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SUMMARY:Taylor Ashton
DESCRIPTION:Recorded over the course of a 4\,000-mile cross-country road
 trip\, Taylor Ashton’s gorgeous new album\, Stranger To The Feeling\, 
 is a sonic odyssey through the heart of America\, one that works its way
  chronologically and geographically from coast to coast as it meditates 
 on the meaning of closeness and connection in an age of increasing isola
 tion. The performances here are warm and inviting\, anchored by Ashtonâ€
 ™s deft guitar and banjo work and rich\, easygoing melodicism\, and the 
 recordings—helmed by producer Jacob Blumberg and captured with a mix o
 f old friends and new collaborators including Courtney Hartman\, Big Thi
 ef’s Buck Meek\, Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price\, Vulfpeck’s The
 o Katzman\, Late Show bandleader Louis Cato\, and Mipso’s Jacob Sharpâ
 €”are alternately sparse and lush\, with arrangements often serving as a
 ural reflections of their physical environments. From a blanket in Brook
 lyn’s Prospect Park to a trailer in Wyoming’s Bighorn National Fores
 t\, from a backyard in Wisconsin to a spiritual vortex in Arizona\, the 
 settings are inextricable from the songs\, and the result is a moving\, 
 transportive collection that manages to evoke both the gentle virtuosity
  of Nick Drake and the buoyant wit of Paul Simon\, all while forging its
  own distinctive path through a landscape at once foreign and familiar.\
 n\n“After so much time apart\, it was really powerful just making musi
 c with friends again\,” Ashton reflects. “Pulling into someone’s d
 riveway\, hugging them\, sleeping on their couch\, all these things that
  used to feel so normal suddenly felt very precious\, and I wanted to ce
 lebrate that.”\n\nWhile Stranger To The Feeling marks the highly laude
 d songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s first trip all the way across
  the United States\, Ashton’s no stranger to the road. Born and raised
  in Canada\, he got his start fronting the beloved Vancouver five-piece 
 Fish &amp\; Bird and spent most of his late teens and early twenties tou
 ring heavily throughout his home country. In 2015\, he moved to Brooklyn
 \, where he began busking in the subways to make ends meet\, and in 2018
 \, he teamed up with Courtney Hartman for a collaborative album that Rol
 ling Stone proclaimed “packs a punch in today’s mainstream.” Two y
 ears later\, Ashton released his long-awaited solo debut\, The Romantic\
 , earning widespread praise alongside dates with the likes of Sarah Jaro
 sz\, Aoife O’Donovan\, Madison Cunningham\, The Wood Brothers\, and mo
 re.
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LOCATION:181 State St\, Portland\,  Maine  04101\,  US
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