This is the belated video for our single "It Made the Greatest Sound." At several live shows I've been describing this song, just for kicks, as being "about the great West Virginia calliope disaster of 1893. Legend has it you could hear the sound in three states, and newspaper reports of the time declared that the glow from the fire could be seen all the way from Wheeling, WV, to Pittsburgh, PA." (Google it!) I was curious whether anyone would questioned it, but no one ever did. 

In the mythological sense I still think of it as that, but more genuinely it's a metaphor for our times - how you can be seduced by something shiny, gaudy, bombastic, and seemingly euphonic, only to see it for the disaster it is when it eventually crashes and burns. We hope you get a chance to check it out, subscribe to our channel if you'd be so kind, and prime yourself for the release of our debut album on July 7, with the Album Release Show to follow at the Press Room the week after on July 16 - thanks! 

For the guitar nerds: It's a 1956 Gibson ES-175D(N) with factory Bigsby in the video - a beautiful guitar that I love dearly. The main fingerpicking guitar part was recorded, however, on a 1964 Gibson ES-335, and the solo on a 1968 Fender Telecaster with Bigsby. I've been using the ES-175 live, though, and it's amazing how much it and the ES-335 are in the same ballpark, for what we play at least.