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Red Heart the Ticker

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About Me

Red Heart the Ticker is the musical home of Robin MacArthur and Tyler Gibbons. While recording they were living in a cabin (they built) with no running water and no plumbing. Their songs are about geography and the poetry of places. Their music was bred in isolation. It is about drinking, and blinking, and racing stripe winters. Their haunting sound, lush with harmonies, has been compared to The Innocence Mission, Will Oldham, Wilco, and Emmylou Harris.
What some people are saying...
Paste Magazine:****star album review in March issue "The pair's songs (reminiscent of both Gillian Welch and Will Oldham) are dim and haunting, full of winter melancholy, wispy melodies and plans for escape."
Pitchforkmedia.com: ***1/2 star track review for “Leather Boots”
KinkyOrigami.com: “It seems like each time I listen to “Go-Cart Thrills” something new stands out that I didn’t notice before. The instrumentation is very lush, and its depth really grows on you with each listen.”
The Riverfront Times: “The band's sole album, 2005's For the Wicked, starts with sturdy, country-folk foundations and ends in Lanois-esque soul-scapes. In between, the duo reverses some tape loops, drops some disco-drum hooks, sharpens some knifing guitars and leaves lots of space for MacArthur's dryly sexy voice to draw you into an imperfectly daydreamy utopia.”
The Brattleboro Reformer: "In the hands of The Ticker, most of the songs on For the Wicked take on a hue of masterpiece.”
listen to our archived KEXP performance here ---

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Member Since: 12/17/2005
Band Website: rhtt.net
Band Members: Tyler Gibbons and Robin MacArthur

A little taste of our live show...

Influences: Not everyone and not in any significant order of influence: Neil Young, Radiohead, Dolly Parton, Dave Van Ronk, Hazel Dickens, Mississippi John Hurt, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Will Oldham, The Rolling Stones, Loretta Lynn, Townes Van Zandt, Elliott Smith, The Flaming Lips, Maria Maldaur, the Jug Band, Margaret MacArthur and the family, Megan and the Blue Seal Boys, Hope Sandoval, Iris Dement, Gram Parsons, Bruce Springsteen...
Get "for the wicked":
order from CD Baby, Miles Of Music or download from itunes

Sounds Like: people standing around in a snow covered field with boots on

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My Blog

even spring days

A cold, no not cold of course, cool week here in VT after some perfect spring weather. There is this green--specifically the green of new, spring beech tree leaves, that drives my eyeballs to euphoria...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Fri, 23 May 2008 02:05:00 PST

odd spring days, even spring days

There's a first time for everything. On another note, our website "rhtt.net" is down for a couple of days due to my complete lack of everything. Not that the thing has been all that helpful to any of ...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Sun, 04 May 2008 09:40:00 PST

recording...

for all of you who are completely sick of and burnt out on our first album, we have good news for you! we are most of the way through recording album number 2. keep your eyes and ears alert for it lat...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:31:00 PST

over a year later...

hi friends.i've come to discover recently that people actually read these so i thought i'd keep everyone updated on RED HEART THE TICKER'S life...for example, some people wonder WHY IT'S TAKEN US SO L...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:04:00 PST

steel toe drinking

hi everybody. we get asked for definitions on a daily basis so here's some RED HEART THE TICKER phrases defined for you.BLINKING: what is blinking? the cat eddy blinks at us when he feels in love. it ...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:57:00 PST

the woods

what we're thinking about these days from our cabin in the woods of vermont...in ground septic systems (approved! just saved ourselves 15,000 dollars.)the inconvenient truth and global warming and how...
Posted by Red Heart the Ticker on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:31:00 PST