I’m not a musical archivist nor historian. I can’t tell you what sonic traditions or musical lore make one region’s roots music different from that played just across the state line. I can’t describe the impact of geography and genre on the various strands of folk and country music in the great American songbook or tell you how that music bleeds into the rich cultural identity of those who play or even hear it. But I know a great album when I hear one, and Two Trees is a great album!
Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners take strands of traditional folk music, country lilts, and, at their more upbeat, even some infectious and unstoppable bluegrass moves and turn them into an album’s worth of great songs. You’ll even find alt-country, rock, and indie working their way through the music’s sonic DNA.
From the ambient, almost indie-pop grace of “Half-Truths” to the dance and be damned addictive energy of “Under the Grove,” from “Shelf’s” beguiling understatements to “Dashboard Dandelion” solid, country-rock grooves, it is an album of ever-shifting sonic moods. Adventurous yet forming the band’s cohesive and concise sound.
But the best thing of all is that this is anything but a band merely mining what has gone before for inspiration; this is a band instead making modern music with a nod to that rich past. It’s those traditions and sounds and styles being repurposed and repolished for the contemporary audience, the sound of the torch being carried forward by sure-footed music makers into the present…and beyond. Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners know exactly where the music they work with has been, but are much more focused on where it goes next. Isn’t that the whole point of creativity?
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