NATIONAL TOUR STARTS AT NOLA JAZZ FEST THROUGH SUMMER 2010
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Hot off the heels of a break-out year that saw the band bring home multiple awards ("Best Blues Album" and “Best Emerging Artist," Offbeat Magazine), Honey Island Swamp Band returns with Good To You, their second full-length release and first imprint on the Threadhead Records label. The sophomore release from the New Orleans Americana rockers drops locally in their hometown April 9, with availability at local record outlets, through the band's website, and at all HISB live performances, starting with their headlining performance at the 2010 French Quarter Festival. Good To You includes the single “Chocolate Cake," which is already receiving widespread airplay at stations along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Reassembling much of the crew from 2009's award-winning Wishing Well sessions, the band settled into New Orleans' Fudge Studios in early January, emerging a month later with thirteen powerful originals culled from over a year's worth of performing and writing on the road. The group's signature blend of roots genres explores even greater depths in their sophomore effort, with straight up rockers like “Rod n Reel" mixing it up with honky-tonkers like “You Remind Me," soulful R&B grooves like “Ten Times the Man" and country blues throwbacks like “In the Morning." Guests on the album include members of the extended HISB family - including saxophonist and arranger Jimmy Carpenter (Walter “Wolfman" Washington, Jimmy Thackery), trombonist Greg Hicks (Bonerama), and vocalist/harmonica player Sean Carey (Eric Lindell) - as well as stellar contributions from friends such as guitarist Jake Eckert (Dirty Dozen Brass Band) and New Orleans percussion ace Michael Skinkus.
Following Honey Island Swamp Band's intense 2010 Jazz Fest schedule (8 performances during the 2-week festival), a national release of Good To You is planned for early summer, with the band embarking on a summer-long tour of festivals and clubs across the U.S., including performances at the Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga, TN; the Chenango Blues Festival in Norwich, NY; the White Mountain Boogie and Blues Fest in Thornton, NH; the Federal Hill Jazz and Blues Festival in Baltimore, MD and the Roots n Blues Festival in Columbia, MO.
Good To You Track Listing:
Chocolate Cake
300 Pounds
Be Good
Rod n Reel
Ten Times the Man
Lose that Girl
Josephine
You Remind Me
Play the Fool
Honey
Country Girl
Don't Add Up
In the Morning
