Beaches And Bridges

A blend of folk, country & americana from San Francisco-based group. Spiced up with some steel guitar, wurlitzer, and many effects. According to the promo material, the album also contains "Fine Folk Traditions, Space Blankets, Noisy Blessings, and a Few History Lessons." They're drawing from all over the place, but tying it all together quite nicely. All tracks listenable, most enjoyable. Try 3, 2, 10, 7. FCC clean.

1) Atmospheric and lovely. Starts up slowly, lots of reverb on vox.
2)* Soulful lullaby w/ heavy kick drum, percussive guitar.
3)** Terrific banjo & harmonies lead this beautiful tune. Great!
4) Catchy blues rock. Steel guitar drives this one.
5) E-bowed electric guitar! Faint Paula Frazier backing vocals!
6)* More atmospheric guitars, a soft tune. Indie with psych yearnings.
7) More accessibly rock tune, driven by percussion.
8) Lovely, dark– lots of banjo.
9)* Slow, meditative, very nice folk with a touch of psych.
10*More upbeat, nice harmonies; straightforward indie folk