Bucky
Hot damn! I had to buy the vinyl only halfway through. It’s got one foot pushing a heavy pedal on the psych and the other blazing with cosmic folk and outlaw soul.
Favorite track: Silos.
David Minnix
You should buy this. Its got:
Neil Youngish slow rockers, rusty front porch chooglin tunes about drinking and despair, serious noisy Wilco YHF/Big Star third vibes. Haunting vocals from Angela James and Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater). Yeah it sounds like bands you already love but they've synthesized it all into something that sounds just like themselves and no one else. These are good songs recorded with a lot of care.
Just buy it already! OK?! jeeze...
Favorite track: Cicero.
All songs and lyrics by John Gargiulo except "Whiskey Reprise" (music by John Gargiulo / Lee Ketch, lyrics by John Gargiulo)
Arrangements by John Gargiulo, Robbie Hamilton, and Lee Ketch
Produced by Robbie Hamilton and John Gargiulo
Recorded at Strange Magic Recording and Skye Sound in Chicago, IL by Robbie Hamilton
Mixed by Robbie Hamilton and Contorno
Mastered by Carl Saff and Greg Reierson
Cover Photo by John Gargiulo
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Indiegogo Executive Producers: Jason Pesola, Stephen Rees, Mark Gargiulo, Lee Ketch, Sheila Ellis, Anthony Gargiulo Jr, Kathryn Dunbar
Special thanks: Eliya Gwetta, Robby Haynes, Ashley Bowman, Christopher Keener, Ryan Krga, Neal Markowski, Beth McDonald, all of our families, all of our supporters on Indiegogo, Tributosaurus, Miko’s Italian Ice, and Uncle Neil
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Whiskey Reprise
John Gargiulo: guitars, bass, mandolin, lap steel
Robbie Hamilton: air organ, percussion
Lee Ketch: vocals
Angela James: backup vocals
Neal Markowski: drums
Believe I’m Chooglin’ Now
John Gargiulo: vocals, guitars, bass, slide guitar, lap steel, reverb tank
Robbie Hamilton: backup vocals, drum machine, drums, mellotron, piano, percussion
Lee Ketch: backup vocals
Janet Bean: backup vocals
Cicero
John Gargiulo: guitars, mandolin, piano, prepared piano, tape noise
Robbie Hamilton: drums, bass, piano, prepared piano
Lee Ketch: vocals, percussion
Angela James: backup vocals
Contorno is a Chicago-based rock n roll collective led by songwriter John Gargiulo. The band includes core members Lee
Ketch, Connor Boyle, and Dann Morr. Their debut LP, Won’t Be Gone, was recorded by Robbie Hamilton at Strange Magic Recording and features contributions from Angela James and Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater)....more
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