Bry Webb - Provider

Bry Webb - Former frontman of the late, critically adored Canadian indie band The Constantines headed into the studio with a pair of lap and pedal steel players and a standup bassist to recorded this eerie, quietly intense and compelling debut album...Feist, a friend and admirer, handpicked Webb as a touring partner last year saying “I absolutely admire how unique and connected his playing is. I’d say he's my favorite guitarist I’ve watched all these years.” // Release: Provider (CD: October 2, Idée Fixe; Out Now Digitally) // Sounds like: recorded "off the floor" in the studio surrounded by his band, Provider's nine tracks offer both whispered intimacy and cool, hazy distance in the spacious production...Webb's husky, unvarnished vocals bring a raw dimension to his mostly somber, infinitely mesmerizing folk/rock meditations...if there was ever such a thing as "chamber Americana" this is it...

Quote: "I went through a crazy few years trying to make a record with some friends...Eventually, I lost focus on the songs and didn’t write any songs for about a year. When our son, Asa, was born, I just started writing some songs for him. It was the most exciting and renewing way to start writing songs again." // What we like: Webb describes the influences for "Rivers of Gold" as the "peaceful emptiness" he encountered on a long drive through Canada's national parks -- and you can practically feel that in the reverbed steel guitar and his own weary vocals...the beautifully "Asa", written for his young son, shimmers with a warming glow...the confessional yet tongue-in-cheek dark humor of "Undertaker" has the feel of a moody, cinematic hymn...

Bry Webb - "Rivers of Gold" (from Provider)

Bry Webb - "Undertaker" (from Provider)