" Pure, honest and completely unadorned, songs like "Gunmetal Sun," "Tracks" and "Clean Living" make listeners imagine flat, wheat-filled landscapes or rolling green hills disappearing along with the asphalt grittiness of another highway."
[+]" Pure, honest and completely unadorned, songs like "Gunmetal Sun," "Tracks" and "Clean Living" make listeners imagine flat, wheat-filled landscapes or rolling green hills disappearing along with the asphalt grittiness of another highway."
-Albuquerque Journal
"Cravin' love for blazin' speed is an impressive debut. Its tight songwriting and sound - and flawless packaging - indicate that Edith Grove is the kind of group you may see soaring beyond the confines of the Albuquerque music scene."
-Daily Lobo
New album by the mostly-female band features cello, violin, blues harp and three-part harmonies on a set of whiskey-laden songs about trains, love gone wrong and life spent running down the Americana back roads.
Recorded at the famed Stepbridge Studios in Santa Fe with Grammy-nominated sound engineer Tim Stroh, "Cravin' Love for Blazin' Speed" finds Edith Grove stretching out over a landscape of 12 original traveling songs. Combining folk roots, country flavor, rock attitude and blues inflections, the band brings unique perspective to the Americana genre.
The album opens with the swampy on the run "Forgiven," then travels through the band's signature country-tinged "Gunmetal Sun" before ending up in the slide-rhythm rumination of "Matadors." In between, Edith Grove takes the listener to visit Highway 61; the grand theft auto of a classic Lincoln in Albuquerque; a murder in Fayetteville, Arkansas; winding roads in the Ozarks; the brick streets of Galesburg, Illinois and life behind the wheel of a really big chrome-covered car.
"Tim (Stroh) kept saying, 'What are you doing in there?!' while we were recording," says cellist/backing vocalist Suzanne Shelton. "We're an unusual band with several classically trained musicians on board. Translating our live sound onto tape was a challenge in a lot of ways." A one-room, facing each other, damn the torpedoes approach to recording lends the album an engaging live feel. "We didn't want anything sounding over-produced. This is a raw, rough and tumble album and we like it that way," says guitarist/lead singer/songwriter Amanda Kooser.
History
Edith Grove was formed by Amanda Kooser and Suzanne Shelton in Albuquerque, New Mexico as an offshoot of popular Arkansas all-girl folk/roc
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