Jarosz announces new disc
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Jarosz announces new disc

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 – Sarah Jarosz will release her fourth album, "Undercurrent," on June 17 on Sugar Hill Records.

The disc features a more minimalist production, focused on Jarosz's upfront vocals, according to Jarosz's publicist.

"Undercurrent" was co-produced by Jarosz and engineer/producer Gary Paczosa. Jarosz is featured on guitar, octave mandolin and banjo with accompaniment by Jedd Hughes and Luke Reynolds (Guster) on guitar/harmony vocals, and Mark Shatz contributing bass throughout the album. Sara Watkins and Aoife O'Donovan, her band mates in I'm With Her, make an appearance on the Jarosz/O'Donovan co-write "Still Life." The disc, the follow-up to 2013's "Build Me Up From Bones," includes the up-tempo "Comin' Undone," a co-write with Parker Millsap.

Tour dates are:
March 17 - St. David's Sanctuary - Garden & Gun SXSW Showcase
April 3 - Lexington, KY - Singletary Center for the Arts
April 14 - Dallas, TX - Kessler Theater
April 16 - Austin, TX - Old Settler's Music Festival
April 17 - The Woodlands, TX - Dosey Doe
May 14 - Black Mountain, NC - LEAF Festival
May 20 - Madison, IN - River Roots Music & Folk Arts Festival
May 28 - Evans, GA - Banjo-B-Que Music Festival
June 19 - Santa Barbara, CA - Live Oak Music Festival
July 16 - Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
July 29 - Hiram, ME - Ossipee Valley Music Festival


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CD review - Undercurrent No longer just a startlingly talented young bluegrass musician, on her latest, Sarah Jarosz shows her growth both as a person and an artist. This is her first recording done while she wasn't in either high school or college, the first since her move to New York City three years ago, and the first time she has included only new original material. It may be the middle one of those firsts that had the most influence on the end results; there is little to no traditional bluegrass material here ...
CD review - Build Me Up From Bones Aging has worked wonders for Sarah Jarosz because she sounds better and better with each release. On her third disc, the Texas native, who occupies a musical turf straddling bluegrass, country and acoustic music, Jarosz proves to be more confident than ever in her vocal delivery. There's some bite in Fuel the Fire with a lot of banjo, courtesy of Jarosz herself, plucking going on all around here. Jarosz shines on the pared down, low key take on Dylan's Simple Twist of Fate with a ...
CD review - Follow Me Down For those of us who have been around long enough to remember browsing through long racks of LPs at the local record store (remember them?), one of the oldest tricks in evaluating an album from a new, unknown artist is to scan the liner notes to see who the sidemen are - the principle being, you can judge an artist by the company he or she keeps. In the CD age, that's not always possible since the credits are often shrink-wrapped away on the inside, but in the case of Sarah Jarosz, it's a ...


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