Having won the official Mello Yello songwriting contest, the huge soda company has just commissioned an acoustic version of “American Boy” which can be viewed below. Show some support for lead singer David August who calls Pittsburgh home.
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Also, Mello Yello sat down with the country boys to talk about the origins of the band, American Boy, and how they came up with their band name.
Watch the interview below :
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Recently the band posted on their site:
“Well friends, we have a lot of fun things coming up here in NOMaD. We wanted to announce that in January we are entering to the studio to begin recording an Acoustic EP for release in early spring! We will released 6-8 songs from our first 2 albums re-recorded acoustic. You’ll hear some different beats and arrangements. We had such a blast in the studio with Mello Yello recording American Boy … that we wanted to have some fun and release an EP.
Along with the Acoustic EP announcement, we are also excited to announce that we are going to be doing a weekly youtube series starting after the first of the year. From our practice room we will be doing some interview blurbs, acoustic NOMaD songs, covers that we do, and covers that you have not seen us do! We want to give you all a behind the scenes look at NOMaD, have some fun and connect with you as much as possible. That being said, WE NEED A NAME FOR OUR WEEKLY SERIES! How about you all toss us some ideas? We will pick some we like and have you vote on them! Something like “NOMaD: Live From The Practice Room”, or “Live From The Hole”…. Give us your ideas!!”