"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.", urges Thoreau.
Then why shouldn't musicians be named after some of the 'fairest features' of our landscape? Christen then, the band, Angela Faye Martin & The Scarlet Oak Sway -- inspired by the overhill spectres atop the Nantahala mountain range of western North Carolina.
Angela Faye Martin and her band, The Scarlet Oak Sway thus assembled, embark from their rural base to sail the furrowed lands of the southeastern U.S. debuting Angela's first full-length LP, PICTURES FROM HOME (Totemgirl, 2009), with the indie-music legend Sparklehorse aka, Mark Linkous producing and collaborating.
AFM & The Scarlet Oak Sway have been generously harbored by those who seek their brand of haunting "lit & grit rock" since their successful debut at The Grey Eagle Music Hall, last fall. They have burned bright building their fan-base from loyal western North Carolinians and outward ever since.
Having first cut multiple demos, a solo-acoustic EP in 2005, formerly performing as a lone singer-songwriter, Angela has built a band, a unique vessel, comprised of talented woods-rockers, living a paradigm apart from the traditional city-musicians, among the very lands, people and ghostly histories that inspire songs she's written.
This band's performance of the LP, PICTURES FROM HOME has been described as "Early 70's Stones feeling" and "better than the album" by some of the most stalwart studio-philes. The band's ghost ship navigates through subtle shifts while staying true to the production with infectious esprit de corp making a show with Angela Faye Martin & The Scarlet Oak Sway a voyage worth taking.
Instrumentation
Angela Faye Martin, guitar & vocals; Chris Cooper - lead guitar; Jeff Southerland - keyboards; Joseph Massie - bass guitar; Adam Woleslagle - drums