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Karin McLaughlin: <\/strong>Melody Walker was nice enough to call in right before sound check of the bands gig and talk a little bit about what they have going on leading up to Charm City Bluegrass<\/p>\n

Melody Walker:<\/strong> Hi<\/p>\n

KM: <\/strong>Born in San Francisco, CA this band doesn\u2019t come from a typical place where you would think of associating bluegrass music with but you guys have made it work.  Tell me about the scene out in San Fran for bluegrass bands \u2013 you guys were actually labeled \u2018Roots Pop\u2019.  It\u2019s obvious that your sound pays homage to the roots of bluegrass, but give me a bit of a background as I\u2019m not really familiar with that area related to bluegrass music.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Anna Webber<\/p>\n

MW: <\/strong>Yeah, this band is definitely rooted in bluegrass.  We started out as more of a bluegrass band invite jam in the Mission District in San Francisco.  There were actually a few places that were doing monthly and weekly bluegrass jams and nights and that\u2019s kind of the scene we came up in.  We all played in different bands and just happen to come together in this configuration for a particular monthly gig.  We started playing, and I think we were all just impressed with the sound we were coming up with so we decided to enter band competitions in Colorado.  We wanted to see if we could take it further than California and see if it could be a national thing and make a mark for the San Francisco bluegrass scene.  It really is a thing \u2013 we have the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park that\u2019s free and it\u2019s tons of people.  You\u2019ve got Del McCoury, Laurie Lois and EmmyLou Harris that play every year.  It\u2019s a fun scene and it\u2019s been going on for a while.  I grew up in the Bay Area going to see bluegrass band \u2013 my dad used to pick bluegrass with his friends \u2013 it\u2019s definitely a thing.<\/p>\n

KM:  <\/strong>Nice. You mentioned it, but you guys did just seem to be playing together for fun until you played on the stage at Telluride and entered the band competition, winning first place and then boom!  How did things change after that whole experience?<\/p>\n

MW: <\/strong>After that, we got our first booking agent and got offered to play a few festivals that had a habit of taking a chance on young, up and coming bands.  Actually, we\u2019re down in Texas right now and we\u2019re about to play the Old Settlers Bluegrass Festival for the first time in 4 years.  They were one of the ones, 4 years ago, that took a chance on us and booked us and gave us our first summer festival outside of California.<\/p>\n

KM:<\/strong> So everything is coming full circle?<\/p>\n

MW:<\/strong> Totally, yeah.  We\u2019re coming back to Old Settlers, we did Wondergrass again \u2013 they were another one of the first ones that took a chance on Front Country.  It feels good to start being a staple at some of these festivals.  We got to go back to Rocky Grass in Colorado for the first time this last summer so we\u2019re kind of in our second round of going around the festival circuit and not being at the very bottom of the poster this time.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Anna Webber<\/p>\n

KM: <\/strong>I really enjoy your original music but also some of the covers that you guys have done \u2013 Boys of Summer, for one.  What\u2019s something that you guys really want to rip on stage that you haven\u2019t gotten to \u2013 something that you think you could bring a whole new sound to?<\/p>\n

MW: <\/strong>Oh my gosh, well I don\u2019t want to give anything away that we might\u2019ve been thinking about doing because we\u2019re doing this kitchen covers series, where we do cover songs and we do them in a kitchen, it\u2019s really kind of self-explanatory (laughs).  But we\u2019ve thought about doing everything from Lady Gaga to Red Hot Chili Peppers to, what else is on the plate \u2013 Peter Gabriel, the band Haim \u2013 we\u2019re really big fans of them.<\/p>\n

KM: <\/strong>Other Love Songs \u2013 that whole album is just so heartfelt and written almost entirely by you, right?<\/p>\n

MW: <\/strong>Yeah, the majority of the songs on the record are written by me and then Adam Roszkiewicz that plays the mandolin, he writes most of the instrumentals so he wrote the two instrumentals on the record.<\/p>\n

KM:  <\/strong>How long was the road to that record being written, recorded and performed live.  What was the process like in a nutshell?<\/p>\n

MW:<\/strong>  Well, as a song writer, I\u2019ll have songs that are 5 or 10 years old \u2013 pieces of them, you know, that I come back to and finally finish.  It\u2019s like this grand, lifetime sport, you know? (laughs)  So yeah \u2013 some of those songs were from bits that were really old and some were new and we started piecing it together.  Basically, I sent a sound cloud around to the band with maybe 20 originals of mine for them to pick from and then people kind of emailed their favorites and then we widdled it down to maybe of 10 of them and then, I think 8 of them went on the record.  That\u2019s generally how we do it.  It was 2 years after we made our first record, Sake of the Sound, and then it\u2019ll probably be another 2 year gap between Other Love Songs and whatever happens next.  We have tentative plans to record in early next year.<\/p>\n

KM:  <\/strong>Well, that answers one of my next questions and you also kind of mentioned it, but you guys have a pretty busy summer \u2013 what are you doing to get ready for all the shows and festivals that you have coming up?<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Anna Webber<\/p>\n

MW:<\/strong> We\u2019ve been focusing a lot on our live shows.  This winter we took some time off, we took almost all of January off and did some sound stage time in Nashville.  That\u2019s one of the great things about Nashville, there\u2019s so many professional music places and sound stages that you can work with.  We rented out a sound stage and tried a bunch of new gear, got more stuff on our pedal boards, and we\u2019re kind of going further and further away from what any traditional bluegrasser might enjoy but we don\u2019t really constrain ourselves in that way.  I\u2019m bringing the pandero into the band which is a Brazilian tambourine, sort of mic\u2019d up and that\u2019s adding a drum kit kind of sound.  We\u2019ve been trying out new gear and new sound stuff, really shaping our live sound and getting some new songs on the stage.  That\u2019s our goal this whole year is to get some of the new songs that we might want to record on the stage, really worked in live before we record them.  We didn\u2019t really get a chance to do that with the last one but we\u2019ve been touring so much that we kind of have that opportunity.  We\u2019re trying to take time off \u2013 in June we\u2019re gonna take almost the whole month off and do more rehearsing and getting new material together so that we can put it on stage all summer.  Then hopefully by the time that we record early next year, everything will just be like riding a bike.<\/p>\n

KM: <\/strong>Great.  I\u2019m a big fan of the new record and I\u2019m definitely going to try catching you soon when you\u2019re in the area \u2013 you\u2019ve got Charm City Bluegrass Festival and then you\u2019re back around again at AMP up in Bethesda I think.   I know you have to go since you have sound check but thanks so much for letting us get some time with you.<\/p>\n

MW: <\/strong>Of course, thanks so much!<\/p>\n

Front Country are scheduled to perform on Saturday, April 28, 2018 <\/strong>at the Charm City Bluegrass Festival<\/a> at the 8×10 And Union Craft Brewing Stages between 1:45P M and 2:50 PM.<\/p>\n

To learn more about  Front Country you can visit their website<\/a> or Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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