Kitchen Dwellers - Muir Maid '2019

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Shadows
02. Broken Cage
03. Woods Lake
04. Muir Maid
05. The Living Dread
06. Hell to Sunday
07. Phaedrus
08. The Quail
09. Comet
10. Covered Bridges
11. Foundation
12. Driftwood


“This all started as a series of jam sessions in the kitchen,” says
Joe Funk, bassist for the breakout progressive bluegrass band Kitchen Dwellers.
“We were getting together to play covers and traditional music and
old-time tunes for fun after school, and everything else just evolved from
there.”

For Kitchen Dwellers, everything else,” as Funk so modestly puts it, has
been nothing short of remarkable. In the near decade they’ve been
together, the Montana-based four-piece has performed for thousands at Red Rocks,
shared bills with the likes of Railroad Earth, The Infamous String Dusters, and
Twiddle, graced festival stages from Northwest String Summit to
WinterWonderGrass, and transcended traditional genre boundaries, blending
virtuosic bluegrass wizardry with ecstatic rock and roll energy and adventurous
psychedelia. With their spectacular new album, ‘Muir Maid,’ the
group has come fully into their own, seamlessly blending the past, present, and
future of string band music to create their most daring and collaborative work
yet.

“This is the first record with all four of us contributing to the writing
together,” says guitarist Max Davies, “and the songs really reflect
that. You can hear each of our different backgrounds and influences in the
music, and you can also hear how much we’ve grown in the last few years
on the road, both as individuals and as a band.”

Produced by The Infamous Stringdusters’ Chris Pandolfi, ‘Muir
Maid’ is built around live performances that capture the intoxicating
energy of band’s concerts and showcase their dazzling musicianship,
airtight harmonies, and transportive storytelling. Lightning-fast fretwork and
brilliant solos abound on the record, but far from showing off, the instrumental
pyrotechnics here always come in service of the song, a guiding principal for
the group.

“The person who wrote a particular tune isn’t always the one who
ends up singing it,” says Davies, who shares vocal duties with all three
of his bandmates. “We base every decision off of what’s going to be
best for the track, and to me, that’s the true definition of
collaboration.”

‘Muir Maid’ follows Kitchen Dwellers’ acclaimed 2017 LP,
‘Ghost In The Bottle,’ which was produced by Leftover
Salmon’s Andy Thorn and featured a slew of special guests, including
Little Feat’s Bill Payne and Greensky Bluegrass’s Anders Beck.
Tracks from the record racked up more than a million streams on Spotify and
garnered rave reviews across the board, with The Huffington Post hailing the
band as “a bluegrass phenomenon” and Relix praising the unique way
the group’s songwriting “embrac[es] their love of electronica,
metal…and everything in between.”

Kitchen Dwellers are:
Max Davies – Guitar
Joe Funk – Bass
Torrin Daniels – Banjo
Shawn Swain - Mandolin

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