There's a scene in Murray Lerner's film ("Festival"), about the 1963 Newport Music Festival, where Peter, Paul and Mary are shown obliging a resounding call for an encore with the protest song, "If I Had A Hammer." Peter and Paul face each other from the sides and Mary faces the audience of tens of thousands, shaking her blonde hair and bearing down on a song about making change. She would, they would hammer out danger and a warning all over the land. Delta Spirit have five hammers and they swing them the way Mary bobbled her head back in '63 for her close-ups, the way Mary sang as if her knees were on fire and her mouth was brimming with more ire laced with optimism than she knew what to do with. These Californians have more in common with the dirty haired, dirty fingernailed folk groups of the nascent years than they do any of their contemporaries. They're suited for reminiscent hopefulness and the gracefully youthful fusion of hostility and all-encompassing passion for all things that can set a smile ablaze or turn the hairs on arms and backs of necks into little beds of nails at the flick of a switch. They make lists of things they like, including all of the people they love, their home, pretty girls, desserts, bodies of water, justice and America. They believe there's still hope for it and in all of the rooms contained within the hallways of the band's newest offering, "Ode To Sunshine," they make you understand that, when it's all boiled down, what we all ultimately live for is catharsis and a fulfillment of body meeting land, air and sea harmoniously. They're about bodies meeting bodies, pressing skins to skins. They're about reminding you to listen more than you talk. They're about urging you to put stock in the happiness of others, not just your own. They make it obvious that we have to go somewhere to be somewhere. We have to feel something to really live. They sing of the soul searchers. They sing for the soul searchers. They are the soul searchers. – Sean Moeller
"Delta Spirit should be required listening."
- Daytrotter
"A hybrid of Americana rock and Northern Soul with boundless energy."
-mp3.com
The December issue of Fan the Fire Magazine is out now featuring London Film Festival, The Box, 2012, The Girlfriend Experience, Sasha Grey interview, Dawes, Surfer Blood, Them Crooked Vultures, Francoise Nielly, Brandon Schaefer, Ruud Baan, Igor Termenon and much more.
Check out the Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa. Ghostland and OAR PLAY AT LEAST TWICE A YEAR THERE. THE HISTORY AND SETTING IS AMAZING. PLEASE GIVE IT A TRY... EVERYONE IN TULSA IS SLOWLY STARTING TO HEAR THE WONDEROUS TUNES THAT YOU CREATE
WE LOVE YOU GUYS! IF YOUR FEELIN WHAT I'M FEELIN COME ON!
Hi! Thanks for being our friend! It would mean a lot if you'd check out our songs and leave us a comment. If we're doing our job you might even get a smile out of it. Comment how you feel!
Also, if you're in the Salt Lake City area let me know, we are trying to build a really strong local fanbase and always looking for people to jam with! Get with us early and we'll hook you up when we're huge...which will probably be in a week or two.
I've been listening to Bushwick Blues on repeat for some time now, and I realize I need some good ol' Delta Spirit therapy. It's been too long since I last saw you guys!
May or may not be in world's sketchiest taco bell in new Mexico... And definitely am wishing you guys were feeling what I'm feeling.. Which is definitely playing here. I love it.
The November issue of Fan the Fire Magazine is out now featuring Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare At Goats The White Ribbon, Youth In Revolt, Defendor, Marina And The Diamonds, The Romany Rye, Julian Casablancas, Biffy Clyro and AA Bondy plus art features from Kevin Cry, Matte Stephens and John Malloy and style spreads by Anoush Abrar and Aimee Hoving, Valentina Vos and Sebastian Scwajczak, plus much more.
Did anyone else hear you guys last night on the show Sons of Anarchy? You guys had the ending song leading into the credits! Who would of thought that the Delta Spirit went so well with bikers?
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