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* Follow up to Tonight At
The Arizona, The Guardian's #13 Album of 2007
Simone, Ian and James Felice are the
three eldest boys from a family of seven, born carpenter's
sons in the wilds of New York's Catskill Mountains. Less
than a year ago, the Brothers adopted a runaway dice-thrower
and chancer, a 19 year old called Christmas. They
convinced him to quit his job and the motley quartet forsook
all else but song and moved their Sunday BBQ sing-alongs
from their dad's upstate house out onto the streets and
subways of NYC.
After months of toil, living in a beat-up old short bus,
with arrests and genuine panhandler fun - a freelance
music writer named Gabe Soria (Vice NYC) stumbled upon
the boys singing and barking their wares at a farmers
market in Brooklyn and one thing led to another. In the
spring of 2007 The Felice Brothers released their debut
album Tonight at the Arizona on Loose Music in Europe where subsequent gigs and festival
appearances confirmed their growing reputation as a live
force to be reckoned with. After making their way across
the USA this summer for their first tour, the band hooked
up with Bright Eyes for a string of rousing dates
on the East Coastthat culminated in a performance on the
venerated stage at NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Conor
Oberst of Bright Eyes promptly signed the
band to his own Team Love label in the USA. Their
amazing year ended with a triumphant show in Woodstock
with Levon Helm at the former Band-man's classic Midnight
Ramble.
The Felice Brothers have gone from busking on the NYC
subway to the stages of Europe and beyond in double quick
time. Along the way their distinct brand of songwriting
and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons
to Woody Guthrie, The Pogues, The Band and a young Springsteen.
In 2008 the boys are all set to travel the world performing
homegrown and gritty Americana as if they were hosting
a sing-along on their own front porch surrounded by family
and friends. The sound that emerges from their instruments
is seeped with an instinctive authenticity that's rooted
in tradition but is also entirely their own. |
| Press
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“barnstorming
& brilliant” **** The Guardian
“truly outstanding original material, one of the
albums of the year so far” - Allan
Jones , Uncut
“probably the most enthralling band currently to
be seen anywhere in the world right now. This is as good
as music gets” - Neil McCormick, Daily
Telegraph |
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| Feature:
The Felice Brothers in the U.K. |
They came, they saw, they
conquered! The Brothers Felice played a raucous week of
shows that made many a new friend across seven sold out
shows. They did find the time to drop in on a few radio
stations as well for all of those who couldn’t get
out and about. Coverage and sounds below.
Allan Jones's Uncut Diary:
They look,
famously, on the cover of last year’s Tonight At
The Arizona album, like the wayward off-spring of The
Band, with whose songs and music their own colourful excursions
into the hinterlands of ‘the old, weird America’,
as essayed by Bob and The Band on The Basement Tapes,
are frequently compared... Continued
Neil McCormick in The Telegraph:
The Felice Brothers are probably the most
enthralling band currently to be seen anywhere in the
world right now. Their show last night at the 100 Club
in London left this veteran gig goer (and everyone else
in the audience) exhilarated, moved and beaming from ear
to ear. Think about The Band with Bob Dylan as resident
lyricist, The Clash with an emphasis on joy rather than
rage, The Pogues with more musical finesse and better
singing. They have the gear changes of the E Street Band,
the sense of audience communion of The Libertines. They
really are that good. And they are on fire... Continued
BBC Radio Two - 'Bob
Harris Country'
On Thursday 5th June Bob features a session from The Felice
Brothers. An authentic outlaw country band from the Catskill
Mountains of New York Ian, James and Simone Felice are
three brothers (of seven children) who formed the band
in 2006 with their friend Christmas Fraley, previously
a traveling dice player.
Spin Magazine
Taking cues from their larger-than-life Americana
predecessors, namely Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, the
Felice Brothers specialize in boozy, rambling tales of
backwoods nostalgia told in rootsy piano, guitar, and
drum renderings.... Continued
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THE FELICE BROTHERS
01. Little Ann
02. Greatest Show On Earth
03. Frankie's Gun!
04. Goddamn You, Jim
05. Wonderful Life
06. Don't Wake The Scarecrow
07. Take This Bread
08. Saint Stephen's End
09. Love Me Tenderly
10. Ruby Mae
11. Murder By Mistletoe
12. Whiskey In My Whiskey
13. Helen Fry
14. Radio Song
15. Tip Your Way
cat no. VJCD177
barcode 5029432007727
release date: March 3rd 2008 |
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