Old Town/New stealth venue Cabaret Voltaire – corrals visiting transatlantic troubadours, Wild Ponies.
The Edinburgh Reporter was asked if we were picking-up on Americana outfit Wild Ponies`album Galax after Bob Harris’ Radio 2 show just recently? Darn, it has been near to driving the office dargon’ Nashville nuts ever since! Even better, they are gigging at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire this very November 10th. Some gushing praise precedes them.
‘Galax pays tribute to the powerful music and rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, where both Wild Ponies’ members Doug and Telisha Williams were born and raised. There, in mountain towns like Galax, oldtime American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers, and fans.’
`The stripped-back album nods to the band’s history while still pushing forward. Recorded in the shed behind Doug’s old family farm in the Appalachians (steps away from the site where Doug and Telisha were married), Galax returns Wild Ponies to their musical and geographic roots.
Galax’s track list is filled with upright bass, acoustic guitar, twin fiddles, Telecaster, banjo, pedal steel, mandolin, harmonies, gang vocals, and even some stripped-down percussion. Every song was recorded live, never once pausing the process to listen to the performance they’d just captured. It wasn’t until Wild Ponies returned home to Nashville that they finally heard the wild magic documented during those mountaintop sessions.`
