Bud Carroll and the Southern Souls, Lonely H (Seattle)
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Bud Carroll has been around, and he's been around as long as most considering the 25 year old started
playing in bars at 12. Then, just as he was wanting to drop out of college, a band called American Minor
offered him a sweet gig. Then they landed on a sweet major label (Jive Records) and played all over the US,
Canada, and England for three years. He toured with the Black Crowes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers,
Allman Bros., Drive By Truckers, and even David Lee Roth. Then, as usually happens with major label deals,
they were dropped, broke up, and Bud came home to Huntington, to regroup, refill, replinish, and then
returned to the music scene armed with the Southern Souls, a power trio born out of the ZZ Top and Gov't
Mule tradition, but not limited too southern rock per se. More like Appalachain Soul Music. That's what they
would call it if they were here. Jimmy Lykens plays bass, and he's from Boone County, which makes his soul
pure. Steve Barker plays drums, and he's from Boone County, but we aren't sure if his soul is pure or not. Bud
Carroll's soul is definatley pure, and he puts it on display for all to see, nightly. Blues, Funk, Jazz, Gospel, Dirty
Rock and Roll, Elvis Costello...that's what they are into and that's what they sound like, sometimes. Other times
they sound different...you should go and see what they sound like, you just might like it....alot.
THE LONELY H – WINTER TOUR 2008
Swaddled tight in the electrified buckskin of their classic rock-n-roll forefathers, our four Washington braves set
out to blanket America in a hot winter blizzard. Don’t be fooled by the silk strands tucked behind their ears:
what the maps don’t tell you is that all-night drives make for better lives, deer come out of nowhere, and what
parents don’t know (night after night) won’t kill them.
The Lonely H spent their graduation summer [2007] touring coast-to-coast in support of their new record and
got a glimmer of the mission they were born to undertake. Tour is a magical place where every stage, no
matter how high, is a new opportunity to deliver the goods. Armed with melodies that sound like letters to
Penthouse etched on colored vinyl, the band lifted, lightened, and gave rise to every technical challenge.
Bulletins started coming in over the wire from fans and bloggers [MSNBC, The New York Post, CMJ]. So, from
Memphis to Manhattan went pockets full of picks, licks, pianos, and the living-loving swagger that has happily
intoxicated the Pacific Northwest the last few years.