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Sweet Bitters

Not salty...or sour

About Me

Sweet Bitters is a harmony-based acoustic duo serving up tasty, flavorful folk-pop. Or pop-folk. Whatever. Sweet Bitters was created by two Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters, Sharon and Nina, who started blending their voices and said to themselves, "This harmony thing is fun." Sharon liked singing on Nina’s songs and Nina liked singing on Sharon’s songs. And they sounded sweet -- but not too sweet. A little bit of bitter thrown in was just right.

"When she’s at the top of her game, Sharon Goldman is one of the world’s foremost pop tunesmiths, alongside Aimee Mann and Elvis Costello. Nina Schmir first made a mark in the New York scene as one of the superb harmony singers in Aimee Van Dyne’s band. Since that group broke up, she’s been plying her solo work, acoustic songs imbued equally with devious wit and haunting intensity. The duo’s layers of harmonies on this album are often wrenchingly beautiful. Each songwriter contributes two songs to this effort."


--Alan Young, Lucid Culture
"They have a song called "Falling Into Place" that’s about a late afternoon walk up Seventh Avenue in the winter. It’s real pretty. One of the few songs I know about Seventh Avenue."
--Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/21/2008
Band Website: sweetbitters.net
Band Members: Sharon Goldman and Nina Schmir
Influences: The Roches, Aimee Mann, The Indigo Girls, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Girlyman, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, Squeeze, CC Railroad, Molly Pitcher, Aimee van Dyne Band, Allison Krauss, Eliza Gilkyson
Sounds Like: Sweet Bitters
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Twit Twitter Twittering

Do you guys Twitter? Should we be Twittering? I've checked it out but I'm worried that no one will give a &$* that we Twittered. If you think Twittering is worthwhile, please let us know how and w...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:59:00 PST

Nina and Sharon are learnin’...

...lots of new stuff for our set. Nina is hard at work on a french song by Serge Gainsbourg and a song from the movie "Juno," while I am working out songs by Aimee Mann and Alison Krauss. Oh, and hope...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:55:00 PST

Plenty of tunes at Pete’s Candy Store

We had an awesome time at Pete’s Candy Store on Saturday night...Hadar and Lois from the Opticality.com blog were there bright and early so we hung out with them and chatted about Girlyman and o...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST

what cover tunes should we do?

Nina and I are trying to think of a couple of cool covers to do. What do y’all think? Anything you think would sound great with the Sweet Bitters sound? Let us know! If we perform the song we wi...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:18:00 PST

Wikipedia’s definition of "bitters"

A bitters is a preparation of herbs and citrus dissolved in alcohol or glycerine with a bitter or bittersweet flavor. The various brands of bitters, once numerous, were formerly manufactured as patent...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:12:00 PST

Nina wants Jon Stewart for President

At least that’s what it says on her T-shirt. Sweet Bitters had a fun show last night at Perch Cafe, a really cool cafe on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. Lots of our Brooklyn buddies were there and ...
Posted by Sweet Bitters on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PST