GTG Records announces The Wild Honey Collective + Jeremy Porter Together + Separate Southeast USA 2025 Tour! Lansing, Michigan’s award winning cosmic-folk-country-rock band The Wild Honey Collective team up with Detroit’s alt-country-powerpop-rock songwriter Jeremy Porter for a run through the Midwest and Southeastern states. The shows will feature the two entities both separately and together in various incarnations, collaborating on each other’s music in a classic-country revue-style setting.
For information about times, local support, and other details, please visit our websites and the venues’ websites or reach out directly.
The 5th full-length from The Plurals, originally issued as 3 EPs: Mumblebee (May 2019, tracks 1-5) Grumblebee (December 2019, tracks 6-9) Stumblebee (June 2020, tracks 10-15)
Mostly recorded by Tommy at GTG House (Lansing, MI) from fall 2018-spring 2020, with final quarantine-era sessions at Chim Cham’s Cry Shack (pre-flooded basement, also the backyard) and incorporating elements recorded by Isaac Vander Schuur at Epiphany Sound (Dimondale, MI) in fall 2012, plus various GTG House archives. Songs 1-5 mixed by George Szegedy, songs 13 and 15 mixed by Eric Merckling, the rest mixed by Tommy. Mastered by Tommy at McGorgers/GTG House South in January 2025.
Tommy says (January 23, 2025):
BEES is back on streaming, remastered and presented as one release for the first time.
Our scattered 5th album is my favorite Plurals release, and in a lot of ways it sums up the whole first 20 years of this band. Its creation started in a convoluted manner (Hattie had temporarily moved across the country to start her family and Nich and I put together new songs – based around my newfound acoustic guitar passion – that they then both played drums on) and ended in a much more convoluted manner (spring 2020 plans to finish writing and recording stray ideas were, uh, permanently derailed by The Pandemic but in my possibly misguided determination I built a new studio, used everything ranging from cell phone videos and rough demo tracks to create the foundations for the last batch of songs, recorded Hattie singing outside, then the day after I mixed it the basement flooded and I took the studio down). After the pro studio Nashville excursion of Swish we went back to home recording and self production and by the end of the process Eric Merckling, Isaac Vander Schuur, and George Szegedy had a hand in the audio end and Danielle and Timmy tightened up the vocals on some songs.
We had a plan to collect the songs together after issuing them as the 3 EPs in 2019 and 2020, but there was no chance of the band touring and we had a notion that we would revise the quarantine produced songs on Stumblebee but now when we do get together we just work on new material, and the initial distro deal for the EPs expired last year, so… here it is, together! There’s a vague Fuck Trump subtext throughout it so maybe it’s fitting? Who knows?? (Nobody.) All I know is it’s a batch of tunes I made with my friends that I’m really proud of so, turn it up. xoxo
New songs from A Rueful Noise, The Plurals, Cavalcade, Jeremy Porter (alternate mix of “Colorado Christmas“) and the debut recording of The Wild Honey spinoff Dead Honey Collective – all this and more on the 18th annual Bermuda Snohawk compilation. Cheers!
GTG Records announces the release of Dynamite Alley, the new solo album from Jeremy Porter – the Detroit-based singer/songwriter and front-man for Jeremy Porter and the Tucos. The album is his first solo release since 2019’s 1987 EP and his first full-length solo album since Party of One (Mag Wheel Records, 2010). The album, named after a 1980 episode of the motorcycle cop-dramedy “CHiPs” (s03e23), with a nod to Rod Stewart’s second solo album Gasoline Alley, includes ten songs ranging from sparse acoustic numbers to cowpunk-rocking classics and country-rock tear-jerkers.
The album took a year and a half from the first sessions to release, after some direction changes and a busy touring schedule with The Tucos. “There were periods of great productivity, and there were periods where it sat for weeks on end. Sometimes life happens and you gotta dodge curveballs, but we got there in the end.” Porter says.
Dynamite Alley features a multitude of contributions from friends David Below (Jennifer Westwood, India Green) on drums, Jake Riley (The Tucos, Big Shoals, Matt Woods Band, The Social Workers) on upright bass, Fritz Van Kosky (The Regulars, Pete Moss & The Fungis) on electric bass and beats, Nick Raeon on banjo, Jay Gonzales (Drive-By Truckers) on piano, Wurlitzer, and organ, Doug McKeon (GC5, Bedroom Legends, Magpies) vocals, acoustic guitar, and mandolin, Chris Yohn (Boys From the County Hell) on violin/fiddle, Noreen Porter on castanets, Harry Brish on accordion, Gabriel Doman (The Tucos, The Hotwalls) on bongos, Rachel Goldsmith on cello, and Liz Fornal (The Orbitsuns on harmony/backup vocals. GTG Records label-mates, touring partners, and collaborators The Wild Honey Collective are featured prominently with Tommy McCord on mandolin, Danielle Gyger on harmonies, and Adam Aymor on pedal steel guitar.
“It’s an all-star cast! Everyone brought their A-game and elevated it way beyond anything I had planned.” Jeremy boasts. “It wasn’t always easy to wrangle everyone, but they were all very generous with their time and talent, and again, we got there in the end.”
The album was recorded primarily by Gabriel Doman (JP & The Tucos drummer/producer) at his Pharmhouse Studio in Dearborn, MI and Porter’s studio The Basement in Plymouth, MI. Tim Patalan (Sponge, The Fags) mixed it at The Loft in Saline, MI, and Dan Coutant (War on Women, Jawbox, The Sword) mastered it at SunRoom Studios in Windsor, NY.
The album will be released on limited-edition 180g vinyl, CD, and digitally on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Jeremy will spend the fall touring behind Dynamite Alley in a solo-acoustic setting across the midwestern and western US and Canada.
The first video from Dynamite Alley is “Big Spender,” filmed and directed by Noreen Porter in southeastern Michigan in July, 2024. The video includes several of the key players on the album and a super-cool 1998 Chevy Silverado called “The Bobcat.”
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