Big Head Todd & The Monsters Get “…Smooth”

Smooth Like Blues: Big Head Todd and the Monsters Release Video for “I Get Smooth”

Boulder heroes continue triumphant summer tour in support of bluesy Black Beehive

The MuseBox today announced that Big Head Todd and the Monsters have released a new video for “I Get Smooth,” the next single off this year’s Black Beehive. Nate Watkin, director and co-founder of Definite Productions, filmed “I Get Smooth.” Recorded at Butcher Boy Studios in Chicago, Black Beehive is the band’s first release on Shout! Factory. The album was produced and mixed by Grammy-winning Steve Jordan (John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray), and has already been recognized as Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ “strongest affirmation of the band’s blues roots” (Relix, January, 2014). The band is in the midst of a summer-long tour in support of Black Beehive. The entire Big Head Todd and the Monsters catalogue is available in the band’s online store.

As he began writing material for Black Beehive, lead singer Todd Park Mohr drew from both his own life experiences and relevant current events. Ranging from the untimely death of Amy Winehouse (“Black Beehive”) to the recent uprisings in the Middle East (“We Won’t Go Back”), Mohr wrote songs that are as much a snapshot of the here and now as they are a personal diary. Mohr also veered into social commentary, as evidenced by “Fear, Greed and Ignorance,” a song that somberly declares that it is those three dishonorable traits that are “driving America off the edge of the road.”

Founded as a trio in Boulder in 1986 (with Mohr on guitar and vocals, Brian Nevin on drums, and Rob Squires on bass), Big Head Todd and the Monsters quickly built a strong reputation as an engaging live band. Within a few years of their formation, the group moved beyond the Colorado club circuit to become one of the most adventurous, durable and respected bands in America. The trio added keyboardist/pedal steel guitarist Jeremy Lawton in 2004.

According to Mediamikes.com, Black Beehive is “filled with classic blues-based instrumentation that blends several other genres, such as country, rock and folk music, and will appeal to a variety of listeners – young and old.” Black Beehive serves as a reaffirmation of the band’s blues roots and an indicator of the relevant rock n’ roll Big Head Todd and the Monsters plan on creating over the coming quarter century.