Moonsville Collective Release 4th EP of 2017

Courtesy: Baby Robot Media

Dec 12, 2017 (Press Release) -- Los Angeles-based communal folk/Americana group Moonsville Collective have officially released their fourth & final EP of 2017, Moonsville IV. In advance of the release, the band was featured at The Boot, Alternate Root, Magnet Magazine & Substream Magazine, the latter of which referred to the band as "A steadfast reminder of how great real Americana-style country music can still be." The day before the release, Moonsville IV streamed in it's entirety at PopMatters.

Moonsville is a Southern California band that writes songs about the terrain of their own stories and lives. During an age of short attention spans and speedy business, the band draws their inspiration from a simple well and holds firm to the truth that good songs can carry people through hard times and can increase the light when life lands you on the sunny side of the street.

As young ramblers from the suburbs of Los Angeles, they began their musical fostering by allowing themselves to be adopted into the Central California scene, sitting-in on jug band and old-time music circles where an infectious and pure spirit of “music for music’s sake” lived.  Injecting that same spirit into their songs and their lives became their quest. Moonsville, like a train station, always had players and characters stopping in from time to time to play, drink, chat and record. They’ve recently landed on a concrete five-person roster but often times still have friends sit in on certain shows. Although recent recognition has ushered them onto bigger stages, the bands roots will always find harvest in low-lit bars, drunken alleys and the hobo lullabies. ​

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​Before 2017, the band recorded 2 studio albums of original music, toured the country, and played countless shows sharing the stage and line-up on certain occasions with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The White Buffalo, Charlie Parr and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others. Moonsville pulls poetry from their LA home and also from their out-of city get aways, to create a field where their songs can sprout.

Moonsville has now fulfilled their own commitment to record 4 EP’s (20 songs) in 2017. With multi-instrumentalists and several songwriters in the band, they keep their Americana style variable; always open to experimentation and the blurring of genre lines. One of the songwriters, Ryan Welch says; “EP IV is different than the rest in that we really relied and leaned on our acoustic instruments to guide the sound and feel. “

This fourth and final release of the quarterly EP’s will exhibit the band’s return to their acoustic roots. From a percussive driven song that sings about how our country’s eyes used to shine to a steady strummed, mandolin laced song about asking a friend how it feels to be gone, Moonsville uses their lyrics and acoustic tones to lead the listener to a place of introspection and maybe even to the telephone for a long overdue call to your Mother. The third song is a retrospective ballad about a lost soul who is on a seemingly unsuccessful search to rearrange everything but his own ways. “This EP tells stories and begs the listener to think and slow down,” says one of Moonsville’s members, “Dobro” Dan Richardson. The fourth song is a southwestern, ode-to-the-road ballad about driving through Texas and the various characters encountered along the way. In the final track, a harmonica lays the platform for the begging question of “Are we getting older?” and tells of not forgetting the love that gets you through the heavy times.  This EP, Moonsville IV, is the bookend to a prolific year for the band and another batch of songs to add to the California canon.