Wednesday, November 17, 2010

(New Haven) "Song of the Week" ~ The Royal Heart, by: The Ivory Bills

In response to the NH Register's new entertainment editor Jordan Fenster's call for songs about New Haven...

"Song of the Week" for 11-17-10 is: The Royal Heart*
by: The Ivory Bills off the CD: Rhythmic Jet Ear Games

Featured on IndepenDisc in Mar. '09
Here's what I (G.Gone) had to say about it then...

~snip~...Once again,
New Haven, CT’s heart beats proudly as it delivers loud original Rock-n-Roll to the masses who sometimes think of it as extinct. The Ivory Bills debut album is a hip-shakin’, bone-rattlin’, Boogie-Woogie inspired throw down of an amazing good time. This trio of New Haven music stalwarts, James Velvet (bass, vocals), Johnny Java (drums, percussion) and John L. (guitars, vocals), lays down songs of huge guitar licks with a hot-stompin’ Rhythm that has a pulse of nonstop fun matched with excellent vocal interpretations of classic Rock subjects, and then some...~snip~

Read the entire review HERE.

So, how's that for a New Haven song?

*Link is a direct .mp3 audio stream.

1 comment:

  1. the Royal Heart is one of my faves from Velvet and Co. I came from one of the songwriter's monthly topics we were assigned when we were part of the series.

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