The Street And Babe Shadow
The Street And Babe Shadow
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About The Street And Babe Shadow
Some bands merely rock. Echo Park's The Street & Babe Shadow roll, they rumble, they sway and stagger and strut and stroll, and even strum a dreamy waltz or two. That's because they aren't merely a rock band. They're more like barroom balladeers, intimate provocateurs of strings and spangled keys, or maybe just a group that wandered the well-worn avenues of backbeats and power chords long enough before deciding on a change of pace. "It's challenging and also exciting to try to do something different after two million years of guitar-based music already existing before you," says singer-guitarist-tank-top-enthusiast, Luke Paquin (also of Hot Hot Heat). "I want it to be its own thing, and that's hard to do because all we've ever listened to our whole lives are the Kinks or whatever, bands that just rock. It's like, how do you do that?" Paquin and pedal steel player, Dan Horne, have been collaborating since the metal mania of their preteen years in Palo Alto. Bassist Jimmy Sweet spent his formative years traveling with a Baptist choir before meeting Paquin and Horne in the blues-rock dens of San Francisco in the early 2000s. The three have been band mates in one form or another ever since. Pedal steel and bass are respective departures for Horne and Sweet, yet they manage to wring the best of their chosen instrument, a testament to the band's gusto-before-gleam attitude. Together, the trio crafted a set of Paquin's original tunes into a self-produced, self-released, and - you guessed it - self-titled debut album, a slice of serenades and sentimental kicks that channels all the charm and croony swagger that roused indie-folk, alt-country, and other hyphenated audiences alike at the band's live shows. Paquin's sweetheart, songstress/starlet Paige Stark, lends harmony and a bit of amorous urgency to a couple of cuts, reminiscent of classic acoustic pairings like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. At their core, The Street & Babe Shadow makes music about love. Maybe not "love songs" in a syrupy, teen pop sense, but songs about the longing and regret love can bring, the tattered hearts and empty beds it leaves behind, and relationships careening off the rails. The subject can stir as much movement in a listener as the beat, a distinction not lost on anyone looking to do more than just rock out. Lucky for those people, The Street & Babe Shadow are just getting rolling.
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