ACE OF TOASTER RECORDS • MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUGUST 8, 2026

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HEADLINE: RECLAIMING THE HEARTLAND: ACE OF TOASTER RECORDS DEBUTS "COUNTRY SONGS FROM THE TOASTER: VOLUME I"—A GRIT-DRIVEN MIDWESTERN OUTLAW MASTERPIECE

DATELINE: SHERIDAN, IN / NASHVILLE, TN — AUGUST 8, 2026 — Independent audio imprint Ace of Toaster Records has officially announced the global street release of Country Songs from the Toaster: Volume I, the highly anticipated roots-driven outlaw country album written and produced by David Kitzmiller. Forged from an authentic lifetime of navigating small-town rooms and late-night Indiana dive bars, this grit-driven collection delivers visceral storytelling completely devoid of corporate radio sheen, engineered to command the room's immediate attention.

BEYOND THE ENDLESS CORN ROWS

Country Songs from the Toaster: Volume I represents a direct, inevitable return to the geography that forged Kitzmiller’s voice. David grew up in Sheridan, Indiana—as country as rural Indiana could be. While a landscape of sprawling cornfields sounds idyllic in retrospect, for a teenager on a skateboard harboring heavy rock-and-roll dreams, life between the endless corn rows originally felt like entirely the wrong stage. Even so, the unmistakable current of heartland country music seeped in anyway. The rhythm of gravel back roads, field bonfires, and late nights under the midwestern stars shaped his creative architecture whether he wanted them to or not.

The definitive genesis of this catalog traces back to the distinct hum of an AM radio inside Uncle Gene’s beat-up pickup truck, navigating the rural stretches between Hortonville and Eagletown. That was Classic Country: the unvarnished lineage where the heartbreak is absolute, the losses are heavy, and the beer is still cold. That is the exact sonic gravity Kitzmiller engineered for these tracks.

ROAD-WORN AUTHENTICITY

Brought to life by the warm, road-worn authenticity of Nashville bar-stage staples Tyler Travis & The Strummers, the album captures the piece of Kitzmiller that grew up in Sheridan, even when he tried to outrun it. It is an album of dirt, heartbreak, laughter, and truth, coming from places where the transmission still crackles across the dial and the nights still feel endless. Operating as an active, expanding multi-volume series under the Ace of Toaster Records banner, the catalog stands as an uncompromised outlaw monument.

MEDIA PRODUCTION & MASTER PACKAGING

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