Here’s some news I enjoy sharing. The first Springhouse recording in five years (since our From Now to OK comeback album) is now officially released, on the Hurricane Sandy Relief Tribute album called My Hometown: a Tribute to NJ. It’s easily ordered, digitally or on physical copy, here
It’s certainly a good cause, helping New Jersey folks devestated by the storm, and accordingly all the artists involved did covers of New Jersey-themed songs. In our case, we do an obscuro called “No One Has to Know” by noted Hoboken Bongos mavens Richard Barone and James Mastro (from Mastro’s side two section of the 1983 duo album Nuts and Bolts an album produced by Mitch Easter) It’s not only our first release in five years, it was personally the first song I’ve recorded on drums in 12 years. (Oddly; the drums for For Now were completed in 1998 and it took 10 years to finish that album; the last time I recorded with “tape rolling” for an official release, was the sessions for 2002’s Last Burning Embers album Lessons in Redemption completed just before 9/11 in 2001). The song was cut in only three takes after only one day of rehearsal, completed in bassist Larry Henimann‘s own home studio in Jersey City, and features the original lineup of Larry on bass and some lead guitar, singer/guitarist Mitch Friedland and myself, and it was engineered and produced by Larry.
We did the song much louder/heavier/more uptempo/more high energy so that we wouldn’t replicate a song we already loved. Hope you all like it!
And hope you all like the album as a whole (it’s a great lineup, including Big T faves Successful Failures and Bastards of Melody, The Grip Weeds, and, fittingly, three-decade Jersey Beat enthusiast extraordinaire and longtime Hoboken Maxwells fixture Jim Testa!) and help a good cause along the way.
We were honored to be asked! Well done, Mick Chorba at FDR Records!
Check it out folks, and enjoy!
