About This Item
Some musicians take a while to build an audience and connect with fans. For the Los Angeles-based quartet Dirty Honey, success came right out of the gate. Released in March 2019, the band's debut single, InchWhen I'm Gone,Inch became the first song by an unsigned artist to reach No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. Their second single, InchRolling 7s,Inch went into the Top 5 and was still headed up when COVID changed everything. That same year, Dirty Honey opened for The Who, Guns 'N Roses, Slash, and Alter Bridge and was the Inchdo-not-miss-bandInch at major rock festivals such as Welcome to Rockville, Rocklahoma, Louder Than Life, Heavy MTL, and Epicenter. On it's first U.S. headline tour in January and February 2020, the band sold out every date. When it came time to record it's self-titled full-length debut album, the band-vocalist Marc LaBelle, guitarist John Notto, bassist Justin Smolian, and drummer Corey Coverstone-wasn't about to mess with what was already working. Teaming up with producer Nick DiDia (Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam), who also produced the band's 2019 self-titled EP, Dirty Honey again captured the lightning-in-a-bottle dynamics and energy of their live sound. Dirty Honey's album indeed builds on the band's output to date, with airtight songwriting that plays up their strengths sexy, bluesy, nasty rock'n'roll, melodic hard rock, and soulful 70s blues-rock. On InchThe Wire,Inch LaBelle reaffirms his status as one of contemporary rock's best vocalists, while InchAnother Last TimeInch is a raunchy, timeless ballad about a toxic relationship that you just can't stop saying goodbye to. InchTied UpInch and the album's lead single InchCalifornia Dreamin,' both feature smoking guitar solos bookended by massive riffs and hooks. Album Tracks 1. California Dreamin' 2. The Wire 3. Tied Up 4. Take My Hand 1. Gypsy 2. No Warning
