Where She Will Go

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2019-10-31

Label: Primitive American

Singer, guitarist, poet, songwriter - Austin Stambaugh has one of the most versatile sounds in American music. He creates a spin of blues, country, and folk music in his first solo album, Where She Will Go, that embraces individualism, gives life advice, and tells of working class life.

This is a modern folk album that parades on primitivism. Where She Will Go is mainly composed of 6-string acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitar. The inspiration came from a video he saw of Bert Jansch and Red Rhodes recording together for the 1974 album L.A. Turnaround. Austin used these instruments to create a limitless sound with a wide sonic field that surrounds a tenor voice. This 10-song tracklist is lonesome and daring as well as endearingly sincere offering new poetic expressions and images to the American songbook.

All of Where She Will Go was written alone and features no co-writes. The album starts with the dissonant blues and eastern idealism of "Holding Nothing Almost Free", and then turns into the Spanish waltz of resolved optimism, "Everyday Brings a Rose". The album contains elements of 1960's soul and "Between Two Trains", with its industrial drum track, evokes the rain-soaked nightmare sounds of a late seventies Tom Waits.

Austin Stambaugh is a guitarist and poet songwriter from northeast Ohio. He is enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen and has supported national artists Joe Ely and Kinky Friedman. He lives in Nashville, TN.
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"As he laments in “Blood In My Mouth”, Austin Stambaugh doesn’t “learn by being told”. He must fully fling himself into life, his melody as the compass. Timeless and nuanced, starkly sad and a little funny ...enjoy with the lights low." - Lilly Hiatt