Acoustic driven indie folk rock, with twangy guitars, and layers of psychedelic loops and sounds.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (32:17) !
Related styles: Rock: Americana, Folk: Folk-Rock, Type: Acoustic

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Crowsong is pleased to announce the release of their fourth studio album, Junebugs And Journeymen. Drawing on the lonesome, rootsy desert sound that formed Western and Shelter, Junebugs And Journeymen expands the range of instruments and timbres to create a unique and layered sound. Created in small , intimate studios in San Francisco,the vibe on Junebugs is personal and emotive.

Here is some press for previous Crowsong releases

FIVE STARS ***** for ETERNAL from REVERBCENTRAL


"This is lush Surfadelic music in the grand tradition." "Tribal drums, rising thunder...dramatic and commanding...Superb!" Phil Dirt REVERB CENTRAL,SURF'S UP

"Eternal is five cuts of guitar heaven." -- John Heidt VINTAGE GUITAR

"These records are little materpieces."-- Freddy Celis ROOTSTIME

"Clark came to surf music through the savage rockabilly guitar of Link Wray and has managed to incorporate surf's twangy, staccato rifts into a style almost equally informed by the languid minor chords of Jerry Garcia or the stinging extrapalations of Neil Young".-- Joel Selvin SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE




About the Band

Songwriter and Crowsong founder Randy Clark is a âguitarist's guitaristâ whose influences are grounded in jazz and blues and enhanced by his deep study of Indian classical music. Clark has played and recorded with The Mermen, The Billy Nayer Show, Oscar Brown Jr. and many others .Clark also has worked with producer Jeffrey Wood at Fantasy studios in Berkeley. He has composed film score work for independent festivals in Chicago and San Francisco.

On acoustic and electric bass, Joshua Zucker also shows his comfort with a wide variety of styles, recording and touring with numerous regional and national artists on both coasts. When not playing with Crowsong, Joshua regularly performs with The Rowan Brothers, Garrin Benfield, Kenni & Co., Poor Man's Whiskey, Rattlebox, Lansdale Station, and many others.


Joining Clark on Shelter/Eternal, drummer Vince Littleton answers the call of versatility with his own diverse background. Littleton's recording credits include john Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt and Johnnie Johnson; he spent three years with The Mermen and has collaborated on soundtracks for television and video games.

âCrowsongâs music is vibrant and atmospheric, ranging from delicate slide instrumentals to searing electric epics.â
â Mick Skidmore, Relix Magazine

âClark makes his electric axe sing at the edge of feedback, wields a slide against his acoustic strings with ingenuity close to that of Cooder and Lindley, and generally creates a mysterious exotic vibe in a cobbled-together tradition whose gurus might include John Fahey,
Sandy Bull, Harvey Mandel, and Bill Frisell.â
â Derk Richardson, SF Bay Guardian

âGuitarist Randy Clark lays down 72 minutes of the most genuinely amazing acoustic slide, world beat, hypno-drone metal bluster and detuned sonic surf swirl spaced blues whale music since Jeff Beckâs last decent outing.â
â Al Muzer, Aquarian Weekly

INFORMATION AND BOOKING:
RANDY CLARK
MIGHTY GESHE PUBLISHING
randycrow@gmail.com
WWW.CROWSONG.COM


HOW ABOUT SOME MORE PRESS!!

FLYING HIGH
Crowsong is a highly accomplished trio led by multiinstrumentalist
and master slide guitarist Randy Clark.
After a largely instrumental debut, theyâve expanded
their sound to include vocals and more textures. Think
Ry Cooder meets Neil Young and Crazy Horse with an
alt-country/blues penchant and a tad of Bob Dylan
thrown in for good measure. The ragged vocals have an
endearing quality while the lopping instrumental grooves
are cinematic in scope. Crowsongâs music is vibrant and
atmospheric, ranging from delicate slide instrumentals to
searing electric epics.


