Shonna Tucker - bass, vocals, acoustic guitar
John Neff - pedal steel, guitars, sitar, vocals, guiro
Bo Bedingfield - guitar, vocals, shaker
Clay Leverett - drums, vocals
Neil Golden - keys
Extra special Guest - Spooner Oldham- Fender Rhodes on "Lonely People"
Shonna Tucker takes center stage with her new band Eye Candy, writing all the songs on 'A Tell All' giving her a platform to stretch her amazing vocals, the album showcase’s that the former Drive By Truckers is a mighty force to reckon with in her own right. The talented band members she’s gathered around herself lay down some extensive, tight and well-crafted instrumentation.
Dig on the grooving organ mixed with big southern rock guitar riffs on 'Since Jimmy Came' you'll be singing along to this one all day. Atmospheric arrangements accompany the steady beat of the vocally enchanting ballads 'Your Jealousy' and 'Arielle'. The track 'A Family Dinner' from which the album title is derived is funky fun!
Shonna’s band, Eye Candy, includes four of the most prolific players in the Athens music scene: John Neff on guitar and pedal steel, Bo Bedingfield on guitar, Neil Golden on keyboards, and Clay Leverett on drums. For nearly twenty years, John has been one of the town’s most sought-after collaborators in the studio and on the road. Bo is singer/songwriter and leader of the Wydelles, and has backed up several other local songwriters on drums and guitar. Clay led the Athens rock band Lona for eight years before starting honky-tonk band the Chasers, and has played drums and toured with Bright Eyes and Now It’s Overhead. Neil, former member of the Glands and Elf Power, also writes and sings for Golden Brown.
Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy’s debut album, “A Tell All” will be released October 15th on Sweet Nectar Records/Red Eye, and the band will hit the road to bring this killer collection of songs to life.
'Old Fashioned' is a short acoustic track filled with Shonna's beautiful vocals. 'Linda Please' a cautionary tale features noirish spaghetti western riffs you all know I dig. 'Austin Side' starts with some churchy organ at confessional, and features echoey dueling guitar riffs.Come on gather around that table, We goin' have us a ball We goin' eat and tell some things that might make your chicken skin crawl Have you heard about old so and so and can you pass the cornbread please
I think my favorite track is ‘I Brought A Pie’ the band riffs out a rowdy dark rocker and Shonna gets downright bluesified, singing...
I brought a pie and I brought a lover and you brought all of your gunsI just sat there and took it like a lady in the meeting in the hot Georgia sunCosing out the album is another acoustic track the wistfully lamenting 'Lonely People' and a gorgeous and sultry love song 'You Went All The Way' It is a fantastic album I would venture to guess will be on many end of year lists.
Shonna’s band, Eye Candy, includes four of the most prolific players in the Athens music scene: John Neff on guitar and pedal steel, Bo Bedingfield on guitar, Neil Golden on keyboards, and Clay Leverett on drums. For nearly twenty years, John has been one of the town’s most sought-after collaborators in the studio and on the road. Bo is singer/songwriter and leader of the Wydelles, and has backed up several other local songwriters on drums and guitar. Clay led the Athens rock band Lona for eight years before starting honky-tonk band the Chasers, and has played drums and toured with Bright Eyes and Now It’s Overhead. Neil, former member of the Glands and Elf Power, also writes and sings for Golden Brown.
Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy’s debut album, “A Tell All” will be released October 15th on Sweet Nectar Records/Red Eye, and the band will hit the road to bring this killer collection of songs to life.
“All these songs came fast, in a few months time,” explains Tucker, ‘There was no theme or plan at all. Inspiration came from what was happening around me and that was a lot of different things. The first single, ‘Since Jimmy Came’ is about a very young and single mom who thought she had found true love until she had her son. The realization of priorities. Nature at it’s finest.”
1) Since Jimmy Came
2) Your Jealousy
3) Arielle
4) A Family Dinner
5) Old Fashioned
6) Linda Please
7) Austin Side
8) I Brought A Pie
9) Lonely People
10) You Went All The Way
The band also has an alternate version of ‘Lonely People’ on the Country Fried Rock Vol. 2 compilation. (All proceeds go directly to Nuci's Space a charity dedicated to preventing musicians' suicide.)
In March Shonna delighted the Couch By Couchwest crowd with a wonderful rendition of Bob Luman’s “Lonely Women Make Good Lovers” from the CXCW stage in Athens, Georgia.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
OCTOBER 2nd @ WILLIE's LOCALLY KNOWN, LEXINGTON, KY
OCTOBER 3RD @ THE VILLAGE IDIOT, MAUMEE, OH
OCTOBER 4th @ FOUR WINDS CASINO AND RESORT, NEW BUFFALO, MI
OCTOBER 5TH @ THE MAGIC BAG, FERNDALE, MI
OCTOBER 6TH @ SCHUBA'S, CHICAGO, IL
OCTOBER 7th @ WGN TV - CHICAGO, IL at 11 a.m.
OCTOBER 7th @ SHOW BOATSALOON, WISONSIN DELLS, WI
OCTOBER 8TH @ OFF BROADWAY, ST. LOUIS, MO
OCTOBER 10th @ The Hi-Watt, Nashville, TN
OCTOBER 11th @ WDVX Blue Plate Special Knoxsville, TN
OCTOBER 19TH @ 40 WATT, ATHENS, GA
OCTOBER 30th @ THE LINCOLN THEATRE WASHINGTON, D.C.
OCTOBER 31st @ ASHLAND COFFEE AND TEA RICHMOND, VA
NOVEMBER 2nd @ BARNAROO FESTIVAL LEICESTER, NC
NOVEMBER 7th @ GRAHAM's CORNER STORE, CORINTH, MS
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