Naturally, asked to conduct this week’s mix symphony, Hoots had home-cooked meals and friends on the brain. Without further ado, here’s Hoots on the fine arts of Southern hospitality, cooking, and scoring a soundtrack to wash it all down.
Sean Hoots (center) knows a thing or two about meals and music.
from the archives: mix tape column: sean hoots (of hoots & hellmouth)
Mix Tape with …
Sean Hoots’ Southern Hospitality Soundtrack
For the uninitiated, Hoots & Hellmouth is the fervent roots rock revival slash alt country pop stylings of one Sean Hoots, Andrew “Hellmouth” Gray and manly mandolinist Robert Berliner. Their fundamental experimentalism, or perhaps more accurately, experimental fundamentalism has been pulsing out of Nikola Tesla’s nifty little radio boxes and ricocheting through signature swamp-stomping performances in palpably quickening momentum since last year. Though WXPN’s Artist to Watch for July have just planted their feet back on Philly soil after a whirligig tour with Philly’s Dr. Dog (rock laced with tasty swirls of organ), there shall be no rest for the wicked gospel drenched howls of Sean and Andrew this summer.They’re playing a smattering of shows including a NYC residency this month, will rock the XPN Fest, and are in talks for a show that will highlight local farmers, discuss the importance of buying local produce, then burn the barn with a private performance for the farm folk.
