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Bone Orchard Revival

About Me


Reared in the dusky twilight of Michigan industry and baptized on its haunted shores, Bone Orchard Revival offers Sunday morning lovesick hymnals to break your back and harmonies to mend it, with siren songs sweet and sultry as a Saturday night.
At once angels' trumpets and devils' trombones, Jeni Lee Richey and Adam M. Arscott deliver olde-time country, gospel and blues-influenced songs steeped in love, loss, desire and delicious strangers. The two were bound by fate in early 2007, and the musical curiosities poured forth like yesterday's wine. Since then, they have been bringing the Revival to any town that will have them, from ornate concert halls to seedy watering holes and all places in between.
Bone Orchard Revival's sound is laden with high lonesome harmonies, ethereal melodies and an unyielding sense of reverence for the trails blazed by those who have hoisted this rag before them. The listener will swoon with that familiar glow as undertones and influences rear their heads, from the Carter Family to Gillian Welch, Townes van Zandt to Tom Waits, Janis Joplin to Willie Nelson, the strings of Nashville to the line workers of Detroit.
Their songs unfold like travelogues, revealing moonlit lovers, heads full with whiskey, ghost moons over sleeping cities, salvation for the sinner and those all too frequent evenings when you wind up using parking meters as walking sticks.
With music like the patent medicines of days past, Bone Orchard Revival may just be the cure for what ails your weary modern soul.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/04/2007
Band Website: www.sonicbids.com/BoneOrchardRevival
Band Members: Thee players are:

Jeni Lee Richey

Voice of a saint
Words of a sinner

Guitar stylings

Adam M. Arscott

Howl of the Lonesome
Stories near and far

Guitar stylings
Banjo commandeer
Lap Steel moans
Accordion drawls
Autoharp carousals
Occasional Electronic tendencies

Influences: Mme. Richey counts among her inspirations the earth that is Gillian Welch, the passion that is Janis Joplin, the grit that is Mark Lanegan, the simple genius that is Townes van Zandt...life, love, heartache, desire, delicious strangers, unruly friends and all the in-between lovelies that bring songs in the middle of the blue moonlit night.

Mr. Arscott assembles his songs from a ragged and growing catalogue of picture postcards from both odd places and strange endeavours; return addresses include one Mr. George Jones, one Mr.Willie Nelson, one Mr. Tom Waits, one Carter Family and one Mr. Chester 'Wolf' Burnett, as well as the cities of Nashville and Detroit at large.

...Both agree that nothing good ever comes out of looking in the barn, except perhaps a song.

Sounds Like: Sunday morning lovesick hymnals to break your back and harmonies to mend it....with siren songs sweet and sultry as a Saturday night.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Order ’Hush Money Hymnals’ Online

'Hush Money Hymnals', our debut album, is now available online at CDbaby for order. Digital format available from most online outlets, including iTunes, MSN music, rhapsody.LINK TO PURCHASE ALBUM:
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Live on WCBN Local Music Show 09.24.08

Podcast here:  http://www.clickcaster.com/wcbnlms...thanks to Jason Voss @ www. wcbn. org
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:26:00 GMT

’Hush Money Hymnals’ CD Available Now

Our debut LP, titled 'Hush Money Hymnals,' is finished, printed, wrapped in cellophane and ready to be delivered to your timpanic membranes via delightful compact disc.  'Hush Money Hymnals' is a...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:54:00 GMT

Best Listener Comments...A Rolling Blog

"Man, I've never seen anyone play banjo like that!"  "Aw, you guys look cute."  "You guys do a great job.  Even my mother who doesn't like so much of the music thought you did a great ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:43:00 GMT

www.Semi-Live.com...New Local Music Site...Visit Often

So, there's this gent named Wayne, and he has undertaken this fantastic new project, www.semi-live.com.Wayne records live music performances around Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit, and posts them on ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:57:00 GMT

Holy Moses - Thanks for a great first show!

Many, many thanks to all who came out last night for our first show out and for enduring our funny technical issues - tuberculosis and tuning issues won't deter this motley crew!  We could ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:20:00 GMT