Tom Heyman 'Show Business, Baby' Out Today

Bohemian Neglect Recording Works is very pleased to announce that Show Business, Baby, the new long player from Tom Heyman, will be released on October 20th. Cover Me has an exclusive premiere of Heyman's take on The Bobby Fuller Four classic "Baby My Heart" up now via:

http://www.covermesongs.com/2017/09/tom-heyman-baby-my-heart-premiere.html

Share "Baby My Heart":

https://soundcloud.com/thomas-heyman/baby-my-heart

Pre-order Show Business, Baby:

https://tomheyman.bandcamp.com/

Heyman didn't set out to write a pub-rock magnum opus, but if you read the tea leaves you'll find it was pretty much inevitable. With Show Business, Baby the venerable sideman (Chuck Prophet, John Doe, Alejandro Escovedo, Sonny Smith, Hiss Golden Messenger, etc) and accomplished singer / songwriter turns up the reverb and lets himself get loose, shuffling out of mythical saw-dusted barrooms and squinting into the California sunlight.

Heyman started playing and recording in the late 1980s with the Philadelphia based band Go To Blazes. The band released 5 full-length records featuring Heyman's songwriting and lead guitar work, before breaking up in 1997. After relocating to San Francisco in 1998, he began working as a solo artist and sideman, joining local favorites The Court and Spark, as well as Chuck Prophet's band, and releasing three critically acclaimed solo records, including 2014s That Cool Blue Feeling.

Eventually sideman gigs and pedal-steel sessions were keeping him busy, but weren't as gratifying. "I started to get to get the itch to put together a band that was looser, and closer in spirit to bands that I loved when I was in my early twenties - Rockpile, The Flamin' Groovies, NRBQ, and Mink DeVille," explains Heyman.

Heyman and his band started rehearsing a set full of obscure covers by Bobby Fuller, Dion, and the like, and almost by accident, he found himself writing a bunch of songs, remarking that "I got to play a bunch of short, sharp guitar solos and make liberal use of the word 'baby' without feeling too self-conscious about it"

They played out often, recorded a bunch of sides, and then everybody got busy with other projects, and his cool new pub rock jams sat in limbo. That is, until he played them for Dan Stuart (Green on Red) and Eric Ambel (Joan Jett, Steve Earl), who strongly encouraged Heyman to finish the record and let it loose on the world. Produced by Heyman and erstwhile Flamin' Groovies bassist Chris von Sneidern, the record was recorded at the legendary Hyde St Studios in SF, and mixed at Cowboy Technical Services in Brooklyn by Heyman's old friend Eric Ambel.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT:

http://www.tomheymanmusic.net/
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.heyman.1

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