The Hillbilly Moon Explosion - Damn Right Honey! (CD)

Release Date: 04/15/22

Anglo-European rockabilly band”s 2013 follow up Buy Beg Or Steal. Features guests Sparky Phillips and Paul Ansell. Produced by Greg Townson.

Based around ex-patriot Englishmen Oliver Baroni and Duncan James together with Swiss-Italian chanteuse Emanuela Hutter, they”ve long been showing Zurich how to rock”n”roll. Having conquered both their domestic residence and neighbouring France, they are now regularly tour Europe-wide and also to the USA.

As their name suggests The Hillbilly Moon Explosion”s roots are in rockabilly; however they”ve always been just as comfortable with 60”s pop, smoky ballads and ska. They”ve now widened their template to embrace all roots Americana.

”Damn Right Honey” features two distinctive guest singers joining them for duets. Rockabilly stalwart Paul Ansell, the chosen vocalist of Scotty Moore, contributes to the single ”Flying High, Moaning Low”. And Sparky Phillips returns to duet with Emanuela on ”Northern Crown”. For the first time they”ve engaged a brass section, and are also aided and abetted by BJ Cole and Geraint Watkins amongst others.

TRACKS: – Drive This Truck No More, Perfida, Flying High Moaning Low, Cool Spring Breeze, Goldmine, Westbound Train, Die In Style, I Hear You Knockin”, Ellie Lou, Motorhead Girl, Northern Crown, Sky In Your Eyes. 12 tracks.