To begin, we wanted to extend our thanks to friends and fans for supporting us and giving us your interest in what has been a time of creative sabbatical and planning over the past couple of months. There are some changes and steps forward planned, and we're excited to share our thoughts and work with you.
The idea behind
Forlorn Strangers has always been at its root an experiment, the nature
of which is to group together distinct but like-minded songwriters to
blend into one interpretation. We consider ourselves to be explorers of
folk and Americana music, because at its foundation Americana music has
always, like much of our national history, been a blending of authentic
styles and renderings into a whole that, transcending the boilerplate
[we hope], is greater than the sum of its parts. A song to us [and we
think, to most] isn't simply a song, it's a multidisciplinary work
panning solid pieces from the stream and bringing them back to share in a
mystical dialogue between a performer and his or her audience, between a
listener and his or her attentive troubadour.
That being said, this next phase of our experiment as a band will be in many ways the most challenging to date, because we'll be getting ready to move to Nashville, Tennessee by the end of the year and before that, we're in a bit of a diaspora: Christopher finds himself back in South Florida, Becca is up in Virginia, and Benjamin and Hannah are out in Waco, Texas, of all places. Over the next couple of months, we'll be posting videologues or written thoughts about what we're up to and what we're writing as far as new music goes, including demos of new songs and collaborations. Those will be found on our blog: forlornstrangers.blogspot.com.
So keep a weather eye: Becca will be up in the Lynchburg, VA area tooling around like a bottle-rocket; if you see Christopher popping up in bars in South Florida then please, God, call the police; and if you catch Benjamin and Hannah in Texas, be kind. They haven't had any meat for a while on that farm, so they may have a hippie's disposition. Don't hold it against them.
See you soon friends.
That being said, this next phase of our experiment as a band will be in many ways the most challenging to date, because we'll be getting ready to move to Nashville, Tennessee by the end of the year and before that, we're in a bit of a diaspora: Christopher finds himself back in South Florida, Becca is up in Virginia, and Benjamin and Hannah are out in Waco, Texas, of all places. Over the next couple of months, we'll be posting videologues or written thoughts about what we're up to and what we're writing as far as new music goes, including demos of new songs and collaborations. Those will be found on our blog: forlornstrangers.blogspot.com.
So keep a weather eye: Becca will be up in the Lynchburg, VA area tooling around like a bottle-rocket; if you see Christopher popping up in bars in South Florida then please, God, call the police; and if you catch Benjamin and Hannah in Texas, be kind. They haven't had any meat for a while on that farm, so they may have a hippie's disposition. Don't hold it against them.
See you soon friends.
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