The Parting Gifts

The Parting Presents marks a raucous meeting from the thoughts between two main figures in the contemporary garage rock motion — Greg Cartwright, founding person in Reigning Audio, the Compulsive Bettors, as well as the Oblivians, and Coco Hames, singer and guitarist using the Ettes. Cartwright and Hames 1st worked together in ’09 2009, when Cartwright was asked to create the Ettes’ third recording, WOULD YOU LIKE Power. Cartwright and Hames found out these were musically suitable and made a decision to collaborate on the one-off solitary, with each adding one song. Nevertheless, once they put aside some time to create material, the concepts arrived fast and furious, and in a short time Cartwright and Hames got enough tracks to fill up an recording, so the solitary gave way towards the debut recording through the Parting Presents, Strychnine Dandelion. Furthermore to Cartwright and Hames, the recording features a amount of garage area rock and roll and punk blues notables, included in this Dan Auerbach from the Dark Secrets and Patrick Keeler from the Greenhornes as well as the Raconteurs, aswell as Hames’ bandmates through the Ettes, Jem Cohen and Poni Metallic, and Dave Amels, that has previously caused Cartwright in Reigning Audio. Following the launch from the recording in nov 2010, the Parting Presents hit the street, playing the seventh annual Goner Fest in Memphis before moving out for a small number of times in the South and on the Western Coast.