Music:
Member Since: 1/26/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/amyhunnie
Band Members: well, just me really... but i get by with a little help from my friends:
Carolyn Mark, Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Hank Pine & Lily Fawn, Scottie Henderson, Keith Rose, Calvin Dick, Diona Davies, Ida Nilson, Sarah Rhude, Colin McKill, Grayson Walker, Jen Deon, Jonah The Angry Kitten and whoever else is lurking at the studio/ bar at the right time.
Influences:
...my fave MuSiC...Rick White, Eric's Trip, Elevator, The Unintended, Moonsocket, Mark Gaudet, Purple Knight, Julie Doiron, Tara S'Appart, Orange Glass, Smog, Bill Callahan, Wil Oldham, Palace, Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Elliot Smith, Slint, Papa M, Aerial M, Pajo, Iron & Wine, M. Ward, Fuck, The Sadies, Kitty Wells, Rose Maddox, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Loretta Lynn, Bobbie Gentry, Dusty Springfield, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carolyn Mark, Tolan McNeil, Neko Case, Hank Pine and Lily Fawn, Chet, Himalayan Bear, Ron Sexsmith, Feist, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Iris DeMent, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Leadbelly, Ry Cooder, The Replacements, X, Blondie, Joan Jett, Neil Young, The Kinks, Mission Of Burma, Kinski, The Besnard Lakes, Johnny and the Moon, The Gruesomes, Deja VooDoo, The Gore Gore Girls, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Cibo Matto, Hole, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Babes In Toyland, PJ Harvey, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Slayer, Bad Religion, The Ramones, Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, The Misfits, The Cramps, Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neutral Milk Hotel, Patsy Cline, Nick Lowe, Jonathan Richman, Chicks On Speed, David Bowie, Peaches, Sixtoo, Buck 65, Hank Williams III, Jon Rae Fletcher, Baby Gramps Trio, The Gossip, Dungen, Yamasuki, The Detroit Cobras, No Means No, The Doers, LCD Soundsytem, Stereo Total, M.I.A., Tocotronic, Erase Errata, Al Tuck, The Fleshtones, The Handsome Family, Wanda Jackson, The Rezillos, X, Excene Cervanka, Junior Major, Xray Specs, BJ Snowden, Edith Piaf, Blossom Dearie, Rosemary Clooney, Nina Simone, Black Mountain, The Pink Mountaintops, Belle and Sebastian, The Soft Boys, Cat Power, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Organ, Dandi Wind, e.s.l., Calexico, Shout Out Out Out, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Ghost House, Quasi, Fun 100, The Silversun Pickups, The Black Angels, Pequod, All My Friends, The Brigadier, Tom Heinl, Holy Fuck, The Acorn and bazillions more that i'm forgetting to write right now...Rick White is my hero. forever again....my preferred MeDiA:...
CBC (rules rules rules!), National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Chunklet (Brian Teasley rah rah rah!), Pitchfork, PopMatters, sceneandheard, Dusted, Bust, N.E.E.T., Venus, The Only, Exclaim, Discorder, Brand X Media, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, sometimes the New York Times, Google News, The Smoking Gun, The Onion, The Believer, The Superficial, MOG, Myspace, Flickr, various blogs and good old fashioned gossip...my fave BooKS... books about living in the woods, books about bears, books about musicians, books about pop culture, books about Montparnasse in the 20's, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, Walt Whitman, James Oliver Curwood, Emily Carr, Willa Cather, Farley Mowat, Wallace Stegner, W. Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Jack London, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Carver, Kenneth Patchen, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes, Myrna Loy, Gertude Stein, Stevie Smith, Vladamir Nabokov, Friederich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Schopenhauer, Cintra Wilson, Julie Doucet, Lynda Barry, Walden, Leaves Of Grass, White Fang, The Incredible Journey, Island Of The Blue Dolphins, Bear, O Pioneers!, Memoirs Of Montparnasse, Please Kill Me, Sonic Cool, Have Not Been The Same, Our Band Could Be Your Life, In The Country Of CountryAmy Honey patch hand silk screened by Eva the MAKEbeliEVA Pioneer Woman Album Cover Art by Evan PinePIONEER WOMAN IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! get it directly from me!
