Towne & Stevens and the stunning folk garden rock rainbow of "Throwing Shade on Sunshine"

 

"I'm not enough for you but I try..."

I'm not exactly sure what constitutes a 70's sound although I know it when I hear it and most of all I can feel it. Dipping into "Throwing Shade on Sunshine" by Towne & Stevens (members of Blind Melon, Rogers Stevens and Nathan Towne) and it seriously feels like the kind of sound you would hear on iconic 70's TV shows like The Midnight Special which you can thankfully find on YouTube. Towne & Stevens atmospheres here are clean, there is not a lot of added post sonic adornments on the instrumentation and vox and you can hear the vox. In todays indie rock sound there is a tendency to bury the vocals but not here and maybe that is what feels nostalgic too. 

The folk rock Americana tones with country around the edges sort of filtered through indie rock like an amalgam of artists like Mudcrutch, Big Sky, John Sebastian, Souther-Hillman-Furay Band,  The Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band to name a few. A wonderful musical arc, narrative, stunning vox and harmonies. Nothing is overdone, the sound is earnest, the guitar heaviness is perfectly in the pocket with a ramping building beauty to a dreamy lead guitar break. Such a well produced track. Dive in, the water is really fine. 

-Robb Donker Curtius   

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From the debut album by members of Blind Melon, Rogers Stevens and Nathan Towne

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