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Thursday, September 14, 2023

ACL 2023: Penny & Sparrow

Sunday at 1:30pm. Local indie folk from Austin. They played Old Settler's in 2019 (The Jason Isbell year) but I don't think we saw them.  I don't recall. They played the Bluebonnet stage at 4:50pm Saturday. 

According to Allmusic:

Penny & Sparrow formed while members Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke were living as roommates at the University of Texas in Austin. The two friends began writing and singing together in 2011...They signed a record deal with Single Lock Records, an Alabama-based label co-founded by John Paul White (the Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes). Both White and Tanner would end up co-producing Penny & Sparrow's 2016 label debut, Let a Lover Drown You, which they recorded in historic Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

"Bed Down" came from that album.  Bon Iver sound.

I've heard their name and see that they play around town but never really listened to them. You probably know them. 

Most of their songs are really mellow.  This is a little more upbeat. Sweet video, too.


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