C R O W S O N G
In a region that has spawned too many
creative and hotshot pickers to list in
one place (start with Garcia and Santana
and work your way through Satriani
and Kaiser to Hunter and Campilongo),
genius-in-waiting Randy Clark could
too easily get lost in the shuffle.
Composer and guitarist for the vocalless
quartet Crowsong, Clark makes his
electric axe sing at the edge of
feedback, wields a slide against his
acoustic strings with ingenuity close to
that of Cooder and Lindley, and
generally creates a mysterious exotic
vibe in a cobbled-together tradition
whose gurus might include John Fahey,
Sandy Bull, Harvey Mandel, and Bill
Frisell. Bassist Edo Castro, drummer
Skooter Fein, and percussionist Wade
Peterson play crucial roles on these 13
instrumentals, but Clark's vivid timbres,
mercurial ideas, and novel spins on
eclectic influences (country, western,
Delta blues, jazz, rock, Indian) give
them their intoxicating and memorable
personality.
â Derk Richardson
S.F. Bay Guardian
February 2000


Top Indie Rock ânâ Pop of 1999
Crowsong, âDark Comes Lightâ
This instrumental band, featuring
guitarist Randy Clark, plays in fields
tilled by John Fahey and Ry Cooder,
touching on acoustic country blues, but
moving in modern directions without
the coctail trendiness of , say, the
Friends of Dean Martinez.
â Derk Richardson
SFgate.com
January 2000


CROWSONG/WESTERN/CD14
A master guitarist with a slide style to envy, a vibrato
that melts butter, one of the sweetest tones since Ry
Cooder and the chops and flash of Blow By Blow Jeff
Beck -- Randy Clark came up with sounds other axemen
had yet to imagine on 1999's all-instrumental
Dark Comes Light.
Defying expectation thanks to his surprising revisit
of the twangier tunes contained on that excellent
outing, the utterly engrossing Western glows thanks to
Clarkâs rich, warm, Tim Buckley-meets-Mike Scottmeets-
Roger McGuinn-ish vocals, plenty of wellplayed
banjo, mandolin and acoustic, and an edgy,
Steve Earle-like vibe.
Opening with a lilting, Comes A Time-meets-
Jayhawks-meets-Byrds front porch picker (âMy Girlâ)
thatâd sound great on radio -- additional highlights on
a disc that'll hit you in the heart more often than not
include the brilliantly penned âOld Rt.13â; the
appropriately titled âBadlandsâ; the Nitty Gritty chug of
âTwo Manhattansâ; an eight minute sonic overload of
road-weary splang called âDriveâ; and a raw ânâ rangy
roots-rocker called âSeparate Waysâ that boasts the
hook âIf when you wake up, you donât see me in the
morninâ, we must have gone our Separate Ways.â
â Al Muzer
Aquarian Weekly
January 2003



CROWSONG/DARK COMES LIGHT/CD13
Guitarist Randy Clark lays down 72 minutes of the
most genuinely amazing acoustic slide, world beat,
hypno-drone metal bluster and detuned sonic surf
swirl spaced blues whale music since Jeff Beckâs last
decent outing.
Moments of delicate beauty (âMarriage Songâ) and
fingerpicked genius (âBefore We Metâ) compete with
ominous dirges (â15 Milesâ), country-fueled toetappers
(âLuli Houseâ) and alien spaceship crashes
(âDark Comes Lightâ) for the honor of being your
favorite track. A brilliant guitarist deserving of your
undivided attention.
â Al Muzer
Aquarian Weekly
March 2000


Crowsong, Dark Comes Light
[Crowsong CSR001] If you like the ambient
music that Ry Cooder has been recording
for film soundtracks in recent years, the
expressive, spare instrumental music of
California quartet Crowsong might just
fit the bill. Consisting of
guitarist/composer Randy Clark, bassist
Edo Castro, and percussionists Scooter
Fein and Wade Peterson, Crowsongâs
distinctive sound hinges on Clarkâs
piercing slide playing. Pieces like
âCrowsongâ have a dense, slightly
ominous feel that might come upon you
during a hot night driving alone through
the desert. âKumarâs Themeâ is Clarkâs
adaptation of the classical Indian piece
âMishra Kirwani.â Clark is at his most
lyrical on the slow, bluesy âCrowsong,â
Whereas he creates the theme for a
mythical western with the twangy
âNobody,â gets heartbreakingly
DADGAD on âMarriage Song,â and
then rocks out on the feedback-drenched
âSong for Jack Walking Eagle.â Dark
Comes Light is an impressive debut for
Crowsong and heralds the arrival of a
major new guitarist in Randy Clark. (MP)
â Dirty Linen Magazine
August/September 2001



