NASHVILLE ROCK DUO THE SMOKING FLOWERS BRING THEIR FIRE AND FURY TO LOS ANGELES
AT HOTEL CAFE FRIDAY 12/1
"Often beautifully ragged; sometimes beautifully haunting; many times beautifully goofy-grinned and/or playful, pleading, or pledging - but always beautiful." - Relix
Scott and Kim Collins, better known as The Smoking Flowers will be bringing their scorching live show to the West Coast performing at Hotel Cafe on Friday December 1st. Musically speaking, Kim dances between drums, accordion, acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica, shimmering tambourine and her own sensual, sizzling vocals. Scott plays electric and acoustic guitar, harmonica, and delivers his vocals with the voice of a feisty, gin-battered, heart-on-sleeve, hardscrabble troubadour.
The two met while Kim was working at Nashville’s premiere underground club at the time 12th & Porter. Scott, who was living in New York at the time, was in in town looking for a summer job. After only one date, Scott went back to New York to pack his things and moved to Nashville. Six months later, the two were engaged.
“An edgy Civil Wars... or The White Stripes if Meg sang like a country angel and they lived on a dirt road."
- Kyle O'Brien (Pitchfork)
The Smoking Flowers last release 2 Guns was co-produced and engineered by Adam Landry of Cosmic Thug (Deer Tick, Middle Brother, Diamond Rugs). The couple’s passion and chemistry is ever present in the music they make together. The thirteen songs on 2 Guns were raucously brought into existence in single recorded takes over about four days. It is a ferocious musical document that eerily proved to be a foreshadowing of the battle the couple was soon to encounter. Kim was diagnosed with breast cancer just after they recorded and mixed the album, delaying its release by almost two years. Kim's breast cancer is in remission today due to only using holistic and alternative methods (no chemotherapy, no radiation, no hormones). With this life altering experience to draw on, the couple have tapped even deeper into their raw punk and folk roots in the composition of their forthcoming release, 'Let's Die Together'. The kind of undeniable urgency that flows and howls throughout these recordings cannot be faked.
“provocative and risky” - Pop Matters
This energy and urgency is palpable in every room they play in. They play every show like it’s the last. They possess an energy and vulnerability that comes from two people who have nothing to lose yet came close to losing it all.
2 Guns : STREAM HERE
THE SMOKING FLOWERS
AT HOTEL CAFE 12/1
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