AMERICAN FICTION performs the song "CRYSTAL KEY" for BalconyTV.
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It starts in Memphis, early in 2013. Landon Moore (Fast Planet, Patrick Dodd Trio, Chase Pagan) and Chris Johnson (Ingram Hill) had started writing some songs together. It wasn’t the first time the two had collaborated, but this was different. They put together a band – easy to do, as Landon tells it, because they just called up all their friends – adding Zach Logan on drums (Craig Davis, Rodney “Dark Child” Jerkins, Coffey Anderson, I’m Ok You’re Ok), Pat Fusco on keys (Kirk Smithhart, Detective Bureau, Jeremy Stanfill), and bass from Blake Rhea (CYC, Charlie Mars, The Gamble Brothers Band, Lord T & Eloise). American Fiction recorded with Kramer at Nashville’s 16 Ton Studios, and traveled to California to mix and put down vocals at LAFX in Los Angeles. The result is the purest stuff on earth: rock’n’roll. It’s at once incredibly complex and perfectly simple. The layers are evident – Chris brings musical roots in country, rock and blues. Pat brings a background in jazz, Blake is heavily influenced by funk, Landon is versed in classic pop and rock. It’s rock with a smart pop sensibility that earns comparisons to everyone from The Black Crowes to The Wallflowers to Kramer’s own work with Led Zeppelin. The first single from the EP is “Dumb Luck,” the song that started it all.
“Dumb Luck was one of those songs that attracted my ear,” Kramer says. “It haunted me as a potential single. There’s something about it that sort of combines the best of rock, southern rock, some blues, some country, it’s got all of these influences in it. It has some ethereal qualities to it as well. I think it really demonstrates the range of the band.”
“Dumb Luck” is out via digital release (iTunes, Amazon) on February 25. Look for the Kramer-produced EP this summer.
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