Spirit Family Reunion – the soon-to-break Brooklyn band
that'll make their Newport Folk Festival debut this year – will play May 12 at
Mercury Lounge.
Before even releasing their debut album 'No Separation'
(June 15), they have opened for Levon Helm and David Wax Museum; confirmed
slots with Celebrate Brooklyn (August 4, with The Del McCoury Band; and Cahalen
Morrison & Eli West) and the Newport Folk Festival (July 28); and have
gained an NYC fanbase.
'No Separation' ranges from the rousing calls of "I Am
Following The Sound," posted on Baeble Music, the undeniably soulful "Green Rocky Road," the dusty
"Under the Highway," drawing comparisons to Woody Guthrie and The
Band.
Paste Magazine said, "Dusty acoustic guitars, wailing
fiddles and weeping accordions, with a woozy-yet-skintight rhythm section—and
topped off with burr-edged vocals that sound like they’ve been soaked in a
Mason jar for generations—it’s the type of music that blurs the line between
past and present so thoroughly, and so deftly, that time feels irrelevant."
Time Out New York testified, "Rabble-rousing Brooklyn
folkies Spirit Family Reunion deliver foot-stomping, throaty, joyful songs. We
defy you not to tap along."
1st heard this band a couple of months ago & it was Love-@-1st-Song! Great musicianship, writing, & HIGH-Octane energy! Caught them in Knox., TN 3 wks. ago & they're even better uo close n' live... keep it going you yankee hillbillies!!!!
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