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Yep Roc announces Watchhouse live disc coming

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 – Yep Roc Records will release "Watchhouse: Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater" on Jan. 12, 2024.

Originally released in 2020 as a Bandcamp exclusive, the album will now be widely available on CD, digital, and limited edition LP.

On Jan. 23, 2020, North Carolina-based Watchhouse —Emily Frantz (fiddle/vocals) and Andrew Marlin (mandolin/vocals)— known at the time as Mandolin Orange, played Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater, in support of their sixth album, "Tides of a Teardrop."

Supported by Clint Mullican (bass), Josh Oliver (guitar) and Joe Westerlund (drums), the show featured 15 songs. The album was engineered by the band's longtime technician Mark Alspaugh, mixed by Sean Sullivan and mastered by Alan Silverman at Aerial Sound, with artwork by Austin's own Ishaq Fahim.

Formed in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2009, Watchhouse has released eight albums of American roots music. Signing with Yep Roc Records in 2013, they released four albums with the label — "This Side of Jordan," "Such Jubliee," "Blindfaller" and "Tides of a Teardrop.".

The track. List is:
1) Golden Embers
2) The Wolves
3) When She's Feeling Blue
4) There Was A Time
5) Jump Mountain Blues
6) My Blinded Heart
7) Time We Made Time
8) Cavalry
9) Echo
10) Gospel Shoes
11) Hawk Is A Mule (intro)
12) Hawk Is A Mule
13) Into the Sun intro
14) Into the Sun
15) Wildfire
16) Hey Stranger
17) Waltz About Whiskey


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CD review - Tides of a Teardrop Mandolin Orange seldom disappoint. The duo's spare, but fulsome songwriting captures a tone of rich tradition coupled with sensibilities of this century. "Tides Of A Teardrop," the latest release from Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, fulfills the promise of their earlier work. The songs and their singers take center stage. The playing is crisp and evocative, but the core of Mandolin Orange's music is revealed in the lyrics. Marlin captures sadness and longing, but drops ...
CD review - Blindfaller Mandolin Orange's Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin have steadily traveled the country, building a following and delivering a spare, but true, sound with great melodic appeal. Since Mandolin Orange's debut in 2010, the band has done a lot with their bare arrangements. Marlin carries the vocal load, with admirable support from Frantz from time to time. True to their name, they feature Marlin's mandolin, along with banjo and guitar work from both. "Blindfaller" is a beautiful ...


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