Featuring:
Ethan Daniel Davidson - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, piano, electric kalimba, concertina, bullroarer, hurdy gurdy
Gretchen Gonzales - electric guitar, 12 string guitar, vocals
Warren Defever - electric bass, organ, marimba, cymbals, vocals, harmonium, percussion, vibraphone, slide guitar
Jordan Schug - upright bass, bass, horsehead cello, wurlitzer, strings, sarod
Scott Michalski - drums, vocals
Steve Nistor - drums, percussion
J Rowe - percussion, gong, timpani
Pete Ballard - pedal steel
Benjamin Teague - mandolin
Johnny Evans - tenor saxophone
Julie Benjamin Peterhans, Erika Hoffman, Kara Meister, Lovetta Pippen, Leigh Sabo - backing vocals
ABOUT:
Ethan Daniel Davidson’s Come Down Lonesome is a haunting journey through the dark passages and deserted plains of Americana. On his latest studio album, Davidson pays homage to American folk traditions and legends with reimagined songs by Blind Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, and Cowboy Joe Babcock, along with traditional songs and his original songs. Davidson’s own finely crafted compositions place him squarely in this esteemed lineage. But, not one to be confined by tradition, his albums reveal a troubadour with an adventurous spirit. Produced by his wife, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson of Slumber Party, and Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive, Davidson creates sonic landscapes that blanket the rural South and West in a psychedelic haze. On the Dylan cover “I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine” Davidson’s wistful vocals pierce through crackling guitars and feedback, like a transmission from the distant past, while hints of noir inflect “The Longest Train,” a tale of murder and punishment, as he sings “Diminish me/Come finish me.” The traditional “Leaving Cheyenne” brings to mind Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris, and the spare “I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water” closes the album not with a bang but with quiet reflection. It sees Davidson at his plaintive best, with just a guitar and his voice. One of the great folk singer-songwriters working today, Ethan Daniel Davidson’s music takes its listeners far beyond his native Detroit, through America’s musical past and into realms of mortality and myth, love and loneliness.
Purchase your copy at Blue Arrow Records