Today, Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs share, "Hellsville Baby" the first track off of their upcoming album "1st" out April 5th via End of All Music. The single was premiered and the album was announced exclusively with BrooklynVegan.
More than a vast departure from The Frogs previous works, it's an arrival at the beginning. It's the "1st" original debut album. Recorded within the realms of time stamped January 1986, presents 12 songs & 8 unreleased bonus tracks. Understanding correctly, "1st" aka "Pat's Session" was intended to be the initial release by brothers Dennis & Jimmy Flemion prior to "The Frogs" 1988 self-titled debut. Minneapolis based Twin/Tone Records (Soul Asylum, The Replacements label at the time) approached The Frogs & expressed fawning interest, extending an invitation to record the band after their 1985, 7th Street Entry live performance (First Avenue's sister club). It was at this point, the famous fork in the road, where The Frogs opted to record closer to home, thus the path deviated a few weeks later to Nexus Recording Studio in Waukesha, Wisconsin. 12 rapid fire songs emerged & were captured on reel to reel, one night, recorded live, first take, no overdubs. Upon playback review, the late Dennis Flemion (d.7/7/2012), opted not to release due to the overabundance of reverb. Throughout the years the discussion would persist from other sources on pursuing to fix the reverb on "1st". Thirty-two years later, in 2018 Jimmy would take the recordings to a Portland, Oregon recording studio to remaster. The studio engineer successfully cleaned-up & removed the excess reverb. As a result, David Swider from End of All Music Records, expressed further interest in a follow up to the 2019, 30th Anniversary reissue "It's Only Right And Natural".Listen to "Hellsville Baby" below.
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02.15 - Substation - Seattle, WA
02.16 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
02.18 - Chapel - San Francisco, CA
02.19 - Roxy - Los Angeles, CA
02.21 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
02.22 - Bunkhouse - Las Vegas, NV
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