Buffalo Kin - Vaquera (Self Release) [Folk / Blues]
- The Slow Music Movement
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Buffalo Kin are a real deal folk duo comprising of composer and country-got-soul vocals of singer Katelyn Eisenhooth, alongside Seth Brewster’s gravely, real deal, weather-worn, stoic yet gentle bluesman tones; and you should also know that he plays a mean banjo and cello. They’re two old souls trapped in this forward marching, apparently progressive world, which they’re trying their best to ignore in rural Oregon, whilst creating folk-fluid homages which nod to the varied roots of American folk music: from the blues through to the Anglo influences that stemmed from Appalachia, and everything in between.
Vaquera is their first, home-recorded release of original material, and it’s a still undiscovered gold seam in the vast, wide-open folk landscape. There’s nothing new here, just how they, and now I, like it. This is timeless roots music that unashamedly draws from the “Old West and the sentiments of cowfolk from a bygone era.“, and even though there’s been two hundred and fifty years of American folk music, these two can hold their heads high during any of the periods they’re nodding to. This is deep roots and traditional folk music with heart and soul.