Showcasing songs from her highly praised second solo album, In The Magic Hour, Aoife O’Donovan continues her North American headlining tour which now includes a series of performances with A Prairie Home Companion. A full list of dates is below.

Written in the wake of her grandfather’s death, the album is a “gorgeous” (Rolling Stone Country) and “exhilarating…exploratory” (MOJO 4-star) ode to her idyllic childhood summers surrounded by family. The Guardian said Aoife possesses “the ability to surprise an audience with the contrast between her gentle appearance at the microphone and the invisible punch of her performance.”

Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Neko Case) and including special guests Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Gabriel Kahane among others, In The Magic Hour is Aoife O’Donovan’s follow-up to her 2013 solo debut Fossils, which earned props from the New York Times, NPR and President Obama, who included a track on his 2015 summer vacation playlist.

AOIFE O’DONOVAN TOUR DATES

March 30 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center

March 31 - Stoughton, WI - Stoughton Opera House

April 1 - Evanston, IL - SPACE

April 2 - Indianapolis, IN - The Hi-Fi

April 3 - Cincinnati, OH -20th Century Theatre

April 5 - Charlottesville, VA - The Southern

April 6 - Annapolis, MD - Ram's Head

April 7 - Vienna, VA - The Barns At Wolf Trap

April 8 - Point Norfolk, VA - North Shore

April 9 - The Grand Opera House – Wilmington, DE

April 11 - The Parlor Room – Northampton, MA

April 12 - Portland, ME - One Longfellow Square

April 13 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair

April 4 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

April 16 – The Town Hall – New York, NY*

May 7 – Ryman Auditorium – Nashville, TN*

May 14 – INB Performing Arts Center – Spokane, WA*

June 4 - Ogden, UT - Ogden Music Festival

June 5 - Pagosa Springs, CO - Pagosa Folk 'n Bluegrass

June 8 - Mount Solon, VA - Red Wing Roots Music Festival

June 9 - Mount Solon, VA - Red Wing Roots Festival

June 10 - Mount Solon, VA - Red Wing Roots Festival

*A Prairie Home Companion date

Named by Rolling Stone as one of the “11 Best Things We Saw” at Merlefest, Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based Mandolin Orange announce the first leg of their fall tour, which includes stops in the Midwest and East Coast. After notable summer festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Red Wing Roots, Forecastle, Newport Folk Festival and Pickathon, the duo’s 19-city fall tour will begin September 17 in Bristol, TN. A full list of dates is below.

Created by Matt Carter and Ricardo Bouyett, the duo’s official video for “Take This Heart of Gold” premiered with Newport Folk Festival.

With “mesmerizing” (Wild Honey Pie) and “striking originals” (Rolling Stone), the duo’s Blindfaller debuted at #3 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Album Chart and #7 on the Heatseekers chart. Songs from Blindfaller have garnered over 12 million album track streams, with 6.5 million streams of the first single, “Wildfire,” and 3 million for the second single, “Hey Stranger.”

Founded in 2009, the duo’s 2013 release This Side of Jordan garnered critical acclaim with NPR calling the album “effortless and beautiful.” Their 2015 follow-up, Such Jubilee, garnered further press praise with Rolling Stone including the album in “30 Great Country Albums of 2015 You Probably Didn’t Hear” and NPR’s Folk Alley’s “Best of 2015 Listener’s Poll.” The record was #1 on Magnet’s “Top 10 Indie Roots Albums of 2015” and Paste called it “an album full of blissful moments.”

MANDOLIN ORANGE TOUR DATES

May 27 – Rooster Walk – Axton, VA

June 11 – Bonnaroo – Manchester, TN

July 6 – Blue River Series at Riverwalk Center – Breckenridge, CO

July 14 – Red Wing Roots Music Festival – Mount Solon, VA

July 15 – Forecastle – Louisville, KY

July 16 – Green River Festival – Greenfield, MA

July 22 – North Carolina Museum of Art – Raleigh, NC

July 29 – Newport Folk Festival – Newport, RI

July 30 – Red Ants Pants Music Festival – White Sulphur Springs, MT

August 5-6 – Pickathon – Happy Valley, OR

August 11 – Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival – Alta, WY

August 19 – Rocky Mountain Folks Festival – Lyon, CO

August 26 – Fayetteville Roots Festival – Fayetteville, AR

FALL TOUR 2017

September 17 – Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion – Bristol, TN

September 19 – The Hi-Fi – Indianapolis, IN

September 20 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL

September 22 – Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN

September 23 – The Englert Theater – Iowa City, IA

September 26 – Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA

September 27 – 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C.

September 28 – Jefferson Theater – Charlottesville, VA

September 30 – Sugarlands Mountain Fest – Gatlinburg, TN

October 3 – Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH

October 4 – Horseshoe Tavern – Toronto, ON

October 5 – The Haunt – Ithaca, NY

October 6 – Royale – Boston, MA

October 7 – Gateway City Arts – Holyoke, MA

October 8 – Club Metronome – Burlington, VT

October 11 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA

October 12 – Neighborhood Theatre – Charlotte, NC

October 13 – 40 Watt – Athens, GA

October 14 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC

Dear Robert,

The sun is coming up and the light is slowly and softly coming through the hotel windows. It’s still quiet out. For the last two days I’ve been trying to find words and I haven’t been able to - and now more days have passed before I finish.

So I thought I’d speak right to you. I don’t want to say goodbye, and I don’t know if I ever can. So I’m not going to do that now, but I want to tell you some things. And thank you.

You affected me so deeply before we ever met, like you touched, influenced, and inspired so many, many people. Through your words, you drew us together and we experienced a shared knowing. A sense of community, celebration, new possibilities together, and inside ourselves. Getting to know you and work with you was like a dream and I still have a hard time realising that it happened, and I could never thank you enough.

You changed my life in so many ways. Being near you was incredible. I have always been so in awe of you that I was always shy and a little tongue tied, measuring my words as now. I want to say things right. It took a long time for me  to relax more in your presence and not melt in awe as I pretended  to  be calm. You were so fascinating to be around and I hung on every word   You never ceased to amaze me with your brilliance.  Inside of you was a force and spirit that was larger than life and beyond this world. A lion - strong, gentle, humble, fierce, protective of your family, determined, of great character, a genius who never stopped learning and always wanted to learn and discover more.

