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Toy Soldiers' Ron Gallo covers The Lawsuits 'Anybody's Girl' / #CoverClub a special brand of Philly covers

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Earlier this year here at the indie Philly blog, Root Down In The Shadow, we started the fun series #Philly Presents, ...bands writing about other bands. The most common reaction from bands to this project: "Wait? Are we covering other bands?" And so #CoverClub was born!

The newest session in the #CoverClub series finds us at Nomad Studios in West Philadelphia with Philly's hardest working front man, the Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers!  The selection 'Anybody's Girl' is from the Lawsuits new album Cool Cool Cool, just released in October 2013.






Cover Club | Ron Gallo "Anybody's Girl" (The Lawsuits) 

Video by Bob Sweeney(director) and Paul Lorenz - Audio by Nomad Studio

In the past five years, Ron Gallo and the Toy Soldiers have shared bills with all kinds of bands big and small, in and out of Philly, but the logical choice for Ron's Philly-centric cover was none other than The Lawsuits.   The Lawsuits first came onto his radar around 2009 when former Toy Soldiers guitar player Dan King had caught the Lawsuits at John & Peters in New Hope, PA and convinced Ron to check them out.  The two bands started playing together back when Toy Soldiers was the size of a marching band, horns and all.

In the last two years, the relationship has really grown with both bands sharing a similar trajectory as each played the Jerk Hut over 4th of July, Brandywine Folk Fest, Philadelphia Folk Fest' and the Sly Fox Can Jam and they both recorded at Waking Studio with Bill Moriarty, for their monster major releases in 2013, with Cool Cool Cool for the Lawsuits and the Maybe Boys for Toy Soldiers!


In the last 6 months the relationship has grown even more and fans should keep an eye out for some split singles, and even some live collaborations.  At a recent event at Ortlieb's Brian Strouse played a very rare solo slot before being joined by Ron Gallo and Reed Kendall for some song sharing!
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