Back pOrchEstra - Stories In The Heart [LP]

West Coast American roots outfit with rich acoustic tones, Back Porchestra, continues it's foray into fresh yet retro genre-blending and genre-bending with a broad range of original Indie Rock and the American Roots styles that inspired it: country blues, Zydeco, roots rock, Tex Mex, rockabilly, Singer-Songwriter, Motown, New Orleans and even Brazilian featuring the stellar SF Bay Areas: Tim Eschliman (Etta James, Commander Cody & His Western Airmen, Jess Colin Young, The Christmas Jug Band, The Blues Project) on vocals & resonator guitar, Bowen Brown (John Lee Hooker, Tommy Castro, Rhythmtown-Jive) on drums, Candy Girard (Delaney Bramlet, Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Jerry Garcia) on violin, Beau Beaullieu (California Honeydrops, Gator Beat) on bass, Gary Potterton (NRPS, Texas Chainsaw) on guitar and dobro plus speial guest Kathy Kennedy (Big Bang Beat, Smokey Robinson) on vocals, Vicki Randle (The Tonight show band under Jay Leno) on percussion, Austin deLone on piano, Mingo Lewis Jr (Vinyl) on percussion, and other Christmas Jug Band personnel: Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs, Paul Rogers, Gregory Leroy Dewey and Blake Richardson. 2 of the tracks on this 12-song set feature the dual artistry of Back Porchestra and The Christmas Jug Band. Features 9 originals or original arrangements and 3 covers from Big Al Anderson (NRBQ), Waylon Jennings and Don Gibson.Produced by Tim Eschliman (The Christmas Jug Band, Rhythmtown-Jive, New Copasetics, The Moonlighters). Asst engineer: Eed "Skip" Sitkin.Mastered by Ann-Marie Suenram, Suenram Mastering, using George Horn's Neumann VMS 66 disc-cutting lathe (Fantasy Studios), who interned with George Horn for years. A follow up to the "Voices In My Head (Genre Whiplash)" album by Back Porchestra... "It's one fine album" - Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone, Almost Famous)."... how rich the musical community of the San Francisco Bay Area is... certainly demonstrates a mastery of many musical genres that provides a roadmap of classic Americana music with this fine new record" -J C Flyer... evokes artists from multiple decades over the last century and embraces everything from indie-rock and Americana to Celtic, Motown, and Western swing. If you need a reference point, look to bands like Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and Asleep at the Wheel, whose records also draw on disparate sources." - Jeff Burger, Americana Highway