Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area but sounding like they crawled straight from the swamplands of the deep South, the heavy blues rock of The Devil in California delivers one of the most solid performances I’ve seen in a while. The band is fronted by powerhouse vocalist Tony Maison and features a dual attack from guitarists Jamie Cronander and Snake (ex of Skinlab), with Matt Stewart bringing both the bottom end and the high harmonies while Eddie Colmenares lays down the beat. They’re currently touring their just-released debut album “Longer Ride Down”, which is now living in my CD player — I can’t get enough of songs like “Black Hand” and “Delta Sludge”. PIck up their killer debut at the usual outlets, and catch them live if you can, you will not be disappointed!
Check out their first video release, the killer track “Black Hand”
Find The Devil in California on the web:
Website http://thedevilincalifornia.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thedevilincalifornia
Twitter https://twitter.com/eldiabloencali
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t’s Strong Beer Month in San Francisco and for the month of February, you can download my beer-inspired song “Thunderpussy” from It’s Hard and its dance remix “Thunderpussy (Salty Sweet Mix)” from Big Tips for free! You may not know it to hear the song, but it was inspired by Magnolia Pub‘s Old Thunderpussy Barleywine which comes out every February during SF’s Strong Beer Month.
Magnolia’s Dave McLean, who knows my face well after 10 years of patronage, said “oh, you wrote that?”. End of anecdote. He’s a Grateful Dead kind of fella, as you probably could guess. I did throw Beck-ish keys into the original to give it a Haight Street vibe but it’s still a Mojo’s Army jam after all.
So stream it, download it, pass it along, but whatever you do, enjoy!
Download from Bandcamp: Thunderpussy
Download from Bandcamp: Thunderpussy (Salty Sweet Mix)
Cheers and beers,
Mojo \m/ \m/