I am so thankful to you for so many things - and to your wonderful family, for their kindness and grace. To see and feel the home you had with them. I want the world to know how much you loved them, and they loved you. How proud you were of them and they of you. It was always so touching to see that love between you. It was so beautiful to see that love grow even deeper as time went on. There was such an innocent and pure love emanating from you with them. And isn’t that kind of the ultimate? Isn’t that what this life is all about?

You had experienced so much, and there was such a vast knowledge, such an immensity of spirit inside of you. You had seen so much lightning of thought, taking you from the street to the mountains and beyond the beyond, that it was all perhaps more than most physical bodies could handle. You had several close calls since I’ve known you and I think it was the love of the earthly angels of your family and your love for them that brought you back and kept you on this earth longer. May those of us here lift your family up in their hearts and wish, hope, pray and send from inside comfort to them now and for the rest of time. I know you would want that from us.

These last few years I sensed and saw some changes coming on, and also saw a deeper peace, contentment, and happiness in you. And I think it was the depth of the love you had for your family. It was a sight to behold. The last time I saw you, it was touching and inspiring to see you with your guitar as I walked up and for you to say you were practicing for hours a day, to play as good as you could because you really wanted to go out and tour. Maureen and Kate would be along to help you. You really wanted to play your songs again for people.

Your eyes seemed to change through the years, or maybe it was me  just noticing more. They were deeper and it was as if they were absorbing more and more life. In remembering conversations with you, there would be a pause, and in about the beat of an inhalation something wise would come out of you. There was a library stored inside from a photographic memory, thousands of songs you heard on radio, records and shows you could sing and recite, stories and experiences that entered through your eyes, ears and senses.

When I think of those deep eyes, it hit me ...  You are the eyes of the world. You showed us a glimpse and helped us with the possibility of seeing beyond what we’ve seen. To wake up and find out with our eyes.

You are still and always will be connected to us and we to you. We don’t want to say goodbye. Hopefully time will ease the sense of loss we feel now as we remember, honor, recall, cry, laugh, also celebrate you, your life and your gifts you shared with us.  That thread you created will live on past all of us and keep extending to others not here yet.   We Love You Robert

Jim Lauderdale

On the heels of 2019’s From Another World, the prolific, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale will release his 33rd album, When Carolina Comes Homes Again, March 6 on Yep Roc Records. The first single, “As A Sign,” co-written with Robert Hunter, is now available at all digital platforms.

Returning to his geographical and musical roots, the 13-track bluegrass album pays homage to his native North Carolina and harkens back to the earliest music he learned to play. Recorded at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC, the 13-track album features instrumental accompaniment from various members of NC-based acts, including Balsam Range, Cane Mill Road, Hank Pattie & the Current, John Stickley,, Songs From The Road Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Town Mountain; as well as Matt Pruett (banjo); Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw (fiddle); Aaron Ramsey (mandolin); Nick Dauphinais and Presley Barker on guitars.

“North Carolina has such a long and important heritage in bluegrass music,” Lauderdale says. “Since it’s where I’m originally from and where I started playing bluegrass, it seemed right to go back to my roots in bluegrass there and collaborate with musicians in that area. There’s just something in the atmosphere there. Hearing bluegrass in different areas and settings in North Carolina, the music is just there in the air. The first bluegrass festival I ever went to was Union Grove when I was 14, and it blew my mind. The music got into my bones, and I just had to get a banjo.”

After a heavy 2019 touring schedule, including two trips to Australia, Lauderdale will continue his From Another World tour with a string of U.S. dates across the West Coast in May, before embarking on a tour in support of When Carolina Comes Home Again. A full list of tour dates is below.

“After the experience of taking From Another World around the world and back,” says Lauderdale, “getting to play with all these different musicians and to such a variety of audiences, I can’t wait to bring the tour out West.”

The shows will feature the legendary singer-songwriter backed by a red hot band hand-picked by Lauderdale from across three separate countries, performing a selection of songs from across his formidable catalog – from the hits artists like George Strait and Patty Loveless ruled the charts within the 90s through to selections from the acclaimed From Another World.

You never know what to expect at a Jim Lauderdale gig, with recent shows featuring surprise duets, impromptu audience requests, and guest horn sections briefly turning the show into a soul revue. “One thing I’m looking forward to doing in these shows is paying tribute to my late friend, hero, and co-writer Robert Hunter. We’re going to do a mini-set of some of my favorite songs he and I wrote together, our way of bringing his spirit to the stage each night,” adds Lauderdale.

A fixture of the Palomino scene in Los Angeles, alongside contemporaries like Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam, Lauderdale’s West Coast roots run back to the ‘80s raising the roof of the legendary North Hollywood country club night after night, which built the following that launched his career.

“I’ve got so many great memories of LA – it’s always a treat to get back,” recalls Lauderdale. “Playing songs like “The King of Broken Hearts” only a short drive from where I wrote them, seeing people in the crowds who used to pack out the Palomino decades ago, it makes it extra special.”

Lauderdale will be joined on tour by special guest Imogen Clark, an acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter. She toured the East Coast with Clare Bowen earlier this year and has performed at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville.

When Carolina Comes Home Again is now available for pre-order.

FROM ANOTHER WORLD WEST COAST TOUR

May 3 –- TBC – Kansas City, MO

May 6 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA

May 7 – White Eagle Saloon – Portland, OR

May  9 – Domino Room – Bend, OR

May 10 – Goldfield Trading Post – Sacramento, CA

May 14 – The Wayfarer – Costa Mesa, CA

May 15 – Zebulon – Los Angeles, CA

May 16 – Hotel Congress – Tucson, AZ

Jim Lauderdale, the prolific, two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon, shares the video for “Cackalacky,” from his new bluegrass album, When Carolina Comes Homes Again, out March 27 (note new release date) on Yep Roc Records.

