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There probably is a Waterloo, Tennessee. One of the members of Uncle Earl, who declines to be named here, swears that she saw a road sign for it while driving to the quiet countryside just beyond Nashville where the band recorded what eventually became their second full-length album. Something about the name spoke to them: the quasi-mythical collision between the emblematic battle that marks the end of Napoleon's reign, and Tennessee: the equally legendary hub of stringband and country music...it makes for a tidy yet elusive encapsulation of where this four-woman band (or "all-g'Earl," if you will) is taking the acoustic stringband tradition.
While their fiddle-led, banjo-flecked sound holds profound echoes of the rural Americana, the new album from Uncle Earl, Waterloo, Tennessee, is equally marked by a grandly elegant sense of loss; the breaths of something wistful escaping, bloodied but unbeaten, from the throes of a dying European empire. The music of Uncle Earl points toward the roots of stringband music (Scotch-Irish ballads, Celtic fiddle tunes, the blues), but by including original material and opening their sound to an array of influences past and present, they arrive at something haunting and timeless, yet instantly appealing and accessible.
Uncle Earl's previous Rounder album, the much-heralded She Waits for Night (2005), was produced by old-time stalwart Dirk Powell (Cold Mountain, Balfa Toujours, Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy), and introduced the band to the world as an exciting new voice within the emerging young old-time genre. As She Waits for Night gradually receded into their collective memory, band members KC Groves (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Kristin Andreassen (guitar, fiddle, vocals, clogging), Abigail Washburn (banjo, vocals), and Rayna Gellert (fiddle, vocals), began casting around for a collaborator to challenge them -- to refine the sound that they have been developing over the years of shifting lineups that resulted in the current band coalescing in 2003.
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| The Last Goodbye | Waterloo, Tennessee | 3:38 | 18 |  12 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Acoustic guitar / Bass / Fiddle / Vocal harmonies / Americana | Bony On The Isle Of St. Helena | Waterloo, Tennessee | 4:07 | 9 |  8 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Newgrass / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band | Wish I Had My Time Again | Waterloo, Tennessee | 2:31 | 7 | 10 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Jig / Fiddle / Lively / Fast |
| Total Time | 10:16 |
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Artist name is|Uncle Earl Last played| more than 1 week ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Uncle Earl Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Spotlighted: Friday, May 11th 2007
- Artist site clicks: 25
- Songs on WWR: 16
- Total plays: 143
- Total requests: 118
- Total listens: 4522
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