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We\)E Each H,Ad, Loue Relat'ionships That Haue Started KRISTIN ANDREASSEN: "We\)eeach h,ad, Loue relat'ionships that hauestarted and,/orend,ed, i'n the courseof thi's band,,we'ue seei eachother nrLoaeto new placelsand, start and end,other p\ojects, and cut our ha'ir, and,grow our hoir. This U"ii-l,iielniru in the pantheon uith youi family and tluingsyou cant get rid, of." into our by KATY JUNE-FRIESEN "And then," says Groves, "a hooker almost broke hotel room later that night. An angry hooker. She actually did irHE SUM OF THE ambition that frrst brought Uncle Earl damage to the door." is the moment when I toeether was quite modest: to play the old-time and string- 'Yeah," says Gellert. "I would say that l."a music thLy adored with like-minded people' Their au- we knew [the band] was going to take off'" I Merlefest, I di"nc" was negligible, so if it initially seemeda dubious en- On the lineup this year at festivals including deavor, well, no matter. At least they were having a mawelous time. "This band wasn't making any money' this band made no sense in any way," says frddler Rayna GeIIert. "I kept doing it becauseI wanted to be spending time with these people' So it's kind of a bonus that people actually want to hear us'" In the last coupleyears, the band's spirited music and onstage verve has gained Uncle Earl greater distinction than they ever between expected. After releasing the acclaimed She historical research interests. Tlavel and gos- Waits For Night (produced by old-time afrcio- gigs is frlled with political discussion nado Dirk Powell) in 2005, they're now touring sip - truly, they rarely shut uP' it's our friend- behind the Mardr releaseof their secondRounder "Thisjob is our lifestyle, "And Records disc,Waterloo, Tennessee (produced by ship, it's what we do," saysAndreassen. one ofthe Led Zeppelin bassistJohn Paul Jones). interestingly enough, I think that been to- When founder KC Grovesbegan the band things that's happened now is we've ofthe in 1999 inAnnArbor, Michigan, it was to sup- gether long enough for this to be one lives. port a one-record venture into traditional more constant things in each of our have material recorded with her friend Jo Serra- We've each had love relationships that this pere, 2000'sself-released She Went Upstairs' started and/or ended in the course of new Live showspromotingthe album wentoverwell, band, we've seen each other move to projects, and and the project and personnelbegan to evolve. places and start and end other This band Slowly. For the nearly four years the current cut our hair, and grow our hair. your fam- lineup has been together, they've divided is up there in the pantheon with their lives between other bands, a variety of ily and things you can't get rid of." soloprojects, and Uncle Earl. They live states Perhaps this closenesshas something group, but apart: Gellert in Asheville, North Carolina; to do with being an all-female a Groves in Lyons, Colorado; banjo player Gellert (yes, she says, she was women's Abigail Washburn in Nashville, Tennessee; studies major) gets tired of the "all-girl" of who and multi-instrumentalist and clogger gimmick. It's an easy description KristinAndreassen in Boston,Massachusetts' they are, but hardly useful in describing string In the last year or so,their lives have come to orbit around their music. "I'm frustrated that we have to be an all-girl put in gendered Uncle Earl. "It seemslike becauseof our prioritizing the band, band. It's always frustrating to me to have things really great things are happening for us, and I don't know how terms about the way we play music." gender' "I'm easy itts actually going to be to turn it down again for another Andreassen's issue is more with genre than says' "I'm year," Washburn says. "It seemslike with this band, any ounce less frustrated being characterized as 'all female,"' she I think of effort we put into it exponentially returns." more frustrated by being characterized as 'bluegrass'' believe "It's the hot dudes,man," Andreassenjokes. it's at least accurate that we're all females, and I cannot even the radio "The drugs and the hookers," Gellert responds. Which in- how many articles and posters and flyers and evitably leads to a cheeky tale from their long road. dude in London will constantly talk about us as a bluegrass group' are One night in California' someyears back, Andreassen was group. If people are going to call us a bluegrass we put in charge of navigating toward a gig in Fresno. "We left San Francisco and drove two hours in the wrong direction," she says. "We arrived flfiteenminutes