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Stoney Clove Lane
12+ albums
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A ribbon of smoke rises through the hemlocks and maples. A bewitching scent floats on the mountain breeze. The electrified sound of people making home-grown music echoes through the holler. You turn off a rural two-lane blacktop and onto Stoney Clove Lane, a tree-ceilinged dirt road frequented by bears, deer, and musicians. If someone said you'd be heading toward a couple of moonshiners working on a potent batch, they wouldn't be far off. Jeremy Bernstein and Adam Widoff, who write, perform and record as Stoney Clove Lane (named for the road), may not be dealing in unlawful production of spirits, but they do have an equally intoxicating concoction for you: Stoney Clove Lane's tastiest CD yet - Stay With Me. Like white lightnin', a combustible mix of ingredients has been employed to produce this homemade mix. But instead of corn, yeast and sugar, SCL combines funk, rock, and folk; instead of a metal still for fermenting the mash, they dump their tunes from analog tape into a computer; and instead of bottling it in mason jars, they press it onto CDs. Stay With Me is Stoney Clove Lane's third and strongest collection of tunes. Previous offerings have the same diverse elements, but this new release features a richer melodicism, more assured vocals from Bernstein and a fatter dose of Widoff's swirling, lyrical Les Paul. And if you thought a banjo could happily co-exist in a funk workout, the opening track "Crawl" proves you're right. And can a band enamored of expansive psyche
