“Drop Top” opens on slow Hammond chords, a low guitar figure and drums at mid tempo. It is the second single from Emeralds, the new album by organ trio Parlor Greens, released on 10 February through Colemine Records with the full album out on 27 March. The track runs slower than the faster instrumentals on their 2024 debut In Green We Dream, giving the new record an early slower cut on the soul jazz, funk and R&B side.
The trio bring together drummer Tim Carman, who previously played in GA-20 and now leads The Street 45s and The Tim Carman Trio from Boston, guitarist Jimmy James from Seattle, known for his work with The True Loves and the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, and organist Adam Scone, whose name appears on records by Scone Cash Players and The Sugarman 3 and who spends his time between Ohio and New York. They work as a straight organ trio line up, with Carman on drums, James on guitar and Scone on Hammond. All three wrote “Drop Top” and produced it with Leroi Conroy at Colemine’s Portage Lounge studio in Loveland, Ohio, with mastering by Doug Krebs.
On Emeralds the opener “Eat Your Greens” runs on a four-on-the-floor beat in the Charles Earland line, “Red Dog” stays close to early R&B, “Lion’s Mane” connects to Scone’s time learning from Dr Lonnie Smith, and “Letter To Brother Ben” uses a shuffle in a gospel style. “Queen Of My Heart” closes the album and James wrote it for his mother after she died, at a time when all three members were dealing with loss.
“Drop Top” has had early plays from Gilles Peterson, Craig Charles, Cerys Matthews, Deb Grant and Huw Stephens on specialist radio. Around the album release Parlor Greens tour the US West Coast in March 2026 with shows in Santa Cruz, Sacramento and San Francisco, then join Kendra Morris for UK dates in Manchester on 6 May and London on 7 May.