Crowsong is an instrumental quartet from
California led by versatile guitarist, Randy Clark.
He is also a member of the modern day surf band,
âThe Mermen.â
In its cd, âDark Comes Light,â the band explores
a kaleidoscopic blend of textures that has it's roots
in blues, but ventures into more world beat styles.
For instance, the opening cut, âCrowsongâ begins
with Ry Cooder-like slide and then slips into almost
classical Indian tones while incorporating complex
bass patterns. This sound is further explored in
âKumar's Theme.â
Several of the long cuts have a somewhat
repetitive yet meditative feel, most notably in the
nine minute âUndegroundâ and the more
experimental âSong for Jack Walking Eagleâ. The
almost spaghetti western-flavored âNobodyâ offers
a welcome upbeat feel, while the atmospheric,
acoustic slide work on âMagazines and Cocktailsâ
shows that Clark is an incredible guitarist.
â Relix Magazine
February 2000


Ever since I've been writing reviews,
there are some albums that are hard to
describe. Thatâs not a bad thing. It's
usually someone whoâs done something
a little bit differently and done well.
That's the deal here.
Crowsong is a four piece that features
the songs and guitar playing of Randy
Clark. The instrumental tunes mix
country, country/blues, jazz, and pretty
much everything in between. For
instance, â15 Milesâ features a moody,
evocative sound that incorporates
Randy using a slide, volume swells, and
even scrapes to enhance the mood. He
follows that with a killer electric solo
that adds to the feel. The song
âCrowsongâ is the same kind of thing.
He plays (if there is such a thing) slide
jazz. The rhythm section cooks behind
him while he solos wonderfully.
âKumarâs Themeâ has a middle-eastern
feel with a nice chordal work.
It's definitely a different-sounding
album. Randy, along with bassist Edo
Castro, drummer Skooter Fein, and
percussionist Wade Peterson, creates
moods throughout. Clark uses
everything to set things up. From nasty
acoustic and electric slide, to ominious
volume swells, to plain-old pretty
acoustic playing, itâs all there.
â John Heidt
Vintage Guitar Magazine
December 1999


CROWSONG, Dark Comes Light
A mighty acoustic slide player, bandleader
Randy Clark, comes to his current group
from a stint in a California surf band.
Crowsong, however, is far more Ganges
than Pacific Ocean, displaying the music
lessons Clark absorbed during studies in
India. The music has an Eastern sound
but a Western structure, so itâs accessible
to American ears. And very satisfying.
(www.crowsong.com)FIVE STARS ***** for ETERNAL from REVERBCENTRAL


"This is lush Surfadelic music in the grand tradition." "Tribal drums, rising thunder...dramatic and commanding...Superb!" Phil Dirt REVERB CENTRAL,SURF'S UP

"Eternal is five cuts of guitar heaven." -- John Heidt VINTAGE GUITAR

"These records are little materpieces."-- Freddy Celis ROOTSTIME

"Clark came to surf music through the savage rockabilly guitar of Link Wray and has managed to incorporate surf's twangy, staccato rifts into a style almost equally informed by the languid minor chords of Jerry Garcia or the stinging extrapalations of Neil Young".-- Joel Selvin SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE




About the Band

Songwriter and Crowsong founder Randy Clark is a âguitarist's guitaristâ whose influences are grounded in jazz and blues and enhanced by his deep study of Indian classical music. Clark has played and recorded with The Mermen, The Billy Nayer Show, Oscar Brown Jr. and many others .Clark also has worked with producer Jeffrey Wood at Fantasy studios in Berkeley. He has composed film score work for independent festivals in Chicago and San Francisco.

On acoustic and electric bass, Joshua Zucker also shows his comfort with a wide variety of styles, recording and touring with numerous regional and national artists on both coasts. When not playing with Crowsong, Joshua regularly performs with The Rowan Brothers, Garrin Benfield, Kenni & Co., Poor Man's Whiskey, Rattlebox, Lansdale Station, and many others.


Joining Clark on Shelter/Eternal, drummer Vince Littleton answers the call of versatility with his own diverse background. Littleton's recording credits include john Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt and Johnnie Johnson; he spent three years with The Mermen and has collaborated on soundtracks for television and video games.

