If you haven’t heard of Wind & Willow by now, you haven’t been going to enough shows.
Since the duo began playing together less than a year ago, they have been making their rounds in the Triangle with gigs at local coffee houses, The Pour House, Nightlight and numerous other hot spots.
On their road to Triangle music notoriety, Wind & Willow will perform tonight at Tir Na Nog for WKNC’s weekly Local Band Local Beer series. But tonight’s show isn’t just the normal LBLB, the duo is also celebrating the release of its debut EP, Roots.
The band recorded the album over the course of five days in January with Yearling’s Sid Menon.
“He’s a really cool guy and has a really amazing studio in Winston,” one-half of Wind & Willow, Mark Tillman, said.
| 01 | Honestly |
| 02 | A New Me |
| 03 | Vows |
| 04 | Daisies, Roses, Dandelions |
Listening to Roots, you get a sense of the kind of relationship Tillman and his new wife — and the other half of Wind & Willow — Sarah Peters have. From the album’s opener “Honestly” to the closer “Daisies, Roses, Dandelions,” it seems as if Roots provides an abridged glimpse at their love story.
“Some songs that we have, Mark wrote prior, some songs I wrote prior,” Peters explained. “Then we just came together and musically finished the songs.”
She added, “Most of the songs we co-wrote while we were together. We actually wrote [a few] songs while we were on our honeymoon. So we’re constantly turning out music, and we inspire each other.”
“Honestly” by Wind & Willow
The four-track EP is available now, and Tillman said they are selling the album “buy one get one free,” so fans can give a copy to a friend.
“Every time someone buys a copy, they get another for free to give to a friend,” Tillman said. “Obviously we can’t do this digitally — but at shows and stuff.”
If you missed Wind & Willow on Sessions at Studio B, click over to the video’s landing page to hear live versions of the tracks featured on the Roots EP.
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