Western North Carolina singer-songwriter Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel, lead guitarist of My Morning Jacket, will launch the collaborative album “Celestun” on January 15. The 2 associates met again in 2012, when Ramsey was a member of indie roots-rockers Band of Horses, and the group toured with MMJ.
After that, Ramsey and Broemel typically mentioned making an album collectively, however they didn’t put the ball in movement till the pandemic, after they each discovered themselves with time to toss track concepts forwards and backwards. They lastly completed these early sketches final 12 months throughout classes at Broemel’s dwelling in Nashville.
The ensuing document has a comfortable, homespun vibe, taking inspiration from finger-picking people heroes like Michael Hedges, John Fahey, and Leo Kottke. The album has 9 tracks, one among which is a Neil Younger cowl (“Sail Away”), and there’s additionally a visitor spot from the angel-voiced duo the Secret Sisters on a tune known as “Flying Issues.” The title monitor, which you’ll be able to hear beneath, is a tranquil acoustic instrumental that showcases the nimble fret interaction between Ramsey and Broemel.
“We simply mesh collectively in a means that I can’t even actually clarify,” Ramsey stated in a press release. “I really feel like there’s some magical connection between our two issues, it simply makes me smile and satisfies some itch so far as issues that I want to hear on the music that I write. I feel he feels the identical means about what I do. After I put a component to one among his songs, we each have this sense like that was precisely what was lacking.”
The duo will assist the album on a winter tour in January and February that features some regional dates: February 24 at Jammin Java in Vienna, Va., February 26 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and February 27 and 28 on the Gray Eagle in Asheville, N.C.
