2/18/2024 0 Comments Punch your lights out songWe had a song called Punchbowl on our first record that was called a Punch Brothers record and so people but I remember you said what about Punchbowl and that reminded me of this Mark Twain short story called Punch Brothers Punch and I ordered that out, and that actually won out. We were so proud of ourselves but the label said it wouldn’t stand the test of time. I just want to pointout there wasn’t anything criminal about the original band and that we had, it was just laden with puns we were very briefly called the Tension Mountain Boys. It’s kind of interesting one where did you come up with it? Everything under the sun was being trotted out as a band name after our intial idea was quite rightly rejected by the label. (Song Playing) So your band name, the Punch Brothers. Shall we hear a song? Awesome, yes maybe Little Lights, yes, do little Lights. That thing’s being alive is you want to just make things for people, you want to offer people something to make their day a little bit better and to look out into an audience of people and see that this or that song has had some some purchase in someone’s life that is sort of quickly through complete the cycle for me. We make things, we make things for people. ![]() For instance when you deliver a song and you look out into a crowd and there are people who I can tell that know that song, I just can’t even begin to express what a validating experience that is. What makes reforming so important to you? I think it validates things a little bit. And you’ve mentioned Chris that you don’t feel like the process of putting together a record is complete until you perform those songs to an audience. I’d say that’s sort of feel overall tone of Punch Brothers it’s this bluegrass instrumentation but not necessarily in the service of propagating the beautiful traditional bluegrass but rather to attempt to emulate the spirit of the creators of bluegrass music who, they were just they were freestyling, they were coming up with new stuff we would like to do the same. I think for holding our palette staring at this blank canvas and we want to make sure that we know exactly what colours we have to work with and I think electric instruments things like that are very mysterious colors to us we’re not sure that we can get what we want to get on to that blank canvas with those colours whereas with bluegrass instrumentation, banjo, guitar, bass, fiddle and mandolin those are colors that we understand fairly well and though there may be most commonly associated with the music of Bill Monroe and Flat and Scruggs, traditional bluegrass, I think we feel like we can make just about anything that we can imagine. I think first and foremost is that we’re an acoustic band, we’re not plugging and then the reason for that is that it’s just not what we know the best. Chris Thile and Noam Pekilney spoke with me before their appearance at the Ellnora Guitar Festival about solo projects and in Pikelny’s case coming back to play after graduating from the Uof I and how they would describe that sound. ![]() ![]() They’ve been gaining plenty of attempts though as they gain attention. Punch Brothers are an acoustic band with a unique sound that defies most descriptors. Transcript for file: news150911_punchbrotherswebmixdownfull.mp3 ![]() Pop Up Archive Item: “Punch Brothers On Their Sound, Solo Careers And Returning To Champaign-Urbana” :
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