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.
“We’re members of an elite group because we’re still around, we’re still traveling,” Emmylou Harris jokes. To which Rodney Crowell adds with a laugh, “We traveled so far, it became a song.” The two then settle into a 1954 Silverstreak Trailer parked in East Nashville to perform the title track off their 2016 album of duets, The Traveling Kind. And life is just a little bit sweeter for all.
Carrie Crowell, of Crowell Floral, designed the set specifically for the pair. “We used blue and white delphinium, purple scabiosa, and white calcynia in this installation,” she says, “to represent a celestial great-beyond and provide a welcoming otherworldly quality … a resting place for the traveling kind.”
The Silverstreak Sessions: Florals by Crowell Floral; Video by Jacob Blumberg; Audio by Dan Knobler.
Ah, love. There’s no heart it can’t cower, no genre it can’t conquer. With this Sitch Session, the Lil Smokies offer up “Miss Marie” as evidence to support both those facts.
Catch the Lil Smokies on the Campfire Caravan tour as they make their way across the country through November 2017, presented by BGS.
Directed and edited by Richard Downie
