Love Lane Gang CD Release Parties: 7 Dog Gone Songs
Photo: Cheryl Seaberg Elliott
The Love Lang Gang’s first CD, Seven Doggone Songs, is finally available, and the popular locals band will be in rare form all week long with their off-beat instrumentation, gang vocals, and more, as tourists and locals snatch up their copies of the long-awaited album.
Gang regulars and irregulars will be whooping it up, dancing and singing along,, as the band performs songs from the CD, including “Sadie Green, The Vamp From New Orleans,” River Stay Away From My Door,” and “The Man With The Jive.” Don’t miss the happy festivities at the CD release parties all week long: Friday – McConnell’s Irish Pub, 8:30 -11:30 PM, 900 Duval Street; Sunday – Saluté on the Beach, 1000 Atlantic Blvd, 5:30- 8:30 PM; Wednesday – Sunset Pier, 0 Duval Street, 6:30 -8:30 PM. Sunday’s event will be the official release party, with special guest performers, a performance of the songs from the album, and more.
The Love Lane Gang is a homegrown band that charms and thrills both locals and visitors with their rollicking raucous ruckus. With an age range among the members of over thirty years, they bring a wide variety of experience and musical tastes to bear and appeal to music lovers of all ages. They’ve brought back skiffle and updated it for the present. It’s impossible to keep from smiling amidst their mirthful musical mayhem!
Photo: Cheryl Seaberg Elliott
The emphasis is on ragtime, swing, and jug band music from the 1930s and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that melds Hot Club gypsy jazz with contemporary modes. Also, Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Dolly Parton, rockabilly and surf music classics and rarer gems, Mersey Beat tunes from Sixties stars like The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, and carefully chosen songs from current artists like Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, and The White Stripes, all fit in alongside original songs that sound like they could have come from any of those eras.
Offbeat instrumentation, including mandolin, fiddle, accordion, ukulele, washboard, and a kazoo horn section, added to familiar guitar, bass, and harmonica, creates a broad musical palette which they use to color their performances.
But you needn’t pay too much mind to all that serious musical analysis – they’re just plain fun!
They will be playing regular gigs at McConnell’s Irish Pub Fridays at 8:30 PM, Saluté On The Beach Sundays at 5:300 PM, and Sunset Pier Wednesdays at 6:30 PM.