Episode 44: The Damn Truth

The Damn Truth is made up of Lee-la Baum (lead vocals/guitar), Tom Shemer (lead guitar/vocals), PY Letellier (bass/vocals) and Dave Traina (drums/vocals).

They have been around for the better half of a decade , and Now or Nowhere is their 3 full-length album. Their sound is kind of timeless - if I didn’t know about them and heard it on the radio I would think they are one of the great bands of the classic rock era. And their new album just sounds fantastic – and it’s no wonder because it was mostly produced by Canadian Music Hall of Fame Inductee: Bob Rock. Bob, if you don't know him, has produced some of rocks greatest albums, working with some of rock's biggest bands like Metallica, Bon Jovi, Motley Crew, Bryan Adams... the list just goes on and on.

I got to chat with the entire band, which I don’t get to do often and I got some insight on the making of the album, what it was like working with the legend that is Bob Rock, and got some cool background stories of a couple of the songs that made it to the album. I even got to ask Lee-La and Tom’s son, Ben, a couple of questions towards the end of the interview: I learnt that the youngster is already an avid vinyl collector and plays the drums – so we’ll have to keep tabs on him because something tells me he’ll be following in his parents footsteps.

Special thank to Selina over at TA2 Sound + Music for doing the mix 🙏

THE DAMN TRUTH

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