# Watch STEVE KELLY And Others Perform His Debut Single “How Are We Here Again”

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- Published: 2024-11-27T13:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **WATCH STEVE KELLY, NAUGHTY PROFESSOR, ALEX WASILY (DUMPSTAPHUNK), SAM KUSLAN (SLUGGER) & MORE PERFORM KELLY’S DEBUT SINGLE “HOW ARE WE HERE AGAIN”** 

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#### **Listen to “How Are We Here Again” **󠀁[**HERE**](https://stevekelly.ffm.to/howarewehereagain)󠁿** | Pre-Order Debut Album ‘Here’s The Thing’ **󠀁[**HERE**](https://shop.regime72.com/collections/steve-kelly)󠁿 

This month, New Orleans-based guitarist and vocalist **Steve Kelly** announced his
8-track debut solo album _“**Here’s The Thing**“_ available on February 21, 2025
via **Regime Music Group**. Coined as “Americana Soul,” Kelly’s songwriting navigates
the complexities of life’s cycles, candid struggles with mental health and the perils
and pitfalls of substance abuse and addiction, and the peaks and valleys of personal
relationships, ultimately delivering a message of hope and perseverance. Today, 
Kelly has shared a brand new video with a live version of the debut single “How 
Are We Here Again” featuring New Orleans mainstay jazz-funk sextet **Naughty Professor**,**
Alex Wasily** (Dumpstaphunk), **Sam Kuslan** (Slugger), **Renée Gros**, and **Tiago
Guy**. Watch the video on YouTube [HERE](https://0742504b.disco-tracking.net/campaign_redir?business_id=18634&campaign_id=160015&session_recipient_id=92672161&url=NB2HI4DTHIXS653XO4XHS33VOR2WEZJOMNXW2L3XMF2GG2B7OY6UQRLMLJ2UY3SWLFQVK%3D%3D%3D&signature=NPImjT7N9AjV1xL4YrMa408MWIU%3AhI7kwm4n).

Steve Kelly - How Are We Here Again ft. Naughty Professor (Live from Wild Child 
Studios)

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“How Are We Here Again” kicks the album off  with a nod to 80s pop brilliance with
influence pulled from Talking Heads, Prince, and Peter Gabriel. It’s a narrative
of cyclical life challenges from a lens of Groundhog Day-like recurring events ultimately
serving as a reminder that we’re all in the same boat at different points of our
respective journeys. Lyrically, the song is about the constant push/pull of the 
rides that are love and life—the struggle of expectations, the ups & downs, the 
success, and the day-to-day existence.

“I was making a comment on the universality of struggle, and how the real irony 
is that the common thread that we can all relate to is just how personal and isolating
it can feel when we seem stuck in these cyclical patterns,” reflects Kelly, “Whether
it’s in love, work, family, politics, or society at large, we all know what it’s
like to throw our hands up at the sky and say, ‘How are we here again?!’” 

_Here’s The Thing_ was produced by Kelly’s longtime collaborator and friend, **Robert
Mercurio** of Galactic. Musicians on _Here’s The Thing_ include **Kevin Scott **(
Govt. Mule), **Isaac Eady **(Tedeschi Trucks Band), **Stanton Moore** & **Robert
Mercurio** (Galactic), **Gabrielle Cavassa **(Joshua Redman), **Andriu Yanovski**(
The Rumble, Boogie [T.Rio](http://t.rio/)), **Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph **(Galactic,
Tank & The Bangas), **Josh Kagler** (Galactic, Irma Thomas), **Noah Young** (Naughty
Professor), **Nick Ellman** (Naughty Professor, Maroon 5), **Sam Kuslan** (Slugger),**
Andrew Block** (Gramatik), **Scott Graves** (J. & The Causeways), **Kelly Pratt**(
David Byrne & St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Arcade Fire) and more. 

_Here’s The Thing_ is now available for pre-order on vinyl, CD, and a combined bundle
[HERE](https://shop.regime72.com/collections/steve-kelly). 

To learn more about Steve Kelly and to get the latest updates, please visit [stevekelly.io](http://stevekelly.io/).

**ABOUT STEVE KELLY**
New Orleans-based singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Steve 
Kelly is a true lover of his adopted home, calling it “the greatest city the world
has ever known or will ever know.” 

[⌊Steve Kelly⌉⌊Steve Kelly⌉[

Photos by [Cole Ferguson ](https://colelferguson.com/)(@coleferguson)

A fixture on the local scene, where he’s a regular at clubs like Tipitina’s, the
Maple Leaf and Le Bon Temps Roule, Kelly’s debut solo album, Here’s the Thing, is
more Memphis soul, with its Al Green gospel vocals, gurgling B3 organ and R&B horns,
than New Orleans funk, his adopted hometown’s spirit is all over this music. 

Co-produced by Kelly with Robert Mercurio of long-running New Orleans band Galactic(
now owner of the famed Tipitina’s venue), Here’s the Thing is named after one of
his pet phrases, as well as a lyric in the bridge of “St. Jude,” the third track
on the record. Inspired by a love affair, the album offers an introduction to a 
musician who put in the work and waited until the time was right to launch his solo
career after establishing his reputation for more than a decade with local group
Gravy. 

Songs like the breezy, rhythmic island feel of “St. Jude” and the jaunty break-up
track, “Loretta,” a swaggering blues plaint reminiscent of The Band boasting a lyrical
nod to the Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice,” are the best examples of this approach.

The thumping drums and bass punctuated by the funky horns of “How Are We Here Again”
juxtapose nicely with the wailing guitar and “take it to the church” gospel strains
of “Maybe,” while the shimmering, dreamy reimagining of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon”(
meets “Astral Weeks”), complete with lush orchestration (arranged by Rick Nelson)
featuring a nine-piece string section and a ghostly clarinet by Nick Ellman, represent
another direction entirely.

Among the songs added to the original five tracks for the final album are “Always
Been You” and “Hang on for Dear Life,” both of which offer inside looks at the forces
of true romance from the inside-out, making for a personal statement set to a universal
Americana sound. 

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