Four new Christmas Singles for 2023

The Dodge Brothers will release four new Christmas singles for 2023.

The singles will be released on the following dates:

I Can’t Wait For Christmas     01 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 23 Oct)

Christmas in Heaven     13 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 01 Nov)

It’s Christmas! Don’t Shoot Santa     24 Nov 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 13 Nov)

Trim Your (Christmas) Tree     06 Dec 2023
(iTunes pre-order/Spotify pre-save 24 Nov)

The tracks were recorded by Will Davies at River Recording Studio Southampton.
The covers have been designed by Sarah Sumeray.

New Gig… London March 2023

New Gig Pizza Express Live Holborn London

Wednesday 1st March 2023
at Bridgwater Arts Centre, Somerset.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

7:00pm   Doors Open
8:00pm   The Dodge Brothers Set One
8:45pm    Intermission
9:00pm   The Dodge Brothers Set Two
10:00pm  End

Look out Scotland The Dodge Brothers are coming!

SPIRAL EARTH

Mar 5, 2022

Like an unstoppable Rock and Roll locomomotive, The Dodge Brothers are on their way to Scotland to play a few exclusive gigs. Now a Dodge Brothers gig is never run-of-the-mill; on 19th March, in collaboration Neil Brand, they will perform the Scottish premiere of their new live musical accompaniment for F.W. Murnau’s ‘lyrical and ravishingly beautiful’ silent movie City Girl.

The band are renowned for doing these silent movie accompaniments, having witnessed them we can vouch for their brilliance. It truly is a unique experience. Now if you are yearning for some good old blues and rock ‘n roll the boys will be dishing that up on the 20th March in Edinburgh at the Teviot Underground – Ticket links below.

Check out this Afternoon Show podcast in which Mark Kermode and Mike Hammond chat about the band.

The Dodge Brothers in Scotland March 2022

Online interview Wed 9th March 19:00

ONLINE EVENT Mark Kermode in Conversation with Neil Brand and Mike Hammond | Hippodrome (hippodromecinema.co.uk)

Sat 19th March 2022 Hippodrome Silent Film Festival
18:00 Bo’ness

City Girl | Hippodrome (hippodromecinema.co.uk)

Sun 20th March 2022 Teviot Underground
19:00 Edinburgh

The Dodge Brothers Tickets, Sun 20 Mar 2022 at 19:00 | Eventbrite

https://dodgebrothers.co.uk/

We interviewed the band about their most recent album ‘Drive Train‘ back in 2020.

Mike Hammond plays ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt’ by Woody Guthrie

Dylan, Guthrie, and Roosevelt – the story of a song
Adrian Smith, Rob Joy AND Mike Hammond (The Dodge Brothers)

12 x 20 minutes episodes tell the story of Bob Dylan and The Band’s performances at the two Woody Guthrie tribute concerts staged in Carnegie Hall on 20 January 1968, AND of a controversial song as unknown today as then: Guthrie’s last complete composition, ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt’.  Dylan has never reprised the song, and for the first time since 1948 Mike Hammond performs the full, uncensored version.  Why Woody Guthrie wrote ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt’, and how Bob Dylan rescued it from obscurity twenty years later, reflects the close relationship between ‘people’s music’ and progressive politics in America from the 1930s to the 1960s.  No president has been celebrated in song as much as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and no First Lady has loved folk music like Eleanor Roosevelt – this is as much their story as that of Guthrie, Dylan, and his sidemen.

To listen, click on one of the following links:
PodBean:
https://dylanguthrieandroosevelt.podbean.com
Apple/iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dylan-guthrie-and-roosevelt-the-story-of-a-song/id1473733233
Android/Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iangwibvf7jtkqj4hsbs4l5d654

Adrian Smith, Slouching Towards Big Pink Essays on Bob Dylan and The Band, Woody Guthrie, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Takahe, 2020)
The story of ‘Dear Mrs Roosevelt can also be found in Slouching Towards Big Pink, a stylish blend of memoir, travelogue, and scholarship.  From the West Midlands to West Saugerties, the Isle of Wight to the New York island, these essays see Adrian Smith fly the flag for folk in ’sixties Coventry, criss-cross America in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, ride a fifty-year rollercoaster of Dylan performances, trace the sad story of Bob Dylan and Rick Nelson, and look to The Band for a soundscape of his son’s final illness.
Slouching Towards Big Pink can be ordered via Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908837144?pf_rd_r=9GZVWAH0NJE8FVQ8A7AG&pf_rd_p=e632fea2-678f-4848-9a97-bcecda59cb4e

The Dodge Brothers hit the road in their new video ‘Middle of Nowhere’ from the album DRIVE TRAIN.

The Dodge Brothers ‘Middle of Nowhere’ from the album DRIVE TRAIN. The U.K. Americana vets hit the road with a surprise in the boot in their latest clip.

Americana rebels The Dodge Brothers are on a mysterious mission to the Middle of Nowhere in their new video.

Filmed in glorious black-and-white Dodge Vision, the road-trip clip for their latest slice of old-school roots-rock finds members of the long-running U.K. quartet cruising the backroads — in a vintage Dodge, of course — with a surprise package in the boot.

Middle of Nowhere — an ode to “wild, wild wanderers out in the wilderness looking for fame, fortune and forgiveness” — comes from their 2018 full-length Drive Train, the combo’s fourth exuberant platter of country blues, rockabilly, jugband and skiffle.

Firmly rooted in these traditions, The Dodge Brothers bring to them a freshness that has feet stomping and hands clapping from California to Cropredy, from the Mississippi to the New Forest. Their songs feature vocal virtuosity and heartfelt harmonies underpinned by joyous guitars, thumping double bass and rattlin’ snare and washboard.

The band features Mike Hammond (lead guitar, lead vocals, banjo), Mark Kermode (bass, harmonica, vocals), Aly Hirji (rhythm guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hammond (washboard, snare drum, percussion). Their music has an authentically American tang – frontman Mike Hammond was raised in Alabama and his youthful musical travels took him all over the southern and western U.S. – but with a strong British perspective from Culture Show presenter and film critic Mark Kermode.

These guys play with dust in their Levis and the road in their hearts. Check out Middle of Nowhere above, and keep up with The Dodge Brothers via their website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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