New York, NY (Top40 Charts) 7Horse - Joie Calio and Phil Leavitt are gearing up to release their new album Songs For A Voodoo Wedding on June 10, but for those who can't wait that long the song Flying High (With No ID) with the b-side A Friend In Weed will be available digitally on 4/20/14.
See the lyric video for A Friend In Weed here:
The release of the new album coincides with The Holy Day of Voodoo: St. Johns Eve, a celebration that honors the Voodoo
Queen Maria Laveau, and much of the inspiration for the new album comes from an actual voodoo wedding. The Big Easy is a city the vocalist/drummer had visited often while on tour, but he'd never spent considerable time there until he went to attend a friend's wedding. "It got the juices flowing." Explained Leavitt.
Leavitt drew from the trip to conjure up the initial idea for the album's first single, the country-fried "Flying High (With No ID)". Imagine negotiating airport security 1) having left your driver's license at home, and 2) sucking on a cannabis lollipop. It adds a whole new meaning to reaching cruising altitude.
Other songs found their spark in the simple explorations of off-the-beaten-path New Orleans "It's inspiring just to walk down the streets there," Leavitt says. "You are just overcome by the sense of freedom, and to embrace life. There's a spirit you can't find anywhere else."
From Calio's dirty blues licks to Leavitt's earnest, unadorned vocals, Songs for a Voodoo Wedding sounds like the work of two guys who've turned over the soil and found the roots. In other hands, the barebones rocker "I Know the Meaning of Rock 'N Roll" would sound like an audacious declaration, but, as they say in country circles, this is not the duo's first rodeo.
Even if, Calio points out, it doesn't feel like a do-over. "We don't feel like this is the second bite off the apple," he says. "That was a different apple. This is the one."
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