Blue Arrow Records: The Label

Jesse DeNatale is a singer-songwriter in Northern California. He was born in San Francisco. DeNatale (rhymes with “seen a trolley?”) has been writing songs for as long as he can remember. He has released two critically acclaimed records: Shangri-La West (2000) and Soul Parade (2006). He will be releasing his next record The Wilderness this year, on Blue Arrow Records. His music has been described as evocative, and hopeful, a combination of poetry and storytelling. He is looking forward to recording a backlog of material in 2020.

Warm, melodious indiepop from Pittsburgh, PA. Ben Harrison has drawn from bands like Yo Ya Tengo, Velvet Underground, Luna, The Bats, and Bill Callahan to create evocative melodies and satisfying guitar textures. But Harrison isn’t just making a patchwork quilt of worthy influences. He is blending them together to make his own statement via a warm and instantly familiar set of songs. Sometimes sounding post-punk and sometimes a bit of dusty Americana, with gravelly but melodic baritone vocals that bring to mind DIY godfather Calvin Johnson.

Ethan Daniel Davidson is one of Detroit’s finest singer songwriters; lyrically and musically expressive. His golden voice is woven through lyrics, haunted and confessional, like a man seeking penance. His talent is highlighted by collaborations with some of Detroit’s finest musicians and troubadours. It is apparent his world travels have informed his music and his style. His songs are vivid memories of experiences: rooms that smell of old books, smoke from oil lamps, and bohemian escapades. All the fears, beliefs, lies, secrets and desires accumulated, observed and turned into emotional verse that blurs the line between personal and universal. Davidson creates an intimacy and connection with his audience that is deepened by the timeless nature of his storytelling.

“On my honor I will do my duty to Two Step Dancers and Honky Tonkers everywhere.” Cory Grinder learned his way around country music playing fiddle on street corners, at flea markets, and of course honky tonks. Grinder started his own band in 2016 when multiple hillbilly groups he played fiddle with fizzled out. Along with some other displaced musicians from these bands, The Cory Grinder Band was formed.

1x4x9 is a Los Angeles-based, musical collective, coordinated by Greg Wooten, exploring the collaborative spirit via atmospheric instrumental soundscapes.

A collaboration between the cascading soundscapes of Detroit’s Infinite River (Joey Mazzola, Gretchen Gonzales, Warren Defever) and folk troubadour Ethan Daniel Davidson, Seedsman to the World entrance with a slow-burning, hypnotic drone. Davidson's haunting vocals evoke bygone memories; as songs gradually unfold, each track lingers on the edge of the familiar. Through heavy waves of feedback and fuzz, the album opens to epic expanses of a sound that crackle like half remember dreams. Seedsmen seamlessly blend the dark currents of drone with the mournful confessionals of American folk for an otherworldly ode to songwriters past, as intimate as it is remote.