Wendigo, by Penny & Sparrow

Wendigo

by Penny & Sparrow

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1.	Wendigo 02:17	buy track
2.	Double Heart 03:36	buy track
3.	There's A Lot Of Us In Here 04:05	buy track
4.	Salome & Saint Procula 04:21	buy track
5.	Part 1 Visiting 03:58	buy track
6.	Part 2 Smitten 03:52	buy track
7.	Kin 03:24	buy track
8.	A Kind of Hunger 03:49	buy track
9.	Well You Know It Ends Well 01:12	buy track
10.	Javert 01:35	buy track
11.	Part 3 Moniker 03:23	buy track
12.	Rivertown 01:05	buy track
13.	Let Me Be Crucial 00:38	buy track
14.	The Carmike 02:57	buy track

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Arriving a year and a half after Let a Lover Drown You, their Muscle Shoals recorded, John Paul White produced last album, Wendigo was born from healing and heat. Having moved to Florence to record in the Single Lock studio, Baxter and Jahnke found themselves with time off in their first boiling Alabama summer. Exhausted from touring and life-weary in general, the duo turned to songwriting for catharsis. A makeshift recording rig was set up in the living room of their shared home and the duo began workshopping song after song. Over the course of that summer, while their wives (and a dog named Gator) bustled around the microphone during sessions, the bones of the record were set. The original plan was to listen to the rough tracks and eventually redo everything cleaner. That desire changed though as they fell in love with the honest sounds of cooking, old door hinges, silverware clinking, and the rest of their Alabama home noise. As affection for the demo’s grew, Baxter and Jahnke realized that they wanted to keep as much of them as possible. Thus, listening to Wendigo is hearing the honest soundtrack for a real season in the life of two families. The footsteps, the creaking and the din of supper prep heard throughout the songs all reinforce the sense of integrity that has long been a staple of the band. Releasing on September 1, 2017, Wendigo will be Penny and Sparrow’s 5th full-length album. Beginning as therapeutic demos in northern Alabama and ending as a fully realized project at Jacobie’s home studio in San Antonio,TX, this record leaves the duo smirking and feeling accomplished.

The creature with which this album shares its name is a shape shifter. One moment it looks completely normal and the next it’s all fangs and gore. In an instant it can slip it’s skin and go back and forth from ominous and ugly to hope and lovely. Life can be like that. Hell, we can be like that. Knowing this, Penny and Sparrow offer Wendigo as the flashlight you can arm yourself with. Use it to see what’s worth fearing and what was actually beautiful all along. Shine it into whatever patch of darkness scares you. For better or worse, at least you’ll know what’s there.

credits

released September 1, 2017

Andy Baxter: Vocals
Kyle Jahnke: Guitar and BGV
Jon Paul Ruggieri: Lap Steel, Slide Guitar
Alex Page: Violin, Viola
Mitchell Webb: French Horn

All songs written by: Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke
Produced by: Chris Jacobie, Kyle Jahnke & Andy Baxter
Engineered and Mixed by: Chris Jacobie
Mastered by: Chris Bethea
Album packaging by: Steven Bedingfield
Album front & back cover painting by: Rachel Walter
Side A/Side B Vinyl art by: Nathanael Smith

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Penny and Sparrow Austin, Texas

Penny and Sparrow are Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, from the heart of Texas.

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Apr 7

Jefferson Theater

Charlottesville, VA
Apr 9

Rams Head On Stage

Annapolis, MD
Apr 10

Thunderbird Café & Music Hall

Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 11

The Ark

Ann Arbor, MI
Apr 12

Ludlow Garage

Cincinnati, OH
Apr 14

The Burl

Lexington, KY
Apr 16

The Orange Peel

Asheville, NC
Apr 17

The Ramkat

Winston-Salem, NC
Apr 18

Bijou Theatre

Knoxville, TN
Apr 18

Riverfront Park

North Charleston, SC

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