Name: Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno
Brand: Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno

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DIRTCD0100

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-04-09

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Standard:20

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877746010026

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

DIRTLP0100

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2021-04-23

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno

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Country / Americana

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Free Dirt

<p>Free Dirt is a Grammy-nominated independent record label founded by John Smith and Erica J. Haskell in 2006. Over the years, Free Dirt has released music from talented artists such as *Pokey LaFarge*, *Anna & Elizabeth*, *Hackensaw Boys*, *Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge* (Grammy-nominated), *Cahalen Morrison*, *Dori Freeman*, *JP Harris*, and *The Two Man Gentlemen Band*. In addition to their impressive roster, Free Dirt collaborates with PM Press to co-release spoken word and folk music, featuring lectures by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, as well as music from Chumbawamba, Leon Rosselson, Robb Johnson, and more. Furthermore, Free Dirt serves as a distributor for several other roots labels including Jalopy (Brooklyn), Big Muddy (St. Louis), Hi-Style (Nashville), and Mashed Potato (New Orleans).</p>

Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno's self-titled record is old-soul roots music to its core. Though both just out of college, the duos musical talents extend far beyond their years. Produced by Cajun roots heavyweight Joel Savoy at his Grammy-winning studio, Vivian Leva &amp; Riley Calcagno is not some soulless collection of songs imitating previous masters of American music. Rather, the pair has responded to one of the darkest eras in American history with an album of stunning breadth and originality. With mass protests and fires raging near their current home in the Pacific Northwest, and no prospect of touring anytime soon, its an aptly biting, bittersweet group of songs for an uncertain time. Yet, Leva and Calcagno balance this with a sense of optimisma notion that at our most vulnerable we might emerge better humans because of it all, perhaps beginning with our own intimate relationships. The eleven tracks elegantly reprise the deep threads of old-time and classic country present throughout Levas debut albumshe did grow up in rural Virginia, the daughter of celebrated old-time musicians, after all. However, the pair fluidly meld this traditional backbone with fresh iconic melodies, expanded production, and the tightly wound vocal harmonies of indie folk. Its an artistic statement made from this moment but built to last.

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