> the 77′s – “holy ghost building” releasing

The 77′s are releasing a new album “Holy Ghost Building” June 20th. If you are familiar with the 77′s then you know that Mike and Co. have some killer blues licks both recorded and live. This new release is mostly covers of classic blues and gospel songs. You can preview “Working On a Building” at www.myspace.com/the77s with 2 more songs to be posted prior to the release.

this record sounds like…’Elvis, Scotty, Bill & D.J.’ because we did it exactly the way those guys did the early Elvis recordings.” – Mike

You can order it June 20, 2008 at www.lo-fidelity.com

See the complete 77′s e-mail announcement below (which also includes some tour dates)

>the 77′s – new live album “99″

The 77′s have a new live recording available. It is from their 1999 tour; it is called “99″

The 77′s & Lo-Fidelity Records present: The 77′s, “99″.Recorded in St. Louis MO. by Steve Griffith (Vector) for the 1999 “EP” release, this live CD features a rare glimpse at this great band at the peak of the tour. (The band for this tour was Mike Roe, Mark Harmon, Bruce Spencer, and Scott Reams.) Mike had this to say about the recording:

> the 77′s – seventy sevens and “i can’t get over it”

With the upcoming remastered The Joshua Tree from U2, it brings to mind another great band, that by a twist of fate you probably have never heard of.

You see the 77′s, a then obscure band, was set to release there debut on Island records. They already had a 4 star review from Rolling Stone, a great album and a “legendary live show, but the problem was they were to release the same day as labelmates U2′s the Joshua Tree. The label could barely handle the runaway success of the Joshua Tree, so the The 77′s had little marketing push. Oh what might have been…

I first got the album on vinyl and Island never issued it on CD. It wasn’t until the 1990′s that Via Records released a limited run box set of the 77′s first 3 albums.

It’s too bad that 20 years later we aren’t waiting for the 20th anniversary remastered version of the Seventy Sevens…..
This is one of my favorites from the album.

Listen to “I can’t get over it”

> the 77′s – new album(s) due 2007/2008

Here is some news on some upcoming 77′s projects from their e-mail update:

Remember the 77′s EP tour in 1999? Well, thanks to jeffrey k. at
Lo-Fidelity, we’re getting ready to release an expanded version…

Next… we’ve all been waiting for the upcoming 77′s album. It’s almost here! To quote Doctor Love’s post on The 77′s message board: “To update you all, Mark and Bruce have about wrapped the Jimmy Pailer album and we resume completing the new 77s album next week. There are still a coupla lead vocals to do plus all the background vocals and any last minute ‘production’ overdubs that may come to mind, in addition to maybe doing one or two ‘backyard’ acoustic numbers on the fly to round out the record….. Everyone is going to love this record. That much I can promise.”

We expect to send The 77′s out on tour this next spring in support of this highly anticipated release.

Website www.77s.com

See the complete news below