ABOUT US:
FREEDOM AND WHISKEY is a guitar rock band from Louisville, Kentucky. The members of the band are: Bill Goins, Mike Huettig, Mark Hoekstra and Chuck Mingis. The musical style is a combination of Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Modern Rock and Blues. Definitely the kind of music you want to CRANK UP! Special thanks to everyone who has added their creative skills on the bands projects.
Mark - Lead Vocals / Harmonica.
Bill – Bass Guitar / Lead Vocals / Backing Vocals
Mike – Drums / Backing Vocals
Chuck – Guitars / Backing Vocals
Freedom and Whiskey's music is available at CDbaby and many other digital distribution sites on the internet.
The newest member is Chuck, now playing guitar for the band, is the former guitarist for "Days of The New", "EdenStreet" and "Spanky Lee", all from Louisville. Through the years all the band members have played in several other bands under different names.
IN THE BEGINNING
The creation of Freedom and Whiskey occurred around August of 2001. Bill was writing and learning the art of digital recording and production work in his home studio in southern Indiana. Mike was the bassist with another band from Louisville, Kentucky called “Days of the New”. Several years earlier Bill and Mike had been playing together in another Louisville based band with long time friend Griffin Torrance on bass guitar. After a few years of not playing, Mike and Bill got back together and decided it was time to record an album. Tina Goins gave Freedom and Whiskey their name and co wrote "The Stranger" and "Kettlebottom Blues". Mark Hoekstra, Chicago blues man, played the harmonica. Griffin played bass on some of the tracks and years before co-wrote the song "You and I". Todd Smith (formerly with the band "EdenStreet") played keys and also co-produced the album. Todd had worked with Mike and the band “Days of the New” in the production of some of their previous material. The band booked a Studio in Nashville, Tennessee to record their self-titled first album. Since then the song "Freedom" from this album was featured in a documentary film called "The Making of Deadbeat Dads".
The album "FREEDOM AND WHISKEY" includes other musicians like Rob Edwards, who added the percussion tracks and Debbra Belt and Joyce Greens added their soulful style of backing vocals.
THE NEXT PHASE
The band spent the next couple of years promoting their first album and started writing and recording some new songs for their second album. In mid 2006 after gaining some popularity in both the United States and Europe, Freedom and Whiskey released their 2nd album titled "THE ROAD". On this album, Bill and Mike spent more time in the studio and combined the sound and style of classic, southern and modern rock to give their music a harder edge. Many of the song lyrics on this album express the hardships of trying to make it in the music business and the seemingly never ending up hill climb of life.
Mike sings lead vocals on several tracks of this album and Mark sings lead on the song "End of My Rope" to make his vocal debut.
Music from “The Road” has been featured on Internet radio and digital download sites all over the web and the title track, “The Road”, received an award from The Viking Radio in Placerville, California for: best Southern Rock song of 2007.
Freedom and Whiskey, would like to thank everyone for your on going help and support. We hope you continue to enjoy our music.
THEN AND NOW!
In 2007 Freedom and Whiskey was rehearsing to start touring. The band went through a member change and Mark stepped in as the new voice for the band. On previous releases, Bill and Mike had been doing most of the writing, singing and guitar work, but the chemistry worked better for the band to play out. With Mark up front, Mike changed to full time drummer and Bill went to bass after the addition of Chuck on guitar. The band started writing and recording new material together to have a good representation of the new line up. The music evolved even more and the band has just completed their third album titled “Super Real”. The style of this album is Hard Rockin, In Your Face, 100% Pure American. Many of the reviews so far say it’s the best yet. The band’s 3rd album was released November of 2007 and has a strong political message.
In 2007 Freedom and Whiskey also released their first video for the song “Whiskey State of Mind” off the third album. The band would like to thank Alan Manius and the crew that made this possible at Videobred in Louisville, Kentucky. Check it out while you’re here!
Freedom and Whiskey is on the prowl. Please contact us if you are interested in the band.
ROCK ON!
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