​Piper & The Hard Times (from the album Good Company

​Piper & The Hard Times (from the album Good Company

​Piper & The Hard Times (from the album Good Company available on Hard Times Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Continuing on a path of human non-stop music machines, Piper & The Hard Times offer their recent release, Good Company. Beginning 2024 with an International Blues Challenge win, the Nashville-based band released their debut album (Revelation) in August of 2024. The album spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Blues chart, and kept the momentum rolling when the received the ‘2025 IBC Best Independent Album’ and BMA award for ‘Best Emerging Artist’ in May 2025. The band began playing their new songs while touring throughout 2024 and 2025, Piper & The Hard Times took the tracks into the studio in late March/April of 2025, finishing the recording off at Nashville’s Ocean Way Studio A with Revelation producer Tres Sasser returning to create the album with the band. The result is the recently released Good Company.
For the album, the band’s core trio (Al ‘Piper’ Green-vocals, Steve ‘The Conductor’ Eagon-guitar, Dave ‘Sexy Boy’ Colella-drums) saw Good Company as a melting pot where the they could supplement the sturdy Blues foundations of the songs with their own influences. The snare hits like a gunshot to begin the song cycle on Good Company when Piper & The Hard Times roar onto the album with the first cut title track. The bass and drums shake with a rattle for “In the Meantime” while guitar riffs circle the song as the band introduce “Cowboy Gucci” on molasses-thick groove and guitar licks partner with horn blasts for the Funk Boogie proclaiming “Not Your Fault”. Good Company provides a sharp-edged melody that cuts through “Now I’m Lovin’ You” and makes demands on a hammering beat for “Cheatin’ Gotta End”. Piper & The Hard Times bring an Indie feel to their brand of The Blues as the back Piper’s pleas for “Turn the Tables” with a solo of electric guitar accents. They blast open “Keep It to Yourself” with a uptown Saturday night runaway groove and turn the rhythms of “Runaround Man” up high as Piper & The Hard Times exit Good Company with the soul-saving words and music of “Those Days”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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