The Gothic Americana band will celebrate the release of Blame It on the Weather at Le Bon Temp Roule. The six-song EP was recorded at famed Piety Street recording studios. It was engineered and mastered by colleagues of Piety Street producer Mark Bingham—Wesley Fontenot and Paul Marinara respectively.
The band was recently awarded a Threadhead Cultural Foundation grant. Michael Cain, the songwriter of the Parishioners, has a large extended family in New England, but in a strange quirk of fate he recently discovered that his maternal lineage is Acadian. He has distant cousins that live in the Cajun parishes.
Cain will use part of the grant funds to explore this part of his family history and to investigate his familial ties through several generations. New songs inspired by this quest will complete the full album release.
Four of the songs on Blame It on the Weather are directly inspired by Cain’s life in New Orleans, where he has resided for eighteen years. “Three Days Ahead of the Storm” explores the role that Hurricane Katrina had on the dissolution of his marriage and how it instigated his return to writing music.
“Bring on the Rain” was inspired while reminiscing about a lost love during an afternoon thunderstorm in the sultry days of August. “Winds of Isaac” was composed during the massive power outage that accompanied another hurricane. “I Don’t Want to be Another Charlie B” muses on the relationship between alcohol and writers using beat generation icon Charles Bukowski as a cautionary figure.
Blame It on the Weather is the Parishioners’ second release. Their first, Putting the Past to Rest, was also recorded at Piety Street recording studios. It was released in 2011.
