Tag: NPR Music

This morning, NPR published an article focused on 11 Oregon artists to watch in 2021, and we are thrilled that Eastern Oregon’s Margo Cilker was included. While we were planning on keeping this one under wraps for a bit, this seems like as good as time as any to announce that we will be working with Margo to release her debut album, this November.

Margo Cilker is a woman who drinks deeply of life, and her debut record Pohorylle, is brimming with it. For the last seven years, the Eastern Oregon songwriter has split her time between the road and various outposts across the world, from Enterprise, OR to the Basque Country of Spain, forging a path that is at once deeply rooted and ever-changing.

The record, which carries gentle nods to Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt, and Gillian Welch, shines under the instincts of producer Sera Cahoone, whom Cilker first came across in 2019 while planning her first full-length. Cahoone quickly got to work assembling a first-rate band: Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists) on keys, Jason Kardong (Sera Cahoone, Son Volt) on pedal steel, Rebecca Young (Lindsey Fuller, Jesse Sykes) on bass, Mirabai Peart (Joanna Newsom) on strings, Kelly Pratt (Beirut) on horns, and the album’s engineer John Morgan Askew (Neko Case, Laura Gibson) on an array of other instruments. The record also prominently features effortless harmonies from Sarah Cilker, Margo Cilker’s sister and frequent touring partner.

Stay tuned for more news in July, when the first single will be premiered by The Bluegrass Situation.

 

We are honored to have David Dondero appear on this week’s episode of NPR’s All Songs Considered. His single “Easy Chair”, from his latest LP, The Filter Bubble Blues, was featured. Give it a listen here, and then pick up the LP.

We’ve still got a few Limited Edition White LPs at the Fluff and Gravy Store, along with black LPs, cds, and digital formats.

 

 

 

 

Anna Tivel’s “Alleyway” clock in at #67 on NPR’s Best 100 songs of 2017 list. Jacob Ganz writes “Anna Tivel has one of those voices that shivers with intimacy, so even when she’s singing about cars and the weather, you lean in to hear how she puts the words together.”

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Anna Tivel’s fourth studio album ‘Small Believer’ is a collection of patchwork stories drawn from conversations with strangers, on the road, in restaurants, bars, and rest stops. Produced by guitar mastermind Austin Nevins (Josh Ritter, Anais Mitchell), the songs float on a raft of electric guitar, pump organ, and sparse bass and drums.

‘Small Believer’ is spacious and honest, a lyric-driven exploration of the things that move within us. Tivel takes great care with every syllable and every story, chipping away until what remains is blindingly true and deeply affecting.

The record is available now on lp, cd and digital formats, as well as at Spotify, iTunes and Amazon.

Limited edition gold vinyl, hand-numbered to 125 is in short supply.