The DeSotos are based in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Paul Gurney guitars & lead vocals; Stuart McIntyre bass & vocals, Ron Stevens Hammond organ, keyboards, acoustic guitar & vocals and Mike Burrows drums & percussion.

Check out our all new 'official' Greedy Men video on YouTube.

The band was quite busy in and around Auckland over the summer, including performing at the Kumeu Hot Rod Show, Auckland Seafood Festival, Kumeu Beer, Wine & Food Festival, Devonport Food, Wine & Music Festival plus some dates touring with the ace blues guitarist Gerry Joe Weise, plus appearances at the Kings Arms & TheWindsor Castle.  In March, the band toured the North Island with shows at Hotel Bristol - Wellington, Te Kairanga Wines - Martinborough, The Cabana - Napier and Cafe L'Arte - Acacia Bay, Taupo plus two shows at Beach Hop 2010.

Currently working on the new album - watch this space!

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The album Cross Your Heart is available in stores nationwide, featuring 13 tracks. 
Track listing:  '59 Cadillac, The Spirit, Greedy Men, Invisible, Offline, Lonely Star, Rollercoaster, Sat On A Mountain, Crazy World, Love Lost Time, Summer Wine, When You Dance, Goodbye.  Read a couple of reviews below.

To get a copy of Cross Your Heart, check out your local CD store.  If they are out of stock, ask them to order it in for you.  The catalogue details for ordering are: 
Cross Your Heart by The DeSotos - Tailgator Music / Ode Records 2008 - CDMANU5038

Here are a couple of reviews of Cross Your Heart:

Steve Scott of the Waikato Times:  (House and Lifestyle, August 2008)
Every once in a while, an album arrives and instantly commands your attention.  Auckland band, The DeSotos is such a band.
From the very beginning, The DeSotos don't disappoint. They are illuminating with a powerful blend of rock-infused country-blues.
The musicians that make up this band – Paul Gurney, Rex McLeod, Stuart McIntyre and Ron Stevens – reveal a strong chemistry that celebrates a rockin' spirit of musical communion.
Tracks including The Spirit, Greedy Men, Invisible and Goodbye, are timeless, perfectly arranged and delivered in earnest and, at times, harmonic tones.
Other compositions, including Sat on a Mountain, with blazing harmonica from Midge Marsden and Love Lost Time featuring a lead guitar highlight recalling the late Duane Allman's Eat a Peach period, reveals The DeSotos have struck gold with Cross Your Heart.
One of the finest debuts I have heard this year.

Graham Reid (NZ Herald Time Out)
Named after the classic car (and not presumably the explorer) this Auckland-based outfit peel off a substantial slice of professionally delivered, wide-screen country-rock which owes much to the Petty/Springsteen/Neil Young and Travelling Wilburys axis, and mostly kicks things up a notch from the Warratahs.
With a couple of writers in their ranks there is also a pleasing diversity here, although sometimes they reference their influences just a little too much for any accusations of originality to be thrown.
When they nail something of their own - the tense jangle of The Spirit, the tight churn of Greedy Men, the heartfelt Offline - they offer songs which are classy and fully formed.
From the opener 59 Cadillac through to the ballads in the closing overs, this is enjoyable rockin' country music full of twang and backbeat which sounds even better when a ribbon of highway stretches out ahead and you are in no hurry.
As the opener says, 'there ain't nothin' like rain on a two lane, driving fast with the radio on'.
Well, someone's already supplying the rain, The DeSotos have the soundtrack.

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