Advice for young bands setting out on the Rock & Roll Highway. Number One; get yourself a good name. You want folk to sit up and pay attention. The Humble Cheaters will more than do. They're from Upstate New York and they've been doing this, (or at least been putting out records) for a while. Since 2016 by Spotify's reckoning. Anyhow they know what they're doing.
Number 2. Sound like a band. Listen to latest record Holy Smokes and it's immediately evident that this band do Everything sounds like an in joke between them. But an easy going and laidback one where they don't need to overplay things and don't labour the punchline. This is old school Rock & Roll and The Humble Cheaters play their own tune. If they have mentors they'd probably be Wilco. Let's face it, you coul hardly choose better ones.
Number 3. Say what you need to and leave. Holy Smokes has nine songs and clocks in at just short of twenty five minutes. Assessed on its own terms it's pretty much perfect though it's also a modest beast and woud be the first to own up that it has plenty of flaws. I immediately want to play it again and wil do pretty soon.
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