![]() Then you start the lifelong work of accepting what you did as valid. You make sure there’s nothing you’ll regret. I trust their instincts and will leave you with Kenneth’s own description of this record…. This album solidifies Milk Carton Kids in the pantheon of fabled duos. There is a 10 minute romp through these harmonies and guitar bravery on the “One More for the Road”, a wonderful trip through the moods of the American moment with “Mourning in America”, and a timeless heartbreaker “You Break My Heart.” Jay Bellerose has played with Ray Lamontgane, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, T-Bone Burnett and a litany of other great recording artists, and his songwise flourishes add a great deal of depth to this new Milk Carton Kids.īut the new players never get in the way of the classic songs and the overwhelming harmonies that are the meat of the album. one of my favorite drummers plays on the record. It is still the precise approach but touches of drums, bass, violin, clarinet. Their new and fourth album, All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do finds the band expanding their sound by adding a few more players to the recordings. Usually armed with only two voices and two guitars, their songs are an invitation to engage in the intricacies of the modern heart and the world that surrounds us all. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have found a magical musical bond that is a timeless blend of simplicity and complexity. Mixed by Pattengale, the album was mastered by Kim Rosen.I could listen to the Milk Carton Kids all day and night. Musicians who joined them there included Brittany Haas on violin and mandolin, Paul Kowert and Dennis Crouch on bass, Jay Bellerose on drums, Levon Henry on clarinet and saxophone, Nat Smith on cello, Pat Sansone on piano, mellotron, and Hammond organ, Russ Pahl on pedal steel and other guitars and Lindsay Lou and Logan Ledger as additional singers. Produced by Joe Henry and engineered by Ryan Freeland, All the Things That I Did and All The Things That I Didn't Do was recorded in October 2017 in the Sun Room at House of Blues Studio in Nashville. Two-part harmonies ride acoustic guitars high above the haunting landscape created by the presence of the band, as if Americana went searching for a lost America. ![]() Recent events provided a bruising background for the record, yet the project is somehow bigger than any personal grief. Though they didn't approach the new album conceptually, a theme of shattered realities began to emerge out of the songs that sparked to life. ![]() The band has recorded and r Listen to all music from The Milk Carton Kids for free. (He is cancer-free now, and accidentally broke his cigarette habit in the process.) The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United States, consisting of singers and guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, who began making music together in early 2011. Pattengale’s relationship of seven years ended, and he found himself unexpectedly needing surgery for cancer. National politics left Ryan feeling disoriented and mournful. Ryan is now the father of two children and works as a producer on "Live from Here with Chris Thile," the reboot of "A Prairie Home Companion." A break from years of non-stop touring, Ryan says, has yielded "space outside of the band that gives us perspective on what the band is."īut it's not just the addition of the band here that creates something new. Pattengale has moved to, and is now producing records in Nashville. Since their last studio album, Monterey (ANTI- 2015), life has changed dramatically for The Milk Carton Kids. "It was liberating to know we wouldn’t have to be able to carry every song with just our two guitars." "Musically we knew we were going to make the record with a bigger sonic palette," says Ryan. There arose some sort of need for change." "We had been going around the country yet another time to do the duo show, going to the places we'd been before. "We wanted to do something new," Pattengale says. The new project marks the first time that acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale aka The Milk Carton Kids have brought a band into the studio with them. We ship vinyl worldwide from our home in Ireland.
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