Honey Island Swamp Band – Demolition Day (CD)
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Rooted in the Crescent City's deep musical soil, Honey Island Swamp Band draws from the same well as the Meters, Professor Longhair, and the Radiators, weaving Gulf Coast blues, second-line funk, and swamp rock into something that feels genuinely lived-in. A decade into their run, the band had built a loyal following on the festival and club circuit, earning their reputation the old-fashioned way, night after night on stage.
2016 release, the fourth album from the New Orleans-based band. Take a late-night stroll through downtown New Orleans and you'll hear a thousand flavors of music spill from the clubs. Spin this album by the Crescent City's new favourite sons, meanwhile, and you'll hear a band who embody that eclectic spirit. Demolition Day marks a milestone in their career. The album title cuts deep. It's just over a decade since Hurricane Katrina tore along the Gulf Coast, plunging New Orleans into devastation, but throwing together four Big Easy evacuees who found themselves marooned in San Francisco. The members were already on nodding terms from their hometown circuit, but when the four men joined forces for a weekly residency at San Francisco's Boom Boom Room, the chemistry was undeniable. By 2009, the lineup had released award-winning debut Wishing Well, and placed one foot onto the podium of New Orleans greats. Ten years and a thousand gigs down the line, that same battle-hardened lineup took just four days to track Demolition Day at The Parlor Recording Studio in New Orleans with famed producer Luther Dickinson (also leader of the North Mississippi Allstars and ex-Black Crowes guitarist).
Tracklist
UPC: 710347123026
Label: Ruf
Release Date: 4.29.16
Format: CD