A while back, I was out and about and had the chance to observe the contrasting personalities of a couple of Asheville bands.
On one hand, the group members from Snake Oil Medicine Show, which has five or six members, were excitedly running about and huddling and doing the whole circle-up-and-put-your-hand-in-the-middle bonding thing.
On the other, the members of Dehlia Low were sitting quietly, contemplatively, barely talking. They were simply taking everything in.
I appreciate high-energy excitement. But at that moment, and still, I really came to appreciate the quiet, humble attitude that that I believe is a core mountain value. Dehlia Low recently celebrated its one year anniversary, and I’ve appreciated their hard work and dedication.
So I want to encourage everyone to come out and support these folks. They’re great folks, who make lovely music.
Here’s the press release:
Dehlia Low
Friday, January 30th
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton Ave
Asheville, NC
Show at 9:30pm
828-858-5445
Tix $5, 21+
Artists on the web: www.myspace.com/dehlialow
Dehlia Low is a young Asheville, North Carolina-based band focused on early bluegrass, country, and original music. Their songs feature honest, hard-hitting vocals with tight harmonies backed by masterful dobro and mandolin playing, lively fiddling, solid guitar, and a booming upright bass. Dehlia Low performs original songs as well as classic and modern bluegrass and old country numbers influenced strongly by Hazel Dickens, the Stanley Brothers, James King, and others.
Dehlia Low came together- as many bands in Asheville do- through the rich local bluegrass jam scene. The band was built around the incredible vocal harmonies of Anya and Stacy, who met in early 2007. The band quickly grew and Dehlia had her first show in August 2007 at the Grey Eagle in Asheville. Since then, Dehlia Low has been incredibly busy performing regionally and nationally and released an 8-song EP in February.
“We’ve fallen in love with this cd over here, every one of us…we’ve had more requests for it than any other disk in the past year and a half. It’s a hit record….fresh….solid songwriting and the vocal duet is what gets them. It’s the thing folks ask….’Who’s that singing?'” –Dennis Jones, WNCW 88.7FM.
2 Comments
Thanks for the heads up.
Thank you very much for your kind endorsement of our band. We do work hard, and it’s nice of you to acknowledge that. Most of the time we’re just in awe of the cool things we’ve gotten to take part in since starting this band- just for the record, we huddle up and do handshakes every now and then, and we sing songs and rap in the van. (Stig’s really good at rapping.) 🙂 Thanks again for your support. Hope to see you- and all your readers at Jacks. 🙂