Dana Falconberry & Medicine Bow are embarking on a tour of national parks in the US, which is apt, as her songs are steeped in nature and it's impossible to imagine any song on From the Forest Came the Fire performed in a grey brick building.
From the Forest Came the Fire isn't quite the quantum leap that Leelanau was from Halletts, but it marks another distinct point in Falconberry and her band's evolution. While on Leelanau, Falconberry's cohorts (multi-instrumentalists Gina Dvorak, Karla Manzur and Christopher Cox, cellist Lindsey Verrill and drummer Matthew Shepherd) played Falconberry's pre-existing arrangements, Forest is a full band effort from the ground up, hence the acknowledgement of a collective this time. In lesser hands, their particular strain of folk music could have failed to connect. Substance could have given way to directionless jamming or perfunctory ambiance. Fortunately, Falconberry imbues everything she does with emotional gravitas, and she and her band have a preternatural sense of songcraft.
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