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Oakley Hall

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"I’ll Follow You represents a confident stride forward for Oakley Hall, and it’s surely one of the best records to come out of NYC this year. The band has never fit easily with any genre name tossed at it—alt country, roots rock—but this is the first album to really prove it. Singer Pat Sullivan and Fred Wallace trade guitar leads that blaze across the lean songs like forks of lightning. Sullivan and Rachel Cox harmonize more beautifully than ever before, but their solo turns are even more stunning." MIKE WOLF - TIME OUT NEW YORK 10.11.07"Brooklyn sextet Oakley Hall's I'll Follow You is a bone-deep and breathtaking psych-country epic. Twin leads Patrick Sullivan (late of the outstanding Brooklyn avant-pop outfit Oneida) and Rachel Cox (currently of the booming, mesmerizing voice) bellow beautifully, as though struggling to make their lilting lullabies heard through gale-force winds that could be blowing anywhere—the band's rustic but raucous sound, bewitching on record and pulverizing live, doesn't desperately try to sound Southern, or Appalachian, or North Platte, Nebraskan, and thus effortlessly evokes all three. It doesn't particularly signify "New York," either, but its confidence, its strength and finesse, does." ROB HARVILLA - VILLAGE VOICE 9.18.07"What if the entire history of alt-country and neo-roots rock disappeared, leaving just one amazing band?" ANDREW EARLES - VICE 9.07"Americana they are not. The Hall is onto a whole new thing, and that thing is pure American rock music. Fuck Yes!" BRIAN BARR - SEATTLE WEEKLY 5.01.07"Imagine the Band if they were twenty-first-century New York kids." DAVID FRICKE - ROLLING STONE 12.28.06

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Member Since: 10/8/2004
Band Website: oakleyhall.net
Band Members: Jesse Barnes: bass, vocals Rachel Cox: vocals, guitar Claudia Mogel: violin, vocals Pat Sullivan: vocals, guitar, organ Fred Wallace: guitar, lap steel & banjo
Record Label: Merge - www.mergerecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Oakley Hall - "Marine Life" - Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTIxhIG3H68 ...
Posted by Oakley Hall on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:29:00 PST

Oakley Hall 'Lazy Susan' - Toronto Oct 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc0EiHHe-ZA ...
Posted by Oakley Hall on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:26:00 PST

live recording/review of the Knit show

http://www.nyctaper.com/?p=132Pretty sweet quality recording of the whole show. Thanks Dan!
Posted by Oakley Hall on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:31:00 PST

October Road

The ABC show "October Road" featured our song "Angela" on monday night's episode alongside music greats Lindsay Buckingham and Faith No More! SWEET!!http://abc.go.com/primetime/octoberroad/index?pn=i...
Posted by Oakley Hall on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:31:00 PST

Photos from the Knitting Factory 2/29/08

Killer photos from Prefix mag...http://www.prefixmag.com/photos/oneida-oakley-hall-kni tting-factory-nyc/
Posted by Oakley Hall on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:58:00 PST

Some Video and Stuff

Here's a Punkcast of a couple few cuts from our Second Guessing record release show, courtesy the dynamic and ubiquitous Joly: http://punkcast.com/918/index.html Also Vice says something nice: http...
Posted by Oakley Hall on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:56:00 PST