King Wilkie

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From the opening notes, King Wilkie's Low Country Suite announces a new beginning for the band. Using the same tools that they used to make a splash on the bluegrass circuit - fiddles, banjos, dobros, string bass, acoustic guitars, and mandolins - they forge a new sound: the tension and release created by every brush and scrape of the instruments and the close harmonies of the band's two lead singers inform brutally honest, poetic songs of dread, exhilaration, and the truth - and the consequences of denying it. Since releasing their debut album Broke in 2004, the six New York City men of King Wilkie, then barely in their twenties, have transitioned from a classically-styled bluegrass group into something more fluid. In the years dividing then from now, time passed slowly, songs were written, and musical boundaries and definitions were set aside. The resulting album "has a ‘we're not in Kansas anymore' theme," explains co - founder Reid Burgess. "The main thing was freeing ourselves up stylistically and showing different sides of the band." In reality, this surprising stylistic shift was a natural outgrowth of the band's musical curiosity, as Burgess points out. "We'd been playing different kinds of music individually for many years, and on this record we decided to let everything else in. You can try really hard to choose your influences, but in the end it's going to come out sounding like something different...like yourself." Produced by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Dixie Chicks

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Low Country Suite

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Broke

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Wrecking Ball - Discovery Download

King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers

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SXSW 2006 Showcasing Artist

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Low Country Suite (Bonus Track Version)

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This Is Americana

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King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers (Deluxe Edition)

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Promo Only: Country Radio June 04'

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Wrecking Ball

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King Wilkie Presents The Wilkie Family Singers

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King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers (Deluxe Edit

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