after our show was supposedto start and there were two people in the room, both of whom were there by mistake. Then they ordered ts pizza, probably becausethey felt sorry for us. PAGE3l . xo DEPnESSIOII' tAY-JUllE 2007 the Saturday night jam," John chord," Andreassen recalls' Paul Jones says, "I went into Washburn composedPart of the green room and there was the rambling, "crooked' melodY a little trio of fiddlers PIaYing - it repeats everY six beats, there. It was Bruce MolskY, then goesto an eight'beat cho- Darol Anger, and Rayna. It rus. Later, when Andreassen was just mesmerizing." Jones decided to add lyrics, no one met the rest of Uncle Earl in remembered the song or how Colorado at the Rockygrass it cameto be.But shehad Proof tvtryul.BinkyRecords.comfestival, where they invited on a minidisc recorder. For a medley of "Buona- ourdemise have been greally exaggeraled..' him and Chris Thile to their Rumorsof show at a local bar. The two parte" and "Bony On The IsIe mosflyby us. But we are back... hack with a vengeance!ended up jamming with the Of St. Helena", Andreassen OnAugust 29,2005, Hunicane Katrina wiped out band all night on their man- collected musical material 9th muchof NewOrleans and all of the Lower dolins.Jones now plays a frddle about Napoleon from a vari- the Lowergth Ward,For more than a decade, pick out. ety of sources' one of which forMike West and his fanred Gellert helped him servedas home base Social HarP s}l.aPe the9th Ward Pickin' Parlour (yes, the Uncle Earl first asked Ttrile was The little$udio. rearr- sameplace that Shawn Muilins named his new CD to produce,but he was too busY. note songbook.'1Vewere after').Mike and his wife Katig better known as Sotheyfrgured, "We'lIjust ask anging in our pop-string-band TruckstopHoneymoon, packed up the kidsand John Paul Jones!" Groves re- kind of way," saYs Groves, Lawrence, whatlittle iemained and relocated to calls. "I said it injest, andthen "and we all got excited about disasteras a backdrop,you Kansas.With zuch sudden everyone the idea of actuallY singingthe a depressingnew CD. You would be all of the miehtexpect parts at the beginning of the wrone."'Diamonds in the Asphalt," like the previ- turned to me very seriouslY ousTiuckstop Honeymoon CDs, is just flat out fun! and said, 'That's a goodidea.' song.We're nerds." We just knew that we reallY "streak O'Lean, Streak O' Iiked him and he was reallY Fat" (played as "Hell Broke funny and had a great sPirit'" Loose In Georgia" bY the Skil- When Gellert e-mailed 1et Lickers) puts Washburn's him about producing, he'd just fluent Chinese to work. A re- bought She Waits For Night cording by Seven Foot Dillie & and was charmed by the sPon- His DilI Pickles featured Dillie joy monologuing over the music, Chrhlmasin0cala $15 Delivery8ol $15 taneity and of the band's music. Jones and Uncle Earl and when Washbumbrcught the spent a month in their friend music to the band, saYsGellert, Bela Fleck's Nashville home 'tI was just missing that kind and in a residential studio out- ofpatter. Itjust crackedme uP side the city. "We set all the to think ofhaving that Patter players up in a circle in a nice in Mandarin, and AbbY just big room," says Jones, "And ran with the idea." It just so the music just came. It came happens that Mao Zedong's and came and came." He con- favorite dish, hongshou rou' cedesit's one of the best times features a small streak of lean he's ever had producing: "We meat and a big streak of fat. At laughed for a month." frrst listen, it's not clear that Onthe new disc, the grouP's Washburn's hollering is in signature fiddle tunes and old- Mandarin. time romps and ballads are The group was comPelled accompanied by shaPe-note by the title of one of Gellert's singing, a bluegrasstune, blues, favorite raging frddle tunes, Scotch-Irishballads, and more "Wish I Had My fime Again", than on the first al- sothey wrote lYrics aboutwrong- greatmusic bY Ad Vandeleen: originals More bum. There's a closenessand fi:I imprisonment. Gellert com- warmth to the sounclthat goes posed"D & P Blues" (drinking beyond She Waits For Night. and promiscuitY) and a clas- New songs evolved from sic bluegrass song, "Drinker the ethic ofcollaboration that Born". The closingmeditation, brought the group together in "I May Never", is a collabora- the beginning. "One True", for tion between Groves and her example, began as a late- mother; Groves saYsit's an out- llorcItan A Song Iie l,lomenlltal l,klten laleBloomet night, alcohol-infused fiddle growth ofbeing raised reading jam at theAppalachian String and memorizing Robert Frost.
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