Los Angeles-based indie roots duo honeyhoney has teamed up with FILTER to unveil the music video for "Turn That Finger Around" off their new sophomore full-length effort, "Billy Jack," primarily produced by Raymond Richards, finds twenty-something musicians Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe threading sweet melodies with big acoustic guitar sounds, percussive banjos and countrified fiddles. It's strong both lyrically and musically and one that both my bluegrass friends and indie rock friends could get into.Baby mamas, shotgun weddings and good advice from a cool roots band, honeyhoney is the jazzy, twangy, rollicking collaboration between vocalist Santo and guitarist Jaffe. The two began holding informal songwriting sessions and soon discovered a musical partnership. Adopting the name honeyhoney, which Santo says Jaffe came up with, but once it was set, he said it "sounded like a 60's girls group and that people were going to think he was a pansy." Santo liked it because it reminded her of the South and the way she talked to folks while she waitressed at an L.A. BBQ joint.
"It's a song about the difficulty of living with someone who points the finger, but forgets their own past." The song great... it's not my favorite on the album, but I like the authenticity of it. It's a song that a lot of girls I know could have written," Santo said about "Turn That Finger Around." The song pretty much had us at the hello of the first 12 bars, even before a word had been sung or the track had really dug in. Call it intuition, but we sort of felt that something great was coming. We were right. It both shimmies and shimmers with some revved up alt-country sturm and twang as Santos' vocals ride the steel strings with both insistence and soulfulness.
The music video for "Turn That Finger Around" has a number of great subtle elements, from the soft tone on such a heavy-topic track, to the almost familiar countryside. honeyhoney sings about some daunting life changes for a young couple in this track. The up-and-coming band duo, backed by the crack rhythm section of bassist Pat Taylor and drummer Gerry Porter ripped through barn stompers, Santo and Jaffe turned in some smoky harmonies on "Turn That Finger Around," the alt-country tone of the song really showcases such a story.
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