Black Prairie "Red Rocking Chair"

There's always a good thing in listening to KCRW's radio show, earlier on this blog one of that good things was Fistful Of Mercy, but now I came across with “The Decemberist” side project of Jenny Conlee (vocals, accordian), Nate Query (bass, cello) and Chris Funk (vocals, bazouki, dobro, weissenborn) together with fellow Portland musicians Annalisa Tornfelt (vocals, fiddle) and Jon Neufeld (guitar, vocals). The Decemberist are a well known band on the indie scene, but this sort of traditional performed so purely is not so usual. Hipster indie people tend to run away from this bluegrassy sound, but maybe because I spend two years of my childhood in Oklahoma I developed a taste for country and bluegrass like music.

This is no Ammylou Harris, it has an experimental edge, and its a mix of a lot of traditional and folk sounds from around the world; it has very distinctive European sounds, a little bit of tango, a little bit of waltz and a lot of northern American traditional music as well. Very instrumental but very pretty, if people are interested in having a bit more of maybe not so common music in their collection this is a band I can strongly recommend ;-)

The LP is "Feast Of The Hunters' Moon" and the song tagged is "Red Rocking Chair".

Enjoy!