Recording Artist:
Garett Brennan & The Great Salt Licks
Album: Huckleberry Tree
Released: April 2009
"Hotter than a July day indeed! These are songs for our moment in time--and for changing our time" ---Bill McKibben
Featuring: Tony Furtado, Scott Law, Sammy Lind (Foghorn Stringband, Caleb Klauder), Jon Neufeld (Jackstraw, Black Prairie), Paul Brainard (Richmond Fontaine, M.Ward, Caleb Klauder)
From the liner Notes:
"The beginnings of this album were born on the road when touring my last record, Little Cottonwood—cut live in a cabin at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Rockies where I grew up. Because of the simplicity and intimacy of that album, I quickly found on the road that the tunes were too quiet and too mellow for the farmers markets, cafes and street corners where we played. So at (and in between) these shows, I wrote material on the spot to help gather the space. And thus, Huckleberry Tree took its shape.
There are other factors too that infused the writing, finishings and sound of Huckleberry Tree.
There is a thriving old-time, roots music scene where I live in Portland, Oregon. And some of the country’s finest curators and keepers of this sound call it home. So as the writing of Huckleberry Tree matured, I embarked on countless hours of listening to pickers and players huddled in corners of smokey pubs playing their hearts out—seeding a re-appreciation, love and preservation of old mountain music. After months of this, I began assembling a crew I now call “The Great Salt Licks” to bring Huckleberry Tree to life. They are Sammy Lind of the Foghorn Stringband, Jon Neufeld of Jackstraw, Tony Furtado, Scott Law, Drew Shoals and Will Amend. With their help, we created a record that deconstructs and rebuilds the pieces that make up that American sound." --Garett Brennan
Album: Little Cottonwood
Released: September 2005
Cut live at 8500 ft in a log cabin, at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Rockies. This record is 100% Acoustic. No headphones. No overdubs. Only mics.
Little Cottonwood is an aural collection of short stories. This is your Sunday morning record.
Shortly after Telluride Bluegrass Festival selected Brennan as first alternate in their 2005 songwriting competition, he headed to Alta, Utah to cut "Little Cottonwood," and released it nationally that fall in a grassroots partnership with Berkeley-based Clif Bar. The record was produced by Cookie Marenco and features Ted Presberg on guitar and Will Amend on whistle duo. Original illustrations by Eben Dickinson.
Via 1% For The Planet, 1% of album sales will benefit the Organic Farming Research Foundation based in Santa, Cruz, CA.
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