I don’t know how The Starlings do it. They’re about to head out in their van for a 6 month tour of the country. That may sound like a good idea when you have major label backing and a swanky tour bus, but for The Starlings they’ll be traveling more lofi. Lofi like their blend of acoustic country and folk.
The band’s brand new record is called Marveling The While and features the harmonizing vocals of Joy Mills and Tom Parker. It’s the follow up to the 2006 debut Songbook which KEXP touted as one of the best records coming out of the pacific Northwest. The new song “Geraldine” can be added to that long list of songs in the music canon with titles based on a woman’s name. The story is of a wandering, lost soul of a woman for whom the journey was as important as the places she wound up. Buy Marveling The While here. Check out their extensive tour dates here to see if you can catch them live at your local watering hole or coffeehouse.