âCrowsongâs music is vibrant and atmospheric, ranging from delicate slide instrumentals to searing electric epics.â
â Mick Skidmore, Relix Magazine

âClark makes his electric axe sing at the edge of feedback, wields a slide against his acoustic strings with ingenuity close to that of Cooder and Lindley, and generally creates a mysterious exotic vibe in a cobbled-together tradition whose gurus might include John Fahey,
Sandy Bull, Harvey Mandel, and Bill Frisell.â
â Derk Richardson, SF Bay Guardian

âGuitarist Randy Clark lays down 72 minutes of the most genuinely amazing acoustic slide, world beat, hypno-drone metal bluster and detuned sonic surf swirl spaced blues whale music since Jeff Beckâs last decent outing.â
â Al Muzer, Aquarian Weekly

INFORMATION AND BOOKING:
RANDY CLARK
MIGHTY GESHE PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 170451
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 995-1976
randycrow@gmail.com
WWW.CROWSONG.COM
P.O. Box 170541, San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 995-1976
www.crowsong.com

HOW ABOUT SOME MORE PRESS!!

FLYING HIGH
Crowsong is a highly accomplished trio led by multiinstrumentalist
and master slide guitarist Randy Clark.
After a largely instrumental debut, theyâve expanded
their sound to include vocals and more textures. Think
Ry Cooder meets Neil Young and Crazy Horse with an
alt-country/blues penchant and a tad of Bob Dylan
thrown in for good measure. The ragged vocals have an
endearing quality while the lopping instrumental grooves
are cinematic in scope. Crowsongâs music is vibrant and
atmospheric, ranging from delicate slide instrumentals to
searing electric epics.


C R O W S O N G
In a region that has spawned too many
creative and hotshot pickers to list in
one place (start with Garcia and Santana
and work your way through Satriani
and Kaiser to Hunter and Campilongo),
genius-in-waiting Randy Clark could
too easily get lost in the shuffle.
Composer and guitarist for the vocalless
quartet Crowsong, Clark makes his
electric axe sing at the edge of
feedback, wields a slide against his
acoustic strings with ingenuity close to
that of Cooder and Lindley, and
generally creates a mysterious exotic
vibe in a cobbled-together tradition
whose gurus might include John Fahey,
Sandy Bull, Harvey Mandel, and Bill
Frisell. Bassist Edo Castro, drummer
Skooter Fein, and percussionist Wade
Peterson play crucial roles on these 13
instrumentals, but Clark's vivid timbres,
mercurial ideas, and novel spins on
eclectic influences (country, western,
Delta blues, jazz, rock, Indian) give
them their intoxicating and memorable
personality.
â Derk Richardson
S.F. Bay Guardian
February 2000


Top Indie Rock ânâ Pop of 1999
Crowsong, âDark Comes Lightâ
This instrumental band, featuring
guitarist Randy Clark, plays in fields
tilled by John Fahey and Ry Cooder,
touching on acoustic country blues, but
moving in modern directions without
the coctail trendiness of , say, the
Friends of Dean Martinez.
â Derk Richardson
SFgate.com
January 2000


CROWSONG/WESTERN/CD14
A master guitarist with a slide style to envy, a vibrato
that melts butter, one of the sweetest tones since Ry
Cooder and the chops and flash of Blow By Blow Jeff
Beck -- Randy Clark came up with sounds other axemen
had yet to imagine on 1999's all-instrumental
Dark Comes Light.
Defying expectation thanks to his surprising revisit
of the twangier tunes contained on that excellent
outing, the utterly engrossing Western glows thanks to
Clarkâs rich, warm, Tim Buckley-meets-Mike Scottmeets-
Roger McGuinn-ish vocals, plenty of wellplayed
banjo, mandolin and acoustic, and an edgy,
Steve Earle-like vibe.
Opening with a lilting, Comes A Time-meets-
Jayhawks-meets-Byrds front porch picker (âMy Girlâ)
thatâd sound great on radio -- additional highlights on
a disc that'll hit you in the heart more often than not
include the brilliantly penned âOld Rt.13â; the
appropriately titled âBadlandsâ; the Nitty Gritty chug of
âTwo Manhattansâ; an eight minute sonic overload of
road-weary splang called âDriveâ; and a raw ânâ rangy
roots-rocker called âSeparate Waysâ that boasts the
hook âIf when you wake up, you donât see me in the
morninâ, we must have gone our Separate Ways.â
â Al Muzer
Aquarian Weekly
January 2003



