....Sunflower Fox & The Chicken Leg is Kaity Heart, vocals, James Gross, guitar, Mike Schmidt, guitar, Craig Holets, bass, Kyle Primus, drums, and Al Berg, keys. The band takes its cues from 1970s arena-rock behemoths such as Heart, Bad Company, and Thin Lizzy who specialized in imaginatively-arranged, tough-but-catchy tuneage played with swaggering virtuosity. Sprinkled throughout Sunflower Fox & The Chicken Leg’s tongue-in-cheek rock n’ roll are 1970s-rock Easter eggs, showcasing the band’s reverence for its bellbottomed forefathers.

Sunflower Fox & The Chicken Leg was born from the ennui, self-reflection, and paranoia of the pandemic when, for the first time in many years, the musicians in the band had nothing to do—no studio sessions, gigs, or corporate performances. Back then, Kaity began plotting a 1970s band, and asked her best friend of 15 years, James, who she played countless gigs with, if he’d like to help. The two sketched up musical ideas, and then they cherry picked the perfect musicians from their tightknit working musician scene to be in the band.

The six-piece band then demoed its album at Pachyderm Recording Studios in Cannon Falls, Minnesota where Nirvana and Soul Asylum once tracked. But the sextet eventually made a grand pilgrimage to Louisiana to officially record the 7-song album at Studio In The Country where Kansas recorded its string of platinum albums featuring “Dust In The Wind” and “Carry On Wayward Son,” and Stevie Wonder tracked his album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants....