.avif)
No items found.
Hank Sinatra :
Hank Sinatra has been around in one form or another since 2005, with tens of thousands of followers on their various socials and touring regularly with players in many of the country's major markets. There was an LA version, a Nashville crew, Austin, NYC, and even a Dublin, IRE crew, just to name a few. After years of late nights, delayed flights, and making way too many bad decisions in cheap hotel rooms in 2019 the band went on indefinite hiatus, totally unaware of what the future had in store.
Fast forward to Nov '23 when good friend and former Ramones tour wrangler Rick Johnson talked lead singer Jeff “Jeffro” Holshouser out of retirement and tapped him to perform a tune with Lenny Kaye and Friends at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC for one of Kaye's Nuggets Compilation 50th Anniversary Show concerts — and it was just the shot in the arm ol' Hank needed. Holshouser then reached out to the band's lead guitarist and his longtime collaborators Sam Madison and Tommy Cooper to get started working on new material, using all these events as inspiration. The group had new energy and needed players that shared the same vision and again, Rick Johnson came to the rescue suggesting they reach out to drummer Scott Carle (Dillon Fence, Collapsis) who came on board bringing bassist Eric Lee with him and not long afterward keyboardist Charles B Cleaver started sitting in when his schedule allowed. Suffice to say Hank came roaring back with a vengeance and a drive to get back out on the road! It's been full steam ahead ever since.
Jeffrey Dean Foster:
Over a rich career, spanning four decades, Jeffrey Dean Foster has toured the country and shared the stage with Bob Dylan, The Cowboy Junkies, Alex Chilton, Alejandro Escovedo, Ian Hunter and many more. He's scored an entire Angus MacLachlan film, racked up accolades from all the right magazines, and was labelmates with Whitney Houston! When Jeffrey Dean Foster watched the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s murder, he wanted to address the cruelty that prompted them. The result was “I’m Starting to Bleed,” a pastiche of late-period Bowie and “Cruisin’”-era Smokey Robinson infused with a creeping sense of dread. Now, with not much more than a pile of home recording equipment, and a raging case of cabin fever, he has produced an EP that sits proudly amongst his very best work.
I'm Starting To Bleed is the latest chapter in Jeffrey Dean Foster’s exceptional career in music, which dates back to the mid-1980s. Long before the Americana movement caught fire – before the genre even had a name, in fact – Foster was synthesizing folk, rock and roots music with such bands as the Right Profile, the Carneys and the Pinetops. Signed to Arista Records by Clive Davis, the Right Profile were poised for success as a proto-Americana group; why it didn’t happen is one of those classic music-biz tales. A 1998 album with The Pinetops, Above Ground and Vertical, showed the individuality of Foster's vision, but it was the long-awaited release of Million Star Hotel, his first solo album, that finally gathered all facets of his musical vision in a uniformly spectacular fashion. Upon the release of Foster's album, The Arrow, Stereophile Magazine commented, "The Arrow, a near masterpiece on virtually every level. This is the kind of album that will stop you in your tracks."