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Under the Wheels, Vol 2

by Howlin Rain

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    Limited edition deluxe rainbow foil-printed jacket and "Dark Star" colored vinyl. Edition of 250.

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    Non-foil jacket version with Arik Roper's original artwork and lettering detail, black vinyl. Edition of 150.

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    Edition of 200.

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    Limited Edition Handmade version. Hand screen-print cover, glued, stickered, numbered and signed. Edition of 100. Black Vinyl.

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    Limited Edition Handmade version. Hand screen-print cover, glued, stickered, numbered and signed with "Silver Tripper" metallic splatter colored vinyl. Edition of 20.

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  • Handmade, mirror jacket screen print edition - "Dark Star" Colored Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition Handmade version. Hand screen-print cover, glued, stickered, numbered and signed with "Dark Star" colored vinyl. Edition of 30.

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about

Howlin Rain’s Under the Wheels, Volume 2 will be released October 30, 2020 as a one-time pressing of limited edition vinyl (plus cassette and digital) that features stoner's delight art by long-time Howlin Rain album artist Arik Roper on deluxe metallic rainbow foil printed jackets.

“The last time I saw Howlin' Rain ignite a stage -- at New York's Brooklyn Bowl in the summer of 2018 -- I could never have imagined the profound silence that surrounds me two years later. In a  world without the sustenance and sacrament of live music, my long, loud memories from that night -- Howlin' Rain bringing The Alligator Bride to life in a rush of joy and cascading guitars -- have been big medicine, keeping me sane and psychedelicized. Now there is a record from that tour to prove I wasn't dreaming -- and spread this band's cleansing might until we can all meet again in true, electric communion.”
—David Fricke, MOJO/Sirius XM Radio/ Rolling Stone

“Howlin Rain plays & the stars burn blue. Black dogs spit diamonds on red magik floors as Ethan weeps & wails his burnt earth poetry to the shining sinners & dirty dreamers who dance at his feet. Rock n Roll is a breathing beast.”
—Chris Robinson, The Black Crowes

“Our first tour ever was with Howlin Rain and I can’t think of a better band to be watching when you are experiencing being on tour for the first time. Every night: deeply great music, ace level performers, fun energy, and real guys when off stage. GP would compare shows on the drive to the next show and all say what our favorite Howlin Rain set was. We’d sing along, we’d dance. Just a great thing to be a part of. I remember the first show of the first tour talking to Danny and saying “if they’re gonna be like THAT every night we have to step up our game!” We may have a different approach but what we’ve seen on tour with them is what we strive for in a live setting, which is putting on the best show of someone’s life.”
—Tom Malach, Garcia Peoples

"There was a lot of ecstatic dance happening up there…"
—Tim Green, Producer/engineer Louder Studios

"A shimmering scuzz riff battered in the goopiest deep fried jalapeño popper. I was front row, middle row, and nose bleed all at once for the mighty Howlin' Rain. Right now, I'd give anything to lean against a PA speaker they are blasting through and get some free brain surgery”
—Ryley Walker

Christian Beaulieu:
I first saw Howlin Rain in 2006 on a Tenderloin acid bender in San Francisco where the people of the street saw into my mind before I could even smile back. The band laid into me that night. A radiant telepathic alchemy. I was trailin' their bus from then on. Years and beers passed. The band kept shredding. 
Wake up in 2018. Golden Gate Park. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. The Howlin Alligator Blues Band was serenading Brides and playing Rain songs on a porch of pretty mud and blades. Those electric voices, mined from the same dirt, blood and laughs as the first wave of psych freaks who left that park famous, soared into our sunburnt brains. My wine got better. I danced home and played guitar. 
—Christian Eric Beaulieu, Diamonds of Reno/ Anywhere

“Soaring choruses, lost-in-itself, world-imploding jamming, nihilistic-Allman Bros guitar swipes topped off with real cool hats.”
—David Nance

“The sweet strains of Howlin Rain pull you into a groove of musical transpiration through the decades that leave you nostalgic for the show you just saw and, through Burroughs-like lyrics, into a next level transcendental rock experience. All your friends are here.”
—Caitlin Mattisson, Artist/ Illustrator

“Every morning on tour Howlin Rain would roll out of bed and stumble to the van looking ready to rock. Night after night, they would blast off in big rooms with big sound, but I really dug the gigs when they would set up on the floor with no mics on their amps in small, packed rooms like Reverberation Vinyl. Lost in the light show and feeling free to take old songs to new places, the band delivered vicious twin leads, soaring vocals, lockdown drums and bass, and driving riffs.”
—Dan Greene, Mountain Movers

“Ethan Miller sings about wheels and highways and the sky, and he’s someone who should be doing this. Howlin Rain’s righteousness as touring partners is redolent of much, including sheer decades spent on the road. Also, if you grew up in North Carolina and your aesthetic gestated in the ubiquitous radio-rock womb, then their music has flash chemical appeal - sugar-melting and gas-fume instant - and you wish that as a teen punk on yr skateboard, you had heard Howlin’ Rain coming from those cars whose windows only offered bottles and slurs hurled with malice alongside the Top, Lizzy, Zep, Skynyrd, Outlaws, et al. If it had been Howlin’ Rain on classic rock radio, if Bent Time-Space and Cultural Hegemony had allowed room on those omnipresent platforms for artists whose experience and musicality plainly earn it, it would mean thereby that we live in a world less cruel, less cynical, with less macho bullshit abounding, with fewer hurled and hurtful things. 
Charleston, SC, February, 2020, and a grown man in shorts has without guile asked you “how you came to making ‘non-music’ as a hobby” and your only response is to silently object to the word “hobby” and move closer to Howlin Rain’s stage and have the brightly sung harmonies briefly hew a porch-swing in your mind until suddenly Ethan’s guitar-solo above the band’s loosening pocket has secret-handshaking right there and everything then is fine as frog hair, and you get with the reason you’re still out there: there are people there with you, avowedly — your people. Howlin’ Rain is your people."
--Jim McHugh, Sunwatchers

credits

released October 30, 2020

Engineered by: Brendan Silk, Henry Escurel, Jeremy Katz, Paul Korte
Mixed by Jeff McElroy, Ethan Miller & Eric Bauer at The Mansion
Mastered by Tim Green at Louder
Artwork by Arik Roper
Photos by Michael Lessner
Layout and design by Ethan Miller and Henry Owings

Howlin Rain is:
Dan Cervantes: Guitar, Backing Vocal
Jeff McElroy: Bass, Backing Vocal
Ethan Miller: Guitar, Lead Vocal
Justin Smith: Drums, Backing Vocal

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