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Smog Veil press release:
SONGS FOR UNSUNG HOLIDAYS
NEW ALBUM BY THE INIMITABLE CLEVELAND MUSICIANS RALPH CARNEY (TIN HUEY, THE WAITRESSES, SERIOUS JASS PROJECT) AND CHRIS BUTLER (TIN HUEY, THE WAITRESSES)
STREETS SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 ON SMOG VEIL RECORDS
Album features songs commemorating fun and far fetched holidays like "Cheese Ball Day," "Polka Day," " Bubble Wrap Day," and "Buffet Day."
July 11, 2018 (Cleveland, Ohio) – Smog Veil Records is set to release on September 7, 2018 the highly unique, comedic album titled, Songs For Unsung Holidays, by two of Northeast Ohio’s best loved musicians Ralph Carney and Chris Butler. The album is a collection of songs that are deliberately silly and absurd about goof ball/off-the-wall holidays. They take a page from the songbooks of artists like Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Captain Beefheart, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, XTC, The Who, The Grateful Dead.
Carney and Butler set the tone for wild, fun and funny use of instruments and arrangements early in their careers, first with innovators Tin Huey and later with The Waitresses. They have performed with artists like Tom Waits (whom Carney both recorded and toured with), B-52s (Carney became thee go-to New Wave horn player), Kronos Quartet, Run DMC, The Smithereens, and They Might Be Giants. Ralph Carney recently helped his nephew Patrick Carney of the Black Keys record the theme song for the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. His signature horn playing on this recording is unmistakable. Chris’ signature composition, “I Know What Boys Like” recently was heard in an episode of the second season of the Netflix series GLOW.
Butler explains how the project came together with a call from Carney asking “How come there are no more silly bands? Let’s do a project!” And so they brainstormed and wrote songs about obscure holidays. "We'd pass tracks back and forth, and bingo…we soon had enough material for a whole record!"
"I had the good fortune of writing “Christmas Wrapping” while in The Waitresses," Chris Butler recounts, "and folks have always urged me to write other holiday songs. Like for Easter, or Thanksgiving. Nah. No fun in that. But National Salami Appreciation Day? Or National Polka Day? That’s more like it!"
All songs were written and produced by Chris Butler and Ralph Carney and were recorded in their respective home studios. The record was mastered by Gary Hobish at Armin Hammer Productions.
All noises on the album were made/played by Ralph Carney and Chris Butler, except iPad synthesizer played by Christine Repella on “Lobster Day,” and on “Hippie Day” The Hippie Crowd is Becky Sue Armstrong, Tim Daugherty, Verne Davis, Scott Shepard and Tracey Thomas Shepard.
The eighteen tracks on the CD version of Songs For Unsung Holidays are 1. “Tapioca Pudding Day,” 2. “Bald and Free Day,” 3. “Cheese Ball Day,” 4. “Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day,” 5. “Polka Day,” 6. “Bubble Wrap Day,” 7. “Penguin Awareness Day,” 8. “Gorilla Suit Day,” 9. “Day of the Dead,” 10. “Buffet Day,” 11. “Salami Appreciation Day,” 12. “Bath Safety Day,” 13. “Hippie Day,” 14. “World UFO Day,” 15. “Lobster Day,” 16. “Blessing of the Bikes Day,” 17. “Bath Safety Day (radio edit),” 18. “Lobster Day (radio edit).” The color vinyl LP ends with the track “Hippie Day” and includes the remaining tracks as a freebie download.
The album is dedicated to Ralph Carney who died unexpectedly late last year and is missed by all who knew him and whom he touched with his music and charisma.
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