SOUNDCHECK featuring CONCRETE PRAIRIE
Live at Soundcheck Devizes
Recorded on Saturday 4th February 2023
United by a love of all things Folk, Indie & Americana, Concrete Prairie are a five-piece ensemble delivering a soundtrack for the glamour and grit of modern living. While their compositions tackle themes such as mental well-being, loss and hardships, the songs are shot through with hope, evidenced by a spirited and rousing sound orchestrated with twanging guitars, straining fiddle and yearning prose.
Their electric live performances sit somewhere between Alt-Country, Folk & Rock, whether they are grooving on the cathartic, rootsy stomp of their own “Bury My Blues”, navigating the majestic meanderings of the Folk & Country catalogue; or channelling spaghetti western soundtracks on their eight minute epic “The Devil Dealt The Deck”, the band invite you to get lost in a world where hearts pound proudly upon sleeve.
After appearing at the Bath Americana Fest and on a wave of support from BBC Introducing, the quintet released their debut album – recorded at Real World studios with John Reynolds (Indigo Girls, Damien Dempsey, Sinead O’Connor) – in September 2022 to huge acclaim from Americana UK & RnR Magazine.
CONCRETE PRAIRIE
Joe (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica)
Adam (Backing Vocals, Guitar)
Georgia (Backing Vocals, Fiddle)
Dan (Backing Vocals, Bass)
Tom (Backing Vocals, Drums, Piano)
CONCRETE PRAIRIE PERFORMED
HARD TIMES
WINE ON MY MIND
BURY MY BLUES
THE SWIMMING SONG *
DAY BY DAY
PICKING UP PIECES
TIME TO KILL
BOUND FOR HEAVEN
WINTER TOWN
THE DEVIL DEALT THE DECK
* by Loudon Wainwright III
INTERVIEW
Carl Sutterby
LIVE SOUND
Phil Moakes
CAMERAS
Maggie Gregory
POST PRODUCTION
Phil Moakes
CREDITS MUSIC
‘Deserts 3’ by Playing In Tongues
available from www.freemusicarchive.com
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