A raucous tune co-written with North Carolina songwriter/activist Si Kahn that declares North Carolina “always means home sweet home,” “Cackalacky,” is the latest track unveiled from Lauderdale’s 33rd album, which is now available for pre-order. “Si Kahn is a national treasure,” says Lauderdale. “I’ve wanted to write with him for a long time, especially after talking about it for years at Merlefest and IBMA. I’m so proud and happy to have written this song of Carolina with him, and I hope this will be the first of many songs with Si.”

“North Carolina has such a long and important heritage in bluegrass music,” Lauderdale says. “Since it’s where I’m originally from and where I started playing bluegrass, it seemed right to go back to my roots in bluegrass there and collaborate with musicians in that area. There’s just something in the atmosphere there. Hearing bluegrass in different areas and settings in North Carolina, the music is just there in the air. The first bluegrass festival I ever went to was Union Grove when I was 14, and it blew my mind. The music got into my bones, and I just had to get a banjo.”

The album, which follows 2019’s From Another World, is a return to his geographical and musical roots and pays homage to his native North Carolina harkening back to the earliest music he learned to play.

Recorded at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC, in conjunction with Come Hear NC, the 13-track album features instrumental accompaniment from various members of NC-based acts, including Balsam Range, Cane Mill Road, Hank Pattie & the Current, John Stickley, Songs From The Road Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Town Mountain; as well as Matt Pruett (banjo); Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw (fiddle); Aaron Ramsey (mandolin); Nick Dauphinais and Presley Barker on guitars.

The album includes notable co-writes including John Oates on the title track, the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter on, “As A Sign,” Songs From The Road Band bassist Charles R. Humphrey III (“Misery’s Embrace,” “The Last To Know,” “You’ll Have To Earn It”), Steep Canyon Rangers banjo player Graham Sharp (“It Takes One To Wonder”), Logan Ledger (“Better Than You Found It”) and Sara Douga (“I’m Here To Remind You”)

Before embarking on a tour in support of When Carolina Comes Home Again, Lauderdale will continue his From Another World tour with a string of U.S. dates across the West Coast in May.

FROM ANOTHER WORLD WEST COAST TOUR

May 3 –- TBC – Kansas City, MO

May 6 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA

May 7 – White Eagle Saloon – Portland, OR

May  9 – Domino Room – Bend, OR

May 10 – Goldfield Trading Post – Sacramento, CA

May 14 – The Wayfarer – Costa Mesa, CA

May 15 – Zebulon – Los Angeles, CA

May 16 – Hotel Congress – Tucson, AZ

Today, The No Ones share the official video for their new single “Straight Into The Bridge,” the second from their forthcoming debut album, The Great Lost No Ones Album, out March 27 on Yep Roc Records. The first visuals from the band is a B-movie-ette without a plot, but the song is typically direct and transparent — right? Buck’s guitar leads the charge and McCaughey’s vocal is perilously intelligible.

Stretching from Norway through Athens, Georgia to the northwest corner of the United States, and consisting of members from R.E.M., I Was A King, The Minus 5, The Baseball Project, etc., The No Ones are classic two guitars, bass, and drums, sounding like what you might expect, only different, more-so, and better.

Recorded in June 2017 at Type Foundry in Portland, OR, the 13-track album was produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward) and features Patterson Hood (“Straight Into The Bridge” and “Sweet Home Mississippi”), Darren Hanlon (“All You Need Is Rain,” “Too Blind To Believe, “Turn Again”), Andrew Reiger and Davey Wrathgabar (“Dream Something Else”), Lucy Parnell (“Sun Station Vadsø”), and Debbi Peterson (“Gone”).

The album is about the usual: abduction, interstellar mysteries, witchcraft, climate change, gentrification, and the desolation of the soul, their vocal harmonies and psychedelic flourishes fuse the sunny turbulent sounds of the ‘60s with the darkness and decay of present day. It’s like Portland and Norway in a blender.

“Straight Into The Bridge” is now at all streaming services and the album is available for pre-order.

The Great Lost No Ones Album Tracklisting:

1. No One Fails Alone

2. (Going Back To) Stockholm Syndrome

3. Clementine

4. Straight Into The Bridge

5. All You Need Is Rain

6. Sun Station Vadsø

7. Cinnamon Roll Hair

8. Dream Something Else

9. Saucerful of Nothing

10. Too Blind To Believe

11. Gone

12. Sweet Home Mississippi

13. Turn Again

Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale’s new bluegrass album, When Carolina Comes Homes Again, is out now on Yep Roc Records.

Recorded at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC, in conjunction with Come Hear NC, his 33rd album is a return to his geographical and musical roots paying homage to his native North Carolina harkening back to the earliest music he learned to play. 

Featuring instrumental accompaniment from various members of North Carolina-based acts, including Balsam Range, Cane Mill Road, Hank Pattie & the Current, John Stickley, Songs From The Road Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Town Mountain; as well as Matt Pruett (banjo); Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw (fiddle); Aaron Ramsey (mandolin); Nick Dauphinais and Presley Barker on guitars.

The album includes notable co-writes including John Oates on the title track, the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter on, “As A Sign,” Songs From The Road Band bassist Charles R. Humphrey III (“Misery’s Embrace,” “The Last To Know,” “You’ll Have To Earn It”), Steep Canyon Rangers banjo player Graham Sharp (“It Takes One To Wonder”), Logan Ledger (“Better Than You Found It”) and Sara Douga (“I’m Here To Remind You”)

“North Carolina has such a long and important heritage in bluegrass music,” Lauderdale says. “Since it’s where I’m originally from and where I started playing bluegrass, it seemed right to go back to my roots in bluegrass there and collaborate with musicians in that area. There’s just something in the atmosphere there. Hearing bluegrass in different areas and settings in North Carolina, the music is just there in the air. The first bluegrass festival I ever went to was Union Grove when I was 14, and it blew my mind. The music got into my bones, and I just had to get a banjo.”

The No Ones debut album, The Great Lost No Ones, is out today on Yep Roc Records.

With a lineup that stretches from Norway through Athens, Georgia to the Northwest corner of the United States, the band consists of members from R.E.M.; I Was A King, The Minus 5, The Baseball Project, etc., The No Ones are classic two guitars, bass, and drums, sounding like what you might expect, only different, more-so, and better!

