The Duke & The King Wrangle Synths In The Woodstock Snow For 'The Morning I Get To Hell,' From New Album 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' Out Aug. 4 On Ramseur Records

New York (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - The Duke & The King (aka Simone Felice and Robert "Chicken" Burke) struggled to capture "The Morning I Get To Hell." They recorded the tuneful single in a cabin in the Catskill Mountains in winter along with the rest of the tranquilly beautiful album 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' out August 4 on Ramseur Records.

Chicken says, "It took a few before getting the proper results. We wanted this tune to sound like an elevator going to hell. So it was appropriate to incorporate the mechanical element of the old rhythm aces like Sly & The Family Stone and Shuggie Otis and to use vintage synthesizers."

The drum machine had another meaning as well. Felice wrote the song over two tough days around Christmas, 2008. He says, "I was thinking about the lies we tell ourselves, the lies we tell the people we love most, and how good at it we have become as a nation of people. If there is such a place, will it be as Dante dreamed? Maybe not. I saw a ferris wheel, a dance party, a TV screen, such a simple biting emptiness, and from the loud speaker all along that cheap drum machine forever."