LABOR OF LOVE, by The CONNECTION

LABOR OF LOVE

by The CONNECTION

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1.	Labor Of Love 03:12	buy track
2.	So Easy 03:21	buy track
3.	Circles 04:03	buy track
4.	You Ain't Special 02:29	buy track
5.	Pathetic Kind Of Man 02:41	buy track
6.	Don't Come Back 02:18	buy track
7.	Let The Jukebox Take Me 03:16	buy track
8.	Red, White & Blue 02:03	buy track
9.	Treat You So Bad 03:27	buy track
10.	Good Things 03:52	buy track

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They've been applauded by rock pioneer, visionary, and former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. They're championed
by E Street legend Little Steven Van Zandt and heard just about every day on the Underground Garage - with 9 singles in heavy rotation, including 5 " Coolest Songs In The World" . New England’s newest hit-makers The Connection are on a roll…

Geoff Palmer, Brad Marino, and the boys in the band recently hit the studio with legendary punk, rock ‘n’ roll icon, producer, songwriter, and historian Andy Shernoff of the Dictators. “Labor Of Love” is the soundtrack to the love child of Nick Lowe, Flamin’ Groovies, the Kinks, and Graham Parker stumbling through the Bowery with the swagger of Exile-era Rolling Stones; finishing off the night by passing out on the Ramones' studio floor.

“Labor of Love” features scorching rockers like “Red White And Blue”; punk-rock ravers like “Don’t Come Back” (featuring resident Riverdale, Cheat, and Mope Dan Vapid on his trademark backup vox); slung-back, beer- swillin’ tales of the road like “Let The Jukebox Take Me”; and the Connection's trademark jangly garage- power- pop of “Circles” and “Good Things”. Packing a one/two punch in under 30 minutes, “Labor of Love” is jammed with 10 soon-to-be-new classics that all the mods AND the rockers will be screaming for.
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released July 24, 2015

BRAD MARINO - LEAD AND BACKUP VOCALS, RYTHM/ACOUSTIC GUITAR , LEAD GUITAR ON TRACKS 5,6,8,9,10, BASS TRACKS 2,6,8,9,10, 12 string tracks: 5,9 PERCUSSION

GEOFF PALMER - RYTHM/ACOUSTIC GUITAR, 12 STRING TRACK 4 ,LEAD GUITAR TRACKS 1,3,4 SLIDE GUITAR TRACK 2, BASS TRACKS 1,3,5 ADDITIONAL BACK UP VOCALS

RICK ORCUTT - DRUMS/HANDCLAPS TRACKS 1,4,5,6,8.
CRAIG SALA - DRUMS TRACKS 2,3,7,9,10
KRIS "FINGERS" RODGERS - KEYBOARDS
ANDY SHERNOFF - BASS ON TRACKS 4 and 7
Zach Uncles - Pedal Steele
Dan Vapid - Back up Vox "Don't Come Back"

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ANDY SHERNOFF

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY BRAD MARINO AND GEOFF PALMER
ASCAP STOP TALKING MUSIC copyright 2015

PRODUCED BY MARINO/PALMER
Album Recorded by Geoff Palmer at Friar Park East; Jacobs Dive Studio’s and Thundering Sky by G. Palmer, C. Magruder and B. Marino

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- Steven Van Zandt, The Underground Garage

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