The Alligator Bride, by Howlin Rain

The Alligator Bride

by Howlin Rain

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chris donaghy Hey from Ireland Ethan! Special edition vinyl just slipped on. Sounds great! Love the production. Come back to Ireland soon! It’s been a long time! Chris D

Jared Harrison That RIFF man. Speechless. Favorite track: Alligator Bride.

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	1.	Rainbow Trout 04:28
	2.	Missouri 04:48
	3.	Speed 04:11
	4.	The Wild Boys 08:09
	5.	Alligator Bride 06:25
	6.	In The Evening 04:21
	7.	Coming Down 08:13

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On June 8, Oakland, California’s Howlin Rain return with The Alligator Bride, their fifth LP of swampy, ragged, unapologetic rock ’n roll. Led by Ethan Miller (co-founder of psych rockers Comets On Fire and Heron Oblivion), the band recorded the album with Eric “King Riff” Bauer at the Mansion in San Francisco, direct to tape, in one or two takes.

It’s their first major release on Silver Current Records, the artist-run label owned by Miller, and gleefully indebted to classic rock formations like the Grateful Dead’s Europe ‘72 and Free’s masterpiece of atmospheric, minimalist blues, 1969’s Fire and Water. “The guiding principle for The Alligator Bride was to create ‘Neal Cassady Rock,’” says Miller. “Which is to say, high energy, good-times adventure music, driving the hippie bus, shirtless and stoned, up for four days straight, and extremely fuzzy around the edges.” It’s a fitting vision for the band: torn between eras, fuzzed out but full of soul, an epic perspective on what’s come before and what lies ahead, woven into a cosmic tapestry of riffs, rhymes, and resonant frequencies.

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released June 8, 2018

Produced by Howlin Rain and Eric Bauer.
Engineered by Eric Bauer and Andrew Bush
Mastered by JJ Golden
Howlin Rain is:
Ethan Miller: guitar, keys and vocal
Jeff McElroy: bass, backing vocals
Dan Cervantes: guitar, pedal steel and backing vocals
Justin Smith: drums and backing vocals
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Richard Danielson: Drums on "In the Evening"

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