New York, NY (Top40 Charts) You talk about a whirlwind year. The duo of Cathy Lemons and Phil Berkowitz hit 2015 running as their �A Winning Hand� release hit the streets, the stations, and the charts. But that wasn�t all that 2015 had in store for them. The Lucky Losers band toured from California to Florida and back again. Then upon arriving back to the Bay Area they immediately went into Kid Anderson�s studio and began laying down their next release. Not that any moss should grow on these two - right now they are also busy inking their 2016 tour appearances. �We were received so well all across the country and invited back so we�re going!� shared an enthusiastic Cathy Lemons. Partner Phil Berkowitz added, �The thing about the road is that the ups and downs of travel actually influenced our song writing for the next release. I mean there we were and we both had been working on new original material and I mean well when you are driving along on empty and you see a sign that says gas fifty miles ahead well that will give you some misery. Perfect writing ambiance for sure.�
The Lucky Losers 2015 release �A Winning Hand� was a huge success. It reached #5 on the
Roots Music Report's "Top 50 Blues Albums" and also made RMR's "Top Blues Albums for The Year of 2015.� It was nominated for a Blues411 Jimi Award for "Best Traditional Blues Album," plus it charted to #1 on many radio shows in the United States. Shows such as the Blues
Music Magazine sponsored "A Baker's Dozen." Major music reviewers from Bill Kopp of Rolling Stone and Musoscribe to Lee Hildebrand with Living Blues Magazine gave Cathy and Phil the thumbs up.
When they went on tour the audiences were fueling their creative spirit and the road was allowing them to pour their personal lives onto a song sheet. Now working with Kid Andersen at Greaseland Studios out of San Jose, California and collaborating with some of the West Coast's top A-list players this upcoming release is expected to be hotter than hot when it hits the streets. The new release will showcase nine new tracks, tracks you are sure to relate to � songs, highly personalized stories with a focus on love, what it means to be in love, what it takes to stay in love, and the humorous and many times tragic consequences of being in love.
Cathy shares, "When I write a song I like to stand back from myself and almost laugh at my own compulsive craziness. I also try and tell the truth about what I am feeling and sensing in the world around me. It's like a dare. To tell the truth about a situation, to just lay it bare."
"It's really a soundtrack to our lives and it's about personal demons as well," says Phil Berkowitz who co-writes with
Danny Caron, the late Charles Brown's musical director and guitarist.
Like the Bonnie and Clyde of the blues, this singing duo will be packing up and heading to your town soon - hold on to your hearts.
