Today, Austin, Texas’ Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers debuted the video for “Pink and Blue” with Relix. It’s the second track to premiere from the album Shanti’s Shadow, out June 2nd. The song’s lyrics and imagery came to Phoebe during her time in India, where she and her band participated in ten-hour meditation retreats, and studied under seventh-generation master violinist Kala Ramnath.
Watch the video for “Pink and Blue”
Folk Alley debuted the album’s lead single “Lint Head Gal,” a stomping country blues song about a hard working, independent woman. The song was added to NPR Music’s “Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can’t Stop Playing” and embraced by World Cafe.
An accomplished instrumentalist with foundations in jazz and swing music, Hunt makes an impressive leap with Shanti’s Shadow. It’s the culmination of a five year journey that has taken her from her Austin roots through Music Row, Brooklyn and India. Along the way, Phoebe found her voice and delivered her most inspired set of songs to date — the soundtrack to her self-discovery.
Phoebe “is back with a refreshed take on the bluegrass/gypsy jazz that distinguished her first band The Belleville Outfit,” writes The Bluegrass Situation’s Craig Havighurst. “Travels in India have injected a microtonal raga sensibility into her songs, which are arranged with great subtlety for a six piece band.”
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Shanti’s Shadow Track List:
1) Frolic of the Bees
2) Pink and Blue
3) Road To Kolhapur
4) Lint Head Gal
5) Take Me Home
6) Call My Bluff
7) Round and Round
8) New York
9) Just For Tonight
10) Telephone
11) I Really Love
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Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers Tour Dates:
March 31 – The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
April 11 – Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
May 19 – The Falcon, Marlboro, NY
May 23 – Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY
May 25 – Don Quixote’s, Felton, CA
May 28 – Strawberry Music Festival, Grass Valley, CA
June 1 – Poor David’s Pub, Dallas, TX
June 2 – Paramount Theatre, Austin, TX
June 3 – McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, Houston, TX
June 4 – Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, TX
June 10-11 – Pagosa Folk And Bluegrass Festival, Pagosa Springs, CO
June 14 – Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA
June 24-25 Rapidgrass Bluegrass Festival, Idaho Springs, CO
June 30 – Crested Butte Center For The Arts, Crested Butte, CO
July 13 – Riverfront Concert Series, City Of Paducah, KY
July 14 – Levitt Shell Pavilion, Memphis, TN
