The Alternate Root - Discover Roots & Americana Music
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • It's All Music Radio
    • All Reviews/Archives
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact

reviews

watkins family hour

4/24/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Watkins Family Hour (from the album brother sister available on Family Hour Records)
Sara and Sean Watkins present stunning works of art in song, the pair sticking to simple instrumentation for their song portraits on the recent Watkins Family Hour release, brother sister. Creating magnificent soundscapes that soar and burrow (“Snow Tunnel”), percolate on heavy breaths of rhythm (“Just Another Reason”), swirl in a frenzy (“Bella and Ivan”), and whisper (“Neighborhood Name”), the Watkins Family Hour collective become a small circle of friends on the recording. Recalling the intention she had for brother sister as Watkins Family Hour entered the studio, Sara Watkins shared that ‘it felt really good to dig into the potential of two people…the primary goal of this record became to see what we could do when it is just the two of us. The arrangements and the writing were all focused on that. Listening now, I’m really proud of what we did. These are songs that would not have come out of either one of us individually and it feels like a band sound, like this is what we do, the two of us’.
 
In 1989, Sara and Sean Watkins, along with Chris Thile, released their debut album as Nickel Creek, the trio becoming flagbearers for the progressive Bluegrass world that followed their lead. Watkins Family Hour began as an informal musical variety show at Los Angeles cabaret and nightclub, Largo (Largo at the Coronet) in 2002. Celebrating eighteen years in the residency, Watkins Family Hour released their debut album of covers. For brother sister, the pair offer their own material, re-imagining three covers on the album including a tender version of Warren Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr”. Sean Watkins hopes that “Lafayette” remembers him with warmth as the California sun sets in his rear-view mirror, Watkins Family Hour offering the strength of human numbers against troublesome times in “Miles of Desert Sand”. Following guitar and fiddle rambles, brother sister begins its song cycle with a confident stride into first cut “The Cure” as it carves sharp angles with notes and beats for “Fake Badge, Real Gun” while Watkins Family Hour exits the album with a PSA boogie for “Keep It Clean”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Watkins Family Hour from AMAZON
 
Please go to the Watkins Family Hour website for more information
 
 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017

Picture

    subscribe to our newsletter

Submit

To submit music, please mail a copy of your CD to the following address:
Danny McCloskey
The Alternate Root
1717 East Vista Chino
Ste A7 PMB 302
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Contact Us

    we do not share email addresses

Submit

©2021 The Alternate Root All Rights Reserved
website by Jim Cortez jctez12@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Music
    • Top Ten
    • It's All Music Radio
    • All Reviews/Archives
  • Videos
    • Latest Videos
  • The Crate
    • 10 Reasons >
      • Ten Reasons We Love Dr John
  • Seen & Heard
    • Advertise With Us
    • Removal of Content
  • About
  • Contact