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ALI SPERRY + TATTLETALE SAINTS

with SETH DAVIN of AMERICAN SCARECROWS

about Tattletale Saints:

New Zealand born duo Tattletale Saints is vocalist, guitarist, songwriter Cy Winstanley and vocalist, double bassist Vanessa McGowan.

Now based in Nashville Tennessee, and originally part of London based 4-piece band Her Make Believe Band, Winstanley and McGowan recorded the debut Tattletale Saints album How Red Is the Blood in January 2013 in Nashville with Grammy winning producer and multi instrumentalist Tim O'Brien.

Winners of the New Zealand Music Award for Folk Album of the Year 2014, the band is currently touring the USA in support of the worldwide release of the album in March 2014.

"Intelligent, entertaining and thoroughly captivating"
Sing Out! Magazine, March 2014

"How Red Is The Blood is the Nashville recorded effort of two New Zealander's who describe the pleasure and plight of a people, addressing modern societal rifts with acerbic, beguiling wit I don't know what the answers are to many of the questions How Red Is The Blood asks, but I do know this: folk music lives, and this is it".
Amercian Standard Time, September, 2014

"Beautiful organic folk songs shimmers like an Indian summer after noon their knife edge still hews to folk's clarion call to challenge injustice, and it still cuts to the bone."
Acoustic Guitar Magazine, September 2014

"There is a timeless quality to the Tattletale Saints music, simultaneously classic roots and modern revival, placing them alongside the more notable artists of today's scene. There are elements of folk, good old Appalachia style music, and a splash of country in their sound, too, which they do exceedingly well. And this all comes together to create well-written songs with stirring vocals."
No Depression, August 2014

about Ali Sperry:

Ali Sperry is a Nashville-based independent artist. Her songs are undeniably rooted in folk music, simple and true, but she pushes the boundaries, toying with tones of modern indie-pop, rock, and old-school soul. She evokes stories of love hearts broken and healing; the wistful burn of aspiration; and the universal quest for connection to self and others.

Ali was raised in Iowa to two musician parents who encouraged her to sing and create music from the time she could speak. Her childhood soundtrack was steeped in the music of the 60s and 70s: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor. After attending Syracuse University and briefly moving to Chicago, Ali was recruited by an all-girl band in Nashville, TN called Sweetwater Rose.

Four years later in 2012, immersed in the growing alternative music scene in Nashville, she released her first solo record, Storybook, produced by Kyle Ryan and backed by a rotating tribe of musicians friends, lovers, and roommates who came to be known as The Family Vacation. In October 2014, she released her most recent project, an EP entitled Comes and Goes produced by Scott Hardin, Jamie Dick and Ali, and mixed in Memphis, TN at Ardent Studios on a console well-used by Stax Records.

Ali tours regularly, solo and with The Family Vacation. She has shared shows with Langhorne Slim, Amanda Shires, Andrew Combs, The Spring Standards, Chris Stills, and Elephant Revival among others. In her own words, "I can't think of anything more joyful than the act of making music with people I love as friends and deeply admire as musicians. There is no company I would rather be in."

Comes and Goes marks a turning point for Ali Sperry as she moves further from her child-of-the-80s pop influences, away from broken hearts and into the marrow of broader questions of purpose, demons, and dreams-realized. She layers eclectic drum tones, lush string arrangements, electric and acoustic guitar to tell stories, visceral musical landscapes with room to breathe.