Whispering Pines
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Whispering Pines

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States
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"In the Whispering Pines!"

"Whispering Pines' fine, self-released debut, Family Tree...is definitely in the Cosmic Americana camp: deriving {thier} name from Manuel's fragile beauty; covering the likes of J.J. Cale ("Crazy Mama"); spinning as far out as Les Brers and their San Franciscan soul mates from the Grateful Dead on "Stars Above" and the rollicking boogie of "Grapevine Blues." The band displays clear affection for Scott Boyer's lost, lamented Capricorn label gem, Cowboy. The long-haired and denim-clad quintet...abide and create in a vastly different space than Music Row or the plains and Rust Belt enclaves of Midwestern alt-country. This is reflected in the sunny clarity of their sound and sometimes mellower lyrical concerns. Whispering Pines are part of a loose, freewheeling confederacy of young SoCal-based artists...reaching back to twang's glorious,pioneering fusions to fetch sounds for envisioning the near-future!" excerpts from San Francisco Bay Guardian feature article "In the Whispering Pines" by Kandia Crazy Horse, February 2010 - San Francisco Gaurdian, 2010


"It's Fantastic"

"It’s fantastic...and authentic in a way that music hasn’t felt since the Allman Brothers and Rolling Stones were writing their best albums... Amazing guitar tones, soulful vocal melodies, screaming keys, warm harmonica. This band is the real thing...pick up Family Tree at (Amoeba). There aren’t too many self-released debut albums of this quality coming out these days." - L.A Record, February 2010 - L.A Record


"Deep Roots Boogie Band"

"Does your groovy-deep-roots-boogie band accidentally share a name with a song by 'The Band'? Do you just happen to channel some serious J.J. Cale-Tony Joe White-Allman Bros. back porch soul? No? You must not be the Whispering Pines, who are fabulous, authentic, and notorious local boys made good who OWN this sound. Not easily or convincingly done, mind you. Muscle Shoals in Silverlake, brother. I'll tell you, the river runs deep." Amoeba Music, Hollywood January 2010 - Amoeba Music


"5 STARS"

"Fan-tas-tic! I admit, I'm in a contemplative mood that puts me back to the seventies. The perfect companion while the Whispering Pines, a long-haired, dressed in denim quintet from Silver Lake, California. And yes, they named themselves after the song by The Band. Their eponymous 2010 debut CD "Family Tree", I said it and say it again, fantastic. If you like good old country rock and southern rock, then you need look no further. Whispering Pines put down a very credible sound which is somewhere between the Rolling Stones with Mick Taylor on slide guitar, the sound of Muscle Shouls-Lynyrd Skynyrd, the swamp rock of CCR and Tony Joe White, the dual guitar sound from The Outlaws and especially in particularly the electrical bottleneck slide of Duane Allman! It's all very retro what these boys do in nine country boogie-blues songs, it thunders and such wonderful music fair it yields. Excellent songs, rattling piano, Hammond rolling and screaming twin harmony guitars. Whispering Pines are the true successors of those genius Allman Brothers! Just listen to the wide open seven minutes flared in Stars Above, a guitar solo release as an eagle soaring in the vast sky! That is the feeling I get when I listen to the Whispering Pines. Family Tree is the first great record of 2010!"
...by Wiebren Rijkeboer | altcountry.nl | Holland - AltCountry.nl


Discography

Debut Album: "Family Tree"

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Whispering Pines got together over the summer about a year and a half ago. Afternoons were spent working on tunes and mastering our bbq skills at our Echo Park music workshop. With four songwriters in the band things came together very quickly...and a few months later we went into the studio. Being partial to the sound of classic analogue recordings, we made a concious choice to record the album to 2 inch tape using a 1970 Trident A console. No studio bells and whistles... just a rock and roll band playing our tunes.