Acclaimed rockers Roman Candle will release Oh Tall Tree in the Ear, their much-anticipated follow up to 2006’s The Wee Hours Revue, May 12th on Carnival Records.The songs for this album were written mostly in a rural part of the U.K., despite the band being from Chapel Hill, NC. “We had been playing shows in London after the Wee Hours came out, and we decided to stay for a month with some friends of ours who owned a manor house in east Yorkshire,” says Matheny. “We stayed in an apartment above what used to be the horse stables, and wrote a bunch of lyrics and music for the new record.” Matheny goes on to explain that the two major influences on them during this writing time, were Tom Stoppard’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which they had seen while in London, and Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus,” which they were reading at the time.
Produced by Jason Lehning (Alison Krauss, The Silver Seas) and recorded in Nashville and North Carolina, Oh Tall Tree in the Ear capitalizes on the band’s distinct melodic sensibilities and its earnest, introspective lyrics. Skip, Timshel and Logan Matheny, the trio at the core of Roman Candle, remain a band dedicated to the power of a well-crafted song.
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