Chatham County Line – Hiyo
Chatham County Line is releasing a new album this week via Yep Roc, Hiyo, produced by Rachael Moore and Dave Wilson. This trio creates suspenseful and alluring songs that cast their net wide like a bluegrass jam band and gently haunt you with a dose of mystery and elation.
Album opener “Right On Time” celebrates those rare moments when the right person shows up just exactly when you needed them to. “Magic,” an early release, is big and wide and rolling, with “Let’s get ready for the magic / The night is young and the feeling’s right / I got a little buzz but Baby that’s all right.” This is expansive and majestic.
“Better get out of heaven before I die” is the refrain for “Heaven,” which is a dreamlike, ephemeral song. “Lone Ranger” celebrates chance meetings and how they can make a person feel like a television and radio media hero: “She wanted me to be the Lone Ranger / One night under a prairie moon / Met her at a party in the month of May / Excuse me getting out of each other’s way / We shared some tequila she lost one of her shoes / The sun came up there was nothing left to do.”
“BSR” is for living beside the Black Sugar River and the song echoes the toiling of field labor: “Roll black sugar river sweet jubilee / Carry that sugarcane / To where the Delta melts into the sea / You gonna cut that cane while the buzzards fly / Stacked taller than a man who’ll never leave this world alive.”
The songs here are a mix of introspection, bluegrass and Americana instruments, and a sweeping expansive sound.
Find more details and information here: https://www.yeproc.com/artists/chatham-county-line/ and on their website here: https://www.chathamcountyline.com/
Chatham County Line are Dave Wilson on vocals, guitars, harmonica, synthesizer, and banjo; John Teer on mandolin, guitars, and vocals; and Greg Readling on bass, pedal steel, piano, clavinet, organ, and vocals.
Additional musicians on the album are Jamie Dick on drums and percussion; John Mailander on fiddle, octave mandolin, synth, and harmonium; Al Weatherhead on mellotron and optigan; and Maya de Vitry on harmony vocasl on “Way Down Yonder” and “Stone”; and Matt Douglas on saxophone on “Summerline.”
The album was recorded and mixed by Rachael Moore with assistant engineer Dowell Gandy and additional recording and editing by Mike Stankiewicz. It was recorded at Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC; and mastered by Nathan Dantzler at The Hit Lab in Nashville, Tennessee.
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