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Phillip Lammonds – “Hell’s Kitchen”
Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Phillip Lammonds’ song “Hell’s Kitchen” from his forthcoming album Cowboy Things, which scheduled for release on April 5. Phillip is a songwriter whose songs have been picked up by folks like the Infamous Stringdusters and Hootie & the Blowfish.
The album was produced by Lee Brice, with co-production by Gabriel Klein, Gideon Klein and Phillip Lammonds. It was engineered and mixed by Cody Label, Gabriel Klein & Gideon Klein at Pumphouse Studios.
“Hell’s Kitchen” is Phillip Lammonds on vocals and mandicello; Gideon Klein on fiddle and bass; Sam Hunter on guitar; Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) on lap steel, and Gabriel Klein on drums and keyboards. It’s a special treat when a seasoned and valid songwriter like Phillip steps out of the shadows for a moment in the limelight. Funky with dueling instruments grooving heavily in turns, this is no simple campfire folk song but it’s rootsy as hell. A song about the darkness and evil cooking in a meth lab, burning, in more ways than one. It’ll pull you in closely to hear the tale – “something’s cooking and lord it ain’t right, the evil ain’t got no place to hide… hell’s kitchen’s gonna burn tonight.” Superb.
I’ve had “Hell’s Kitchen” in my bag for a long, long time. Sarah Majors & Matt King were two of the first people I ever really got to know in Nashville. I really admire both of them. They’re both doing other things in life like we all do but from a talent and just a sheer genius standpoint both of them have always carried that for me. This song came from us sitting around. Matt had the idea of Hell’s Kitchen and we couldn’t figure out what that meant right away. We weren’t going to attack New York City by any means where it actually is. So we applied it to a meth lab. There was an old bootlegger near my uncle’s house in North Carolina & I think they went and turned it into a meth lab at some point in that county & for some reason that trailer they had burned down one night. And so it made sense to go ahead and write that and that’s Hell’s Kitchen in a nutshell. Its one of those that’s got some rough & tumble in it, but I think everybody’s gonna like it. – Phillip Lammonds
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