Delta Spirit’s Highly Anticipated Album 'Ode to Sunshine' Is Released Today!

Delta Spirit’s highly anticipated album Ode to Sunshine is now on record store shelves (as well as online)! The band is celebrating the release of their new album with an in-store performance at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach, California tonight at 7pm!

Listen to their first single off this hot new record!

Delta Spirit - Trashcan {MP3}

A little about Delta Spirit (via Myspace page): There's a scene in Murray Lerner's film ("Festival"), about the 1963 Newport Music Festival, where Peter, Paul and Mary are shown obliging a resounding call for an encore with the protest song, "If I Had A Hammer." Peter and Paul face each other from the sides and Mary faces the audience of tens of thousands, shaking her blonde hair and bearing down on a song about making change. She would, they would hammer out danger and a warning all over the land. Delta Spirit have five hammers and they swing them the way Mary bobbled her head back in '63 for her close-ups, the way Mary sang as if her knees were on fire and her mouth was brimming with more ire laced with optimism than she knew what to do with. These Californians have more in common with the dirty haired, dirty fingernailed folk groups of the nascent years than they do any of their contemporaries. They're suited for reminiscent hopefulness and the gracefully youthful fusion of hostility and all-encompassing passion for all things that can set a smile ablaze or turn the hairs on arms and backs of necks into little beds of nails at the flick of a switch. They make lists of things they like, including all of the people they love, their home, pretty girls, desserts, bodies of water, justice and America. They believe there's still hope for it and in all of the rooms contained within the hallways of the band's newest offering, "Ode To Sunshine," they make you understand that, when it's all boiled down, what we all ultimately live for is catharsis and a fulfillment of body meeting land, air and sea harmoniously. They're about bodies meeting bodies, pressing skins to skins. They're about reminding you to listen more than you talk. They're about urging you to put stock in the happiness of others, not just your own. They make it obvious that we have to go somewhere to be somewhere. We have to feel something to really live. They sing of the soul searchers. They sing for the soul searchers. They are the soul searchers. – Sean Moeller

Tour Dates:
8/26/08 Longbeach, CA - Fingerprints (In-store)
8/26/08 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland (CD Release Party)
8/27/08 San Luis Obispo, CA - BooBooRecords (In-store)
8/28/08 San Fran, CA - Rasputins (In-store)
8/29/08 Salt lake City, UT - Greywhale (In-store)
8/31/08 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
9/04/08 NY, NY - Mercury Lounge
09/06/08 Atlanta, GA - The EARL
09/07/08 Nashville, TN - 3rd & Lindsley
9/08/08 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
09/09/08 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo
09/10/08 New Orleans, LA - Republic New Orleans
09/11/08 Houston, TX - Walter's On Washington
09/12/08 Fort Worth, TX - Lola's Fort Worth
09/13/08 Austin, TX - The Parish Room
09/16/08 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
09/17/08 San Diego, CA - The Casbah
09/19/08 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
09/20/08 Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
09/22/08 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
09/23/08 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
09/24/08 Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
09/26/08 Austin, TX - Zilker Park (Austin City Limits Music Festival)
09/27/08 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
09/29/08 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
09/30/08 Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
10/02/08 Ann Arbor, - MI Blind Pig
10/04/08 Montreal, QC - Petit Campus (Pop Montreal)
10/10/08 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs
10/12/08 Washington, DC - Rock And Roll Hotel
10/14/08 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
10/15/08 Athens, GA - Tasty World
10 /16/08 Saint Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven
10/17/08 Gainesville, FL - Common Grounds
10/18/08 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder
10/20/08 Knoxville, TN - World Grotto
10/21/08 Nashville, TN - The Mercy Lounge
10/23/08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's