MRG Recordings | The Street & Babe Shadow
THE STREET & BABE SHADOW
While some bands merely rock, The Street & Babe Shadow really roll. They rumble, sway, stagger, strut, stroll, and sometimes, they may even strum a dreamy waltz or two. This collection of talented artists is not merely a rock band. They’re more like bar room balladeers.
The Street & Babe Shadow are intimate provocateurs of string and spangled keys. They’re a group that has wandered the well-worn avenues of backbeats and power chords before deciding on a change of pace. Luke Paquin (also of Hot Hot Heat) and pedal steel player, Dan Horne, have been collaborating since their preteen years in Palo Alto, California. 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 2000’s. 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 deliver the best of their chosen instrument. This being a testament to the band’s gusto-before-gleam attitude. After the release of their self-titled debut in 2010, the band recruited drummer Pipe Ceballos.
In 2014, The Street & Babe Shadow’s “Days Like These” will be released April 22nd on MRG Recordings. The new collection is a slice of serenades and sentimental kicks that channels all the charm and swagger that roused indie-folk and alt-country audiences alike at the band’s live shows. The album was mixed and recorded by Dan Horne and Drew Manne at Lone Palm Studio and mastered by Ian Sefchick.
At their core, The Street & Babe Shadow creates music about love. They’re not “love songs” in a syrupy, teen pop sense. They’re 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 matter can stir as much movement in a listener as the beat. It’s 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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