Orange Humble

My Australian music collections yeilds no N artists, so it's on to O's.

Here's the Orange Humble Band, who were only half Australian.



The OHB were the brainchild of guitarist Darryl Mather (formerly of the Lime Spiders and the Someloves) who poured a bunch of his own money into assembling a power pop supergroup with Mitch Easter and Ken Stringfellow for a one-off album called Assorted Creams that sounds like fan's platonic ideal of a pop record.

They reunited a few years later for a second outing called Humblin' Across America, recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis with the addition of drummer Jody Stephens (of Big Star), bassist Jamie Hoover (of Spongetones fame), and Spooner Oldham and Jim Dickinson (of univeral fame). That album had a more organic Memphis soul vibe, but the songs weren't as strong. Assorted Creams is a great title for the first album, because every song is top drawer.