More than 40 YEARS IN THE MAKING! Doomtown Sounds, in collaboration with Toody Cole and the surviving members of the band, is proud to present the release of the King Bee album, containing a dozen unreleased studio and live songs recorded between 1977 and 1981.

King Bee was Fred Cole’s late ’70s band, and their music occupied an important position in Fred’s development as a songwriter. This often-overlooked part of Fred’s career saw him combining elements of his ’60s roots with this new sound called punk rock, and it was this synthesis of styles which led to the Rats, and, eventually, to the creation of Dead Moon. These missing gems are being made available here for the first time ever, recovered from archived tapes, carefully restored and mastered. Compiled from master reels and cassette tapes that had been stored in a box for more than 40 years, this album contains more than a dozen unreleased studio and live tracks, as well as the three tracks from the band’s 1978 7″ EP.

A1. Moon On The RiseA2. Clouds Of DawnA3. Suicide MissionA4. CarolinaA5. CastawayA6. Ring Of FireA7. Crystal Is FallingB1. Death Of A GunfighterB2. Stream Of ThingsB3. Caught In The MiddleB4. HeadacheB5. ZipgunB6. Hot PistolB7. When I Was 21