Isak Howell -- guitar, mouth harp, vocals
Mike Gangloff -- fiddle, banjo, vocals
Nathan Bowles -- banjo, washboard, bones, fiddlesticks, banjosticks, vocals
Sally Anne Morgan -- fiddle, hambone, vocals
With Joseph Dejarnette -- bass and vocals

Rough Carpenters is the band’s first album since 2010’s Ironto Special (Thrill 249) and follows the 12”EP Whompyjawed (Thrill 12.50, July 2012) and two instantly sold out Record Store Day releases, 2011’s split LP with Glenn Jones (Thrill 268) and 2012’s Yellow Cat 7” (Thrill 306)

CD version includes a 4 page booklet with history and tunings of each song and is packaged in a mini-LP style gatefold package custom printed on chipboard stock at Stumptown Printers.

LP version includes an inner sleeve with history and tunings on each song and a free download coupon

The Black Twig Pickers are a group defined by their forward thinking approach to a type of music most often associated with times gone by. Over the course of eight full-length records, including collaborative releases with Jack Rose and Charlie Parr, a split LP with Glenn Jones, and numerous EPs and singles, the group has established itself as a collection of dedicated practioners of old time music re-cast and shaped by their appreciation of modern improvisation, drone, and punk. While not at odds with the experimental scene that has fostered them or the old time circles they travel in, The Black Twig Pickers thrive in the in-betweenness of those two worlds, proving that the exploration of the outmost bounds of sound and the exploration of decades old tradition and community aren’t as different as one might think.

Rough Carpenters, which was recorded in the same two-day session as 2012’s Whompyjawed EP, can be seen as an inward-gazing foil to that EP’s long-form hoedown epics. With the addition of Sally Anne Morgan on fiddle to the trio of Mike Gangloff, Isak Howell, and Nathan Bowles, dance has become a more prominent part of the group’s formula. It wasn’t until Morgan joined the band that the band actually began to dance onstage. Also, on this album the group strays a bit farther outs.......
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Rough Carpenters is the band’s first album since 2010’s Ironto Special (Thrill 249) and follows the 12”EP Whompyjawed (Thrill 12.50, July 2012) and two instantly sold out Record Store Day releases, 2011’s split LP with Glenn Jones (Thrill 268) and 2012’s Yellow Cat 7” (Thrill 306)

CD version includes a 4 page booklet with history and tunings of each song and is packaged in a mini-LP style gatefold package custom printed on chipboard stock at Stumptown Printers.

LP version includes an inner sleeve with history and tunings on each song and a free download coupon

The Black Twig Pickers are a group defined by their forward thinking approach to a type of music most often associated with times gone by. Over the course of eight full-length records, including collaborative releases with Jack Rose and Charlie Parr, a split LP with Glenn Jones, and numerous EPs and singles, the group has established itself as a collection of dedicated practioners of old time music re-cast and shaped by their appreciation of modern improvisation, drone, and punk. While not at odds with the experimental scene that has fostered them or the old time circles they travel in, The Black Twig Pickers thrive in the in-betweenness of those two worlds, proving that the exploration of the outmost bounds of sound and the exploration of decades old tradition and community aren’t as different as one might think.

Rough Carpenters, which was recorded in the same two-day session as 2012’s Whompyjawed EP, can be seen as an inward-gazing foil to that EP’s long-form hoedown epics. With the addition of Sally Anne Morgan on fiddle to the trio of Mike Gangloff, Isak Howell, and Nathan Bowles, dance has become a more prominent part of the group’s formula. It wasn’t until Morgan joined the band that the band actually began to dance onstage. Also, on this album the group strays a bit farther outs.......
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