Recorded in June 2017 at Type Foundry in Portland, OR, the 13-track album was produced by Adam Selzer (M. Ward), the album is about the usual: abduction, interstellar mysteries, witchcraft, climate change, gentrification, and the desolation of the soul, their vocal harmonies and psychedelic flourishes fuse the sunny turbulent sounds of the ‘60s with the darkness and decay of present day. It’s like Portland and Norway in a blender.

Guest appearances on the album include Patterson Hood (“Straight Into The Bridge” and “Sweet Home Mississippi”), Darren Hanlon (“All You Need Is Rain,” “Too Blind To Believe, “Turn Again”), Andrew Reiger and Davey Wrathgabar (“Dream Something Else”), Lucy Parnell (“Sun Station Vadsø”), and Debbi Peterson (“Gone”).

Watch/Share: “Straight Into The Bridge”

The Great Lost No Ones Tracklisting:

1. No One Fails Alone

2. (Going Back To) Stockholm Syndrome

3. Clementine

4. Straight Into The Bridge

5. All You Need Is Rain

6. Sun Station Vadsø

7. Cinnamon Roll Hair

8. Dream Something Else

9. Saucerful of Nothing

10. Too Blind To Believe

11. Gone

12. Sweet Home Mississippi

13. Turn Again

Today, Western North Carolina-based Steep Canyon Rangers share “Honey On My Tongue,” the third track revealed from Arm In Arm out October 16 on Yep Roc Records.

Cradled by a warm acoustic guitar and resonant banjo and rounded off with gentle fiddle turns, “Honey On My Tongue” is a gorgeous tribute to the catch-22 of parenthood. “Being a parent makes you vulnerable,” says Graham Sharp, who wrote the song and has lead vocals. “It’s hard to understand that the only way your kids can make it in the world is without you.”

This week, the band will play three sold-out drive-in concerts in North Carolina; a list of dates is below. From their cars, fans will watch Steep Canyon Rangers perform from a state-of-the-art mobile stage truck equipped with a 16-foot LED screen. Audio will be transmitted via radio frequency directly to cars. WNCW will live stream the show on August 28.

For Arm In Arm, the GRAMMY award-winning band recorded over several days at the iconic Southern Ground Studios in Nashville, which marked the first time the band recorded outside NC. Featuring 11 original compositions, Arm in Arm was produced by the band with Brandon Bell (Zac Brown, John Prine) and sees the band expanding their sound by paying homage to their early influences and the bluegrass tradition for which they’re known.

Previously released tracks from Arm In Arm include “In The Next Life,” and the video for “Every River,” which received praise from Rolling Stone Country and Asheville Citizen-Times.

The album follows two 2019 releases that both debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass chart: North Carolina Songbook, an eight-song live album recorded at Merlefest featuring reinterpretations of songs from cross-generational NC icons; and Be Still Moses, an 11-song collaboration between the band and the Asheville Symphony, which featured a collaboration with Boyz II Men and the Asheville Symphony on the title track.

Over a 20-year career, the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductees have released 12 solo albums and three collaborative albums with actor/banjoist Steve Martin. The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt, Graham Sharp, Mike Guggino, Nicky Sanders, Mike Ashworth, Barrett Smith.

Steep Canyon Rangers Drive-In Tour

August 27 – Brevard Music Center – Brevard, NC

August 28  – The Riveter – Asheville, NC

August 29 – Old Avondale Mill Site – Burnsville, NC

Following the success of 2019’s It Ain’t The Same, singer/songwriter Jack Klatt brings his “earnest, unhurried crooning” (No Depression) to “Tennessee Blues,” a new single and cover of the Bobby Charles classic. Now available at all DSPs, the video for the single premiered today.

Recorded in studio on a snowy Minnesota afternoon in late January, for the track Klatt enlisted three brothers of the Cactus Blossoms—Tyler Burkum (electric guitar), Page Burkum (backing vocals and Jack Torrey (electric guitar)—along with Chris Bierden on bass and Lars-Erik Larson on drums.

"I had never heard of Bobby Charles when he came up while I was making my last record,” offers Klatt. “The tunes I had brought to the table reminded one of my bandmates of his self-titled release. Hearing it for the first time was like finding an instant buddy. It wasn't long before I started singing Charles' “Tennessee Blues” as a staple of my nightly setlist on tour. The song fit like a good pair of shoes, I identified with the lonesome wanderlust of the song and thought it would be fun to put a new spin on it. We worked out the track together for a few hours and came up with something that I think Bobby Charles would approve of. In a time when all the news is bad news, we're all longing for a place to feel loose."

Upon its release, It Ain’t The Same garnered critical praise with Paste noting, “his unique sound defies genres,” while Atwood Magazine coined him “an American poet of redemption.”

Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Klatt dropped out of college to see the world, busking his way from San Francisco to Spain before returning home with a new focus on songcraft and fingerstyle technique. Shortly after, he began playing across the Midwest, from barrooms, saloons, clubs, and festival stages, with this signature country-blues approach.  

GRAMMY award-winning band North Carolina-based Steep Canyon Rangers today share “Sunny Days,” the fourth track unveiled from their thirteenth album, Arm In Arm, out October 16 on Yep Roc Records.

Helmed by Graham Sharp’s banjo, “Sunny Days” is a gorgeous manifestation of several members’ virtuosity. “It’s got a driving pulse at the top of it, like a rock anthem, but it changes at the line, “What I wouldn’t give to be with you in the sunshine,” says Mike Guggino. “We knew the song had to change there, so we bring it down, and there’s a group solo with the banjo, fiddle, and mandolin all playing at once with each instrument occupying a different space. The music releases as the speaker releases that wish to be in the sunshine.”

Recorded over several days at the iconic Southern Ground Studios in Nashville, which marked the first time the band recorded outside NC, Arm in Arm was produced by the band with Brandon Bell (Zac Brown, John Prine). Featuring 11 original compositions, the album sees the band expanding their sound by paying homage to their early influences and the bluegrass tradition for which they’re known.

