Luke Beckel, Drew Frick, Corwyn Wilkey, Jeremiah Bakken, Brady Anderson, Scott Caddell and Nick Shier.
Influences
The Dead, The Pixies, Miles Davis, Keith Jarret, Bob Dylan, Modest Mouse, Bob Marley, Rage Against the Machine, New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Prince, Ween, Simple Red, The Alman Brothers Band, Ravi Shankar, Soullive, The Stanley Brothers, Neil Young, Jurassic 5, Bill Monroe, Ani Defranco, Calexico, Iron and Wine, Sufjian Stevens, Al Green, Marvin Gay, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Deep Banana Blackout, The Son's of Champlin, Cubanismo, Pancho Sanchez, John Coltrain, Government Mule, uh... hell whoever we happen to be listening to at the time. The intercontinuity of all things and non-things is ubiquitous...dig?
Sounds Like
Zach DeLa Rocha singing love songs to Steven Tyler's daughter at a Russian funeral. Steven gets pissed off because he realizes he's at the wrong funeral and starts crying over the memory of Johnny Cash. Ziggy Marley always to the rescue with the sun is shining, cheers him up with some Colly Weed. In all of this hysteria of loss, love, new beginings and years of drug induced melodrama, Santana gets inspired to do an album with all of the above, and a bonus track with that new guy from Maroon Five, using the SNL band for back up. Does it win another fifty billion grammys? You decide.
Sweating Honey, like fire, is constantly changing and hard not to look at. They sneak into friends houses late at night and trade their TV's for naval oranges. But more importantly, they play music. Genre splicing music with a powerful groove. The current lineup has been performing together for about five years. Every month or so their sound changes.
Been to Fairbanks? We're pretty much all nuts. It's no wonder with half the year cruel darkness and bitter cold, the other half constant daylight, endless vibrant energy. Products of their environment, Sweating Honey tries to play music that accomodates yet balances the mood swings of the emerging generation plagued by the chaos of shit accumulation. In other words we have songs for everyone.
Their debut studio CD, "Infinity's Doorstop" (2005) and live CD "Live at the Sitzmark" (2006), draw from a variety of idioms including: Latin, Dancehall, Reggae, Southern Rock, R&B, Klesmer, Psychobilly, Jazz and Hip-Hop. Though, none of these songs exactly resemble any one of these styles. They are epics so to speak plagued by the band's own hippiebilly vision. Sweating Honey's highly anticipated second studio album, "When We Were Young", was released on December 12, 2008. This album contains 12 tracks showing Sweating Honey's introspective and lyrical songwriting prowess, while maintaining the genre-splicing groove the fans are used to. In early January 2009 a vinyl version of When we were Young will be released containing one new track "typewriter" which is available as a free download on myspace.
Sweating Honey has been a 3 time finalist in the Independent Music World Series and has received a smattering of awards including the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner "Readers Choice Award" for Best Local Band and the Anchorage Press "Press Picks" award for Best Live Band. Renowned as one of Alaska favorite bands, Sweating Honey regularly headlines the most popular Alaskan venues from the interior to the southeast. They have also shared the stage with many nationally recognized acts including The Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama, Leftover Salmon, The Spin Doctors, The Meat Purveyors, Tim Easton, Soul Asylum, The Big Wu, Keller Williams, Clinton Fearon and The Boogie Brown Band, The Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Hassidic reggae rapper Matisyahu, Sun Volt and many more.
Touring regularly throughout the state of Alaska and having now made 2 tours in the lower 48 states, Sweating Honey is now seeking to expand their national exposure with a three week tour scheduled to span the East coast from New Orleans to New Jersey. Having sold tens of thousands of albums across the world already, Sweating Honey has an ever expanding fan base with no sign of slowing down. Certainly, it's only a matter of time before the bands popularity propels them onto the same stages as their nationally recognized peers. As a concert promoter, booking agent or club owner, the only question you really need to ask yourself is, "when can I get them to play my venue?"
damn! i guess i was too late...well, if aug 15th frees up, let me know. we want a booty shakin' wedding hoe down and ya'll were the first to come to mind. xoxo- mk
Thank you for adding up & coming reggae/dub/rock trio The Roast Beef Curtains from LI, NY! Please check out our Summer Of Pleasure '09 tour calendar to catch a show nearest you!
I think it was 5 yrs ago when I got to see you guys last, at the Marlin. I somehow ended up on stage as well for an ACDC cover:) I'm finally making it back there for a few weeks, but see that y'all are gonna be elsewhere: ( It breaks my heart!
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