The super-psychedelic Montreal four-piece rock & roll outfit THE DAMN TRUTH have announced their brand-new single “I Just Gotta Let You Know” is to be released Friday October 20th, 2023.
This impelling new number is a handspringing, headbobbing, glint-jagging, frazzle of dazzlement, with Lee-la’s voice coming across like a carbonized and, indeed, very loveworn reconstruction of Steven Tyler’s (albeit, circa ’75) accompanied by spangles of guitar and fireflies of percussion.
“This is the first song from the sessions for our forthcoming studio album that we are recording with our producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica, Motley Crue) at Bryan Adam’s recording studio ‘The Warehouse’ in Vancouver,” says TDT’s lead singer Lee-La Baum.
She adds: “Working with Bob a second time was even more inspiring than the first. I don’t know exactly what comes over me, but when I’m in the vocal booth singing into Frank Sinatra’s mic, knowing that Bob is in the other room, basically hanging on my every breath, I am able to let go and try all sorts of things that weren’t ever in my mind before. It’s really freaking fun!”
Lead guitarist Tom Shemer also comments: “The whole thing started with a riff and I knew immediately that I had something cool here. I showed the riff to Lee-la and she came up with the melody and lyrics for the verses right there on the spot.”
“We had the song banging on high energy from beginning to end, very much in the spirit of The Kinks, and once the train was rolling, there was no stopping it.”
“There was a real moment of collective emotion when Lee-la sang the chorus for the first time in the studio. We all felt it, it was magical”
“Bob said ‘forget everything you know about guitar playing and just go for it.’ I only played one take of the solo. He was right!”
The Damn Truth tour the UK with headline concerts this October, and also support Glenn Hughes on his Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of ‘Burn’ UK tour.
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