Daniel Young x Hollering Pines
- Doors
- 7pm
- Show
- 8pm
- Ages
- 21+
Description
Daniel Young
Daniel Young is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, drummer, sound engineer, and producer from Salt Lake City. He grew up on the side of a tall mountain, and that sense of forceful elevation informs all of his work. Daniel's been recording and performing for over two decades—and he's not that old, which tells you much of what you need to know about his commitment to craft, about how deep this runs with him.
Who knows? On his soul-stretching, sometimes anguished fourth album, Leave It Out to Dry, Daniel Young finds his way to this question, over and over again. Through a heady stew of psych cowboy laments, Dead-style sideways rambles, and sagebrush pharmaceuticals, Leave It Out to Dry is Young's rawest, most expansive adventure yet. The medium matches the message: Young is looking at the great beyond; Young's music is becoming the great beyond. And, like the man said, sometimes when you stare into the abyss, it returns your gaze. Or sometimes, Young seems to acknowledge, you sing to it and it sounds back.
The familiar influences are still there—country and western, early-70 r-&-r, observational songwriting á la John Prine—but they are filtered through something gnarlier, more unsettled. In other words, there's an urgency and a ragged edge to many of the cuts here that feels like a breakthrough. "Here Comes the Flood," for instance, finds Young at the edge of a new territory—sonically, spiritually—reaching outward, still reaching. Or the twin-guitar-lead, heavy-mic-bleed of "Help Us Get Along," a horn-driven plea that charges toward solace.
Tracked mostly live in the basement of Orchard Studio, Leave It Out to Dry adds another length to the winding track of American song and sound that Young has been building for over half his life.
Hollering Pines
Salt Lake City Americana band, The Hollering Pines, are as good a proof as you’ll find of music’s magic still being found in the sound of specific people—real, live, in the moment, breathing the same air—playing music together in one room. That’s what you get whether they are playing live, or on their fourth album, Here’s To Hoping. Nothing sounds quite like the gene-spliced, impossibly beautiful sister harmonies of Marie Bradshaw and Kiki Jane Sieger (guesting on vocals from her new home in Oregon), two powerhouse singers in their own right but—in the tradition of the Everlys, Andrews, the Chicks, and Welch/Rawlings—an entirely other powerful thing when singing together. The same goes for the complementary guitar interplay between guitarists M. Horton Smith and Dylan Schorer. On Here’s To Hoping, that sound sometimes expands beyond the countrified Americana sound of their previous records, bordering at times on roots-rock territory typical of artists like Tom Petty, Sheryl Crow, and even Fleetwood Mac. Maybe part of that evolution comes from the rhythm section’s new additions: Marcus Bently on bass and Jagoda on drums, and maybe it’s just the sound of a band that knows where they’ve been and where they’re going. What’s inarguable is the fact that it sounds just like The Hollering Pines, underpinned as always by rock solid, rootsy, hooky story-driven songwriting.