Previously released tracks from the forthcoming album include: “Honey On My Tongue,” “In The Next Life,” and the video for “Every River,” which received praise from Rolling Stone Country and Asheville Citizen-Times.

On October 3, the band will perform at this year’s IBMA Virtual World of Bluegrass lineup. Including many songs from the forthcoming album, performances for the two-day music festival can be accessed for free at worldofbluegrass.org.

For the release, the band partnered with Wicked Weed Brewing, an Asheville-based brewer who will contribute ten dollars per album (up to 2,000 albums) sold via the Yep Roc store to Haywood Street’s Downtown Welcome Table. This area organization provides a fine dining experience meant to counter the notion often held by those living on the streets that handouts, hand-me-downs, and leftovers are all I deserve.

Arm In Arm follows two 2019 releases that both debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass chart: North Carolina Songbook, an eight-song live album recorded at Merlefest featuring reinterpretations of songs from cross-generational NC icons; and Be Still Moses, an 11-song collaboration between the band and the Asheville Symphony, which featured a collaboration with Boyz II Men and the Asheville Symphony on the title track.

Over a 20-year career, the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductees have released 12 solo albums and three collaborative albums with actor/banjoist Steve Martin. The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt, Graham Sharp, Mike Guggino, Nicky Sanders, Mike Ashworth, Barrett Smith.

The album is available for pre-order.

Arm In Arm Tracklisting:

1.One Drop of Rain

2. Sunny Days

3. Everything You Know

4. Every River

5. Honey On My Tongue

6. In the Next Life

7. Bullet in the Fire

8. Take My Mind (feat. Oliver Wood & Michael Bearden)

9. A Body Like Yours

10. Afterglow

11. Crystal Ship

Blitzen Trapper’s highly anticipated new album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, is out today on Yep Roc Records: listen/buy here.

Led by existential questions about life and death, Holy Smokes Future Jokes finds frontman/lyricist Eric Earley ruminating on the intermediate period between a person’s separate lives on earth, “and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,” he explains.

The album was included in NPR’s New Music Friday notable releases for September 25, and has garnered critical acclaim:

"... their finest since 2010's Destroyer of the Void - sees them concentrating on what they do best: songs that sound like The Beatles at Big Pink, songs that sound like Dylan gone power pop." - (4 /5 Album Rating) -- MOJO

“…the head-scratching concepts go down easy for music that feels like a comforting warm breeze on a cool spring day.” -American Songwriter

“Seventeen years since its eponymous debut, Blitzen Trapper remains an innovative band well-versed on the Americana playbook, still offering distinct contributions.” -No Depression

“…experimental Americana brings with it plenty of good, melodic vibes, man, and the album will take you to a better place if you let it. Logic sometimes gets cosmic, you know.” -Magnet

 “Blending country and folk with the vibe of 1970s Americana, the Portland-based ensemble returns for another trip into the wayback machine, conjuring soaring melodies and stirring styles of yesteryear.” -A.V. Club

“…the leader and spirit guide for psychedelic folk-rock wanderers Blitzen Trapper is humbled by the mystery of existence on Holy Smokes Future Jokes.” --Goldmine

Previously released album tracks include: “Magical Thinking,” which premiered at SPIN, who noted that it “features the delicate alt-folk that has become synonymous with the group”; “Masonic Temple Microdose #1” premiered at Consequence of Sound. Read more about the Origins of the song;  Brooklyn Vegan premiered the video for “Dead Billie Jean,” noting “the title star of Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit -- not to mention a few dead rock stars -- into the heady psychedelic universe of this album;” while FLOOD premiered “Requiem” touting “the group uses country music as a vessel for persistence through difficult times” and The Bluegrass Situation premiered “Hazy Morning.”

Recorded at Long Play Recording in Portland, OR, Holy Smokes Future Jokes takes the listener on a wild and dramatic journey through the Bardo, that transitional state between death and rebirth. With an inherent otherworldliness in the lyrics and imagery, the album’s ten songs take inspiration from several works, notably George Saunders’ 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo, which led to Bardo Thodol, more commonly known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Produced and engineered by Raymond Richards, who also contributes upright bass/keys/pedal steel, Blitzen Trapper was joined in-studio by Michael Blake (keys), Luke Price (fiddle), Ben Latimer (saxophone), Heather Woods Broderick (backing vocals), and Haley Johnsen (backing vocals).

Over a 20-year career and ten full-length albums, Eric Earley has written, recorded and toured extensively as Blitzen Trapper, amassing a devoted fanbase and earning critical praise from a vast array of media that includes The New York Times, NPR Music, Rolling Stone Country, Paste, Pitchfork, SPIN, New York Magazine and Consequence of Sound.

GRAMMY Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers’ highly anticipated thirteenth album, Arm In Arm, is out today on Yep Roc Records: stream/buy here.

Brooklyn Vegan premiered the video for “Take My Mind” shot live in-studio during the recording session at the iconic Southern Ground Studios in Nashville and features Oliver Wood and Michael Bearden.

Produced by the band and Brandon Bell (Zac Brown, John Prine), the album was included in NPR’s New Music Friday notable releases and is already garnering critical acclaim:

“Damn! This album is so good, you’ll be smiling or crying or dancing with every song.” -No Depression

 “....is among their best.” -(4 /5 Album Rating) -- MOJO

 “...in the case of a superb album like Arm In Arm, a remarkable experience overall.” -American Songwriter

 “...these North CarolinIan veterans are just hitting their prime.” -UNCUT

 "...North Carolina’s Steep Canyon Rangers have always set themselves apart with compelling songwriting and a camaraderie that feels authentic..." -The Bluegrass Situation, Artist of the Month

 “Arm In Arm showcases the band’s rock, pop, country and jazz influences more than previous albums.” -Bluegrass Today

Previously released tracks from the album include: “Sunny Days,” which premiered at The Boot;  “Honey On My Tongue;” video;  the video for “Every River,” which received praise from Rolling Stone Country and Asheville Citizen-Times, and “In the Next Life.”

