MP3 The Letterpress Opry (formerly The Mayflies) - Sycamore Tree

A now out-of-print EP of painterly Midwestern gothic story-songs... moody, uplifting, beautiful, and scary.

5 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Americana, ROCK: Roots Rock



Details:
The Letterpress Opry are Iowa's answer to the surrealistic existence of genetically engineered pigs. Grown in the deep, black soil of the American Midwest, The Letterpress Opry sound like a Brechtian back-alley tractor race between Doc Watson, Camper Van Beethoven, The Band, Wilco, and Johnny Cash (on a bad hair day).


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"This wonderful, passionate roots band has brought a welcome new mix of old sounds to the local scene of late. Folk, gospel, country-rock, hillbilly music and echoes of The Band are all rounded up under the group's musical tent... Sycamore Tree (is) a rousing five-song debut EP that covers an amazing amount of turf in just over 26 exhilarating minutes."

-Jim Musser, Iowa City Press-Citizen

"Both sweet and startling, the music of this roots band delivers a
passionate and sometimes haunting slice of Americana."

-Ben Keiffer, WSUI