Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking in Heaven (album stream)

Multi-instrumentalists Kitty, Daisy & Lewis released three albums (including one re-release) in three years since they began 2007. After taking 2010 off from releasing an album, the Durham siblings are back with Smoking in Heaven.

Smoking in Heaven has 13 songs, all of them written by one of the siblings with a few written by all three of them. The benefit of the three siblings writing different songs gives the album an eclectic sound varying from country-like vocals, a horn section with a swing-vibe and rockabilly guitars and drums.

To celebrate the US release of Smoking In Heaven on Verve Records, you can stream Kitty, Daisy & Lewis' new album in its entirety in the player below.


Thanks to Paste Magazine

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis is a three-piece band comprising the siblings of the Durham family. Their music is influenced heavily by R&B, swing, jump blues, country and Western, blues, Hawaiian and rock 'n' roll. They are all multi-instrumentalists playing guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel guitar, harmonica, double bass, ukulele, drums, trombone, xylophone and accordion between them.

Kitty Durham is the youngest of the group and primarily sings and plays drums, harmonica, ukulele, banjo, trombone and guitar. Daisy Durham is the eldest of the group, who primarily sings and plays drums, piano, accordion and xylophone. Lewis Durham is the middle child who sings and plays guitar, piano, banjo, lapsteel and drums. He collects and plays/DJ's 78rpm records and has built a home studio for the band to record in. It consists of 1940's and 50's recording equipment such as 8 track tape machines and vintage BBC and RCA microphones. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis do not use computers or any digital format during the recording process.

Kitty, Daisy and Lewis have been performing from a young age, and have therefore built up a fanbase, which Amy Winehouse, Chris Martin, Eagles Of Death Metal, Dustin Hoffman and Ewan McGregor are supposedly part of. They have had worldwide success with sold out tours and have opened for Coldplay, Razorlight, Richard Hawley, Jools Holland among others.

The band are signed to BBC Radio 1 DJ and Bestival curator Rob da Bank's label, Sunday Best, who released their second single "Mean Son Of A Gun", a song originally cut by Johnny Horton in the 50s, with the B-side "Ooo Wee" which they first heard on a 78rpm record sung by Louis Jordan. This was released on 45rpm, CD and a limited edition 78rpm vinyl. The tracks were recorded at home. The vinyl was also cut by Lewis using his own equipment at The Exchange Mastering Studios, which is owned and run by his father Graeme.

Links
http://www.kittydaisyandlewis.com
http://www.facebook.com/kittydaisyandlewis
http://www.myspace.com/kittydaisyandlewis