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Honey White began in Santa Barbara during 2002 when the brothers Bryn and Keir DuBois recruited guitarist Brian Wolff and drummer Bill Fedderson to help them mash together rock, roots, punk, and reggae into a unique mix of expansively [+]Shorter bio:
Honey White began in Santa Barbara during 2002 when the brothers Bryn and Keir DuBois recruited guitarist Brian Wolff and drummer Bill Fedderson to help them mash together rock, roots, punk, and reggae into a unique mix of expansively epic noise. Their debut CD was praised by the Santa Barbara Independent as "some of the best music to come out of Isla Vista", and now after unloading three self-produced live albums in as many years, Honey White has just finished a new studio album of crushing power and sweet release titled "How Far Is The Fall", recorded in San Francisco with Jonathan Mayer. The group continues to play in the Santa Barbara area, and they are also planning a series of appearances around California in support of their new album.
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This is an album that almost had to beg to be made. "How Far Is The Fall" was recorded by a band who lived scattered all over the Golden State, but who knew that their easy interplay and deceptively epic sound had to be properly captured in the studio before distance, logistics, and reality had their way with Honey White's future. Ten songs emerged that seemed to capture the feeling of stepping into the unknown, hazy void called "the rest of your life", and a surreal kind of coherence was achieved for a group that had previously only careened through its existence. Well, that and the songs sounded really cool and were lots of fun to play. It's only rock, after all.
Things didn't start out so purposefully. Following their first whirlwind year together in 2002, when the band had navigated the Santa Barbara scene on the bare-bones strength of their debut "My Band Rocks!" E.P. and semi-controlled chaos of their live shows, Honey White put on the brakes in mid-2003. Frontman Bryn DuBois took his blue-green acoustic guitar to Europe for three and a half months, guitarist Brian Wolff finished school and packed off for San Francisco, and drummer Bill Fedderson got his speed-punk fix playing and recording with the Isla Vista thrashers of Futureman. While his bandmates recharged their batteries, bassist Keir DuBois plotted Honey White's next moves with the spectacular ineptitude he has been known to exhibit in all things managerial.
When Honey White reconvened at the be
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