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Holed & Hunkered

by Headless Household

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Had things gone as planned, the Santa Barbara calif-based band Headless Household would have plunged into its next album project in 2020—its 10th album in a 30-plus year discography. In the pandemical interim, the hopelessly, haplessly eclectic band created its first dance single, “Holed & Hunkered,” being released on multiple digital platforms (and possibly a future album).
The “lean/not-so-mean mix” is being released on June 15, in time for California’s declaration of relative independence from pandemic restrictions; a larger “party mix,” with other Household singers and players joining in the funk fracas.
Consider it a funky anthem, basted in a hope for hope, regarding life in a time of COVID.
The project was made possible through the expanding, everyday miracle of remote tracking, the means through which musicians globally have found an active root of expression in these isolating times. The Household’s home base of Santa Barbara became the hub, with remote contributions from songwriter/guitarist/vocalist-by-default Joe Woodard, drummer/studio maestro Tom Lackner, and alto saxist extraordinaire David Binney (charter member Dick Dunlap wasn't able to join on this party).
Tracking tentacles then extended South to Los Angeles (Binney) and to Seattle (original Household bassist Chris Symer).
On the song, shades of Sly, Miles, EWF, Steely Dan and x factors are tossed into the musical mesh, around a simple, loopy lyric, echoing the flood of days in pandemic life. All roads and riffs lead to a common desire to keep music making and hope alive, to keep singing the collective song in a world gone viral for the moment.

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“Holed & Hunkered” (Joe Woodard)

“Chorus:”
Holed up, and hunkered down
How long we gotta’ lug this thing around?
Like worried souls in the lost and found
Holed up, and hunkered down
Holed up, and hunkered down,
How long we gotta’ fear this thing in town,
Like wary souls in the underground
Holed up and hunkered, holed up and hunkered, holed up and hunkered… down

Bridge:
Blind-sided by the blind in charge
Side-spiraled in a world gone viral
A world gone viral


copyright 2021, by Joe Woodard

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released June 15, 2021
Headless Household:

Joe Woodard; guitar, default vocalist
Tom Lackner; drums, engineer/Tompound studio keeper
David Binney; alto saxes, mastering
Chris Symer, electric bass

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Headless Household Santa Barbara, California

New music combo Headless Household (b. 1983) slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. Discography: Balladismo (2015), Basemento (2010), Blur Joan (2005), post-Polka (2003), mockhausen (2000), Free Associations (1999), ITEMS (1995, Inside/Outside USA (1993), and Headless Household (1987)... all on the in-house Household Ink label. ... more

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