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More Monkey

Blue returned to the Booze Monkey project in 2008 with 4th St. The album completely discards the bare-bones arrangements of the first three records and features guest appearances from a number of musicians.

4th St.

4th St. opens with the sound of a crowd chanting "Let's go Monkey! Let's go!"

The crowd was recorded live in Winchester Virginia in 2004 at the last show Joel and Blue performed together.

The “Let’s go Monkey!” chant provides a rhythmic base for the opening instrumental. The album then proceeds to weave its way through a myriad of musical styles with varying instrumentation before resolving with a single voice and a single guitar. It even offers flourishes of electronica and industrial music, as previously explored in Blue’s Church Of Chaos and Metal Machine projects.

Despite the elaborate arrangements of 4th St., Blue regularly performed songs from the album at solo acoustic shows from 2007 to 2010 in and around the Valley.

Cocktail Nation

Blue published Booze Monkey’s Cocktail Nation in 2011.

Cocktail Nation is a taut, muscular rock & roll record and features no guest musicians.

Cocktail Nation embraces a traditional rock-trio style of arrangement: drums, bass guitar, electric guitar, vocals and sometimes harmonica.

the New Mythology E.P.

The sixth Booze Monkey album, a six song record entitled the New Mythology E.P. was released on 9 September 2014, Blue’s 48th Birthday.

the New Mythology E.P. features harmony vocals by singer Lani Urreta throughout, as well as performances by fellow Black Hat Clowns, Brooke and Kahle Magalis.

Album protagonist and deceased guitar legend, Johnny Rocket, describes the New Mythology E.P. as “Appalachian swamp rock steeped with a hoodoo bag full of imagery.”

the New Mythology E.P. is expected to be the last Booze Monkey album with Blue proclaiming a general fondness for the six-album Booze Monkey discography as well as a desire to simplify branding moving forward.