May Shows, Updates & 2013 Schedule!
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Say Hey! Tracking went great for our upcoming CD this week, a very auspicious start. Plenty more work to do on it, but we look to be on schedule for a September 2013 release. Regular progress updates to come, very exciting. On the live show front, a great May on the books including two “Biggies” – Hot Harvest Nights (The San Carlos Fair) and The Purple Place in scenic El Dorado Hills. We begin the month at R-Place in Livermore. This venue has a great layout, prime location, perfect dance floor and great sight lines – highly recommended East Bay venue, plus we have good friends out that way now too. Then we play an outdoor-all ages event Hot Harvest Nights (The San Carlos Fair) and visit with our Peninsula friends. Local produce in abundance, so pick up some healthy, happy food to chomp while enjoying the band in a rippin’ concert setting. Next we drive up to the The Purple Place in scenic Folsom, a terrific venue for live music. Comfy, good dance floor, good sightlines plus you might consider bringing your rig to fish in Folsom Lake before the show or on Sunday if you’d like to stay over. Then we head out to visit with our great buddies The Mountain People at #1 Broadway in toney Los Gatos - the best Thursday night series in the South Bay! Featured Mountain Dancers are, again, our faves Larry, Tammy & Mary. Next we mosey on over to the ultra authentic roadhouse Grumpy’s in Olivehurst (Yuba City Area). Wear your ten gallon hats to this one – locals wear eleven gallon hats as everything is a little bigger out that way. After that, we again crunch into the comfy, cozy confines of Murphy’s Law in Sunnyvale, hosted by Uber MC Derek G. Always a great night! We wrap up the month at Cat’s Tavern in Los Gatos. Great house PA system, great food, a rippin’ concert setting and this is the true Land of The Mountain People Thanks so much for your continued support. Your buds, The Bonedrivers (AKA Los Tres Pedos Potentes)
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Gainesville 365 (FL) The Bonedrivers "Mobile" (BlueBlack Records) BB 4444 In “Mobile,” Karloff gets his feet wet enough in Delta sound to make a believable anthem. There’s not a shred of copycatting in any of the ten songs. Things are kept simple for the most part, and this makes the CD a real gem. As I listened to it, I pondered why it worked when it could easily have failed and I came up with a combination of two factors: Simplicity and originality. Karloff has authored a straight-up set of good old bar boogie minus the melancholy of inauthentic place and time. The best of these tunes are “It’s a Beautiful Thing” and “Honky Tonk Prayer,” which Karloff has also cut for radio. The first is a love song to, of all things, domestication of the male animal, and the second is one of the best “Southern” songs I’ve heard in decades. Karloff doesn’t seem to be someone who overwrites and then has to mercilessly edit. Music and lyric are in perfect balance and that is, I think, one of the hallmarks of the Southern rock genre in general or to all forms of song. The other seven songs, including the Delta-stomper “Gimme Lightning,” are a roadmap, ranging from Memphis to the Carolinas and the deep bayou. This might not be clear to the Northern ear and that’s fine, too. Bonedrivers are not a cover outfit and achieve success on their own merits and with some very hard work. The biggest compliment I can pay them and their new album is that it is my earnest belief that they could slide right into some of our more discerning venues and fit right in. S. Mars 2/10/11 Full Review |
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Bluesblast Magazine (IL) The Bonedrivers "Mobile" (BlueBlack Records) BB 4444 Have I got a band for you if you’re partial to Foghat, Grand Funk Railroad, southern rock, BTO or the crunchier reaches of the Led Zeppelin catalog. Throw in a dash of The Outlaws and stir vigorously. Thick power chords, thumping jungle-drums, manic slide guitar excursions and even harmony vocals are here for the taking. Front man-guitarist-singer Keith Karloff leads his merry troupe thru power-rock accented by funk and the requisite positive “dude commander vibe”. Karloff stretches out his guitar prowess here in fine form and the lead vocals show more depth with each repeated listening. Blues-rock paradise awaits you compliments of this San Francisco boogie band! Greg “Bluesdog” Szalony 2/17/11 Full Review |
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The current CD "Mobile" (BlueBlack Records BB 4444), named after the City of Mobile, Alabama is available for order right now on The Bonedrivers website. Domestic and International distribution are handled by City Hall Records, San Rafael, CA and the new disc is now available in any/all brick and morter stores i.e. Borders, Barnes and Noble, Starbucks, Amoeba, Dimples, Rasputin, etc. All tracks available at your favorite download sites right now. Here are some links for digital purchase and/or to pick up a hard copy via mail order if you are more comfortable transacting with the Big Kahuna Co.'s than with little ol' BB Records directly: Amazon.com BestBuy CD Universe Condensed Listing of Online CD Outlets (for our friends in Europe): CD Market To hear samples of the new tunes, simply click here or here "Mobile" is available at all Live Shows too! We greatly appreciate your continued friendship and support! |
