Oddfellows Road, by The Bee Eaters

Oddfellows Road

by The Bee Eaters

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shasta rishi "Dry Shasta Wet Shasta" is unique and beautiful as always with your music. Can't get enough of your string arrangements! Favorite track: Dry Shasta Wet Shasta.

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1.	Petersburg Interlude 02:34	info	buy track
2.	Gyrosmoke 06:57	info	buy track
3.	Boat Song 06:17	info	buy track
4.	Oddfellows Road 05:04	info	buy track
5.	The Way It Is 05:17	info	buy track
6.	Theodore's Waltz 05:29	info	buy track
7.	Cumulus 04:53	info	buy track
8.	Without The Rest 04:45	info	buy track
9.	Thriller 04:32	info	buy track
10.	Dry Shasta Wet Shasta 05:19	info	buy track
11.	Ran Aground 07:01	info	buy track

about

It's hard to look back on three years and sum up what they felt like. But if it were possible to do, a collection of songs might be the way to do it. This particular collection came together slowly, as most things in this band do; some were around when we recorded our last record, others were coming together still as the tape was rolling in the studio. Each one, for us, is a trip back to the times and places and people these tunes grew out of: Petersburg Interlude will always conjure that harbor in Alaska, where we stayed in among the fishing boats, looking out through the fog and rain towards the mountain across the water. Gyrosmoke is so Darol, all swirling poly-rhythms and twisty melodies. He sent us the sheet music years ago, and it took us all of those years to figure out how to play it. The Way It Is came much later; Tashina's serendipitous encounter with a live recording of Bruce Hornsby and his piano led to us listening to the song while we sat around the kitchen discussing the future of the band and ourselves. Something about the phrase "the way it is" struck a chord with us… don't you believe them. Oddfellows Road is another tune that incubated for years, unnamed and unyielding to our efforts to arrange and play it. It gets it's name from the street Simon grew up on, a short shot from the old port, running through the pines and madrones of Bainbridge Island. And Ran Aground… we all wanted this on the record, but hadn't been able to spend much time with it beforehand. It was the last thing we recorded, and it is the last track on the record... Finishing with an unfinished thought.
Well, dear listener, thanks for lending us the attention of your eyes, as well as your ears… which, I suppose, makes you a reader as well as a listener. But you were that anyways, and many other things besides.

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released September 6, 2011

The musicians:
Simon Chrisman - hammer dulcimer
Tashina Clarridge – fiddle
Tristan Clarridge – cello, fiddle
Wesley Corbett – banjo
Dominick Leslie – mandolin
Bruce Molsky – voice
Mike Marshall – mandolin

Dave Sinko - Engineering and mixing
Eric Conn - Mastering

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“[The Bee Eaters] combine chamber music’s finely calibrated arrangements with bluegrass’s playful virtuosity and pop music’s melodic resourcefulness.” -The Boston Globe

With Tashina’s delicate fiddle and Tristan’s grounding cello wrapped around Simon’s ethereal dulcimer, they weave a tapestry of sound all their own, drawing on roots in bluegrass, Celtic, jazz and old-time folk traditions. ... more

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