On June 21st, The Smoking Flowers, made of East Nashville-based artists Kim and Scott Collins, will release their forthcoming album Snowball Out of Hell. The acoustic album follows 2018’s rock-oriented Let’s Die Together; both albums will be released together as a deluxe double album digitally and on vinyl. Both albums were conceived during Kim’s battle-and later triumph-over an aggressive form of breast cancer. The cancer is in remission today due to Kim only using holistic and alternative methods and a raw food diet (no chemotherapy, no radiation, no hormones). In the wake of this experience, Kim and Scott took life by the reins and hit the road in their vintage Volvo 240 station wagon, touring across America and Canada for three years. With this life-altering experience to draw upon and years of intense touring under their belt, the couple then tapped even deeper into their raw rock, punk and folk roots in the composition of their companion albums Let’s Die Together and Snowball Out of Hell. The urgency present in these recordings is undeniable, a true story of love and triumph.
With influences that range from Led Zeppelin to Gillian Welch, and The Ramones to Neil Young, The Smoking Flowers’ chemistry is palpable as Kim dances between strings and percussion while Scott plays electric and acoustic guitar, and harmonica–she delivers her own sensual, simmering vocals, while his is the voice of a feisty, gin-battered, heart-on-sleeve, hardscrabble troubadour. The Collins, who founded charitable organization The Treasure Chest, continue to be activists and advocates for holistic and alternative medicine and healing. Their music and lives have been an influence on many East Nashville artists, being early pioneers of the now popular underground scene.
Listen in full to Snowball Out of Hell below:
https://www.thesmokingflowers.com
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