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Sweet Thing

by Moonshine Society

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Sweet Thing 05:15
Sweet Thing By J. Langer Oh, I won’t be your sweet thing on the side... Well lately I’ve noticed When we’re making love You seem a little distracted, baby Now who you thinking of? Don’t you play games Cause I know for sure I don’t just want a taste honey I need a little bit more And I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. If you want some honey I’ll be your Queen Bee If you need some sugar, baby I’ve got all that you need. If you want a good woman Ain’t that what I’ve shown? Cause I ain’t no triflin’ child, I’m a woman who’s grown. And I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. Well you had your girlfriends And they treated you mean But don’t you mess this up, baby Cause I’m the best thing you ever had. I don’t just want a taste Cause that ain’t enough I want all your lovin’, baby Come on, give me the good stuff. And I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. No I won’t be Your sweet thing on the side. Cause I want it all Yes, I need it all Yes, I earned It all. Ooh, I deserve it all.
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Shake 03:48
Shake By J. Langer Come on baby, what you doin’ the Friday night? Come on baby, what you doin’ this Friday night? I’m going down to that juke joint Gonna dance until I feel alright. Pick me up, well pick me up about a quarter past nine. Pick me up, well pick me up about a quarter past nine. Dress real sharp, I’m gonna be looking real fine. I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree If you’re still around when I’m coming down, maybe you can come home with me. It feels good, it feel good being back at the dive. It feels good, it feel good being back at the dive. Step on that dance floor, you know we’re gonna jump and jive. I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree If you’re still around when I’m coming down, maybe you can come home with me. Shake, shimmy, sway like a willow tree. I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree If you’re still around when I’m coming down, maybe you can come home with me. I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree I’m gonna shake, I’m gonna shimmy, I’m gonna sway like a willow tree If you’re still around when I’m coming down, maybe you can come home with me.
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Come On Home 05:52
Come On Home By J. Langer You make me weak, and wanna cry When you cross the floor, walk to her, and just pass me by. But if things should go wrong, yes, as they sometimes I hope you know, where you can turn, and come home to. Come on home. Come on home. Oh, you know I’m down, and turned around Being here on my own. Come on home Come on home Oh baby please, I’m on my knees begging you To come back home. Walk through the door, it’s quiet now I pace the floor, where you were before, (All night) And I wonder how. How things went so wrong, yes, as they sometimes do But I hope you know, where you can still turn, and come home to. Come on home. Come on home. Oh, you know I’m down, and turned around Being here on my own. Come on home Come on home Oh baby please, I’m on my knees begging you To come back home. And if she leaves, though she says that she never will Oh, it’s surely not because she knows what she has And if you find, that she’s left you high and dry Then baby, baby come back to me And if she leaves, though she says that she never will Oh, it’s surely not because she knows what she has And if you find, that she’s left you high and dry Then baby, baby come back to me Come on home. Come on home. Oh, you know I’m down, and turned around Being here on my own. Come on home Come on home Oh baby please, I’m on my knees begging you To come back home.
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Use Me On Gilded Splinters Bill Withers/Mac Rebennack Black Betty- Vocals Joe Poppen- Guitar, Percussion Christopher Brown- Bass Rodney Dunton- Drums, Vocals, Percussion
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Deal the Devil Made By J. Langer Lost a man who loved me for one I gave my heart to. Now he’s gone away just like they all tend to do. When did a heart become an easy trade? Ooh Lord, it’s a deal the Devil made. And I feel just like a fool for loving him, yeah you know it’s true. But time after time I just don’t know what to do. When did a heart become an easy trade? Ooh Lord, it’s a deal the Devil made. It’s not right, I know it’s not right. So I close my eyes and I try to get on through the night. But as I lay here oh so lonesome More lonesome that I’ve ever known My poor heart is weeping Crying out the Devil’s moan... I’ll wake myself up in the morning, try to get on through another day But when he don’t come home, I’ll look at myself and I’ll say When did a heart become an easy trade? Ooh Lord, it’s a deal the Devil made. It’s not right, I know it’s not right. So I close my eyes and I try to get on through the night. But as I lay here oh so lonesome More lonesome that I’ve ever known My poor heart is weeping Crying out the Devil’s moan... I’ll wake myself up in the morning, try to get on through another day But when he don’t come home, I’ll look at myself and I’ll say When did a heart become an easy trade? Ooh Lord, it’s a deal the Devil made.

about

Winner- 2020 International Blues Challenge (IBC) Best Self Produced Album. Track #10 2nd Place Winner International Songwriting Competition (2020).

LABEL: SELF
RELEASE DATE: JULY 26, 2019
DISTRIBUTION: DISTROKID
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Just in time for a July backyard barbecue the Moonshine Society from D.C. deliver a delicious course of summertime blues on their second album “Sweet Thing.” A set of ten house rocking tunes, perfect for a night when the June bugs are jumping, the fireflies are sparking, and the moon is shining bright.

Harmonica hound dog Jason Ricci is featured on the opening bump and grind blues track, ‘Sweet Thing,’ returning the favor given to him by band leader and lead vocalist Black Betty, who sang on his Ricci’s “Approved By Snakes.” Blues Hall of Fame guitarist Joe Poppen cuts a jagged surf blues riff on the dance floor number ‘Shake.’ The 1953 blues standard from Ruth Brown, ‘Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean,’ is transformed into a Bourbon street second-line parade, featuring barrelhouse piano, a full horn section that features guest, Ron Holloway (Dizzy Gillespie, Susan Tedeschi, Gil Scott-Heron, Warren Haynes Band, Gov’t Mule), and blazing chops from drummer Rodney Dunton.

