![]() ![]() You think about the river? It's down here, it’s low. “That landscape and that geography of growing up in Lee County, Kentucky,” he begins, “I've got so much material I can write about, of stories of all these people and just life in general, growing up there. The title of River Fools & Mountain Saints came to Noe before any of the songs, serving as a concept and a guiding principle. Hall it swaggers with keys on songs like “Pine Grove (Madhouse),” bursts with French horn bombast “One More Night,” and swells with orchestrated strings on the gutting closing ballad, “Road May Flood/It’s A Heartache.” As a result, it switches from rocking like Creedence Clearwater Revival to intoning like John Prine or Tom T. ![]() River Saints & Mountain Fools was recorded on reel-to-reel tapes in short spurts over the course of two years, without the pressure of time, which enabled a wider range of experimentations, collaborations, and sounds. River Fools & Mountain Saints is the follow-up to Noe’s lauded Dave Cobb-produced debut Between The Country, praised by Rolling Stone as “an ode to the beauty of survival amidst bleakness” and NPR Music who praised its “heartbreaking brilliance.” But River Fools & Mountain Saints boasts a bigger sound and brighter tone, highlighting Noe’s storytelling prowess through 12 country rockers and Appalachian ballads. Then, like a heavenly deluge, a raucous guitar solo takes over, pouring onto the valleys Noe and his band have created before settling back into the groove." Garden & Gun said of the song, “a muffled bass drum thumps below Noe’s fingerpicked electric guitar, his voice burrowing into the liminal spaces between both, telling a story of a people losing their land. “Burning Down The Prairie” is a blues-rock explosion with pounding drums, culminating in a sonic breakdown reminiscent of mid-70s rockers like Creedence Clearwater and The Doors. ![]() Watch the music video for “Burning Down The Prairie” here and pre-order River Fools & Mountain Saints here. Kentucky storyteller Ian Noe releases his third single “Burning Down The Prairie,” a driving roadhouse rocker from his forthcoming sophomore album River Fools & Mountain Saints set for release March 25 via Thirty Tigers. ![]()
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