JamBase, Rounder Records and King Wilkie
are excited to giveaway a copy of Low Country Suite and a pair of tickets
to the following dates on King Wilkie's upcoming summer tour!
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King Wilkie Tour Dates:
7.13.2007 | Tin Angel | Philadelphia, PA
7.14.2007 | The Mainstay | Rock Hall, MD
7.18.2007 | Southpaw | Brooklyn, NY
8.9.2007 | The Music Mill | Indianapolis, IN
8.10.2007 | Old Town School of Folk Music | Chicago, IL
8.11.2007 | Patriot Park | Pigeon Forge, TN |
From
the opening notes, King
Wilkie's Low Country Suite announces a new beginning for the
band. Using the same tools that they used to make a splash on the bluegrass
circuit—fiddles, banjos, dobros, string bass, acoustic guitars, and mandolins—they
forge a new sound: the tension and release created by every brush and scrape
of the instruments and the close harmonies of the band's two lead singers
inform brutally honest, poetic songs of dread, exhilaration, and the truth
– and the consequences of denying it.
Since releasing their debut album Broke
in 2004, the six men of King Wilkie, then barely in their twenties, have transitioned
from a classically-styled bluegrass group into something more fluid. In the
years dividing then from now, time passed slowly, songs were written, and
musical boundaries and definitions were set aside. The resulting album "has
a ‘we're not in Kansas anymore' theme," explains co-founder Reid Burgess.
"The main thing was freeing ourselves up stylistically and showing different
sides of the band."
more...
www.kingwilkie.com
www.myspace.com/kingwilkie
www.rounder.com
