There are, of course, ample doses of guitar goodness throughout, most notably on a trippy cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe, which sees Farees laying down fierce, wah-soaked rhythms before heading to the outer limits with a turbo-charged solo. And on the widescreen funk masterpiece The Melting, he’s joined by Meters guitar legend Leo Nocentelli, who joyously weaves a colorful quilt of intricate six-string textures.
Today PunkNews is thrilled to bring you the premiere of the new video from Atlanta based party-punkers Baby Baby!
With a band name like Red Rum Club, one can almost picture a supergroup of sorts with collaborations with the likes of Joe Strummer and Paul Weller. But instead, we have one of Britain’s (Liverpool to be exact) most promising post-punk acts with a dose of pop since Arctic Monkeys. READ MORE…
The Land In Between was overseen by acclaimed producer and guitarist Teddy Kumpel (Joe Jackson, Feist, Rickie Lee Jones) at Atomic Sound in Brooklyn, and together they assembled an impressive array of veteran A-list session players, including bassist Cat Popper (Jack White, Willie Nelson, Levon Helm), drummer Steve Williams (Sade, David Byrne, Keith Richards), keyboard player Todd Caldwell (Stephen Stills, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt), fiddler Charlie Burnham (Martha Redbone), with Mark Spencer on pedal steel (Son Volt, Lisa Loeb), Michael Blake on tenor saxophone, Bruce Harris on trumpet and the late Don Heffington (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), playing drums on “I Tried to Keep on Loving You.”
Satiny smooth, elegant, distinguished & classy – at times a blend of Broadway with a stirring soulfulness & yet there’s a folky element in Lara Taubman’s tone, with a grain of noir that sneaks in when least expected. It’s evident in the opener “Darkness Before the Dawn.”
In Their Words: “Just the other week on August 17, 2022, I celebrated eight years of sobriety and ‘Old Wooden Floor’ is the first song I’ve ever written exclusively about my life as a drinker before I got sober. Unlike some of my songs where I take liberties with things that have happened to me, or where I might obscure certain details with esoterics, the story in ‘Old Wooden Floor’ is basically an autobiographical recounting of what my daily life was like in the final months of my drinking.”