San Diego-based dirty-blues twosome Little Hurricane are singer/guitarist Tone Catalano and drummer/vocalist C.C. Spina. The duo first found each other through a Craigslist ad in 2010.
Gold Fever is the follow-up to their 2011 debut Homewrecker.
For the making of Gold Fever, the duo rented out a 19th-century apple-packing house in historical Julian, California – an old gold mining town. For two weeks, Catalano and Spina hunkered down with vintage equipment borrowed from a friend who once recorded with legendary bands like the Grateful Dead and Deep Purple. Sweating through a mid-summer heat wave in their air-conditioner-free surroundings—and often visited by tarantulas, turkeys, deer, and other local creatures—Little Hurricane quickly found their new album taking on a swampy yet ethereal vibe capturing the spirit of the weirder, wilder corners of Southern California.
“One of the most important things for us on this album was making sure we never strayed too far from just good,
straight-up rock-and-roll recording,” Tone Catalano says. “We try to keep it raw and honest,
and with the two of us that’s not hard.”
Gold Fever is at turns stark and lushly textured, the album drawing much inspiration from the band’s frequent getaways to the desert and their shared love of Salvation Mountain and the Salton Sea.
Recognized as a killer live act, Little Hurricane have graced major festivals like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits in recent years.
The band will celebrate this release with February tour dates in the US supporting the John Butler Trio. The run includes sold out shows at Chicago’s The Vic Theatre, Danforth Music Hall Toronto, Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom, Bowery Ballroom New York and Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg.
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