December is fast approaching and to kick things off right, get to Nashville, TN, for The Wood Brothers three night stand at 3rd and Lindsley. It will run from 12/4 – 12/6. Tickets are selling fast and these are guaranteed to sell out. Get yours here. If you haven’t checked out their newest album, Paradise, it is available through their store, as well as iTunes and Amazon.
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‘Paradise’ follows the band’s acclaimed 2013 release ‘The Muse,’ which was recorded almost entirely live around a tree of microphones in Zac Brown’s Southern Ground studio. Hailed previously by the New York Times for their “gripping” vocals and by the LA Times for their “taught musicianship,” the brothers found the live setting to be a remarkable showcase for their live chemistry and charismatic magnetism. But when it came time to record ‘Paradise,’ their fifth studio album, the band knew the music called for a different approach.
“For this album, we wanted to have a more up-close and dry sound,” explains Chris. “I worked on another record at Easy Eye and I just loved the room. Dan’s studio is cool because it’s not old, but it feels that way when you walk into it. It reminds me of Sun Studios. It just has that feeling of a small room with natural compression, and I think you hear that in the sounds on the record.”
The decision to record in Nashville was no coincidence either, as this marks the first album written with the entire band living in Music City.
“A lot of the songs are dealing with these themes of longing and desire,” adds Oliver, “but the album finishes with ‘River of Sin’ because it’s a positive and empowering message, which is that you can’t really do anything unless you’re persistent. The narrator is humble and understands that there are all these things larger than him and he’s just trying to understand them and he’s determined to do better and be as good as he can. And he recognizes the only way to do that is to keep trying.”
Check out Radio Woodstock‘s video for Singing to Strangers.
And a cover of Michael Jackson’s Pretty Young Thing from The A.V. Club.
