Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Chris Thile & Michael Daves

Add Date: June 21 

Artist: Chris Thile & Michael Daves 

Album: "Man in the Middle" (single) 

Label: Third Man 

Genre: Bluegrass, country 

Comments: Perhaps as a companion to their recent LP Sleep With One Eye Open, mandolinist extraordinaire Chris Thile and guitarist Michael Daves are releasing two non-album tracks as a 7" single on Jack White's Third Man imprint. Unlike the (mostly) stripped-down full-length, these are country-rock songs, with an all-star band: White on drums, Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) on pedal steel, Cory Younts (a collaborator with Justin Townes Earle and Old Crow Medicine Show) on piano and Ruby Amanfu (Sam & Ruby) on backing vocals and kettle drum.

The band tackles Tom "Harley" Campbell's gospel song "Man in the Middle", as well as the McGee Brothers' "Blue Night".

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