| California Honeydrops, The / Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 |
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| Album: | Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2 | Collection: | Blues | |
| Artist: | California Honeydrops, The | Added: | Feb 2019 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2019-02-14 | Pull Date: | 2019-04-18 | Charts: | Blues |
| Week Ending: | Apr 21 | Apr 14 | Apr 7 | Mar 31 | Mar 24 | Mar 17 | Mar 10 | Mar 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 04, 2022: | Hanging In The Boneyard Call It Home | 4. | Sep 01, 2021: | Hanging in the Bone Yard (rebroadcast from Mar 2, 2019) Silicon World | |
| 2. | Apr 22, 2022: | Traditions (rebroadcast from Apr 5, 2019) Tell Me (I Wanna Know) | 5. | Jun 06, 2020: | Hanging in the bone yard Call It Home | |
| 3. | Oct 12, 2021: | Traditions (rebroadcast from Mar 29, 2019) In My Baby's Arms | 6. | Aug 31, 2019: | blues with a feelin' Only Home I've Ever Known, Call It Home, Silicon World, Tell Me (I Wanna Know) |
| Album Review |
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| Mr. Bones Reviewed 2019-02-15 | ||
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Call It Home – California Honey Drops (2018) reviewed by Mr. Bones So how a does a white, Polish immigrant produce a knock-out soul, jazz, funk double disk that channels the likes of The Meters, Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone into a captivating modern sound? Perhaps its all those years busking in Bart stations; don't know & don't care, just glad he did. Whether its the ska inspired Coming Home or the soulish Live Learn, it is hard to believe that just five guys can make such a big, joyful sound (albeit with a help from friends, including Bonnie Riatt). Pick any track, you can't go wrong with this release (except Vol I, track 7) Vol I (more uptempo) * #1 Call it Home - slow, swap-funk with band firing on all cylinders & Bonnie Riatt on 2nd vocals (3:42) * #2 Coming Around - delicious soul number with nice Brazilian/ska accents & killer bass (6:47) * #3 Cry For Me - splendid Mardi Gras tune, think Bourbon Street (3:22) * #4 Standing Still Blue - slow blues number with great piano & guitar (3:53) * #5 Hold It Down - Red hot New Orleans funk (3:46) * #6 Your Sweet Love - slow, sweet love song featuring LW's sweet falsetto and trumpet (4:02) #7 Those Days - slow, heavily orchestrated love song (4:05) * #8 Live Learn - mid-tempo blues/soul ala Curtis Mayfield (4:34) Vol II (slower & more traditional) * #1 Only Home I've Ever Known - down-tempo acoustic with nice vocals & trumpet (4:05) * #2 Silicon World - bluesy lament about life with too much silicon (3:45) * #3 Tell Me (I Wanna Know) - bouncy blues with mean trumpet break (4:39) * #4 Drop by Drop - slow song about a lazy summer day with one's beau (3:25) * #5 Good Good Lovin' - bouncy, swap-pop acoustic love song ala Jessie Winchester (2:58) * #6 Things We Used To Do - playful, down & dirty with great horns (3:34) * #7 Im My Baby's Arms - drop dead beautiful with a LW's great falsetto and a syncopated beat *#8 Starr Child - bouncy fantasy number about child from another world with spacey, improvisational break (6:31) * Mr. Bones especially likes these | ||
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