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Ballyhoo! Survival Tips in “Live Through This”

by Daniel Warren HIll

Musicians and music fans alike have much to learn from Ballyhoo!, an American reggae rock band from Aberdeen, Maryland. The band has done an incredible job keeping fans sated during these unprecedented times by keeping a consistent public presence through new music and other media, making up for the lack of most live music opportunities. Their latest song “Live Through This” is the first official track (and music video) released since their 2020 album, Message To The World, with the exception of acoustic ballad “I Will Be Okay” and the band’s cover of Sublime’s “S.T.P.” and it is a fully charged ska-punk single complete with horn section. The album art has a slight nod to tongue-in-cheek comedy slasher film Dale and Tucker vs. Evil and the lyrics encompass the early start of the band and what they’ve survived through up to this point in their 25 year career. It’s hard to finish this song without feeling invigorated and a little more optimistic, like you too will “Live Through This”.

Daniel Warren Hill

Daniel Warren Hill is an American musician, writer, and motivational speaker. He is best known as the frontman for Washington DC area Alternative Rock band YellowTieGuy, as co-founder of Capitol Groove Collective, and increasing the exposure of artists on a global scale through his work with Alchemical Records. 

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By this point in his life, Foghat founding drummer Roger Earl has visited quite a few doctors. But what may be surprising is that the percussionist, 77, is quick to point out that many of the medical professionals who have worked on him also enjoy rocking out.

“Nearly all the doctors and surgeons I know, they all play something: trumpet, sax, violin, guitar,” Earl said recently. “There’s not too many drummers that are surgeons, there’s probably a good reason for that!”

Earl half-jokingly invites his surgeon-rockers to join him and the other members of Foghat onstage at the Fillmore in Silver Spring March 9, where they will be headlining the Rock and Roll for Children Foundation benefit for the Children’s Inn at NIH. Earl, the only original member of Foghat still in the band, will be banging the skins behind guitarist Bryan Bassett and other members Scott Holt and Rodney O’Quinn. “Slow Ride,” the band’s 1975 megahit, is all but assured to be on the setlist, along with tunes from Foghat’s most recent record, “Sonic Mojo.”

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