Banjo player and broadcaster Joe Mullins gathers his IBMA Award-winning Radio Ramblers at the storied Butcher Shoppe recording studio in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood to lament the woes of wandering the Wild West for their Sitch Session performance of “Long Gone Out West Blues.”
Catch Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers at this year’s Huck Finn Jubilee in Ontario, California October 5-7. The revival of this iconic southern California bluegrass festival will include the Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Balsam Range, and many, many more. Tickets are available here.
Shot and directed by Nathan Shuppert; edited by Melissa Kane.
Courtney Marie Andrews quickly engages the listener with an expressive voice, an acoustic guitar, and a disarming talent for songwriting. Her perspective is honest and inviting as she reflects on her own life story, as well as those from family and friends she’s met along the way. Andrews teamed with director/editor Richard Downie at his studio in downtown Los Angeles to film “Took You Up,” a stunning song from the Arizona native’s newest album, May Your Kindness Remain.
Directed and edited by Richard Downie
The Weather Station — aka Tamara Lindeman & Co. — offers us a track from their recent self-titled release. “Thirty” captures the memories of emptiness and change that come with early adulthood, with a sound that’s as moody and atmospheric as the Ontario landscape from which they hail.
Shot in Philadelphia, PA by Wonderscope Productions
We go out on a limb for a Sitch Session with I’m With Her performing “Ain’t That Fine,” filmed inside the Fairmont Park Horticulture Center in Philadelphia. The acoustic supergroup of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins will branch out all across the US this summer and fall, touring in support of their debut album, See You Around.
Edited and directed by Wonderscope
Equal parts cutting and gauzy, alt-folk upstart Jamie Drake’s lilting vibrato is the centerpiece of her Sitch Session performance of “Allison.”
Keeping things as simple as they come, Andrew Combs arms himself with only a quiet guitar, a heartfelt song, and an aching voice for his Sitch Session performance of “Firestarter,” a new, as-yet-unreleased tune.
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Videos by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
We all know that the talent of Rhiannon Giddens knows very few bounds. Just to prove it, though, she hopped into a 1954 Silverstreak Trailer in East Nashville to perform a gorgeous rendition of “Mal Hombre.” You can’t listen to her roll an “r” and not be convinced that she could do sang dang thang she wants … really well.
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Videos by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
For this Sitch Sesh, the five fine members of Mipso piled into a 1954 Silverstreak Trailer in East Nashville to perform “Coming Down the Mountain” off their 2017 album of the same name. Along the way, they show us how the string band thing ought to always be done.
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Videos by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
While singer/songwriter Lilly Hiatt rocks pretty hard on her Trinity Lane LP, she unplugs for her Sitch Session performance of that album’s “Different, I Guess,” nestled among buds and blooms in a 1954 Silverstreak Trailer in East Nashville.
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Videos by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
For Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge’s Sitch Session performance of “Rygar,” florist Carrie Crowell turned a 1954 Silverstreak Trailer into what she describes as something of a “hobbit hovel, underground forest situation.” The two guitarists seem right at home — and right at ease — as they settle in amongst the greenery and blossoms to work through the tune.
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Video by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
