Canadian rock band Lions In The Street deliver a third single prior to the release of their Moving Along album that’s due out on Friday 8th November, and it’s titled ‘Lady Blue’.
According to Lions In The Street’s vocalist and guitarist, Chris Kinnon, “‘Lady Blue’ would fit comfortably on a Lynyrd Skynyrd or Eagles album.”
According to the band member: “It’s a classic northern take on a southern rock, a la Neil Young or The Band. It’s a song about regret, with organ swirls, languid vintage guitar tones, and a James Burton-inspired guitar solo setting the tone.”
Something of a departure from the band’s previous single releases, should Keef Richards and Gram Parsons hooked up with Neil Young one lazy, hazy afternoon in the south of France back in the day, they may well have come up with something prettily similar to ‘Lady Blue’, a love ode that refuses to hurry to get its message across. One for those lucky enough to have the sun shine through their window as winter draws ever nearer.
The single is available on Spotify and you can check out the video here at RAMzine.
Stream the “Lady Blue” single on YouTube HERE.
‘Lady Blue’ contrasts with ‘Shangri-La’. The second single taken from the Moving Along album. “’Shangri-La’ is a rock’n’roll song that goes back to the call and response blues tradition via The Faces and Rod Stewart,” said Chris Kinnon.
“We wrote it after living in LA for a long time making a record, then returning to 40 straight days of rain in Vancouver, Canada. It’s a song about the struggles of being in a rock band, with (in our humble opinion) the best classic rock guitar sounds since the second Black Crowes record and The Georgia Satellites.”
Stream ‘Shangri-La’ via digital platforms here and watch the music video here at RAMzine – Right hands strum away at electric guitars while a slide does a crazy dance up and down its own guitarist’s neck, while a voice tells a road story of good times and bad, evoking Jagger, Joe Cocker, and The Faces, all with the right attitude.
Alongside Chris Kinnon on vocals and guitar is his brother Jeff on drums, guitarist Sean, and classically educated bass player Enzo Figliuzzi. This Canadian/California-based band has played with everybody from garage legends like The Dirtbombs to arena stars Kings Of Leon, making SXSW best-of lists numerous times, and in between hanging out with The Rolling Stones’ legendary manager Andrew Loog Oldham. But putting integrity first had a cost: obscurity.
Lions In The Street began their career by signing and then walking away from the troubled TVT Records (NIN, Pitbull, Little Jon), Nickelback’s 604 Records (Carly Rae Jepson), and legendary manager Allen Kovac (Motley Crue, The Cars, Blondie, The Bee Gees), earning them a spot on the music industry’s blacklist. Years in the wilderness resulted – Working as a garbageman for almost a decade, surviving cancer, serious workplace injuries, and almost deadly car accidents, and going back to school.
Yet, despite experiencing the best and worst of the of old music business – from hanging out with Todd Rundgren, Bob Ezrin, and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, to seeing an A&R guy almost fired just for going to see them play—The band somehow kept going, releasing music piecemeal.
For example, Lions In The Street released an EP in 2013 on British legend Sandy Roberton’slabel. Roberton ranBlue Horizon, the English label that launched the 60s British Blues rock movement with John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac, and Rory Gallagher.
Now the streaming platforms revolution has given Lions In The Street a new life and an audience, allowing them to release largely-unheard music — finally finished and remixed/remastered.
LITS’ upcoming album Moving Along captures their trademark swing and swagger. The title track, mixed by Rick Parker (Beck, BRMC, Scott Weiland), is a menacing, harmonica-driven vamp “worthy of Mick and Keith at their sticky fingered best” according to Jambase.com. Tracks featured on the Moving Along album are: ‘Moving Along’, ‘Mine Ain’t Yours’, ‘Walking Back To You’, ‘Gold Pour Down’, ‘Lady Blue’, ‘Waiting On A Woman’, ‘Already Gone’, ‘Shangri La’, ‘Hey Hey Arlene’, ‘All For Your Love’, ‘Truer Now’ and ‘You’re Gonna Lose’.
The title track was released as a single back in August, and it’s also the lead track in the upcoming Paramount film Cassino In Ischia, starring Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell. You can similarly check out the video for it here at RAMzine.
Never to rest on their laurels, Lions In The Street are also putting the finishing touches on a live album and a record they made with multi-Grammy-Award winning producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Greta Van Fleet, Brandi Carlile, Rival Sons).
The album can be ordered on CD and vinyl here and digitally here, while the single is available on all streaming platforms here and you can watch the music video here at RAMzine.
