Holy Ghost Electric Show vs Money
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We grew up in the butt of the joke and we ended up falling in love with the punchline. Mississippi.
The Holy Ghost Electric Show is a band from Oxford, Mississippi signed to This Is American Music wanting to make a concept album about what it means to be from the rural south in 2016. It will be an album made of characters, events, and ideals we have met and seen in our lives here.
Romanticized Confederate ghosts. Champions of the poor. Defenders of the privileged. Skate kids in Wal-Mart parking lots. 9/11 eagles. Jim Crows. Good ole boys. Day old Texaco food. Crappy local shows. Racist. Lovers of their fellow man.The pain of the Delta. The comfort of the Governor's mansion. God. Satan. Wild stray dogs. Trailer parks. Projects. Farms. Corrupt towns. Corrupt hearts. Races coming together. Races fighting each other. Tears streaming on the back pew. Pentecostal fever dreams. Confederate flags on beat down trucks. 110ft crosses in buffet parking lots. Classism. Mockingbirds. Whippoorwills. Endless summers and porches. Creeps. Losers. Dreamers. Believers.
And we're sure there will be an applicable bible verse for every corner it turns.
This is what will make up this album. We want to tell the stories that we know and that we see. We are tired of being spoken for by our state representatives, by reality tv, by Nashville radio, and comedians faking an accent while telling fart jokes. We are going to say the ugly truths and beautiful truths. The grey area between the wine colored, tear stained pulpit and the bar stool covered with stickers from out of town bands. And not a single tractor or pair of blues jean shorts in sight.
The Dirty Deets
We will be recording this album in the first two weeks of January at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi home of Fat Possum Records. The talented Bronson Tew will take the helm of sound engineer. He balances rawness and beauty in his recordings like it's second nature. In January of 2015 HGES recorded an EP with producer and musician Simone Felice in Woodstock, NY (The Felice Brothers, The Duke & The King) and he will be returning for this full length as the producer. Simone has written critically acclaimed work as a musician and author. He has also produced hit records such as The Avett Brothers release "I and Love and You" in 2009. Simone brought out the best in us in those five days in New York and helped us nurture our strengths and improve our weaknesses. We believe this is the team we need to make our vision come to life. Plus the countless friends and musicians who will donate their talents and time in the studio with us. It's not a question of if or when but a question of how. That's where you hopefully come in.
Where Your Donations Go
We are asking for $10,000 dollars but truthfully we need more than that make this dream a reality. We also believe this best thing to do with a gift is to turn around give a gift to someone more in need. So we have decided that 50% of all funds made after reaching our $10,000 dollar goal will go toward charities that we feel are doing great things both here in Mississippi and abroad in the country of Haiti.
One of these organizations help make it possible for impoverished youth in Mississippi to pay for college. LOU Saves is child savings program that seeks to improve quality of life by providing multi-generational financial education and nurturing college-going aspirations among underserved youth. LOU Saves opens child savings accounts for eligible elementary school students in the Oxford and Lafayette County School Districts. The accounts are opened with $50 seed deposits provided by the program, and LOU Saves engages in fundraising efforts to match up to $100 per year of deposits made on behalf of each participating child. Research indicates that children with a bank account in their name are 6x more likely to attend college, so the accounts are opened in the child’s name and are administered by a third party custodian. The accounts are restricted for expenses related to college or postsecondary job training expenses. Parents and caregivers of students entering the program are required to attend a financial literacy workshop and a one-on-one financial coaching session. Additional, age-appropriate financial literacy activities will be offered for participating students.
The other involves directly the family of Cody and Jake Rogers in the band. Their family along with others invovled in The Lighthouse Foundation, Freedom Fellowship, and other organizations within the community go to Haiti to build schools, wells, and homes in rural areas and teach locals how to as well. They also provide other things we take for granted such as shoes, pencils, notebooks, clothes, etc. We know where your money would go with these organizations and can promise you every little bit would make a difference.
You will also automatically receive a download of the yet to be released EP produced by Simone Felice called "Sinai" from The Holy Ghost Electric Show when you donate $10 or over. This EP will not be released to the general public until the beginning of next year. Everyone who donates will also receive a discount of the vinyl release of the EP when it is released to the public. Here is the single from the EP.
Levee Of Your Heart - The Holy Ghost Electric Show
In Closing
Proverbs says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." and Elvis said "If I can dream of a better land Where all my brothers walk hand in hand Tell me why can't my dream come true?"
So we're going to cherry pick both the bible and Elvis and say that we agree.
This album is our dream and vision. We can promise you this band will pour our hearts out in that studio. We can also promise you that Simone and Bronson will work their hardest. This album hasn't even stepped over the threshold of a studio and we know it's the most personal and heartfelt work we've done yet.
We hope you'll be a part of this. We hope you'll be fortunate enough to believe in this as much as we do. We hope we'll be fortunate to see you at the finishing line. We hope you'll be part of this voice for the New South.
