Blackalachia, my feature-length conceptual concert film, is out everywhere now. In early 2020, my ba
Blackalachia, my feature-length conceptual concert film, is out everywhere now. In early 2020, my band and I gathered in my home in Western North Carolina, living and breathing together, re-arranging songs from my first 2 albums into a live odyssey. As the year unfurled and international tour was wiped off the schedule, we took to the Appalachian mountains and filmed and recorded Blackalachia. The band congregated in the heat of a lulled summer, with a mere 10 days to learn and re-learn the music. Drums, keys, guitars, double bass, violin, saxophones, trombone. Bees, birds, squirrels, crickets, frogs. Over the course of two hot August days, we filmed 14 songs, totally live, the trees as our audience, the grasshoppers our background singers. Blackalachia is a wild imagining of what can happen when we seek not just to reclaim nature, but to re-integrate with it. -- source link