Jeremy Porter

JEREMY PORTER - DYNAMITE ALLEY

RELEASE DATE: SEPT 20, 2024
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180g Vinyl | CD | Digital Download | All Streaming Platforms

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Press Release: DETROIT, MI - August 10, 2024

GTG Records announces the release of Dynamite Alley, the new solo album from Jeremy Porter - the Detroit-based singer/songwriter and front-man for Jeremy Porter and the Tucos. The album is his first solo release since 2019’s 1987 EP and his first full-length solo album since Party of One (Mag Wheel Records, 2010). The album, named after a 1980 episode of the motorcycle cop-dramedy “CHiPs” (s03e23), with a nod to Rod Stewart’s second solo album Gasoline Alley, includes ten songs ranging from sparse acoustic numbers to cowpunk-rocking classics and country-rock tear-jerkers.

The album took a year and a half from the first sessions to release, after some direction changes and a busy touring schedule with The Tucos. “There were periods of great productivity, and there were periods where it sat for weeks on end. Sometimes life happens and you gotta dodge curveballs, but we got there in the end.” Porter says.

Dynamite Alley features a multitude of contributions from friends David Below (Jennifer Westwood, India Green) on drums, Jake Riley (The Tucos, Big Shoals, Matt Woods Band, The Social Workers) on upright bass, Fritz Van Kosky (The Regulars, Pete Moss & The Fungis) on electric bass and beats, Nick Raeon on banjo, Jay Gonzales (Drive-By Truckers) on piano, Wurlitzer, and organ, Doug McKeon (GC5, Bedroom Legends, Magpies) vocals, acoustic guitar, and mandolin, Chris Yohn (Boys From the County Hell) on violin/fiddle, Noreen Porter on castanets, Harry Brish on accordion, Gabriel Doman (The Tucos, The Hotwalls) on bongos, Rachel Goldsmith on cello, and Liz Fornal (The Orbitsuns on harmony/backup vocals. GTG Records label-mates, touring partners, and collaborators The Wild Honey Collective are featured prominently with Tommy McCord on mandolin, Danille Gyger on harmonies, and Adam Aymor on pedal steel guitar.

“It’s an all-star cast! Everyone brought their A-game and elevated it way beyond anything I had planned.” Jeremy boasts. “It wasn’t always easy to wrangle everyone, but they were all very generous with their time and talent, and again, we got there in the end.”

The album was recorded primarily by Gabriel Doman (JP & The Tucos drummer/producer) at his Pharmhouse Studio in Dearborn, MI and Porter’s studio The Basement in Plymouth, MI. Tim Patalan (Sponge, The Fags) mixed it at The Loft in Saline, MI, and Dan Coutant (War on Women, Jawbox, The Sword) mastered it at SunRoom Studios in Windsor, NY.

The album will be released on limited-edition 180g vinyl, CD, and digitally on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. Jeremy will spend the fall touring behind Dynamite Alley in a solo-acoustic setting across the midwestern and western US and Canada.

The first video from Dynamite Alley is "Big Spender," filmed and directed by Noreen Porter in southeastern Michigan in July, 2024. The video includes several of the key players on the album and a super-cool 1998 Chevy Silverado called "The Bobcat."

RELEASE DATE: SEPT 20, 2024
PRE-SALE IS LIVE NOW!
PRE-ORDER via Bandcamp | PRE-ORDER via JP Web Store
Pre-orders ship in advance of the release date and include some free super-sweet-swag and a download of the Acoustic Alley EP, which is free, but only available with pre-orders!

JEREMY PORTER BIO

Jeremy Porter grew up in Marquette, a small city on the shore of Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he was a founding member of one of the UP's first punk bands - The Regulars. After moving to the Detroit area in 1988, he would go on to join, form and front several bands including Chutes and Ladders, SlugBug, Clashback, Fidrych and The OffRamps.

Jeremy released and toured behind a solo album in 2010 called Party of One and formed Jeremy Porter and The Tucos the following year. The Tucos have released 4 LP/CDs, a live EP, several singles, and a 3-CD ten-year retrospective collection. They tour the US and Canada regularly and toured the UK in 2018. In 2024, Jeremy released Dynamite Alley on GTG Records, his first full-length solo album since 2010. Jeremy supplements the Tucos' schedule with solo shows when possible, pulling material from his entire career.

Jeremy has appeared as a guest and contributed gutiar, vocals and writing to releases by several bands including Watershed, Porchsleeper, Popular Creeps and Head Injury.

Reverend Guitars have designated Jeremy as a featured artist and he proudly plays their Pete Anderson Signature Model as his primary instrument live.

Jeremy is Co-Editor in Chief and contributes regularly to Pencil Storm - a Columbus, Ohio-based music, film, sports, and culture blog run by Colin Gawel of the band Watershed. Jeremy writes album reviews, show previews and reviews, memoriam articles, and other peices. Direct links to all of his contributions are HERE.

"Rock and Roll Restrooms - A Photographic Memoir" is a coffee table book of photographs compiled in dive bar bathrooms by Jeremy while on tour across the USA and Canada. Limited copies of the prototype pressings are available while the search for a publisher continues.