Episode 19-32: The Sweet Water Warblers, also featuring Blue Canvas Orchestra

About This Episode

Formed at the Hoxeyville Music Festival in 2014, The Sweet Water
Warblers have gone on to attract serious admiration wherever they
appear. Michigan songbirds, Rachael Davis, Lindsay Lou and May
Erlewine had each carved out successful careers on the American
Roots Music circuit and in the process grew to respect each
others’ work. When they finally gelled into the potent force they
have become, it was the most natural coming together – three
singing sirens and multi-instrumentalists whose repertoire swings
from gospel and bluegrass to soul and even joyful interpretations
of pop. With three-part vocal harmonies that are sublime, they
trade instruments including mountain fiddle and banjo, uke,
guitar and double bass.


Lindsay Lou is well known as lead vocalist with her band The
Flatbellys who have toured extensively and appeared at festivals
ranging from MerleFest in the USA to Shetland Folk Festival in
the UK. One of the main visiting attractions at Celtic
Connections in 2017, she was nominated in the 2016 Best Vocalist
category by the prestigious International Bluegrass Music
Association.


May Erlewine has the sort of soul-baring voice that moves the
Alan Lomaxes of the world to abandon the ivory tower for the back
roads of rural America. One of the most prolific and passionate
songwriters of her generation, May’s music has touched the hearts
of people all over the world. Her songs have been featured in
Rolling Stone Magazine, on Prairie Home Companion, sung in
churches, played by musicians nationally and regionally and in
living rooms across the land. Her words have held solace for
weary hearts and her writing is for the times.


Rachael Davis has a broad and faithful fanbase, admired
especially by her peers, with a reputation as one of the
classiest gals on the scene. At the age of 21, Rachael moved to
Boston to start a career as a singer-songwriter and 7 short
months after joining the music community she was was awarded the
Boston Music Award for best new singer-songwriter. Her influences
range from the jazz stylings of Ella Fitzgerald to the soulful
contemporary vocals of Patty Griffin – and much more in between.
About Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist
and radio show host from New Auburn, Wisconsin.


Perry’s bestselling memoirs include Population 485, Truck: A Love
Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and his latest, Montaigne in Barn
Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy. His first book for
young readers, The Scavengers, was published in 2014 and first
novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow, was published in May of
2015.


Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself
through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then
wandered into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters
in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the local volunteer fire
and rescue service and is an intermittent pig farmer. He hosts
the nationally-syndicated “Tent Show Radio,” performs widely as a
humorist, and tours with his band the Long Beds (currently
recording their third album for Amble Down Records). He has
recorded three live humor albums including Never Stand Behind A
Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.


Learn more about Michael and where to get his publications at
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