Arm In Arm follows two releases that both debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass chart: North Carolina Songbook, an eight-song live album recorded at Merlefest featuring reinterpretations of songs from cross-generational NC icons; and Be Still Moses, an 11-song collaboration between the band and the Asheville Symphony, which featured a collaboration with Boyz II Men and the Asheville Symphony on the title track.

Over a 20-year career, the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductees have released 12 solo albums and three collaborative albums with actor/banjoist Steve Martin. The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt, Graham Sharp, Mike Guggino, Nicky Sanders, Mike Ashworth, Barrett Smith. 

GRAMMY award-winning guitarist, singer, and songwriter Dave Alvin today shares “Inside,” the third track revealed from his first album of solo material in eleven years, From An Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, out November 20 on Yep Roc Records.

“The late, brilliant songwriter Bill Morrissey was a very close and treasured friend of mine, offers Alvin. “I was also honored to play lead guitar on his last album before his untimely death in 2011. We actually got to be close pals years before because he approached me one day claiming that a song of mine, "Bus Station," was a rip off of his beautiful composition, "Inside." I just laughed and said, ‘I wrote Bus Station in 1982. What year did you write Inside?’ Bill started giggling in his charming way and then said, ‘Hmm. I wrote “Inside” much later than that so I guess I ripped you off.’ We were tight comrades ever since. After Bill's passing I started performing “Inside” at some of my shows and eventually went into the studio to record my version with my band, The Guilty Ones. I wanted to pay tribute to Bill and his amazing talents as a songwriter by recording his bittersweet ballad that cemented our friendship forever.“

The album includes songs written by Alvin as well as songs written by Alvin’s dear friends like Peter Case, Bill Morrissey and, Chris Smither, and heroes like Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan, Earl Hooker, Doug Sahm, Lil’ Hardin Armstrong, Marty Robbins, and Bo Carter. There are also contributions from dearly departed comrades like Chris Gaffney, Amy Farris, and Bobby Lloyd Hicks and from old Blasters pals like Gene Taylor along with various members of The Guilty Men/Women/Ones.

“If I had a few extra bucks in my pocket, I’d book a day in the studio, call some old (or new) friends, comrades and co-conspirators to join me and see what would happen,” notes Alvin, “no pressure, no expectations, just making music for the transcendental thrill of, well, making music.” Some of the brilliant accompanists joining Alvin in-studio include Greg Leisz, Cindy Cashdollar, Bob Glaub, Don Heffington, Christy McWilson, Danny Ott, Dale Spalding, and Cindy Wasserman.

Produced by Dave Alvin, From An Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, the 16-song collection offers a mix of acoustic blues and ballads to electric bar room blues to folk and country/rock. Featuring songs recorded over the years for his own records and tribute albums, “the majority were recorded for no other reason at all than the sheer kicks of going into a recording studio to make some joyous noise with musicians and singers that I love and admire,” offers Alvin.

“I consider myself extremely lucky to have had such a stellar collection of musicians to make some noise with, and to say that I'm proud of the performances on this release would be a gigantic understatement,” adds Alvin. “And, yeah, of course, I played beat up, old guitars on all the songs. I sincerely hope you enjoy these songs (and the musicians/singers bringing them to life). These recordings may be rare, unreleased, or little heard, but I'm very proud of them, and they hold a very special, warm place in my heart. Just like my old guitars.”

From An Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Track listing:

1. Link of Chain

2. Highway 61 Revisited

3. Variations On Earl Hooker’s Guitar Rhumba

4. Amanda

5. Albuquerque

6. Mobile Blue 

7. Perdido Street Blues 

8. On The Way Downtown

9. Inside

10. Krazy And Ignatz

11. Peace

12. Man Walks Among Us

13. Beautiful City ‘Cross The River

14. Dynamite Woman

15. Who’s Been Here

16. Signal Hill Blues 

Grammy Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers today earned a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album for North Carolina Songbook, an eight-song collection that weaves a path through the musical history of their home state of North Carolina.

The album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard’s Bluegrass Chart, was produced by the band and recorded live at Merlefest, North Carolina’s preeminent roots music festival. Adding their own unmistakable style to each track, the band reinterprets the work of cross-generational North Carolina icons, including Elizabeth Cotten, Doc Watson, Ben E. King, James Taylor, Tommy Jarrell, Ola Belle Reed, and Thelonious Monk.

“It is such an honor to be recognized by the Recording Academy with a Grammy nomination,” says Woody Platt. “It is especially sweet because this record pays tribute to many of the great artists from our musically rich home state of North Carolina.”

“This album was conceived as a love letter to our home state and the overwhelmingly diverse amount of groundbreaking musicians it has produced,” adds Graham Sharp. “It was a joy to perform and we’re truly grateful to be nominated among such a cool slate of our peers.”

One of the Rangers’ boldest covers is a take on Thelonious Monk's "Blue Monk" that sees them swap the jazz great's grand piano and tenor sax for banjo and mandolin. As the band described from the stage at MerleFest, "We're not sure if Bill Monroe and Thelonious Monk ever met on the road, but if they did, it might’ve sounded like this."

Over a 20-year career, the three-time Grammy nominees and North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductees have released 13 solo albums and three collaborative albums with actor/banjoist Steve Martin. Nobody Knows You won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2013, which followed their 2012 nomination in the same category for Rare Bird Alert. They recently released their critically acclaimed thirteenth album Arm In Arm: stream/buy here.

The Steep Canyon Rangers are Woody Platt (vocals/guitar), Graham Sharp (vocals/banjo), Mike Guggino (vocals/mandolin/mandola), Nicky Sanders (vocals/fiddle), Mike Ashworth (vocals/drums), and Barrett Smith (vocals/bass).

The 63rd GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast on CBS Television Network on Sunday, January 31, 2021.

North Carolina Songbook Tracklist:

1. Stand By Me (Ben E. King)

2. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (Earl Scruggs/Charlie Poole)

3. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk)

4. Drunkard's Hiccups (Tommy Jarrell)

5. Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten)

6. Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)

7. I’ve Endured (Ola Belle Reed)

8. Your Lone Journey (Doc Watson)

Prior to Treat Her Right and Morphine, Mark Sandman, the father of “low rock,” formed Hypnosonics. Often referred to as his “secret band,” Hypnosonics remained a favorite side project until his untimely death in 1999. 