CROWSONG/DARK COMES LIGHT/CD13
Guitarist Randy Clark lays down 72 minutes of the
most genuinely amazing acoustic slide, world beat,
hypno-drone metal bluster and detuned sonic surf
swirl spaced blues whale music since Jeff Beckâs last
decent outing.
Moments of delicate beauty (âMarriage Songâ) and
fingerpicked genius (âBefore We Metâ) compete with
ominous dirges (â15 Milesâ), country-fueled toetappers
(âLuli Houseâ) and alien spaceship crashes
(âDark Comes Lightâ) for the honor of being your
favorite track. A brilliant guitarist deserving of your
undivided attention.
â Al Muzer
Aquarian Weekly
March 2000


Crowsong, Dark Comes Light
[Crowsong CSR001] If you like the ambient
music that Ry Cooder has been recording
for film soundtracks in recent years, the
expressive, spare instrumental music of
California quartet Crowsong might just
fit the bill. Consisting of
guitarist/composer Randy Clark, bassist
Edo Castro, and percussionists Scooter
Fein and Wade Peterson, Crowsongâs
distinctive sound hinges on Clarkâs
piercing slide playing. Pieces like
âCrowsongâ have a dense, slightly
ominous feel that might come upon you
during a hot night driving alone through
the desert. âKumarâs Themeâ is Clarkâs
adaptation of the classical Indian piece
âMishra Kirwani.â Clark is at his most
lyrical on the slow, bluesy âCrowsong,â
Whereas he creates the theme for a
mythical western with the twangy
âNobody,â gets heartbreakingly
DADGAD on âMarriage Song,â and
then rocks out on the feedback-drenched
âSong for Jack Walking Eagle.â Dark
Comes Light is an impressive debut for
Crowsong and heralds the arrival of a
major new guitarist in Randy Clark. (MP)
â Dirty Linen Magazine
August/September 2001



Crowsong is an instrumental quartet from
California led by versatile guitarist, Randy Clark.
He is also a member of the modern day surf band,
âThe Mermen.â
In its cd, âDark Comes Light,â the band explores
a kaleidoscopic blend of textures that has it's roots
in blues, but ventures into more world beat styles.
For instance, the opening cut, âCrowsongâ begins
with Ry Cooder-like slide and then slips into almost
classical Indian tones while incorporating complex
bass patterns. This sound is further explored in
âKumar's Theme.â
Several of the long cuts have a somewhat
repetitive yet meditative feel, most notably in the
nine minute âUndegroundâ and the more
experimental âSong for Jack Walking Eagleâ. The
almost spaghetti western-flavored âNobodyâ offers
a welcome upbeat feel, while the atmospheric,
acoustic slide work on âMagazines and Cocktailsâ
shows that Clark is an incredible guitarist.
â Relix Magazine
February 2000


Ever since I've been writing reviews,
there are some albums that are hard to
describe. Thatâs not a bad thing. It's
usually someone whoâs done something
a little bit differently and done well.
That's the deal here.
Crowsong is a four piece that features
the songs and guitar playing of Randy
Clark. The instrumental tunes mix
country, country/blues, jazz, and pretty
much everything in between. For
instance, â15 Milesâ features a moody,
evocative sound that incorporates
Randy using a slide, volume swells, and
even scrapes to enhance the mood. He
follows that with a killer electric solo
that adds to the feel. The song
âCrowsongâ is the same kind of thing.
He plays (if there is such a thing) slide
jazz. The rhythm section cooks behind
him while he solos wonderfully.
âKumarâs Themeâ has a middle-eastern
feel with a nice chordal work.
It's definitely a different-sounding
album. Randy, along with bassist Edo
Castro, drummer Skooter Fein, and
percussionist Wade Peterson, creates
moods throughout. Clark uses
everything to set things up. From nasty
acoustic and electric slide, to ominious
volume swells, to plain-old pretty
acoustic playing, itâs all there.
â John Heidt
Vintage Guitar Magazine
December 1999


CROWSONG, Dark Comes Light
A mighty acoustic slide player, bandleader
Randy Clark, comes to his current group
from a stint in a California surf band.
Crowsong, however, is far more Ganges
than Pacific Ocean, displaying the music
lessons Clark absorbed during studies in
India. The music has an Eastern sound
but a Western structure, so itâs accessible
to American ears. And very satisfying.
(www.crowsong.com)