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released April 18, 2024
THE STARS, IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY Track Listing
The Stars, If You Look Closely (A. Carswell, N. Budge)
The Other Side (J. Bartholomeusz, N. Budge)
Dollar In My Hand (J. Bartholomeusz)
Lonesome Valley (J. Bartholomeusz)
Nightfall (N. Budge)
Better Left Unsaid (N. Budge)
Heading West (J. Bartholomeusz, N. Budge)
Brother (N. Budge)
Angel’s Hand (A. Carswell, N. Budge, The Stetson Family)
Make Me Ashes (N. Budge)
Mama’s Gonna Take You Home (J. Bartholomeusz)
“The album is a rich collection of beautifully crafted and performed songs, bursting with heart, soul and harmony.”— Brian Nankervis, ABC Radio Melbourne “Friday Revue”
This album is a mix of Bluegrass, Folk, mountain music and Americana. The Victorian band presents us with their 4th album. Some of them were part of a band in the 80’s which was far from this kind of music.
Fifteen years after they broke up, they met up again and started discussing the music from O Brother, Where Art Thou.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Aussies are adaptable. We can take a genre (bluegrass in this case) and remain faithful to the original but put our own spin on it.
Our current Queen of Bluegrass, Kristy Cox, has the number one album on the charts in the U.S.A. There is nothing to say that The Stetson Family can’t do the same.
This band are not blood family but they gel together like a close one.
They lost one member, sadly and Greg Field was brought in, a pretty well known muso around Melbourne.
The band is very polished and obviously comfortable with each other. Nadine can belt out a husky tune and then she can sing a sweet refrain.
The instrumental, Nightfall, is stunning.
Better Left Unsaid is probably my favourite track but they are all easy to listen to and enjoyable.
The pace and rhythm vary from track to track but not too dramatically. There are some dark tunes and happy ones.
Hats off to The Stetson Family.
Cowgirlup 