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Low Cut Connie have announced Tough Cookies: The Best of The Quarantine Broadcasts, an album of cover songs recorded during frontman Adam Weiner and guitarist Will Donnelly‘s twice-weekly livestreams from Weiner’s South Philadelphia home. The album will be released on May 19 digitally and on vinyl and is now available for pre-order. On Friday, the Philadelphia-based Low Cut Connie performed “Help Me” from his critically-acclaimed album Private Lives on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #playathome series.

Watch Low Cut Connie perform “Help Me” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #playathome series on March 20 here:
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Low Cut Connie‘s follow up to his critically-acclaimed 6th studio album Private LivesTough Cookies: The Best of The Quarantine Broadcasts, pulls recordings from the band’s livestream “Tough Cookies” which celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. The 23-track album consists of a small percentage of the 500+ covers Weiner has performed so far during the broadcasts.

“Two weeks into quarantine, we ‘went live’ in my spare bedroom in South Philly to cheer up our fans. There was no script, no plan, just a couple schmucks trying every form of entertainment to try to lift people’s spirits,” explains Weiner. “Now a year later, we’re still going strong and have covered over 500 songs for viewers in over 40 countries. It’s been amazing watching the project grow and I wanted to put the record out as a document of this insane time we all shared. It was all done on cell phones but the spirit of the matter cuts through.”

Low Cut Connie‘s twice-weekly livestream variety show “Tough Cookies” aired its 84th episode on Saturday featuring an interview with Tune-Yards. This Saturday March 27, Weiner will interview Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. To date, Weiner has interviewed artists and personalities such as Sly and the Family Stone, Swamp Dogg, Richard Hell, Darlene Love and Nick Hornby on the show.

Low Cut Connie released Private Lives last year to rave reviews, ultimately earning its place at #34 on Rolling Stone’s “50 best Albums of 2020” list, #4 on Fresh Air’s Ken Tucker‘s ten best albums of the year, and #1 on PopMatters‘ “25 Best Americana Albums of 2020” list. Capping off the year, The New Yorker dubbed Adam Weiner “Pandemic Person of the Year.” The album’s last single, the title track “Private Lives,” was also one of “Public Radio’s Most Popular Songs Of 2020.”

On January 20, Low Cut Connie performed at Joe Biden’s Home State Inauguration Event in Philadelphia; the band has previously been championed by President Obama, as well as the likes of Elton John and Bruce Springsteen.

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