Welcome to this week’s Launch Box featuring honeyhoney
Catch them in performance Oct7 7p at Grand Opera House Crowley
With sweet melodies and haunting tales that will reach right into you and tear at your soul, honeyhoney is the jazzy, twangy, rollicking collaboration between vocalist Suzanne Santo and guitarist Ben Jaffe.
Prior to joining the duo, Jaffe recorded music for TV and film; he then met Santo (an actress whose résumé included stints on Law & Order and Blind Justice) through a mutual friend, who took Jaffe to see one of Santo’s solo gigs. The two began holding informal songwriting sessions and soon discovered a musical partnership.
honeyhoney made their studio debut by issuing the Loose Boots EP in early 2008
The musicians then hit the road with Lifehouse while finding time to work on their debut album. First Rodeo was released later that year.
Raymond Richards of Local Natives produced thier sophomore effort, Billy Jack, which arrived in October 2011 on the group’s own imprint, distributed by Lost Highway.
The duo next signed a recording contract with the esteemed roots music label Rounder Records, and their third album, simply titled 3, appeared in June 2015.
The website American Songwriter reviewed it writing, “with a singer-songwriter that exudes the magnetic passion and swaggering star power of Santo, this is a group whose time has come.”
Check out “Big Man,” “Father’s Daughter,” and “You and I” from their latest release.
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