STEVE SOTO & ALLISON JUNE
Steve Soto is a Southern California punk rocker with a musical backpack that includes the Adolescents, Agent Orange, Manic Hispanic etc …
According to Steve the first “punk record” he ever owned was Johnny Cash live at San Quentin “I loved the way he talked to the guards and the let the prisoners know he was in charge it was amazing … and I always loved the duets he sang with June ”
On his down time from Adolescents tours Steve started doing the solo singer songwriter thing …(which included tours with X and the Squirrel Nut Zippers) but he was always on the look out for a woman to sing duets with ala Johnny and June or Gram and Emmy Lou …
Early this year he ran into Allison June a Los Angeles native, who has big voice, a love for soul and Motown, with a passion for punk rock that got wrapped up in country, folk and bluegrass…. that made total sense to Steve so he had her sing a song with him and it worked but there was a problem Allison was weeks away from moving to Chicago … Not ones to let distance get in the way and armed with the notion that thanks to the internet everyone is your neighbor Steve wrote songs and sent them to Allison she learned them and now they are in the process of making a record … Lots of strumming and sweet harmonies to ensue … You heard it hear first…