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Interview with Lead Singer Lech Wierzynski – Press Democrat

“We’ve played basements, rooftops, warehouses, barns, backyards, campgrounds,” says Lech Wierzynski, rattling off all the funky Bay Area venues his California Honeydrops have survived. After four years, the hard work and slumming is starting to pay off. The Oakland retro-soul and R&B outfit was just voted “Best Band” in the East Bay Express. In 2009, SF Weekly named them “Best Soul/R&B Band” in the Bay Area…”
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Fillmore Jazz Festival Offers Up Surprises Block by Block

“The Honeydrops lit up the big crowd — a multicultural mob that included naval officers and tattooed hipsters — with their good-time music. They dug into Chuck Berry and Fats Domino grooves, early-jazz blues, a rousing version of Wilson Pickett’s Don’t Let the Green Grass Fool You, and a dancing original called Breakdown that married South African township jive with New Orleans second-line parade music. ”
San Francisco Classical Voice – Read Article

East Bay Express Best of the Bay Winner – July 2011

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BluesWax.com

Kyle Palarino -
…The influences from this band are heavily rooted in artists from the Stax theater, New Orleans horny funk, crossroad country Blues, and woodshed honky tonks…The openness & youthfulness of the music takes you back to a time when music was made for fun and not for monetary gain…

Blues & Rhythm – The Gospel Truth (Leeds,UK), Bluesandrhythm.co.uk

Norman Darwen -
…An amalgam of blues, jug band sounds, vintage jazz, rock-n-roll, and classy R&B. Good timin’ music par excellence…

Living Blues Magazine, Livingblues.com

Lee Hildebrand -
…The California Honeydrops, from Oakland, are the most refreshing act to roll down the blues highway in some time. Few groups before them have melded so many strains of African American music into such a seamless whole…

Elmore Magazine, Elmoremagazine.com

Ali Green -
…Oakland’s The California Honeydrops, find themselves firmly rooted in the African-American music tradition…unique arrangements make their debut CD SOUL TUB!, hard to place in genre and time. “Miss Louise” jives like a lost Chuck Berry with a soaring trumpet line…”All You Got To Do” delivers some sad soul with off-kilter harmonies straight from the pews…

Sirius/XM, “Juke Joint” w/ Bill Wax

Bill Wax -
…The California Honeydrops! They are the bomb, and I am the lucky one who gets to introduce them to a national audience. They will make me sound good. It is a very cool disc…

Il Popolo del Blues (Firenze, IT), Ilpopolodeblues.com

Michele Manzotti -
…The “drops of honey in California” finely move between blues, swing, jazz, and atmosphere flashes of soul. All this mixed with music and joy…