Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah – Highway 10 : Video Premiere

Lee Gallagher and the Hallelujah released their second full-length record L.A. Yesterday earlier this summer. Recorded at engineer and guitarist Jason Soda’s Palomino Sound studio (Trummors, Miranda Lee Richards), Gallagher’s heady, ageless cosmic rock and roll will hit the listener like a bolt of lightning. Soda’s searing guitar solos, Gallagher’s unique and impassioned voice, Kirby Hammel’s opulent keys, and the hard-hitting, visceral lyrics make this album an instant classic. I’ve been completely obsessed with it. Daily listening.

Morgans Brother created an appropriately trippy video for the single, “Highway 10,” premiering here today. The video is a vivid reimagining of the cruise east on Highway 10, leaving the toxic beauty and density of Los Angeles in the rearview and approaching a landscape that becomes increasingly alien and isolated but somehow scrubs the soul clean, as only a desert trip can do.

Check it out and get the full album on Bandcamp.

This record will always be linked to Los Angeles in my mind.  From the initial somewhat daunting decision to not record in San Francisco, to using some different musicians, to the places I would crash after being in the studio all day and night, and the drives up and down the 5 or the 101.  Highway 10 goes out from LA to the Mojave desert.  I spend a lot of time in Joshua Tree so I’ve driven these roads countless times.  The album title comes from a line in this song.  Kirby’s piano really burns bright on the end of this song and I love the almost Dickey Betts-like guitar licks that Jason is peppering in.”

-Lee Gallagher