Independent acoustic music that has strains of folk and americana, with provocative writing.

15 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk



Details:
"And the rain falls down on the good, and on you making rain, that was the one thing you could always do..." Post Card From Rome

Tree by Leaf began, as many things do, with friends and lovers spending time making music. Throughout the tumult and evolution that accompanies the life of a young band, relations of friendship and love have remained the touchstone of Tree by Leaf.


"Can you take apart the hours, and let me gaze upon the towers? Let me touch the cedar tree that caught the morning star in flight?" Unfaithful Wife

At the age of nineteen Garrett Soucy's adolescence of seventies folk at 33 1/2 rpms erupted into prolific songwriting. The sensibilities born of childhood steeped in Baptist and Pentecostal church music and classical education that Cliff Young and Siiri Soucy brought to the band turned Garrett's ear for melody and undeniable writing talent into something extraordinary. Winding layers of multiple harmonies and densely textured guitar and piano create a sound the listener seems to remember, while knowing he has never quite heard it anywhere else. Organ, accordion and harmonica play with ambiance. With influences as divergent as traditional folk and college rock, Tree by Leaf's music is all their own.


"Honey, you're honey stolen from the angels that guard all the beehives of God." Sweet Annie

Since 1999 Tree by Leaf has been touring the country and playing summer festivals, carving the little inroads that place them deeply in the heart and memory of their audience. They have shared dates with a wide variety of musicians including Vassar Clements, Brooks Williams, Andrew Peterson, Sarah Masen, and Tracy Grammar. The ragtag collection of energies and perspectives that first coalesced on their 1999 debut album "Evening Treatise" and continued on the expansive "Works of Mercy" in 2001 now lives on in the still untitled new record, set for release in April 2003. Tree by Leaf continues to grow in musical stature and maturity. Written and recorded in an atmosphere of rurality and sharp northern air, this is their most passionate, clear sighted and thoughtful record yet.