild”, says Buck Thomas. “With over two full length albums of our own great original material ready to follow this release, and the continued love and support of our families and loyal fans, I figured we stood as good, if not a better chance of making the cut as anyone else!"
For a copy of “Please Catch Me” as an MP3, photos, or to schedule an interview, please contact Laura Claffey with Wildfire Publicity at wildfirepublicity@comcast.net or 615-825-0019. “Please Catch Me” is also available on the Wildfire download page. Radio is encouraged to also contact Jerry Duncan Promotions, Nashville, Tennessee.
"And The Rain"May 15, 2007 Jokers Wild is very proud to have had their first original single release "And The Rain" reach the #10 spot in the Hotdisc Most Popular Tracks Chart as voted on by the most influential DJs in Europe and some even further afield. Only the most elite tracks from Hotdisc deemed good enough by the greater European DJ community get into this chart on their merit, so this is a wonderful achievement for Jokers Wild. There are many international major label acts jockeying for position on this Top 40 Chart as well. Be on the look out for Jokers Wild's second single release "Please Catch Me" scheduled to go out to radio in early July 2007.
"And The Rain" is now available for purchase at:
 Apple iTunes
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