Nothing Gold Can Say

Now on extended leave from the critically acclaimed Felice Band, drummer and vocalist Simone Felice, alongside Robert Chicken Burke, unveils the acoustic- glam-gospel combo The Duke And The King with their debut album ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’.

Simone has always been considered the driving force behind The Felice Brothers, not only by adding a loose- limbed rhythm to his brothers’ soulful take on the Great American Songbook but also through his wild-eyed and occasionally unpredictable behaviour onstage.

‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ was recorded in splendid isolation in a makeshift studio in Bearsville, New York State, and then taken down The Hudson to be mixed and mastered by Grammy Award winning hip hop maestro Bassy Bob Brockmann (Notorious B.I.G.’s ‘Ready To Die’). It’s an album that is populated by those on the brink of fame and fortune, those just getting by and those who have lost their way. The Duke And The King’s debut album celebrates adolescence’s not so innocent times while grudgingly accepting the occasionally harsh reality of the streets of a city that they both grew up on.