Coloradans may recognize Twisted Pine \[Boston/Toronto\] from summer festivals including Telluride Bluegrass, RockyGrass, MeadowGrass and Winter Wondergrass. Defining what this band does is ... complicated in a blissful way. The Boston Globe called them "boundary jumpers." The Boston Herald calls the music "progressive bluegrass or maybe chamber folk, or prog rock, or jazz fusion or just pop with an experimental bent." Whatever you call it, NPR called Twisted Pine "definitely a band to watch."
Twisted Pine is stoked to be coming for the first time to The Lariat, touring their joyous new LP, Love Your Mind. Released from the East Coast label Signature Sounds Recordings the album represents a more expansive sound than ever, after years of touring, serious introspection, bouts of self-doubt, glorious bursts of creativity, and many after-hour festival jam sessions and pickin’ till dawn.
Co-produced by Twisted Pine and longtime-collaborator Dan Cardinal at his studio Dimension Sound in Boston, Love Your Mind is loaded with experimental production, fearless songwriting featuring input from each member, finely-crafted collaborative arrangements, playing that’s virtuosic and visceral. It's a reflection of what the band listens to. It’s buoyant pop and delicate folk, raging old-time energy, and old-school R&B grooves. Here's video of the ethereal single "Goosebump Feeling" filmed in Toronto.
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On vinyl and on stage, the sound of Twisted Pine is unmistakable, exuberant, daring.
What started as a semi-trad bluegrass band in the trenches of the storied folk, bluegrass, and Americana scene in Boston a decade ago has bloomed into an ensemble of players who shapeshift across genres.
Chris Sartori's upright bass anchors everything with an undeniable, articulate groove. Dan Bui's mandolin is thick, crisp, and propulsive. Kathleen Parks' fiddle and Anh Phung's flute are at constant play, often augmented with effects pedals for layered musical textures, psychedelic sounds, and wild solo trading, somewhere in the territory between bluegrass and jazz. Out in front of the ensemble, Parks’ lead vocals are an instrument unto herself: equal parts mystery, power, haunt, and a search for the edges. And she's surrounded on all sides by the voices of her bandmates, who bring on whatever harmonies, unities, whistles, and howls the night requires.
In a world that needs TLC more than ever, Twisted Pine offers a night of exultant travels across genres, across time, to mountains, cities, roadhouses, and back porches where songs bring tenderness, love and relief. All in all, this album and this tour bring the sound of a band that invites you to Love Your Mind.
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