After listening to The Felice Brothers I can only really use one term to describe them: "phenomenal". This is great gritty Americana at its best and there ain't another band like them...hell yes! I'm excited about this release!

Bio

Simone, Ian and James Felice are the three eldest boys from a family of seven, born carpenter’s sons in the wilds of New York’s Catskill Mountains. Less than a year ago, the Brothers adopted a runaway dice-thrower and chancer, a 19 year old called Christmas. They convinced him to quit his job and the motley quartet forsook all else but song and moved their Sunday BBQ sing-alongs from their dad’s upstate house out onto the streets and subways of NYC.

After months of toil, living in a beat-up old short bus, with arrests and genuine panhandler fun - a freelance music writer named Gabe Soria (Vice NYC) stumbled upon the boys singing and barking their wares at a farmers market in Brooklyn and one thing led to another.

In the spring of 2007 The Felice Brothers released their debut album Tonight at the Arizona on Loose Music in Europe where subsequent gigs and festival appearances confirmed their growing reputation as a live force to be reckoned with. After making their way across the USA this summer for their first tour, the band hooked up with Bright Eyes for a string of rousing dates on the East Coast that culminated in a performance on the venerated stage at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall. Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes promptly signed the band to his own Team Love label in the USA. Their amazing year ended with a triumphant show in Woodstock with Levon Helm at the former Band-man’s classic Midnight Ramble.

The Felice Brothers have gone from busking on the NYC subway to the stages of Europe and beyond in double quick time. Along the way their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they’ve forged has earned them comparisons to Woody Guthrie, The Pogues, The Band and a young Springsteen. In 2008 the boys are all set to travel the world performing homegrown and gritty Americana as if they were hosting a sing-along on their own front porch surrounded by family and friends. The sound that emerges from their instruments is seeped with an instinctive authenticity that’s rooted in tradition but is also entirely their own.

Live at Cornbury Festival 2007

Roll on Arte Film

Tracklisting:

01. Little Ann
02. Greatest Show On Earth
03. Frankie’s Gun!
04. Goddamn You, Jim
05. Wonderful Life
06. Don’t Wake The Scarecrow
07. Take This Bread
08. Saint Stephen’s End
09. Love Me Tenderly
10. Ruby Mae
11. Murder By Mistletoe
12. Whiskey In My Whiskey
13. Helen Fry
14. Radio Song
15. Tip Your Way

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