Twisted Pine plays the Parlor Room
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Parlor Room (32 Masonic St., Northampton, MA 01060, Northampton MA)
Contemporary songwriting stringband Twisted Pine will perform live — Kathleen Parks on fiddle and lead vox, Dan Bui on mandolin, Chris Sartori on bass and Anh Phung on flute. Everybody sings.
Released in the Summer of 2020, Right Now is a cosmic map of new and glistening journeys, Twisted Pine says — the Boston-based spacecraft of a band that was once bluegrass but is now “something else, a wider version of a stringband, boundary jumpers akin to outfits like Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and Crooked Still [The Boston Globe].”
The soundscape for this full-length sophomore release has all the astral flute and shoobedoos of 70s radio, the band says — “Punch Brothers meets Jean-Luc Ponty and Ian Anderson [Jethro Tull],” writes Folk Alley of the instrumental track “Amadeus Party.”
the elements of earthling mountain music. “Right Now” aims to shut the careless mouth of an ex. “Papaya” whispers, “Don’t just pass me right by.” “Dreamaway” describes a faith that comes and goes. “Don’t Come Over Tonight” demands a night off from a guy’s opinions. The covers pay homage to Father John Misty and Tex Logan, two points that intersect the plane of this exquisite world.
Twisted Pine plays under the influence of explorers Jerry Douglas (with whom the band occasionally tours), Bela Fleck, Sierra Hull, Billy Strings, The Wood Brothers, and Lake Street Dive and Crooked Still (label mates at Signature Sounds Recordings). Right Now was produced by Twisted Pine and by Dan Cardinal at Dimension Sound in Jamaica Plain.