Kitchen Dwellers Share ‘The Crow And The Raven (III)’ Single Featuring Lindsay Lou, John Mailander & More

Kitchen Dwellers released a new single/video, “The Crow And The Raven (III),” featuring vocalist Lindsay Lou, fiddler John Mailander and cellist Kaitlin Raitts. The track is set for the Bozeman, Montana-based bluegrass quartet’s upcoming album, Seven Devils, arriving March 1 via No Coincidence Records.

Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s classic work the Divine Comedy and its voyage through the Nine Circles of Hell, songs on Kitchen Dwellers’ Seven Devils similarly explore the Seven Deadly Sins. The band previously released singles “Seven Devils (Limbo)” and “Pendulum (V).” KD now follows with “The Crow And The Raven (III),” written by mandolin player Shawn Swain.

Swain detailed the latest single:

“I wrote ‘The Crow and The Raven’ in the spring of 2018 after undergoing the end of a relationship. A lot of things came to mind in the process, but the thing I most commonly thought about was how sometimes a person’s intent may be misleading. You may not actually know who they are. It doesn’t mean they’re a bad person, but sometimes people don’t feel comfortable enough in themselves to show you who they really are. Sometimes those subtleties are hard to make out. The comparison came forth in deciphering a crow from a raven and how there are only a few differences that can only be made out at a close distance. The metaphor inspired the song. I returned to the piece in 2022 and worked on it with my friend, Elliott Blaufuss who helped me to see the story from the audience’s point of view better. I’m extremely proud of the way this came together… it’s got a massive feeling that’s grown so much from the sound of the little camp guitar it was written on.”

“The Crow And The Raven (III)” arrived with an accompanying music video directed by filmmaker Kayla Arend, whose graduate thesis at NYU Tisch School of the Arts — the award-winning Leaving Yellowstone — was executive produced by Spike Lee.

“I am really proud of this one,” Kayla said of “The Crow And The Raven (III)” video. “It is a beautifully heartbreaking representation of Old West meeting New West, in this new world of 2024. This clash of cultures has been accelerated and exacerbated by the pandemic and the struggle of what it means to be an American today. Cowboys are purely an American thing, but what does it mean when our definition of the West is changing?”

Watch the video for “The Crow And The Raven (III)” below: