Moving on in time, the protagonist in Scared to Move needs encouragement to overcome fear and embark on a new love relationship. There’s an excellent one-shot video that accompanies the song that’s also worth checking out. The other members are Charlie Rauh (guitars), John Gray (bass), Oskar Haggdahl (drums) and Shannon Soderlund (harmonies and backing vocals).Īnother highlight among the eleven varied but unmissable tracks is Wreck Cut Loose, a slow country ballad about the fall out from heart ache, that builds to an emotion-filled crescendo, helped by soaring layered vocals and the addition of guest Philip Kronengold on organ. The band initially developed when the couple lived in NYC for a few years, hence the return there for recording this album and why they describe themselves as a ‘bicoastal’ band. The songs are all written by Coy and her husband Gary Knight who, unusually, is not a member of the band. Folk influences expanded by upbeat pop/rock sounds are introduced in So She Runs which expresses the giddiness combined with trepidation of a young woman (the 60s teen) who’s ‘running to the grass that’s greener on the other side’. Opening with singer/songwriter Chelsea Coy’s delicate and discordant banjo and her searing vocals, Walking on Water describes the fear and trepidation experienced when a mother and her family are abandoned by her husband.

There’s the 50s housewife, her wayward teen daughter in the 60s, and her daughter who’s navigating the rough waters of the 21st century.ĭespite the struggles depicted, the album benefits from a big expansive sound, courtesy of New York based producer Tom Gardner, and is ultimately an uplifting experience. The second album from the Californian band with the strange name (taken from a Carter Family song title) is a concept album loosely chronicling the troubled lives of three women members of one family, as depicted in the attractive album artwork. Single Girl Married Girl Three Generations of Leaving Self Release

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