Artist: The Gravel-Aires Title: National Avenue Year Of Release: 2018 Label: independent Genre: Country, Americana Quality: MP3 / 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks) Total Time: 54:20 Total Size: 126 MB | 372 MB WebSite: Album Preview
The Gravel-Aires - Canadian acoustic country folk rock duet from Vancouver featuring singer/songwriter Mark Branscombe on guitar & harmonica with Michael Mahoney on guitars, dobro & mandolin. 13 original Roots-Americana songs & 1 Lucinda Wiliiams cover.
Tracklist:
01. Last Time (3:22) 02. Pretty Good Day (3:22) 03. Oh My Dear (3:50) 04. How Much Rain (5:02) 05. Man Alive (3:17) 06. National Avenue (4:11) 07. Help Me Hannah (3:19) 08. California (3:22) 09. Blue Star Motel (5:02) 10. Bonnie & Clyde (4:08) 11. Piece of Me (3:31) 12. All Good Things (2:46) 13. People Talkin' (3:55) 14. Sun Is Fallin' (5:13)
Mark Branscombe and Mike Mahoney from Vancouver got together in 2016 to play a few tunes Mark had written and see if they could create some kind of a duet to play local coffee houses bars and college radio shows. As it went they enjoyed playing together a lot and songs got developed and a few more got written as the duet rehearsed for their performances over the year.
On a rainy Vancouver weekend in late 2017 The Gravel-Aires locked themselves into Red Light Recording in East Vancouver with Jesse Waldman engineering and co-producing the 14 tunes that are the National Avenue album. The tunes are free-range alt-country, rock, blues, folk and R&B.The songs are all sung and played live by Mark and Mike with a few overdubs added to sweeten things up for the listener. Our goal was to provide as pure a performance as we could, play without a conventional drums/bass/keyboards rhythm section and keep it interesting for the listener. Real music, played into the air on real guitars by real humans. We hope you'll enjoy a few of our tunes and the collection is a good soundtrack for your road trips.
Mark Branscombe - Acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, vocals Michael Mahoney - Acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin, 6 & 12 string electric guitars The album was mixed by Jesse Waldman and mastered by Jamie Sitar at Outta Town Sound in Winnipeg Produced by The Gravel-Aires and Jesse Waldman All songs SOCAN except "People Talkin"
