released May 19, 2023

Personnel:
Miyuki Furtado - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Snare Drum, Percussion
Patrick Harmon - Electric Guitar, Organ, Backing Vocals
Matt Svigals - Bass
John Malone - Drums

Music and Lyrics:
Miyuki Furtado - BMI/Keikosongs Music

Recorded and Mixed:
Anthony TJ Gallo
Virtue and Vice Recording Studios

Mastered:
Mat Leffler-Schulman
Mobtown Mastering

Cover Photo:
Jason Velez

Kilpaki Records
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Santa Monica & Other Golden Classics

released May 19, 2023

Personnel:
Miyuki Furtado - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Snare Drum, Percussion
Patrick Harmon - Electric Guitar, Organ, Backing Vocals
Matt Svigals - Bass
John Malone - Drums

Music and Lyrics:
Miyuki Furtado - BMI/Keikosongs Music

Recorded and Mixed:
Anthony TJ Gallo
Virtue and Vice Recording Studios

Mastered:
Mat Leffler-Schulman
Mobtown Mastering

Cover Photo:
Jason Velez

Kilpaki Records

Mason County Line (Single)

Santa Monica

Pull Me To The Light

Mason County Line

GOAT

Hands Off The Wheel

Another Endless Night

This Is The End

The House Will Always Win

Ballad Of A Black Widow

King Of The Night

Days Of Rum And Roses

‘King of the Night’, was one of the first songs I wrote during the pandemic. I had been driving around the empty highways, listening to a lot of outlaw and Bakersfield country music while daydreaming of what a Divining Rod song would sound like in a crowded, sweaty honky-tonk. If I remember it right, the bulk of it came to me pretty quickly and was finished in about 20 minutes.

The song is about the excitement of hitting the town on the weekend, tying one on and getting into some stuff. Especially if you’re from a small town, like where I’m from, where not much happens. It’s also about a sort of monotony that comes over time; doing the same rounds of drinking, listening to the same songs on the jukebox and misbehaving with the same folks. A sort of honky tonk ‘Groundhog’s Day’ if you will. 

At the time of recording it, my band had been playing a months long residency on New York’s legendary Circle Line cruises. The long sets enable us to fine tune the songs that appeared on our last EP as well as our next EP, ‘The House Will Always Win’. So much so, that we recorded thirteen songs in a couple of days. We banged them out mostly live in one room (save for a few overdubs here and there). What you hear on ‘King of the Night’ is pretty much what we sound like if you saw us on a boat. Or on a porch. Or in a honky-tonk.

Personnel:
Miyuki Furtado - Vocals, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Snare Drum, Percussion
Patrick Harmon - Electric Guitar, Organ, Backing Vocals
Matt Svigals - Bass
John Malone - Drums

Music and Lyrics:
Miyuki Furtado - BMI/Keikosongs Music

Recorded and Mixed:
Anthony TJ Gallo
Virtue and Vice Recording Studios

Mastered:
Mat Leffler-Schulman
Mobtown Mastering

Cover Photo:
Jason Velez

Kilpaki Records
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Alt Country Rock band, DIVINING ROD, led by Hawaiian born, multi-instrumentalist Miyuki Furtado, who sings, plays guitar and drums simultaneously, serves up his brand of soul-tinged Country along with his cohorts (guitarist/vocalist, Patrick Harmon, bassist Matt Svigals and drummer, John Malone). The band emerges, post pandemic, with an exciting new release. Melodic, rowdy & tender songs swathed in reverb.

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