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The saying goes that you don’t know where you’re going until you know where you came from. Musically speaking The Black Hollies know exactly where their sound comes from. It’s deeply rooted in the 60′s, in bands like The Animals, The Yardbirds, and The Who. It’s rooted there, but like a much like those bands were rooted in Delta Blues and managed to put their own mark on it, The Black Hollies start with their influences and build, creating something that is at once familiar and new.
The Black Hollies started life as a side project for three members of Rye Coalition, a band that insisted on playing straight-ahead rock in the face of the grunge explosion. Singer and bassist Justin Angelo Morey and guitarists Herb Wiley V and Jon Gonnelli left Rye Coalition, grabbed drummer Scott Bolasci and started work. In 2006 they released their debut album Crimson Reflections. After two years of honing their live shows they’ve returned with their followup, Casting Shadows.
Black Hollies - That Little Girl
A great opening drum riff and fuzzed out guitars announce The Black Hollies’ affinity for The Sixties, and form the core of an outstanding track.
Black Hollies - If You Wont Let Go
Go ahead, try to tell me that the perfect video for this song wouldn’t be the band playing on something like the Ed Sullivan Show, with a super cool kaleidoscope effect warping the image. Yeah man, groovy.
Videos
“Paisley Pattern Ground”, Live
“Baby I’m Your Fool”
Links
Buy Casting Shadows
MySpace
Ernest Jenning Record Company
