News about the release show for Nathan Bowles’ Whole & Cloven at the Center for the Study of the American South, as well as PoB artists at the Hopscotch Music Festival, the Southern Accent exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, and tour date updates from Hiss Golden Messenger, Itasca, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Nap Eyes, Promised Land Sound, Steve Gunn, and Terry Allen.
Many thanks to Laura Snapes and The Guardian for this thoughtful piece on “Cosmic Americana,” which includes comments from, and about, PoB pals and collaborators like The Weather Station, Nathan Bowles, Steve Gunn, Hiss Golden Messenger, William Tyler, Chris Forsyth, Joan Shelley, Nathan Salsburg, Ryley Walker, and uh, us too. And of course, always, Jack Rose.
Now that the summer solstice is behind us, and we begin the slow slide to shorter days, it is high time to announce Whole & Cloven, the exquisite third solo album by Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers), now available to pre-order. Pre-orders include an immediate download of “Gadarene Fugue,” which the good people at NPR Music’s Songs We Love premiered today.
On his exquisite third solo album, Bowles again augments his mesmeric clawhammer banjo pieces with piano, percussion, and vocals. Whole & Cloven offers a stoic meditation on absence, loss, and fragmentation, populating those experiential gaps with stillness and wonder. Straddling Appalachian string band music and avant-garde composition, Nathan proves himself heir to deconstructivist tradition-bearers like Henry Flynt and Jack Rose.
Thanks to the Bluegrass Situation for sharing this mesmerizing video of Nathan Bowles performing his new composition “I Miss My Dog” for Pickathon’s Lucky Barn Series. Great performance, great website, great festival–and a great reason for us to announce that Nathan will release an immersive new album with PoB later in 2016. Stay tuned for details!
Prepare thyselves to break Spring, Spring Breakers. Check out these upcoming dates with Steve Gunn (with Wilco), The Weather Station (with Great Lake Swimmers), Promised Land Sound (with Alabama Shakes), Nathan Bowles (with Steve Gunn), and Jake Xerxes Fussell (with William Tyler.)
Steve Gunn is hitting the road in the US (some dates with Ryley Walker) & UK/Ireland, & Nathan Bowles heads out across the South and mid-Atlantic with Elisa Ambrogio. Good times ahead! Also, check out more year-end love for Steve’s Way Out Weather and Nathan’s Nansemond from NPR, Pitchfork, The Wire, & more.
In celebration of Krampus Day, all items in the PoB store will be discounted 20% through Friday, December 5th, 11:59PM EST. Enter the coupon code KRAMPUS during checkout. Plus, check out the premiere of the video for Nathan Bowles’ “Jonah/Poor Liza Jane.” (This sale is now over.)
Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard for the fine review of Nathan Bowles’ Nansemond, which includes the premieres of two live session videos: covers of Jeffrey Cain’s “Moonshine Is the Sunshine” and Ernie Carpenter’s “Elk River Blues.”
“Sleepy Lake Tire Swing,” the moving coda to Nathan’s new LP Nansemond, is the first of four riveting solo banjo performance videos by Jesse Sheppard that we’ll be sharing. Read on for Dec. tour dates and more press.
