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Click to Download Toby Oler - Utobya
Utobya takes a quick 27 minute breather from bluegrass and stomps across genres and into your earbuds. Trying to prove my dual citizenship, this one was recorded over 2007 and 2008 at Mission Bells and the Stude in San Francisco and Russian Recording and at the Vices Sonic Workshop in Bloomington.
Click to Download Toby Oler & The Nashville Knives Sampler
This sampler has tracks from the upcoming Nashville Knives live album Sometimes Trouble Just Follows a Man, unreleased studio recordings from Russian Recording in Bloomington, IN and choice cuts from WFHB's live radio show Saturday's Child.
Click to Download Otto Mobile - The Lost Songs of Otto Mobile
The Lost Songs of Otto Mobile is the Stones-y brainchild of Bay Area slide guitarist Matt Lundquist. This warm analog album includes players from Buxter Hoot'n, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Dem Suite, The Stereofidelics, The Nashville Knives, Quinn, and Beep!.
Click to Download Toby Oler & The Nashville Knives - The Kristie Tape
The Kristie Tape documents two September afternoons early in the existence of the Nashville Knives playing a set of original material and interspersed with nuggets of cassette weirdness.
"Psychedelic Bluegrass" - Bluegrass Unlimited
Click to Download Faultlines - Faultlines EP
The Faultlines EP is a six song newgrass collection from 2006 of original material by Ryan Deasy and Toby Oler that muddies the bluegrass tradition and showcases the deft fingerwork of Michael Lindau on fiddle and Chris Padgett (Stereofidelics) on guitar.
"Nice to hear a band zig when you think they're going to zag for a change!" - Cary Fields, Fields of Bluegrass
Click to Download Men of Many Vices - Done Worse for Less
Done Worse for Less is a short set of original and traditional material recorded live at RippleFx studio in Indianapolis. The Vices featured the souped-up hillbilly songs of Ryan Deasy and Toby Oler and the fur-lined fiddling of Michael Lindau served steaming over a heaping bed of funky drumming by Nick Mallers (Ladymoon).
"Familiar folk music motifs, like love, loss, and booze, are tackled with a wisdom that belies the writer's youth and delivered with corrosive wit and an English Professor's preoccupation with language." - Bloomington Alternative
Type of Label: Indie