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The California Honeydrops’ new live album, Remember When: Vol. 3, is out today via Tubtone Records; stream/share the album HERE. The band will celebrate the release tonight at 6 p.m. PACIFIC with a free, fully livestreamed concert from Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, CA. The band will donate 25% of all donations to Alameda Food Bank and Contra Costa Food Bank. More information available HERE.

Remember When: Vol. 3 is a compilation of recordings from live concerts nationwide ranging from Portland, ME to the band’s most recent live show at the Mission Ballroom in Denver, CO on January 17, 2020. It follows the recent release of their EP Just One More, And Then Some and standalone single “In The Air,” for which the lyric video may be streamed/shared HERE.

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“Each one of these tracks has something special, something we did that night and that night only,” says vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski of the new album. “Whether it’s a spontaneous crowd interaction, or and an ad-libbed verse or a little background vocal riff we came up with on the spot… You can hear us leaving the script and the show behind and diving into the spirit of that night, searching and finding the lil’ nuggets that make each night of live music with an interactive audience so special. Listening back to these tracks during quarantine, it’s hard to imagine that we even made these sounds. There’s so much energy and joy it almost seems alien during these weird times.”

The Honeydrops have stayed busy throughout 2020 and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In lieu of their fully cancelled year of touring, they have been offering weekly concert livestreams, “Friday Night Sessions,” on Friday evenings at 6:30 p.m. PACIFIC. Reaching audiences of over 25,000 per stream, the band is donating 25% of each week’s revenue to a different charity as part of their Spreadin’ Honey philanthropic initiative; check out the streams HERE.

They have also created “Covers from the Cave,” a series of video recordings of inspirational covers, such as John Prine’s “Angel from Montgomery” and James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.” Their cover of The Drifters’ “Under the Boardwalk” has amassed more than 4.5 million views, and counting. View/share the video HERE.

Finally, the band recently launched a podcast, “The Bee’s Wax,” exploring the ways in which The California Honeydrops write and record their music. Each episode focuses on a single song, breaking down the process from both a songwriting and an engineering perspective and featuring anecdotes relevant to the piece’s evolution and meaning. Episodes can be found HERE.

Remember When: Vol. 3 follows last year’s live record Honeydrops Live 2019 and 2018’s double album Call It Home: Vol. 1 andamp; 2, which Billboard praised as “a new level of ambition” for the band, and about which No Depression raved, “There’s something for everybody here, a fun-filled, funky goodie basket for all occasions.” VICE called the title track “a smooth, sensuous song, with a guitar part evoking a hot summer day, an organ that sends you to the front pew and a brass section that feels like something straight out of The Blues Brothers,” while Rolling Stone noted that it evokes “the greasy rumble of Booker T and the MGs in the opening bars before channeling the spiritual ecstasy of Sly and the Family Stone in the soaring choruses.”

Co-founded by Wierzynski and Ben Malament, The Honeydrops got their start busking in Oakland, California where they quickly developed a passionate following that has continued to grow over the course of more than a decade of nonstop American, European and Australian touring and recording. Joined by Johnny Bones on tenor sax and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards and Beau Bradbury on bass, the band has stayed true to the group’s diverse sound and street-level origins, drawing on musical influences including Bay Area RandB, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues and New Orleans second-line.

In addition to their own extensive touring, The Honeydrops were honored to support Bonnie Raitt throughout her 2016-17 North American tour and have performed in support of B. B. King, Allen Toussaint, Buddy Guy and Dr. John, among others. They have sold out headline shows at venues across the U.S. and performed at major festivals worldwide including Outside Lands, Monterey Jazz, High Sierra, Bluesfest Byron Bay, North Sea Jazz Festival, Edmonton Folk Music Festival and many more. Widely acclaimed for the energy captured in both their live performances and recordings, the group remains dedicated to fostering a genuine connection with their audiences and listeners.

“The whole point is to erase the boundaries between the crowd and us,” Wierzynski says, “to make people become a part of the whole thing by dancing along, singing, picking the songs and generally coming out of their shells.”