The Propaganda SiteMagic Tuber Stringband has a special way of engaging with traditional Appalachian folk that brings a modernist tinge to their music. Our #SongoftheDay is the title track from their 2024 album "Needlefall".
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Magic Tuber Stringband's is about bipolar reconciliation between their instincts for modern experimental music and love for the sounds of traditional Appalachian folk, often with breathtaking results.
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Magic Tuber Stringband is a band that blends their avant-garde explorations seamlessly into the traditional Appalachian folk sound. They were the duo of Courtney Werner (fiddle) and Evan Morgan (guitar) for the longest time up until 2026's Heavy Water, where they added Michael DeVito (bass, banjo) to the line-up. On the traditional end, they create straight-up, salt-of-the-earth folk pieces that may occasionally be embellished by a discordant fiddle playing underneath. On the experimental end, the band takes a direction towards a drone-based style that leans into dissonance to some extent, while strictly preserving the fundamental shape of traditional folk music. All of this makes for a bit of stylistic tension in their music and a unique listening experience.
Andi ChorleyThe Crozet Tunnel by Weirs and Magic Tuber Stringband, released on Notice Recordings in 2024.
The collaboration between these two North Carolina projects feels, upon listening, almost inevitable. Magic Tuber Stringband (Evan Morgan and Courtney Werner) is an instrumental duo often employing traditional Appalachian-style playing within contemporary drone and song-oriented contexts to create undulating, cathartic, organic compositions. Weirs (Justin Morris and Oliver Child-Lanning) is a bit more stylistically diverse, but very much rooted in the fascinating crossover of traditional and contemporary music...
Recorded live with field recorders inside Virginiaβs pitch-black Crozet Tunnel, the album presents four individuals experiencing the beautiful and intense sonics of both interior and exterior space, and their own forms of communication with one another... - Cafe Oto
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/weirs-and-magic-tuber-stringband-the-crozet-tunnel/
#CrozetTunnel #Weirs #MagicTuberStringband #Music #Drone #TraditionalSongs
Wind Machines by Magic Tuber Stringband, released on Garden Portal in 2021.
Magic Tuber Stringband is Durham NC- based duo, made up of Evan Morgan and Courtney Werner. Their primary instruments are guitar and fiddle, but they are not married to these particular axes and follow their instincts when they feel other instruments are called for.
CW: fiddle, viola, pump organ, & voice
EM: guitars, harmonium, pump organ, diddley bow, & voice
https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/wind-machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLclB_dzoo&list=RDmTLclB_dzoo&start_radio=1
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JenkellyA gorgeous, genre- and art-form hopping Listed from Magic Tuber Stringband. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/748211133749575680/listed-magic-tuber-string-band #music #magictuberstringband
βA tension between tradition and innovation runs through the Magic Tuber Stringbandβs recordings,β writes Jim Marks. https://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/746580337567612928/magic-tuber-stringband-needlefall-thrill #magictuberstringband #folk #music #drone
PieterThe Hunting of the Snark/History of the Thirteen from #MagicTuberStringband 2019
https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/the-hunting-of-the-snark-history-of-the-thirteen
The Hunting of the Snark/History of the Thirteen, by Magic Tuber Stringband
3 track album