Side Pony

Side Pony

Lake Street Dive's Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony, will be released on February 19, 2016. The four band membersâ€”drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael "McDuck" Olsonâ€”worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Secret Sisters) on the record.

Tour dates to supportSide Ponybegin February 22 in Phoenix and include stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, New York, and more; tickets go on sale next Thursday, November 19.

Side Pony takes its name from a song on the record that refers to a whimsical hairstyle, but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive's philosophy and personality as a band. As Kearney puts it, "When we were settling on the album title, that one just stuck out to us as embodying the band's spirit. We've always been this somewhat uncategorizable, weird, outlying, genre-less band. That's the statement we wanted to make with this record: be yourself."

Olson echoes her sentiment: "It has also come to mean anything you're doing for the sheer joy of it. We have always 'rocked our side pony.' Now we have a convenient phrase for it."

Cobb's working method was to keep the recording fast and loose, as live-in-the-studio as possible, and to embrace the unorthodox. This provided Lake Street Dive with a welcome challenge: an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before.

Calabrese says of the recording process, "Dave's process was mercurial, changing direction quickly, going from 'we don't have anything' to 'we've got it!'" He continues, "We weren't always so sure. But then we'd listen to a comp and we'd agree that he'd heard something we hadn't."

Price adds, "It was great to see, through this particular recording process, how beautifully our individual strengths complement each other."
Country USA
Brand Nonesuch
Manufacturer Nonesuch
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber NNS551913.2
Model NNS551913.2
ReleaseDate 2016-02-19
UnitCount 1
UPCs 075597948967
EANs 0075597948967

Country	USA
Brand	Nonesuch
Manufacturer	Nonesuch
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	NNS551913.2
Model	NNS551913.2
ReleaseDate	2016-02-19
UnitCount	1
UPCs	075597948967
EANs	0075597948967

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