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The Wild Honey Collective – LIVE out now!

The Wild Honey Collective issued its debut album on January 1st, 2021, and now 5 years later the band’s Live double album arrives on streaming! Pre-order the 2-LP edition, coming this spring!

Live video edited by Dan Jaquint

Live was recorded (by Isaac Vander Schuur of The Hat Madder et al) primarily at a February 2025 concert at The Robin Theatre in Lansing, Michigan. This was a memorable evening in front of a sold-out, energetic and attentive crowd and the band rose to the occasion, delivering a show featuring highlights from the band’s recorded catalog as well as favorite covers by Buck Owens, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, and more. The album is supplemented by a four song acoustic performance that was recorded in front of an invited audience at The Avenue Cafe in June 2025. Since Wild Honey started as a loose quarantine-era recording project, many of the band’s songs have taken on a different shape as they’ve entered the live arena and expanded as a full band. Live serves as a sort of “best of” the first 5 years of the band and is also an attempt to document new “definitive” versions of several of the songs. The result is a 20 song double album featuring a range of bouncy country rock, haunting folk ballads, psychedelic excursions, and harmony singing a’ plenty. It’s been a prolific and exciting run for this band so far (3 LPs, 4 EPs, a double live album, a handful of compilation appearances, and over 250 shows), here’s the future!

“Through Munising” Single Out Now

Summer 2025 – the hazy vision of the “collective” has reached a new peak with the release of the song “Through Munising.” An original composition by Joel Kuiper, Tommy McCord’s lead vocal and musical arrangement was worked up amidst our Grateful Dead-focused Dead Honey Collective shows and elevated by Jack Schueler’s brilliant guitar playing and harmony vocal singing. The propulsive rhythm section of Joel and Nicholas Merz provided the perfect foundation for Adam Aymor’s celestial pedal steel workouts and the ensuing harmony interplay between Adam, Jack, and Tommy. The basic track was cut live in Tommy’s basement in March, at which point the rest of the principal Wild Honey Collective players – Danielle Gyger, Timmy Rodriguez, and Dan O’Brien – sweetened the arrangement with additional singing, fiddle, and harmonica. Adam mixed the recording, resulting in one of the purest pieces of collaboration in the Honey & GTG musical universe. An ode to a beautiful drive through the Upper Peninsula, with hints of a melancholy reality creeping in on the edges, “Through Munising” is a wonderful piece of collective creativity that we’re proud to deliver into the weird world of 2025.

Joel Kuiper – drums, composition
Tommy McCord – lead vocals, guitar, recording
Jack Schueler – harmony vocals, guitar
Adam Aymor – pedal steel, mixing
Nicholas Merz – bass, harmony vocals
Danielle Gyger – harmony vocals, fiddle
Timmy Rodriguez – harmony vocals
Dan O’Brien – harmonica

Mastered by John Duffy