Salt for Salt the latest full-length from Providence, RI’s Brown Bird is being released October 18th, 2011 on Supply & Demand Music (Dark Dark Dark, Vandaveer).
Recorded live to tape in Pawtucket, RI, Salt for Salt is the first album by Brown Bird to capture the intense energy of the duo’s live show, surging in waves that often swell into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness.
Paring down from five musicians on their last album to the duo of David Lamb and MorganEve Swain on Salt For Salt resulted in some necessary instrument changes. Swain, a lifelong violinist, spends most of the album on cello and double bass, instruments she picked up in the past two years. Lamb has a kick drum and woodblock/tambourine rigged to a second pedal in front of him, using his whole body and voice to carry the rhythm and melody simultaneously.
Brown BIrd have released the first single from the album, Fingers to the Bone, which you can listen to below:
Brown Bird – Fingers to the Bone
Brown Bird is playing at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, July, 31 at 11:30am on the Harbor Stage.
–Chrissy Prisco