Name: Plainly Mistaken
Brand: Nathan Bowles

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POB043cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-05

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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843563103630

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

POB043lp

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843563103623

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Artist

Nathan Bowles

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Paradise of Bachelors

Nathan Bowles is a multi-instrumentalist musician and teacher based in the mountains of southwestern Virginia. He is known for his exploration of Appalachian old-time traditions and minimalist drone music, showcasing his virtuosic banjo skills. As a member of the Black Twig Pickers, he immerses himself in local folk music and dance traditions. Additionally, Bowles has collaborated with various artists including Steve Gunn, Jack Rose, and Hiss Golden Messenger. His second solo album Nansemond showcases his inventive playing style on banjo, percussion, piano, tapes, and vocals.

Bowles' unique sound combines traditional Appalachian stringband music with contemporary improvised and post-minimalist avant-garde elements. His hypnotic recordings seamlessly integrate tradition-bearing masters like Dock Boggs and Etta Baker with experimental compositional techniques inspired by Paul Metzger and Henry Flynt.

With an extensive discography spanning collaborations across genres, Nathan Bowles continues to push boundaries while respectfully blurring the lines between Southern vernacular music and modernism.

Nathan Bowles' album Plainly Mistaken. available here on Standard Black LP and Standard CD.

On his playfully subversive fourth solo album, Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) extends his acclaimed banjo and percussion practice into the full-band realm for the first time, showcasing both delicate solo meditations and smoldering, swinging ensemble explorations featuring Casey Toll (Jake Xerxes Fussell, Mt. Moriah) on double bass and Rex McMurry (CAVE) on drums. As he considers the cycles of deceit and self-deception that shape both our personal and political lives, a mixed mood of melancholy and merriment permeates Bowles's own compositions as well as the interpretive material, which draws from traditional Appalachian repertoires and the diverse songbooks of Julie Tippetts, Cousin Emmy, and Silver Apples.

Plainly Mistaken

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