Ear Snacks by The Brothers Comatose
The Brothers Comatose return this Spring to present a heartwarming collection of collaborations from their Ear Snacks YouTube series.
Recorded largely during the COVID shelter-in-place order, Ear Snacks is the result of the San Francisco quintet getting together and letting loose in safe spaces across the Bay Area, at a time when collaboration was virtually impossible and more necessary than ever.
“It started as our band making music videos to keep us from going stir crazy during COVID,” frontman Ben Morrison explains. “We couldn’t tour and we needed to keep the tunes alive somehow, so we vowed to get together for one weekend per month and play a bunch of songs and make videos of them.”
Morrison describes the collection as “new originals, old originals and loads of covers,” most of which feature friends and fellow musicians from around the Bay Area, who were all reeling from the loss of live music. “If we couldn't bring music to the masses by touring and playing shows,“ Morrison says, “then we were going to get together with each other and our friends and have a damn good time.”
Ear Snacks is the Brothers Comatose’s sixth full-length release and features the talents of The California Honeydrops, Rainbow Girls, Lindsay Lou and many more. The 15 tracks include spirited covers of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz,” Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” and Tom Petty’s “It’ll All Work Out.”
Morrison sums up the vibes captured on the recordings. “It was about fun, friends, revelry and singing the songs we all loved.”
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Americana mavens The Brothers Comatose forge their own path with raucous West Coast renderings of traditional bluegrass, country and rock ‘n’ roll music. The five-piece string band is anything but a traditional acoustic outfit with their fierce musicianship and rowdy, rock concert-like shows.