Dirty Honey has launched a new series of videos called “Suitcase Sessions,” in which the band performs in outdoor, non-traditional locations.
The first clip is for a stripped-down version of “Heartbreaker” in front of a stretch of mountains in Lone Pine, California. The location has served as the backdrop for a number of famous Westerns filmed there since the 1920s.
Frontman Marc LaBelle explained, “I've taken my motorcycle up to Lone Pine for a couple of years now, so I know the area really well. 'Heartbreaker' was written on an acoustic guitar, so there was something special about performing it acoustically with those snow-covered Sierra Nevada peaks in the distance.”
Dirty Honey originally planned to record new music this spring in Byron Bay, Australia, but the pandemic derailed those plans. Guitarist John Notto told us that recording in such a serene location is perfect for the band: “You always want to do the retreat thing. I always fantasize that — like, you go to a cabin or you go to like some location type of thing where you're removed from your world. And that was just a paradise version of it.”
Dirty Honey's latest single, “Rolling 7s,” climbed into the Top Five this week at rock radio, following up the band's chart-topping hit “When I'm Gone.”
