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&nbsp&nbsp&nbspI suppose a really good band (or writer, painter, race car driver, amateur astronaut) is going to have a good number of false starts. Well, we're done with false starts. Mad Highway has finished recording an album--we're not sure if it's our first, but it'll do for a START.
&nbsp&nbsp&nbspWe can say that the Mad Highway album features the rough-hewn musical drumming of the Headstones' Dale Harrison backing up John's strident guitar-vocals and Rich's thumpin' bass. We can also say our singing friend Erika Werry added her gritty-sweet voice to two songs (including the new upload, "Another Heavy Day"). She's on Myspace as well. You'll like "Wheels." It's like the Eagles and Springsteen and Ricki Lee Jones did a zoomin' road song? No, that's not quite it. Erika really adds sweetness to a tough song. Go figger, but I like the dichotomy!
&nbsp&nbsp&nbspWe can say further that there's a stretched-out bluesy groove tune, a singalong bar ballad, a post-folk hard rocker, ANOTHER post-folk hard rocker (sheesh, MH was on dat roll), and even a dark blues lament about hometown life in, uh, backwoods Toronto.
&nbsp&nbsp&nbspSo, we have three reels of tape to mix, and Mad Highway's gonna lay low until we can show you nine fine songs. Until then . . .

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Member Since: 10/01/2008
Band Members: JOHN LINDBLAD: Lead Vocal, Lead Guitar
STEVE CAVE: Bass
DARREN SMITH: Guitar

Drummers who greatly help us out:
JEFF D. ELLIOTT
MINAS (THE H!)

Additional musical friends who so kindly helped in recording:

DALE HARRISON: Massive drums ... wide, deep, and rocky
ERIKA WERRY: Most sweet vocals on "Wheels" and "Another Heavy Day"
J. D. JOHNSON: Our country cousin from The Craigs, shoutin' and snappin' on "Heavy Day". Also drove to the beer store.
RICH OTRYSKO: Bass, Backing Vocal, Keyboards, Orange Whip
Influences: &nbsp&nbspHooboy . . . the big influences question. We like a lot of stuff, ya know? Lately, while not listening to Creedence or the Stones or Mozart, John's been taken by Neko Case. To her ranch, maybe. The Kings of Leon and Wilco get a listen and of course, the pop-rock master Steve Miller!
&nbsp&nbspAnyway, Mad Highway's best influences are a catchy guitar rhythm and bass pulse meeting up with chuggin' drums--and a singalong chorus. (Awright, since you insist: Creedence, The Who, Stones, The Band, Police, Doors, Dire Straits, Eagles, ZZ Top, Brit blues, California country, and pretty much anything that has a good groove. Lately it's been "Dance Part 1" by the Stones, pretty weird for an alt-country-blues band ...)
Sounds Like: &nbsp&nbsp&nbspA hard rock band with big, jangling guitars that are somehow dirty but clean. I don't know of any current band that plays and sings as hard as MH but stays out of the mud.
&nbsp&nbsp&nbspNot that mud ain't fun, mind you!
Record Label: We're available.

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Mixing!

Hiya everyone . . . Mad Highway’s back in the studio mixing down several songs for an introductory single. Not a job for the faint of heart! But the stuff is sounding really great an...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:44:00 GMT