honeyhoney / Matt Hectorne & The Family Tree / Joe Yezbak

honeyhoney is New York’s Ben Jaffe and Strongsville, OH’s Suzanne Santo. Offering a clever blend of  blues, folk, and alt-country, the Midwest sweethearts embrace the spirits of Guthrie, Raitt, and Parsons in their earnestly delivered songs that speak to the human emotion.

On their most recent album, Billy Jack, theirs is not a sound of coming of age, but of awareness and digging into what it means to be alive.“The album is made of a lot of stories, a lot of lives,” Santo picks up. “We’re very different, but those differences are what makes it. I’ve had a lot of different times in my personal life that kinda leveled me as a person. That’s why this record is the way it is. It’s made of guts: what’s happening on the inside, the notion of us being really independent, being on our own. That’s a big reality.”