The Holy Ghost Electric Show is a band from Oxford, Mississippi signed to This Is American Music wanting to make a concept album about what it means to be from the rural south in 2016. It will be an album made of characters, events, and ideals we have met and seen in our lives here.
Romanticized Confederate ghosts. Champions of the poor. Defenders of the privileged. Skate kids in Wal-Mart parking lots. 9/11 eagles. Jim Crows. Good ole boys. Day old Texaco food. Crappy local shows. Racist. Lovers of their fellow man.The pain of the Delta. The comfort of the Governor's mansion. God. Satan. Wild stray dogs. Trailer parks. Projects. Farms. Corrupt towns. Corrupt hearts. Races coming together. Races fighting each other. Tears streaming on the back pew. Pentecostal fever dreams. Confederate flags on beat down trucks. 110ft crosses in buffet parking lots. Classism. Mockingbirds. Whippoorwills. Endless summers and porches. Creeps. Losers. Dreamers. Believers.
And we're sure there will be an applicable bible verse for every corner it turns.
This is what will make up this album. We want to tell the stories that we know and that we see. We are tired of being spoken for by our state representatives, by reality tv, by Nashville radio, and comedians faking an accent while telling fart jokes. We are going to say the ugly truths and beautiful truths. The grey area between the wine colored, tear stained pulpit and the bar stool covered with stickers from out of town bands. And not a single tractor or pair of blues jean shorts in sight.
The Dirty Deets
We will be recording this album in the first two weeks of January at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi home of Fat Possum Records. The talented Bronson Tew will take the helm of sound engineer. He balances rawness and beauty in his recordings like it's second nature. In January of 2015 HGES recorded an EP with producer and musician Simone Felice in Woodstock, NY (The Felice Brothers, The Duke & The King) and he will be returning for this full length as the producer. Simone has written critically acclaimed work as a musician and author. He has also produced hit records such as The Avett Brothers release "I and Love and You" in 2009. Simone brought out the best in us in those five days in New York and helped us nurture our strengths and improve our weaknesses. We believe this is the team we need to make our vision come to life. Plus the countless friends and musicians who will donate their talents and time in the studio with us. It's not a question of if or when but a question of how. That's where you hopefully come in.
Where Your Donations Go
We are asking for $10,000 dollars but truthfully we need more than that make this dream a reality. We also believe this best thing to do with a gift is to turn around give a gift to someone more in need. So we have decided that 50% of all funds made after reaching our $10,000 dollar goal will go toward charities that we feel are doing great things both here in Mississippi and abroad in the country of Haiti.
One of these organizations help make it possible for impoverished youth in Mississippi to pay for college. LOU Saves is child savings program that seeks to improve quality of life by providing multi-generational financial education and nurturing college-going aspirations among underserved youth. LOU Saves opens child savings accounts for eligible elementary school students in the Oxford and Lafayette County School Districts. The accounts are opened with $50 seed deposits provided by the program, and LOU Saves engages in fundraising efforts to match up to $100 per year of deposits made on behalf of each participating child. Research indicates that children with a bank account in their name are 6x more likely to attend college, so the accounts are opened in the child’s name and are administered by a third party custodian. The accounts are restricted for expenses related to college or postsecondary job training expenses. Parents and caregivers of students entering the program are required to attend a financial literacy workshop and a one-on-one financial coaching session. Additional, age-appropriate financial literacy activities will be offered for participating students.
The other involves directly the family of Cody and Jake Rogers in the band. Their family along with others invovled in The Lighthouse Foundation, Freedom Fellowship, and other organizations within the community go to Haiti to build schools, wells, and homes in rural areas and teach locals how to as well. They also provide other things we take for granted such as shoes, pencils, notebooks, clothes, etc. We know where your money would go with these organizations and can promise you every little bit would make a difference.
You will also automatically receive a download of the yet to be released EP produced by Simone Felice called "Sinai" from The Holy Ghost Electric Show when you donate $10 or over. This EP will not be released to the general public until the beginning of next year. Everyone who donates will also receive a discount of the vinyl release of the EP when it is released to the public. Here is the single from the EP.
Levee Of Your Heart - The Holy Ghost Electric Show
In Closing
Proverbs says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." and Elvis said "If I can dream of a better land Where all my brothers walk hand in hand Tell me why can't my dream come true?"
So we're going to cherry pick both the bible and Elvis and say that we agree.
This album is our dream and vision. We can promise you this band will pour our hearts out in that studio. We can also promise you that Simone and Bronson will work their hardest. This album hasn't even stepped over the threshold of a studio and we know it's the most personal and heartfelt work we've done yet.
We hope you'll be a part of this. We hope you'll be fortunate enough to believe in this as much as we do. We hope we'll be fortunate to see you at the finishing line. We hope you'll be part of this voice for the New South.
Organizer
Cody Rogers
Organizer
Oxford, MS