Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) and Punch Brothers play the song "Wildfire" live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 5, 2022. Wildfire appeared on the Mandolin Orange album Blindfaller (2016). Watchhouse is a folk duo from Chapel Hill, North Carolina consisting of married couple Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin. Punch Brothers are a Grammy Award winning progressive bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (lead vocals, mandolin), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Paul Kowert (bass). Joining Watchhouse and Punch Brothers onstage were Sarah Jarosz (guitar), Nathaniel Smith (cello), Clint Mullican (bass), and Josh Oliver (guitar).
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American Acoustic live tour dates - w/ Watchhouse (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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Wildfire lyrics:
Brave men fought with the battle cry
Tears filled the eyes of their loved ones and their brothers in arms
And so it went, for Joseph Warren
It should have been different
It could have been easy
His rank could have saved him
But a country unborn needs bravery
And it spread like wildfire
Wildfire
From the ashes grew sweet liberty
Like the seeds of the pines when the forest burns
They open up to grow and burn again
It should have been different
It could have been easy
But too much money rolled in to ever end slavery
The cry for war spread like wildfire
Wildfire
Wildfire
Civil War came, Civil War went
Brother fought brother, the South was spent
But its true demise was hatred passed down through the years
It should have been different
It could have been easy
But pride has a way of holding too firm to history
And it burns like wildfire
Wildfire
Wildfire
I was born a southern son
In a small southern town where the rebels run wild
They beat their chests and they swear we're going to rise again
It should have been different
It could have been easy
The day that old Warren died hate should have gone with him
But here we are caught in the wildfire
Wildfire
Wildfire
Wildfire
Wildfire
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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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Andrew Marlin official bio:
Andrew Marlin is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based out of Chapel Hill, NC. He’s known for his captivating songwriting, presented both lyrically with his band Watchhouse (formerly known as Mandolin Orange) and instrumentally under his own name.
Marlin has produced six albums of original works of American roots music with Watchhouse and regularly contributes instrumental performances to other artists and albums. Recent work includes playing mandolin on recordings for Tyler Childers, Waxahatchee, Dead Tongues and Phil Cook. Marlin is also an in-demand producer, and has produced albums for artists including Mipso, Kate Rhudy, Rachel Baiman and Ismay.
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Typo catcher: Punch Bros, Watch House, Andrew Marlyn, Wild Fire
5 сен 2024
