Honey Island Swamp Band
We’re super-excited to be speaking today with acclaimed New Orleans-based blues/roots/rock quintet extraordinaire, Honey Island Swamp Band; greetings and salutations, gang! Before we dive into the proverbial Q&A mosh-pit, could you each say ‘hi’ and introduce yourselves to our ever-inquisitive readers? Hey, I’m Aaron Wilkinson. I suppose I’m the fearless leader of this crew! Major congratulations on your upcoming sixth studio album, Custom Deluxe, which is set to
premiere this coming October 27 wherever fine records and CDs are sold! Aaron, what served as the inspiration for Custom Deluxe? We recorded the album over the space of several years, so there were a lot of different inspirations. Covid happened right smack in the middle of it, so that was obviously a big influence. We did this record in bits and pieces here and there as we were touring around the country. So more than anything, I think it was inspired by the people and places we were interacting with over those years.