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buy it online at www.zunior.com or The iTunes Music Store
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ask your friendly local indie record store to order it through Scratch Distribution
Sounds Like:
AMY HONEY - PIONEER WOMAN CD..."Amy Honey is an artist and music represents only one brilliant note in her creative range. Photography is another; her photographs are bold in their use of contrast, just like her music. Finding beauty between the stark and sublime images, sounds and influences she fits together like Lego, Honey builds metal on melancholy. Recklessly soulful, the prowess of this pioneer woman is undeniable. From bands Clover Honey to the Nervous Breakdown to her second solo record following 2003's self-titled release, this is the land of Amy Honey. She has palate endowed with wide musical taste and a gift for aesthetic transcendence, style and grace. Her pop sensitivity is as keen as her ability to rock is hard and her love of tradition is true. The Victoria/Vancouver artist can't help but kick hipster ass and make it better."
Exclaim! Magazine
July 2007"Now that Neko Case is off making her own creepy brand of high lonesome noir, VanCity wailer Amy Honey could easily step up to play co-Corn Sister to kooky country soulmate Carolyn Mark (who delivers fine backing vocals and saloon-style piano on Pioneer Woman). Like Mark, Honey has a tendency to write oddball pop pastiches of trashy country tunes, documenting the colourful characters who populate her urban hinterland with the warped humour of that brash regular who goads you to make it to last call at your local. She's strongest when she reins things in, though, and there are affecting themes of Canuck survivalism, isolation, the inevitability of death and heartbreak. Lily My Deer's derelict mother and the beat-driven ode to Lost In The Barrens author Farley Mowat showcase Honey at her best."
Now Magazine, June 2007
"Exploring themes of urban psychosis, alienation, reckless abandon, Canadiana and death, Amy has created an album that strides the fine line between Henry David Thoreau and The Handsome Family."
Andrew Pearson
"Listening to this in my car the past couple of days... it is really earthy and edgy all at the same time
makes me wanna sell all my shit and head to the woods."
Rock N' Roll Pimp via Mog.com
"Amy has the true spirit of a pioneer in both her music and approach to life. No frills, yet full of the beauty, joy and heartache that are so easily hidden by all the glitzy trappings of modern day life. She sings of the things close to her heart, and after listening to Pioneer Woman I feel like I know her in a way I know very few people. She opens up her soul to those of us that take the time to sit a spell and listen to what she has to say."
Anne Murphy @ Subter.com AMY HONEY - S/T CD... "Amy Honey's first solo disc is as homey and inviting as a thrift shop from which none of the good stuff has been taken yet."
The Globe and Mail
"Honey, formerly of alt-rockers Clover Honey, is a clever charmer with an endearingly laid-back vocal delivery and a knack for genre fusion and neat hooks, and this self-titled disc is a thrilling hayride of gentle country twang, punk rock punchiness and witty lyrical twists that doesn't stop till you're drinkin' whiskey long after sunset."
Now Magazine (Toronto)
"Honeys debut is one of those difficult to pigeonhole efforts that defies even the most jaded music fans attempts to slap a label on it. She can belt out an upbeat country song one minute, a metal track the next followed by a synth pop tune - often in the course of one song."
Sceneandheard.ca
"Damn, girl, your voice is sweeter than a moonlit drunk on my front porch!"
J. McLaughlin AMY HONEY LIVE... "Was she funny or off her meds? By the time she kicked out the hilarious “Sabbath!â€, she had won everyone over. If you’re at all curious about what Tony Iommi would sound like if he had grown up in the Ozarks, catch Honey’s next show and request this song."
The Georgia Straight
Record Label: Red Cat Records/ Self Righteous Records
Type of Label: Indie
