Party: Friday Live - Adam Eckersley Band

Party: Friday Live - Adam Eckersley Band

The global republic of country music has long been ruled by the singer-songwriter – frequently backed by a band, but never truly part of it. Enter East Coast powerhouse Adam Eckersley Band, here to colonise their empire with thundering, shimmering slabs of Southern-influenced rock, swamp, and soul.
A one-time touring guitarist with the all-conquering McClymonts, Adam Eckersley is at once consummate showman, bona fide guitar hero, and notably egalitarian bandleader – doling out liberal solo breaks to each of his rock-steady bandmates: bassist Scotty Greenaway, drummer Benny Elliot, and “Arizona” Dan Biederman on keys, Hammond, and Wurlitzer. The band’s fulltime roster now also boasts the multi-talented Duncan Toombs on guitar and banjo.
Tearaway 2013 debut The First Album won some impressive gains for Adam and the band, hitting the No. 1 spot on the iTunes Country Album Chart and peaking at No. 5 on the ARIA Country Chart, while single “Give Her The World” cracked the CMC Video Chart Top 10 before going on to take out first prize in the country section of the 2014 International Song Writing Competition. Crowning it all, AEB snared the Golden Guitar for Best New Talent at this year’s CMAA Awards in Tamworth, before jetting off to Nashville to perform as part of the Global Artist Showcase at country music’s peak industry meet, CMA Fest 2015. Veterans of two Tamworth Festivals, CMC Rocks, and the Gympie Muster, Adam Eckersley Band have undeniable festival cred to back up their impressive rap sheet.
The Second Album was tracked at the world-beating Studios 301 in Byron Bay, with legendary producer-engineer Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Kasey Chambers, Powderfinger) behind the sound-desk. The record came together in a storm of live tracking, with album sessions capturing several jaw-dropping jams from the preternaturally tight outfit.
“One of the cool things was, half the time we didn’t know we were cutting a track!” Adam recalls. “We’d just start jamming, thinking we were only pulling sounds or warming up, and the next thing Nick would say, okay, come into the control room. He’d just been running red the whole time! He was always working to capture the most natural take for every song.”
The Second Album certainly sees the Adam Eckersley Band take full flight.
“For all of us, that’s what gets us off musically – just going on a sort of journey with dynamic lifts and falls,” Adam says. “If you can jag it so that everyone’s right on the same page and just flowing together, it’s pretty banging. Over the twelve months of playing songs from The First Album live, we started messing around with the standard versions, adding extended jam sessions to them. We really enjoy doing that, so we thought, well, let’s include a bit of that on this new album.”