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A lot has happened with Chatham County Line since we last presented them *12* years ago!Their 10th studio release "Hiyo" is something of a re-introduction to the North Carolina roots stalwarts. Recorded at Asheville’s Echo Mountain studio with co-producer/engineer Rachael Moore (Kacey Musgraves, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) the collection finds CCL embracing change at every turn incorporating synthesizers, drum machines, and more electric guitar and percussion than ever before. Given the group’s string band roots and decades spent singing around a single microphone the results are nothing short of revelatory!
“We’re having more fun playing together now than we’ve ever had before,” says songwriter/guitarist David Wilson. “There’s this liberating element to getting rid of all the preconceptions about who we are and what we sound like.”
During a stint serving as the backing band on the Showtime series "George & Tammy", the songs that CCL were writing were unlike anything else in their catalog. Wilson had begun playing electric guitar more and fashioned a pickup for his acoustic that allowed him to simultaneously cover guitar and bass parts. This freed Readling to play dreamy, atmospheric pedal steel accompaniments. And Teer found himself experimenting with unusual sounds on his mandolin, running it through a mellotron pedal to create lush, warm beds for the music to float on.
“This whole process was a breath of fresh air, and I’d lie awake at night while we were recording in disbelief that we could capture these sounds,” Wilson reflects. “We go to concerts to be amazed and dumbfounded, to laugh and cry, to dream and fall in love. When we play a show it’s not just music. It’s magic.”
Hope to see you there!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Reverb Lounge, 6121 Military Ave,Omaha,NE,United States