I recently
completed and released a new EP with my band Wild Honey Collective, a heavily
Byrds/Burritos/Gene Clark etc inspired project, and it features our rendition
of “Wasn’t Born To Follow”. Some very McGuinn inspired 12 string electric is a
key part of every arrangement as well as heavily Sneaky Pete influenced pedal
steel.
The band in
general patterns our shows after the Clarence White era Byrds and the FBB’s “Last
Of The Red Hot Burritos” by playing original songs and traditional country
material, followed by an old time/bluegrass acoustic segment, and then a
jammier, heavier country rock set to finish things out.
Best,
Tommy McCord
gtgrecords.net---
Lifted from
From Bandcamp:
--- Over a
handful of quick (mostly mid-afternoon) jam sessions between October 2023 and
January 2024, Tommy and Adam (aka "Wilderhoney", far out, man) of the
Wild Honey Collective, assisted by Wild Honey Drum Section Leader Joel Kuiper,
knocked out these 6 songs in Adam's basement. During two informal winter
hangouts, vocal cameos were added by Wild Honey Most Valuable Vocalist Danielle
Gyger and A Rueful Noise singers Nicholas Merz and Jennifer Toms. Thus,
Wilderhoney EP 2024: 2 traditional folk songs (filtered through Clarence White,
Red Rhodes, John Jorgenson, Jerry Garcia, Gene Clark, Sierra Ferrell), a song
by friend and sometime collaborator Jeremy Porter, an original song, and songs
originally recorded by The Byrds and Sonic Youth.
1. John Henry (Traditional)
2. Ain't My House Anymore (Jeremy Porter/One To Give Music)
3. Never Worry (Tommy McCord)
4. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (Traditional)
5. Wasn't Born To Follow (Goffin-King/Screen Gems-EMI Music)
6. The Diamond Sea (Gordon-Moore-Ranaldo-Shelley/Sonik
Tooth Music)
Tommy Plural-McCord - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin,
12 String Guitar, Bass, Harmonica, Arrangements Adam Aymor - Pedal Steel Guitar, Dobro, Keyboards,
Production, Engineering/Mixing Joel Kuiper - Drums Danielle Gyger - Harmony Vocals (2, 5) Nicholas Merz - Harmony Vocals (3, 4, 5) Jennifer Toms - Harmony Vocals (3, 5)
Recorded by Adam at Owosscilation, October 2023-January
2024 Layout / Cover Photo by Tommy. Back Cover Photo by
Lucy Mastered by Rick Johnson
Acknowledgements: Timmy, Dan, Jeremy, Nich, Michael,
Kevin, Hattie, Dave, Jack... you're in these songs too. Let's play 'em.
Skip Battin
is featured on a CD released in July 2023, recorded at a concert at the Capitol
Theater, Paissac, NJ on October 31st, 1975 by the New Riders Of The
Purple Sage.
Mark Teehan
has comprehensively researched The Byrds' "Eight Miles High" single's
performance on the local music surveys to determine the role thatThe Gavin Reportmight have played in its national
charting.
Mark is a
former accredited historian and is currently a research analyst. His exhaustive
analysis of the spread in Top 40 radio airplay of Bob Dylan's transformative
"Like A Rolling Stone" revealed how it became a Number One smash hit in the
U.S., and was published inIsis(#216). In
addition, his six Kinks charting essays were posted on kindakinks.net.
Emmylou
Harris’ 10" vinyl LP (6 tracks) (released in 2023 as part of an Amoeba Records/Polly
Parsons Kickstarter campaign that raised funds to release rediscovered Gram
Parsons material) has a live track sung with Gram Parsons, recorded at a
concert with the Fallen Angels in Boston, 1973.
Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders / The Coal Porters) has made a
new podcast available.
It’s a 90+ minutes “Byrds Special”.
From Sid Griffin’s website:
“The 37th Sid Griffin Podcast is ready to be heard and
enjoyed. No holiday theme this
year as Sid has done in past podcasts but…get ready for a surprise…he HAS done
an entire show devoted to his fave act, The Byrds.
No hits, of course, but outtakes, demos, and rare tracks not
even the most devoted Byrd fan has heard. We are talking tunes even the late
great Johnny Rogan never heard.”
You can
listen to the podcast on various platforms; details here:
It went
rather unnoticed but the latest vinyl re-release of Gene Clark and Carla Olson's
LP « So Rebellious A Lover » on blue vinyl has a bonus 7’’ vinyl
single with an unreleased Clark/Olson « home recorded » song.
Says Carla Olson:
« A
blue vinyl version of my album with Gene, ‘So Rebellious A Lover’, has
just been re-released in the summer and it includes a 7 inch single of Gene
singing a song in his house, and me singing the song with him in the house, it
was recorded in his lounge on a little cassette deck. It is really a wonderful
addition to the many reissues of that album »
The LP was
released on Sunset Blvd Records with reference LP-SBR-7021.
The single
is as follows:
Side A
Gypsy Rider
Recorded at Criterion Recording Studio, Hollywood, Ca. 1985
Bass – Joe
Read
Drums – Phil
Seymour
Guitar – George
Callins
Pedal Steel
Guitar – Ed Black
Recorded
By, Mixed By – Guy Roche
Written-By, Producer, Guitar, Vocals – Gene
Clark
Side B
Recorded at
Gene's House, Sherman Oaks, Ca. 1989
Number One
Is To Survive
Guitar, Vocals – Gene Clark
Written-By, Guitar, Vocals – Carla Olson
UPDATE
The mention that Gene And Carla’s "Number One Is To Survive" is an unreleased track was based on what Carla Olson said in a recent interview. Actually, our regular correspondent JPM just let us know that it’s not unreleased, as it appears on Gene and Carla’s double CD “Gene Clark With Carla Olson In Concert” released by Collector’s Choice Music as long ago as 2007, with the note “Gene & Clara In Gene’s Living Room, 1989”