[1] They have played with numerous headlining acts such as Bon Jovi, Default, Theory of a Deadman, Bif Naked, Three Days Grace, Thornley, The Trews, Billy Talent, and Sam Roberts.
[2] The members of Tupelo Honey met while enrolled in a music program at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
These diverse musical backgrounds lend to Tupelo Honey's sound, which ranges from hard rock to mid-tempo acoustic.
Needing a name to enter a music contest, they selected Tupelo Honey – the title of Matt Landry's father's favourite song.
[3] The name was meant to be temporary; however, after winning the music contest and gaining fans who identified the band as Tupelo Honey, the name remained.
In 2005, Tupelo Honey won Canadian Music Week's Xtreme Bandslam Competition beating out Vancouver's State of Shock.
[5] In 2006, Tupelo Honey won the regional title in the Canadian Radio Star National Songwriting Competition with their song "Screaming".
The promotional music video for "Morphine" was shot over the course of a day in a white-walled room half the size of a kitchen, and the graphic-novel style effects were added later in post-production.
They have returned to the studio to record their first full-length album, and have released a new single, "Best I Could", which can be heard on the band's Myspace page, and downloaded on their website.