{"id":166,"date":"2013-07-30T20:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-11-10T23:10:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T23:10:38","slug":"honey-island-swamp-band-cane-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"HONEY ISLAND SWAMP BAND: Cane Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"honey island\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/honey-island.jpg 1619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cSomewhere, there exists a dark, smoky bar with a jukebox that spins George Jones, Gram Parsons, Delbert McClinton, and Little Feat. And if that fantasy honky-tonk lights your Marlboro, you need to know about Honey Island Swamp Band.\u201d &#8211; Broward-Palm Beach New Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it funny, how life works out?<\/p>\n<p>2005 &#8211; guitarists\/songwriters Chris Mule and Aaron Wilkinson are left homeless in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, marooned in San Francisco, and mulling an uncertain future with fellow refugees, bassist Sam Price drummer Garland Paul. Honey Island Swamp Band is formed and returns home to New Orleans, quickly gaining local recognition.<\/p>\n<p>2010 &#8211; Trevor Brooks on Hammond B-3 is added, rounding out the band. Their great songs &#8211; heavily influenced by the roots music of Lowell George &amp; Little Feat, The Band, Gram Parsons, and Dr. John &#8211; and their burn-thelevee-down shows, mark the band as an upcoming regional powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>2013 \u2013 Eight years of incessant touring have garnered a sizable fan base across the country. Grammy winner producer, John Porter, comes on board to record their first national release, \u201cCane Sugar.\u201d It is Honey Island Swamp Band\u2019s own special brew &#8211; \u201cBayou Americana\u201d &#8211; a blend of Blues, Southern rock boogie, Appalachian music and New Orleans swamp funk, that is decidedly all their own. Up from the depths, the band is at last poised for a national breakthrough. How sweet it is!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/cane-sugar\/id671854908\" target=\"itunes_store\" style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.png) no-repeat;width:110px;height:40px;@media only screen{background-image:url(https:\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/htmlResources\/assets\/en_us\/\/images\/web\/linkmaker\/badge_itunes-lrg.svg);}\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cane-Sugar-Honey-Island-Swamp\/dp\/B00CP4S132\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424726293&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=honey+island+swamp+band\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/amazon-button-02-e1424654609347.png\" alt=\"amazon-button-02\" width=\"129\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomewhere, there exists a dark, smoky bar with a jukebox that spins George Jones, Gram Parsons, Delbert McClinton, and Little Feat. And if that fantasy honky-tonk lights your Marlboro, you need to know about Honey Island Swamp Band.\u201d &#8211; Broward-Palm Beach New Times Isn\u2019t it funny, how life works out? 2005 &#8211; guitarists\/songwriters Chris Mule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,5,3,10],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-catalogue","category-features","category-rock","tag-honey-island-swamp-band"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5O8RF-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}