On April 6, Modern Harmonic will release two never-before-heard Hypnosonics albums: Drums Were Beating: Fort Apache 1996 and Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions available on CD, LP and digital.

In 1996, the same year that Morphine recorded Like Swimming at the legendary Fort Apache Studios, Hypnosonics taped a live-in-studio radio broadcast on beloved local rock station WFNX. Drums Were Beating contains much of that session. Known for their unpredictable live shows, this collection features the band stretching out a bit, as well as some choice snippets of Sandman's witty stage patter.

Still touring with Treat Her Right, and before the now mythical Morphine, in 1986, Sandman assembled his “secret band,” which, at the time, included the founding drummer of Morphine, Jerome Deupree, and recorded five songs at Q Division Studio in Boston. These tracks are featured on Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions and supplemented by two more from the 1996 edition of the group. 

While these releases pre-date Morphine on Sandman’s musical timeline, even at the height of their popularity, he embraced the opportunity to play in front of a small club almost in disguise with Hypnosonics.

Both LPs include zine-style inserts with the art and liner notes, while the CD includes the same content in the form of a booklet.

Drums Were Beating: Fort Apache 1996 Tracklisting

1. Intro

2. French Fries With Pepper

3. Bo’s Veranda (Travolta’s Walk)

4. Women R Dogs

5. Like A Damn Fool

6. Born Again

7. Drums Were Beating

8. Livin’ With You*

9. Insomniac*

*CD only 

Pre-order here

Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions Tracklisting

1 Rub It In

2. Early Man

3. They Bent Me

4. Insomniac

5. Livin’ With You

6. Someone Stole My Shoes

7. Where’s The Girl?

8. Rub It In (Fort Apache Version)*

9, Early Man (Fort Apache Version)*

*CD only

Pre-order here

In celebration of the late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter’s 80th birthday (June 23), two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale today shares “Memory,” one of the last songs Lauderdale wrote with his decades-long songwriting collaborator; listen here.

Of the second single from his forthcoming 34th album Hope out July 30 via Yep Roc Records, Lauderdale says, “Losing Robert just before the pandemic was so hard, but he left the perfect lyric, to sum up my feelings about him and to honor all the people we’ve lost since.” The album’s cover and packaging feature paintings by Maureen Hunter, Robert’s wife. 

After nearly 15 months off the road, Lauderdale will tour in support of the album, starting with an eight-date tour run that includes a July 30 album release show at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville and an appearance at Merlefest in September. A complete list of dates is below; ticket information can be found here.

The 13-track album features songs about hope, courage, and perseverance with wide-open arrangements reminiscent of 70s California folk-rock and is a joyous musical tribute to the spirit of overcoming and healing. “I wanted to get a musical message out there during this time of what we’ve all been going through, about the hope for better days ahead,” Lauderdale says. “If we can find any glimmers of hope, that really helps get you through another day.

Hope was co-produced by Lauderdale and his longtime collaborator Jay Weaver and recorded at the fabled Blackbird Studios In Nashville with many of the tracks engineered by Blackbird Academy students. “That was a learning experience for me, too,” says Lauderdale. “I love the energy of working with such talented people just at the start of their careers. These kids are the future of our business.” Lauderdale was joined in-studio by musicians Chris Scruggs and Kenny Vaughan, Russ Pahl, Craig Smith, Will Van Horn, Micah Hulscher, Dave Racine, Pat Bubert, Wes L’Annglois, and sibling harmonies from Lillie Mae and Frank Rische.

Jim Lauderdale Tour Dates

July 3 - Silverados - Black Mountain, NC

July 17 - Road To Bristol, The Sessions Hotel - Bristol, VA

July 21 - Louisiana Crossroads - Lafayette, LA

July 23 - Donna the Buffalo’s Grassroots Festival - Trumansburg, NY

July 30 - 3rd & Lindsley - Nashville, TN

August 20 - Get Off The Grid Fest - East Ridge, TN

September 10 - Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN

September 16 - Merlefest - Wilkesboro, NC

Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale’s 34th album, Hope, is out today on Yep Roc Records; listen/buy here.
 
Co-produced by Lauderdale and his longtime collaborator Jay Weaver, Hope was recorded at the fabled Blackbird Studios In Nashville with many of the tracks engineered by Blackbird Academy students. A joyous musical tribute to the spirit of overcoming and healing, the album features songs of hope, courage, and perseverance.
 
Recent praise for Hope:
 
“…Hope extends an aptly optimistic message, Lauderdale serving as a philosopher-cheerleader…” –No Depression
 
“Memory”….fittingly, an Americana elegy…” –The New York Times
 
“Leave it to Lauderdale, one of this generation’s top songwriters, to perfectly capture the many emotions of our pandemic-induced collective state of mind and take us to the other side smiling.” –Glide Magazine
 
“A laid-back strummer that has shades of the Rolling Stones’ early Seventies output, “Memory” is both a song of mourning and praise for those who’ve departed. Lauderdale sings of the pain left by someone’s absence but finds comfort in carrying the memory.” –Rolling Stone Country
 
“To use an old advertising line, Jim Lauderdale is as good for you today as he’s always been.” –Holler.
 
“Jim Lauderdale finds promise in the circle of life in his new song “Mushrooms Are Growing After the Rain.” –The Boot
 
Read The East Nashvillian feature here
 
Listen to The Working Songwriter Podcast interview here
 
Of the album, Lauderdale comments, “I wanted to get a musical message out there during this time of what we’ve all been going through, about the hope for better days ahead. If we can find any glimmers of hope, that really helps get you through another day.”
 
Lauderdale’s back on tour and will play an album release show 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville tonight (July 30) and has upcoming festival appearances in August and September. A complete list of dates is below; ticket information is here.

