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BIO:
Moonsville Collective is a Southern California band that writes songs shoveled from the soil that surrounds them. During an age of short attention spans and speedy business, the band draws their inspiration from a simple well and holds firm to the truth that good songs can hold a person’s hand through hard times.
As young nomads from the suburbs of Los Angeles, they began their musical fostering by allowing themselves to be adopted into the Central California scene, sitting in on jug band and old-time music circles where an infectious and pure spirit of “music for music’s sake” lived. Injecting that same spirit into their songs and their lives became their quest. Moonsville, like a train station, always had players and characters stopping in from time to time to play, drink, chat and record. Although recent recognition has ushered them onto bigger stages, the band’s roots will always find harvest in low-lit bars, and drunken alleys and the hobo lullabies.
Before 2017, the band recorded 2 studio albums, toured the country, and played countless shows sharing the stage with The White Buffalo, Charlie Parr and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others. Moonsville pulls poetry from their LA home terrain, riddled with potholed streets and rusted jukeboxes, and also from their out-of-city get-aways, to create a field where their songs can sprout.
In a focus to bottle their current prolificacy, Moonsville has committed to recording and releasing 4 EP’s (20 songs) in 2017. With multi-instrumentalists and several songwriters in the band, they keep their Americana style variable; always open to experimentation and the blurring of genre lines. One of the songwriters, Corey Adams says; “II is different than I in that we kept the instrumentation intentionally limited to see what we could do with less options.”
This second release of the quarterly EP’s exhibits band’s storytelling. From a head-bobbing sea song about the ebb and flow of infatuation and misty dock love; to a song that undulates like the hills of the California coast and, asks questions and comforts the Beloved. Moonsvil