Black Betty demonstrates her prowess as both an accomplished vocalist and excellent songwriter on the powerful and luxuriously arranged ballad ‘Come On Home’ that soars with sophisticated classic R&B style. Ricci returns on the rockin’ tribute to the late great Johnny Winter ‘Southern Road,’ joining Poppen on sizzling dual harmony leads and trading fiery solos. Betty then takes us to church and teaches us all a lesson in the bare necessities with the gospel fueled ‘Biscuits, Bacon And The Blues.’

Everyone gets into the action on the mash up of Bill Withers ‘Use Me,” and Dr. John’s ‘Gilded Splinters’ that evolves into a funky retro house music session. Betty throws her hat in the ring delivering a spot on reading of the iconic ballad ‘I’d Rather Go Blind,’ staying true to the original Etta James recording out of the deepest respect for the woman, who bridged the gap between R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. She then channels another Queen of the Blues on the smooth jazzy blues ‘Deal The Devil Made,’ doing her best Dinah Washington, dishing out sass and spunk.

The album closes with the bonus track ‘The One Who Got Away,’ a dynamic contemporary blues ballad that originally appeared on a benefit album for Cancer Can Rock. This nonprofit serves musicians dealing with cancer, a worthy cause if ever there was one.

The strong offering “Sweet Thing” continues the mission statement the Moonshine Society forged ten years ago as fresh music school grads to deliver soulful blues and old-school R&B on their own terms.

Rick J Bowen

BIOGRAPHY
Moonshine Society gives a big nod to Aesop’s theory that we’re known by the company we keep. So, while staking claim to lofty Music Land real estate of their own with a searing, cutting-edge blend of blues, soul, rock and R&B, they continue to rack up powerhouse stripes rubbing elbows with the best. Johnny Winter, Gov’t Mule, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Tower of Power, John Mayall, Roomful of Blues, John Mayer and Ron Holloway count among the legends the band and its members have accompanied and opened for, not to mention other greats as Tab Benoit, George Clinton and the Funkadelic, Danny Gatton and Samantha Fish.

credits

released July 26, 2019

1. Sweet Thing
Jenny Langer
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Jason Ricci- Harmonica
Wes Lanich- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums

2. Shake
Jenny Langer
Black Betty- Vocals, Handclaps, Percussion
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Wes Lanich- Keys, Handclaps
Tod Ellsworth- Bass, Handclaps
Rodney Dunton- Drums, Handclaps
Ron Holloway- Tenor Sax
Vince McCool- Trumpet
Ken Wenzel- Baritone Sax
Billy Mayfield- Backing Vocals

3. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Johnny Wallace and Herbert J. Lance
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Benjie Porecki- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass, Percussion
Rodney Dunton- Drums, Percussion
Ron Holloway- Tenor Sax
Vince McCool- Trumpet
Ken Wenzel- Baritone Sax
Carly Harvey- Backing Vocals
Billy Mayfield- Backing Vocals

4. Come On Home
Jenny Langer
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Benjie Porecki- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums
Ron Holloway- Tenor Sax
Vince McCool- Trumpet
Ken Wenzel- Baritone Sax
Carly Harvey- Backing Vocals
Billy Mayfield- Backing Vocals

5. Southern Road
Johnny Winter/Jenny Langer/Joe Poppen/Christopher Brown
Black Betty- Vocals, Cowbell
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Jason Ricci- Harmonica
Wes Lanich- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums, Percussion

6. Biscuits, Bacon and the Blues
Jenny Langer
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Benjie Porecki- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums

7. Use Me On Gilded Splinters
Bill Withers/Mac Rebennack
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar, Percussion
Christopher Brown- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums, Vocals, Percussion

8. I’d Rather Go Blind
Ellington Jordan/Etta James/Billy Foster
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar, Percussion
Wes Lanich- Keys
Tod Ellsworth- Bass
Rodney Dunton- Drums

9. Deal The Devil Made
Jenny Langer/Joe Poppen/Christopher Brown
Black Betty- Vocals
Joe Poppen- Guitar
Christopher Brown- Bass, Guitar
Rodney Dunton- Drums
Bonus Truck- The One Who Got Away*
Jenny Langer
Buddy Speir- Guitar
Eric Scott- Bass
Will Rast- Keys
Andy Hamburger- Drums
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Mark Williams. Mastered by Jeff Dykhouse.
Coproduced by Jenny Langer. Songs 1-7 Coproduced by Tod Ellsworth.
Recorded at Sucker Punch Recording Co, Bethesda, MD.
Songs 1 and 5- Harmonica recorded in New Orleans, LA by Midwest Audio Recording, Rich Moropugo.

*Bonus Track Mixed and Produced by Jim Ebert in cooperation with Cancer Can Rock.
Originally mastered by Bruce Kane. Engineered by Sean Russell. Recorded at Cue Recording
Studios, Falls Church, VA. Cancer Can Rock is a non-profit organization serving a singular
community: Musicians facing cancer. www.cancercanrock.org

Album artwork by Ellie Krysl. Photography by Redrum Collaboration.
www.moonshinesociety.com

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Moonshine Society Washington, D.C.

Moonshine Society is the offspring of three Berklee College of Music friends. They united in 2009 to craft their own formula of soulful blues, roots rock and old-school R&B that defies labels of traditional musical confines.

Leading the troupe is impassioned, soulful singer/songwriter Jenny Langer, who has shared the stage with such greats as Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
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