Noelle & The Deserters - High Desert Daydream (2024) [Hi-Res]

Noelle and The Deserters bring South-Western honky tonk and songs of heartbreak from the high deserts of New Mexico to the golden hills of California. Fronted by singer-songwriter Noelle Fiore, their music draws inspiration from the likes of Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, J.J Cale, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and the great outlaw country players. The Deserters include seasoned players Graham Norwood (Bryan Scary, Graham Norwood) on guitar, Alicia Vanden Heuvel (The Aislers Set) on bass, David Cuetter (Tarnation) on pedal steel, and Jerry Fiore (Sonic Love Affair)on drums, all based in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Fiore was raised in Taos, New Mexico. As a guitar player and vocalist, she was a founding member of Sweet Chariot, singing and playing guitar / banjo. Later, she and Tim Cohen (The Fresh and Onlys) founded the band Magic Trick, recording four full length albums for labels Hardly Art and Captured Tracks. Fiore is also a current member of the Shannon Shaw Band, on guitar and vocals. High Desert Daydream is Noelle and The Deserters debut album, out on Speakeasy Studios SF. The songs on the album, written by Fiore, touch on life in the west, growing up in Taos, living in California, songs of love, memory, marriage, work, good times, and bad times. Like all classic country music, the songs are infused with a sense of real-life struggles and living life in the everyday. Fiore’s incredible voice carries the album, and her songs are at once moving, powerful, tender, humorous, and intimately relatable. Produced by Noelle Fiore and Alicia Vanden Heuvel, High Desert Daydream feels country, yet of the west, of California and New Mexico, of experimental fronts in country music, and is truly a work of beauty.

Noelle Fiore - vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Graham Norwood - electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
Jerry Fiore - drums and percussion
Alicia Vanden Heuvel - bass and vocals
David Cuetter - pedal steel
Anna Hillburg - trumpet
Joel Robinow - piano and organ
Jacob Aranda - mandolin and violin
Paige Anderson - banjo
Russell Tillitt - organ
Levon & Delta - barks

Tracklist:
1.01 - Noelle & The Deserters - Born in the Morning (3:38)
1.02 - Noelle & The Deserters - Church Of Dog (4:02)
1.03 - Noelle & The Deserters - Our Loves Got A Cold (3:47)
1.04 - Noelle & The Deserters - Taos (5:12)
1.05 - Noelle & The Deserters - A Way Back (4:42)
1.06 - Noelle & The Deserters - Some Men (3:50)
1.07 - Noelle & The Deserters - Watching Billboards Change (3:01)
1.08 - Noelle & The Deserters - Canyon (4:21)
1.09 - Noelle & The Deserters - Now I've Got You (4:35)
1.10 - Noelle & The Deserters - Wonder Why I Wander (5:02)