Punch Brothers, Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), and Sarah Jarosz play the Punch Brothers song "Rye Whiskey" live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 5, 2022. Rye Whiskey appeared on Punch Brothers' second album, Antifogmatic (2010). Punch Brothers are a Grammy winning progressive bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (lead vocals, mandolin), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Paul Kowert (bass). Watchhouse is a folk duo from Chapel Hill, North Carolina consisting of married couple Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin. Sarah Jarosz is a Grammy winning singer-songwriter from Wimberley, Texas. Joining them onstage was Nat Smith (cello).
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Rye Whiskey lyrics:
Rye Whiskey makes the band sound better
Makes your baby cuter, makes itself taste sweeter, oh boy
Rye whiskey makes your heart beat louder
Makes your voice seem softer, makes the back room hotter, oh, but
Rye thoughts aren't good thoughts, boys
Have I ever told you about the time I...
Rye whiskey wraps your troubles up into a bright blue package
Ties a bow around it, oh boy
Just throw it on the pile in the corner
See, you're not alone in not being alone tonight, but
Rye love isn't good love, boys
Have I ever told you about the time I...
I used to wake up bright and early
Got my work done quickly, held my baby tightly, oh boy
Rye whiskey makes the sun set faster
Makes the spirit more willing but the body weaker because
Rye sleep isn't good sleep, boys
Have I ever told you about the time I
Took it and took her for granted?
How I took it and took her for granted?
So let's take some and take them all for granted
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American Acoustic live tour dates (2022):
July 27 - Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
July 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
July 31 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square
Aug. 1 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
Aug. 3 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Fairgrounds
Aug. 5 - Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
Aug. 6 - Rohnert Park, CA @ Green Music Center
Aug. 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Ford Amphitheatre
Aug. 17 - Northampton, MA @ Pines Theater
Aug. 18 - New Haven, CT@ Westville Music Bowl
Aug. 19 - Upper Salford Township, PA @ Philadelphia Folk Festival
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Watchhouse official bio:
By the time 2019 came to its fitful end, Andrew Marlin knew he was tired of touring. He was grateful, of course, for the ascendancy of Mandolin Orange, the duo he’d cofounded in North Carolina with fiddler Emily Frantz a decade earlier. With time, they had become new flagbearers of the contemporary folk world, sweetly singing soft songs about the hardest parts of our lives, both as people and as a people. Their rise-particularly crowds that grew first to fill small dives, then the Ryman, then amphitheaters the size of Red Rocks-humbled Emily and Andrew, who became parents to Ruby late in 2018. They’d made a life of this.
Still, every night, Andrew especially was paid to relive a lifetime of grievances and griefs onstage. After 2019’s Tides of a Teardrop, a tender accounting of his mother’s early death, the process became evermore arduous, even exhausting. What’s more, those tunes-and the band’s entire catalogue, really-conflicted with the name Mandolin Orange, an early-20s holdover that never quite comported with the music they made. Nightly soundchecks, at least, provided temporary relief, as the band worked through a batch of guarded but hopeful songs written just after Ruby’s birth. They offered a new way to think about an established act.
Those tunes are now Watchhouse, which would have been Mandolin Orange’s sixth album but is instead their first also under the name Watchhouse, a moniker inspired by Marlin’s place of childhood solace. The name, like the new record itself, represents their reinvention as a band at the regenerative edges of subtly experimental folk-rock.
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Punch Brothers official bio:
Punch Brothers are mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their accolades include a Grammy for best folk album for their 2018 release All Ashore.
Punch Brothers formed in 2006. Its first Nonesuch record, Punch, was released in 2008 and combined elements of the band’s many musical interests. In 2009, they began a residency at NYC’s intimate Lower East Side club The Living Room, trying out new songs and ultimately spawning Antifogmatic (2010). In 2012, the band released Who’s Feeling Young Now?, which Q praised for its ‘astonishing, envelope-pushing vision’, while Rolling Stone said, “The acoustic framework dazzles-wild virtuosity used for more than just virtuosity.” Their 2015 album, the T Bone Burnett-produced, The Phosphorescent Blues, addresses with straight-up poignancy and subversive humor, the power and the pitfalls of our super-connected world.
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Typo catcher: Rhye Whisky, Punch Bros, Watch House
18 сен 2024
