California Honeydrops, The / Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2
Album: Call It Home, Vol. 1 & 2   Collection:Blues
Artist:California Honeydrops, The   Added:Feb 2019
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
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
Mr. Bones
Reviewed 2019-02-15
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

Track Listing
1. Call It Home   9. Only Home I've Ever Known
2. Coming Around   10. Silicon World
3. Cry For Me   11. Tell Me (I Wanna Know)
4. Standin' Still Blues   12. Drop By Drop
5. Hold It Down   13. Good Good Lovin'
6. Your Sweet Love   14. Things We Used To Do
7. Those Days   15. In My Baby's Arms
8. Live Learn   16. Starr Child