Springing from the minds of music blogger Ryan Spaulding of Ryan's Smashing Life (rslblog.com) and Adam Duritz of Counting Crows, THE OUTLAW ROADSHOWis a thrill ride for the music fan: 3 stages featuring 19 bright emerging bands who deserve some time in your headphones in 2012, all hand-picked by Ryan and Adam after a blizzard of pinballing mp3 email exchanges and exuberant phone calls ("Seriously dude, you have GOT to check out...")

In addition to Heartless Bastards, this year's ROADSHOW lineup includes: Young Buffalo, Kasey Anderson & The Honkies, Tender Mercies, Gentlemen Hall, Hey Marseilles, Son of the Sun, Jukebox The Ghost, Oldjack, Dave Godowsky, Mellow Bravo, Field Report, Filligar, Brown Bird, Casey Desmond, Flights, You Won't, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound and Runaway Dorothy.

There are free downloads of tracks from all 19 bands at the ROADSHOW's website (www.theoutlawroadshow.com), as well as an exclusive track ("Like Teenage Gravity") from Counting Crows' forthcoming album UNDERWATER SUNSHINE (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation), due out April 10th.

Counting Crows will also be performing live for a Daytrotter session this Thurs March 15 in Austin at 5 pm and headlining Auditorium Shores at SXSW with Diamond Rugs and Tender Mercies this Fri March 16.