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Two years after the release of its aptly titled fourth studio album, IV, Raleigh’s Chatham County Line returns with its fourth Yep Roc Records release, Wildwood.
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“I think if you were riding on a slide, and you started up top where our first record was and you rode down into the second record — Route 23, that’s a bluegrass ride — then you get to Speed of the Whippoorwill and it picks up speed a little bit, and then you get to IV and it picks up a lot of speed, and I think you arrive at Wildwood,” frontman Dave Wilson explained. “Once you get through those albums, you understand where we came from and where we’re going.”
While Chatham County Line certainly maintains its Appalachian charm on Wildwood, the band has branched out musically, enlisting the help of Zeke Hutchins on drums.
“The biggest thing for us is we always felt like we had an invisible drummer, and we felt like there was this mysterious phantom in our [music],” Wilson said. “We just wanted to fill that phantom, we wanted the phantom to be real for a record.”
“The record really is an encapsulation of a point in time … We were having the best time of our lives in the studio … next thing you know Zeke’s in there beating the brushes, and I don’t think anybody will be upset about it.”
In addition to drums, another first for Chatham County Line is the opportunity to release an album on vinyl.
“Finally we talked … Yep Roc Records into pressing that lacquer, pressing that vinyl and getting it out there,” Wilson said. “There’s a whole resurgence of people that’s really listening to stuff and really getting their hands on something that — for the past five years — has been marginalized and digitized and ‘smallized.’ I think that people are getting back to something that’s big — it’s real, it’s like a playing card that you can actually feel.”
Releasing Wildwood on vinyl enables CCL the opportunity to allow its listeners the experience of hearing music in its most honest form. Finally fans will be able to not only enjoy the full spectrum of sound allotted by vinyl, listeners can also interact with the music rather than just sit back and let an MP3 player shuffle through tracks.
“When you have something that’s going around and around, there’s this rotation you hear through the needle,” Wilson explained. “I think that not only is the sound a lot better, you’re actually doing something physical with the sound because the groove in the record is physically moving a needle, which then physically moves a speaker. [Whereas a CD] is just a laser bouncing off ones and zeros.”
He added, “All I know is you can take a record and put a needle and cone of paper on it and hear it. Hopefully when this whole great world comes crashing down into a halt, you’ll still be able to listen to Wildwood.”
Wildwood will be released digitally as well as on CD and vinyl July 13, through Yep Roc Records. The band will celebrate its release at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro on July 10, with Birds & Arrows.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 10:11 am
Wonderful concert Friday night at Fletcher Oprah House in Raleigh. Should do that kind more often!!