The Honey Dewdrops’ latest album, Here in the Mountains, has an origin story that goes back to the summer of 1960 in the vast Arabian desert outside of the Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran.
That’s where a beautiful CIA operative met a dashing Air Force counterintelligence officer and the rest, as they say, makes for an incredible backstory for a wonderful collection of songs by one of my all-time favorite bands. Really.
I bet you can name at least five male musical duos before you could come up with even a single all female one. Cue the Final Jeopardy music. I’ll wait.
Yes, I know there are female musical duos out there, but I can’t be the only person who needed Siri’s help to name one. Why is this? It doesn’t make sense. There’s something undeniably powerful about the sound of two skilled female singers harmonizing. Yet, it seems that traditionally these voices have been overshadowed by their male counterparts.
Maybe Golden Aster will change all that.
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