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Post subject: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 4:35 pm
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Introducing The Levee Walkers - new HockeyTalkter Records release April 22 2016
HockeyTalkter Records announce a new release from The Levee Walkers featuring Jaz Coleman available today digitally and as a vinyl single.
For information on where to purchase visit: Hockeytalkter Records
THE LEVEE WALKERS
In 2015, when Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Barrett Martin officially formed the Levee Walkers, it could be said that the band really formed about 25 years ago. That’s when Pearl Jam guitarist Mike first saw Duff playing bass in Guns & Roses, and around the same time, Mike saw Barrett playing drums in the Screaming Trees. Musical ideas began to form with all three men, like shadows that move across the landscape yet cannot be defined. Someday though, the shadows would merge.
In 1994, after years of work touring in their respective bands, Mike and Barrett formed the dark blues quartet Mad Season, and the following year, in 1995, Mike contributed guitar to the Screaming Trees vaunted “Dust” album. Around 1997 Barrett finally met Duff in Los Angeles, and the drummer and bassist tried to form their own band, an unnamed project that never made it out of Duff’s basement in the Hollywood Hills. However in 2012, Barrett and Duff would finally form their own band, the dirty blues themed Walking Papers, based in Seattle. Mike would appear on that album too, contributing some guitar solos to the growing plotline.
Over the decades, the three men battled their own phantoms, burying a few friends along the way, until they emerged with clear hearts and minds, a seasoned understanding of music and the nature of life and death, and perhaps most importantly, the art of writing a great song, the most sacred tenant in their codex. As one can clearly see, a musical tapestry was being woven, and its texture was rich, varied, and embedded with soul.
In 2014, the three would unite to play as Mad Season for one historic show with Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell on vocals and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra providing the majestic soundtrack to the hallowed songs of Mad Season. Finally in 2015, after 25 years of slow and deliberate evolution, the three have merged to form the Levee Walkers. Their first two songs feature Jaz Coleman on vocals, he from the legendary British band Killing Joke, a band that was highly influential on the three when they were young men absorbing the hardest and edgiest music of the 1980s and 90s. Killing Joke represented what the three wanted from a band - a conscious and powerful singer-lyricist, a ferocious musical delivery, and a sound that could not be imitated because it was so unique unto itself.
But Jaz is just the first in a handful of select singers who will be putting words and voice to the music of the Levee Walkers. More walkers are coming, as they emerge from the shadows.
The Levee Walkers are a Seattle band to be sure, but their roots are firmly dug into the foundational music of blues, rock, and punk, reinterpreted through the filter of the Pacific Northwest. To become a Levee Walker you must have at least 25 years of musical experience, survived battles with the forces of darkness, and perhaps even kissed death on the cheek. More importantly, there must exist a deep reverence for the music of your comrades, and the commitment they made to this hardest of paths. If you have that kind of grit, then you can listen to music with us, walk with us, and grow with us. And like a Levee Walking phantom, this band will appear, disappear, and reappear again, as the musical inspiration suits us.
Please enjoy this first offering. And walk with us.
Barrett Martin, Seattle
Anyone hear this yet?
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Post subject: Re: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 5:51 pm
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That guitar tone is garbage. Mike's still got plenty of amazing chops and showmanship, but I'm worried his tastes have officially gone to music he liked when he was 19.
Post subject: Re: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 6:22 pm
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Levee Walkers feat. Raquel Sofia new tracks, "El Viento" and "Alma" are now available for digital download via HockeyTalkter Records: http://apple.co/2fZsR57 You can also pre-order the limited edition transparent coral green vinyl now at the Pearl Jam merch store: http://bit.ly/LW_RS
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Post subject: Re: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 7:40 pm
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
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Levee Walkers feat. Raquel Sofia new tracks, "El Viento" and "Alma" are now available for digital download via HockeyTalkter Records: http://apple.co/2fZsR57 You can also pre-order the limited edition transparent coral green vinyl now at the Pearl Jam merch store: http://bit.ly/LW_RS
Mike was selling these at one of the record shows where I talked to him
Post subject: Re: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Sun November 20, 2016 4:31 am
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In 2015, when Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Barrett Martin officially formed the Levee Walkers, it could be said that the band really formed about 25 years ago.
In 2015, when Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Barrett Martin officially formed the Levee Walkers, it could be said that the band really formed about 25 years ago.
ugh, this sentence
The article appears to be written by a sophomore in high school.
"Musical ideas began to form with all three men, like shadows that move across the landscape yet cannot be defined." SO DEEP.
Post subject: Re: The Levee Walkers (Mike McCready side project)
Posted: Tue November 07, 2017 8:47 pm
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j's brain wrote:
guestT wrote:
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In 2015, when Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Barrett Martin officially formed the Levee Walkers, it could be said that the band really formed about 25 years ago.
ugh, this sentence
The article appears to be written by a sophomore in high school.
"Musical ideas began to form with all three men, like shadows that move across the landscape yet cannot be defined." SO DEEP.
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