From the new album “Little Neon Limelight” out March 16/17th, This is a busy week for the members of the Louisville, Kentucky–based band Houndmouth. The quartet kicks off their North American tour , tonight, before swinging South next month, hitting several prominent festivals including Texas’s SXSW, Alabama’s Hangout, and Tennessee’s Bonnaroo before wrapping up back in Kentucky at the Forecastle Festival in July.
The band is also gearing up for the release of its sophomore album, Little Neon Limelight (out March 17th), featuring the track “Otis,” written by keyboardist/vocalist Katie Toupin, it’s a tribute to, yes, that Otis, the late Georgia soul singer Otis Redding. Toupin’s serenade is accompanied by the band’s signature four-part harmony. Toupin wrote the song’s chorus first, and it was only when she began working on the verses that she realized her love for Redding was complicated. “When you truly love a voice,” she says, “you feel like you get it in a way that other people don’t.
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