Boomer Baby Sounds – I’m Your Huckleberry Now (2025)
While his career lay in the security industry, singer-songwriter John Finamore always had a burning passion for classic rock and blues-rock music. It might not have presented itself in one fell swoop, but the US-based artist played covers to embrace that love. After retiring from the security industry, Finamore found himself with “time on his hands during the pandemic”; thus, Boomer Baby Sounds was born. Performing as Boomer Baby Sounds, Finamore composes, records, forms and produces original music providing vocals, drums, drum programming and keyboards – for other instrumentation, he engages the skills of various online and personal musician friends and family. Join us as we delve into his new release, I’m Your Huckleberry Now.
Following the singles, ‘Take A Good Look At Yourself’ and ‘I Feel Something’ – both included on I’m Your Huckleberry Now – Boomer Baby Sounds brings, in his words, “…a four-track new classic rock gem channels the energy of the genre’s golden era while tackling themes as timeless as a dusty Western duel and as modern as AI’s looming shadow over society.” In other words, it’s a drag back to yesteryear while retaining a sense of contemporary rock vibes in each of the four tracks.
Opening with the track ‘Take A Good Look At Yourself’, Aviv Yarmi hits you with a scorching classic rock riff, introducing you to a brash brush of classic rock. Yet, while the immediate delivery is scorching, the charm and calm of rock slides in with Bill Watson’s bold bass, Jim Riley’s dynamic drums, and Derek Sherinian dancing along with shimmering keys. A song several years in the making, the track delves into the more tragic side of reality but with brutal honesty as Finamore confronts the aftermath of a broken relationship.
The complexities of relationships are not only explored in ‘Take A Good Look At Yourself’, but also in ‘Dream Girl’ and ‘I Feel Something’. The former touches on the issue of self-sabotage, while the latter explores the desperation of challenging self-destruction and loneliness. Each slids along the line of blues-inspired rock, but with a lighter flush of indie-rock swerving along the track. For me, the best line of these tracks is ‘Dream Girl’s “I really fucked things up” – in a single sentence, Finamore captures the raw emotion of disappointment, despair, and tumultuous inner conflict.
It’s difficult to choose a favourite track on any EP or album, but I have to call it with the title track, ‘I’m Your Huckleberry Now’. Inspired by the film Tombstone but tapping at the modern-day obsession with technology and the place of this digital world in a non-digital reality. Drenched in a Westerns-style anthem, ‘I’m Your Huckleberry Now’ might have been an iconic line by Val Kilmer, but its authenticity and profoundness make me think of Kirk Douglas as Doc Holiday playing those insatiable poker games at a Last Chance Saloon.
This is my introduction to Boomer Baby Sounds, but I am certain I’ll be following the artist and am eager to hear more from John Finamore.
Find out more about Boomer Baby Sounds on his official website, X, Instagram, YouTube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Spotify.
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