Jim Lauderdale Tour Dates
July 30 - 3rd & Lindsley - Nashville, TN
August 5 – 94th Mountain Dance and Folk Festival – Asheville, NC
August 20 - Get Off The Grid Fest - East Ridge, TN
September 10 - Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion - Bristol, TN
September 16 - Merlefest - Wilkesboro, NC
September 22-25 – AmericanaFest – Nashville, TN
October 2 – Albino Skunk Music Festival – Greer, SC
October 7 – Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance – Pittsboro, NC
October 14 – Suwannee Roots Revival – Live Oak, FL
December 5 – The Concert To Protect Our Aquifer – Memphis, TN

Hope Tracklisting
1, The Opportunity to Help Somebody Through It
2. Sister Horizon
3. The Brighter Side of Lonely
4. Mushrooms Are Growing After the Rain
5. Memory
6. Breathe Real Slow
7. Brave One
8. Don’t You Dream Anymore?
9. We Fade in We Fade Out
10. It’s Almost More Than All the Joy
11. Here’s to Hoping
12. When Searching for Answers
13. Joyful Noise 

Today, Aoife O’Donovan shares the Olga Bell Remix of “B61,” a track from her recently released and critically acclaimed album, Age of Apathy. Listen/share here.
 
“I met Olga while we were both students at New England Conservatory in the early 2000s,” says O’Donovan. “We have worked together a few times, most memorably the Colorado Music Festival in 2014, where we sang as a trio with My Brightest Diamond. I’ve always been taken with Olga's capacity for intense creativity, which is on full display here in this remix. I love her utterly unique take on this song.”
 
Added Olga Bell: “I’ve been in awe of Aoife and her music since we were in school together at NEC, nearly 20 (?!) years ago. Her brilliant vocals are at the helm of this remix, both in their untouched, original form, and also pitched down, introducing a compelling dimension of ambiguity and fluidity to the subject and pronouns of Aoife’s lyrics.”
 
On August 12, O’Donovan will embark on a tour with Hiss Golden Messenger, followed by appearances at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Freshgrass Music Festival and just-announced Northwest tour dates with Maya de Vitry beginning September 18. A full list of tour dates is below and tickets are on sale here.
 
Produced by fellow GRAMMY-winner Joe Henry (Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens), Age Of Apathy was recorded through a unique residency with Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL. Working both on-site at their studio with GRAMMY-nominated engineer Darren Schneider while collaborating entirely remotely with Henry, the result is a singular work that synthesizes O’Donovan’s peerless melodic construction and literary ambition into a statement on self-determination and the need to create your own purpose.

Aoife O’Donovan Tour Dates

August 12 – Levitt Pavilion – Westport, CT*
August 13 – Pavilion At Point Of The Bluff – Hammondsport, NY*
August 15 – The Listening Lawn – Grand Rapids, MI*
August 16 – Hi-Fi Annex – Indianapolis, IN*
August 18 – Cain Park Evans Amphitheater – Cleveland Heights, OH*
August 19 – The Ark – Ann Arbor, MI*
August 20 – Chautauqua Amphitheater – Chautauqua, NY*
August 21 – Philadelphia Folk Festival – Philadelphia, PA
August 23 – Infinity Music Hall – Hartford, CT*
August 24 – White Eagle Hall – Jersey City, NJ*
August 26 – Beach Road Weekend – Martha’s Vineyard, MA
August 27 – Lowell Summer Music Series – Lowell, MA*
September 24 – FreshGrass Festival – North Adams, MA
September 28 – Polaris Hall – Portland, OR ^
September 29 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA ^
October 1 – Laxson Auditorium – Chico, WA ^
October 28 – Musikhuset København – Copenhagen, CK**
October 31 – Junction 2 – Cambridge, UK**
November 1 – St. Paul’s Church – Birmingham, UK**
November 2 – Barbican Milton Court Concert Hall – London, UK**
November 3 – St. Thomas Church – Bristol, UK**
November 5 – Takeroot Festival – Groningen, NL
November 7 – Tivolivredenburg (Cloud 9) – Utrecht, NL**
November 8 – Handelsbeurs – Ghent, BE**
 
*with Hiss Golden Messenger
^with Maya de Vitry
**with Donovan Woods

California-based supergroup, The Third Mind, will release their second album, The Third Mind 2 on October 27 via Yep Roc Records.

Featuring an all-star eclectic ensemble of like-minded musicians–Jesse Sykes (acoustic guitar, vocals); Dave Alvin (electric guitar); Victor Krummenacher (bass guitar); David Immerglück (guitar/harmonium/mellotron); and Michael Jerome (drums/percussion)-- The Third Mind 2 reflects the band members varied musical histories with a “no safety parachute” recording approach using free-form studio techniques, no rehearsals, no preconceived arrangements, and recording spontaneous group improvisations live in studio.

The six-song set, which runs the length of three LP sides, showcases songs written in the 1960s including, "Groovin' is Easy," "Why Not Your Baby,” "Sally Go Round The Roses," among others, and an original composition, “Tall Grass,” written by Jesse Sykes and Dave Alvin for the album. Available for pre-order on CD, Digital and LP formats, the fourth LP side features The Third Mind Mandala etching by Tony Fitzpatrick.

Today, the band shared the official video for “Tall Grass,” the first single from forthcoming album; watch/share here. Of the song, Jesse Sykes offers, “‘Tall Grass’ sets out to celebrate the spirit or psyche of place, where the external and internal worlds meet. It’s a midnight serenade, a love song and a bit of a eulogy to the land itself.”

Produced by The Third Mind, the album was recorded by Will Golden at Sir Tiger Studio in Los Angeles, CA, mixed by Craig Parker Adams at Winslow Court Studios in Los Angeles, and mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering.

The group’s 2020 self-titled debut garnered critical praise including American Songwriter who noted it “exceeded anyone’s expectations,” Glide Magazine hailed it as a “mind-blowing experience,” and PopMatters exclaimed “expansive, adventurous music.”

The Third Mind 2 Tracklisting:
Side A
1.Groovin’ Is Easy
2. Why Not Your Baby
 
Side B
3. In My Own Dream
4.Tall Grass
 
Side C
5. Sally Go Round The Roses
6.A Little Bit Of Rain
 
Side D
Features The Third Mind Mandala etching by Tony Fitzpatrick