The Black Hollies

about

Whatever your taste in popular music you will find it satisfied in the songs of The Black Hollies. Their music occurs within and simultaneously destroys the pre-existing frameworks like any true revolution whether musical, spiritual, political, or artistic. The Black Hollies approach to songwriting, like revolution, is born of a single unfettered notion; the will to create that which has never been thought of before. As a group, Scott Thomas Bolasci, Jon Gonnelli, Justin Angelo Morey, and Herbert Joseph Wiley V are four seasoned instrumentalists with a reverence for rock and roll’s past. 3/4 of the band honed their chops over a lifetime of touring and studio work as members of Rye Coalition, while the other was simply born with the ability to create magic behind the kit. Combined, the 4 create sounds that are new, exciting, colorful, rudimentary, and complex. Their sound speaks in pictures and it channels pop music’s vast vernacular by revamping the idioms of rhythm and blues. In the vein of The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, The Who, The Pink Floyd Sound, The Cream, the spirit of Stax, and a lifetime of immersion in rock, soul and their accompanying revelations, The Black Hollies set out to create future classics by harnessing relics left by those who came before them. Not content to compromise their vision, The Black Hollies submerged themselves in their own home crafted studio under the trained ears of long time friend/engineer Mike Olear and then completed the project wi

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albums

Softly Towards The Light

Crimson Reflections

Casting Shadows

Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere

Californication - Music From the Series - Season 3 [extended]

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Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: December (2009)

CMJ 2009: The Bands, The Music, The City, Vol. 3

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SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists

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SXSW 2008 Showcasing Artists

CMJ 2008: The Bands, The Music, The City, Vol. 2

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KEXP Song of the Day

Tell Me What You Want b/w Tired of Being Lonely

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