Pert Near Sandstone setting “Out on a Spree”
Category: CD Release
By Travis Tackett
November 2, 2009
Pert Near Sandstone "Out On A Spree"
After two independently produced projects, Pert Near Sandstone have set out to make a different kind of album. Wanting to capture the raw, live old-time sound that fans of the Minnesota based band have come to know and love during their live performances, Pert Near Sandstone is putting the finishing touches on their latest recording “Out On A Spree.”
“Out On A Spree” is a selection of traditional songs picked up while touring around the country. Some worked up around a campfire or during a living room jam. Other songs have been learned in the van between gigs. A press release from Pert Near Sandstone claims “Some (of these songs) are sweet and lowdown with a sparkling grittiness, while others have the intesity of a highballing freight train. This is Pert Near Sandstone’s homage to old-time music… a fresh vista on a much traversed path.”
As folk musicians, Pert Near Sandstone is excited to bring an updated approach to the music and present these tunes to a new generation and a new audience. Pert Near Sandstone feels “these traditional songs have endured all these years and the songs are not artifacts to be viewed in a museum but a continually evolving organism to be interacted with and experienced.”
“Out On A Spree” track listing
- Give The Fiddler A Dram
- Liza Jane
- Little Maggie
- Wild Bill Jones
- Washington’s March
- Raleigh & Spencer
- Hang Me
- Happy Hollow
- Lonesome Train Blues
- Last of Callahan
- John Henry
- Stay All Night
- Goodbye Booze
- Elzic’s Farewell
About Pert Near Sandstone
Pert Near Sandstone emerged from the strong roots music scene of Minneapolis and are now well-traveled across the country gaining momentum and quickly becoming an act not to be missed in the current acoustic revival. They and only a few other groups have shown the character and the drive to lead stringband music well into the new century. With the release of their third sutdio album, “Out On A Spree” the band continues to take their brand of old-time music out on the rivers and roads of the country in the revitalization of the American stringband tradition.
Member of Pert Near Sandstone include: Nate Sipe (mandolin, fiddle), Kevin Kniebel (banjo), J Lenz (acoustic guitar) and Jeff Swanner (string bass).