Neon Blue Bird

For their third studio album, Ollabelle once again combine stunning vocal harmonies and their innovative take on Roots Music. Producing themselves for the first time, the band recorded Neon Blue Bird in Upstate NY: in a rented house overlooking the Hudson River and in Levon Helm s studio. They emerged with their strongest album to date. Each of the five members takes a turn at lead vocals, and the material balances between original songs, stunning covers (including Chris Whitley s Dirt Floor and Taj Mahal s Lovin In My Baby s Eyes ) and the band s trademark reinvention of Public Domain material (Stephen Foster s Swanee River , field holler Be Your Woman and English murder ballad The Butcher Boy ).

Neon Blue Bird was recorded by Hector Castillo (Brazilian Girls) and Justin Guip (Levon Helm) and was mixed by Tom Schick (Wilco, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones).

Ollabelle was formed on the Lower East Side as a Sunday Night gig at East Village Watering Hole 9C called Sunday Night for Sinners. The bands innovative arrangements of old gospel songs won them an NYC following and a contract with T-Bone Burnett s DMZ Columbia Records imprint. They toured with Alison Krauss, Diana Krall, Ryan Adams, Hem, Buddy Miller and more. Their second record Riverside Battle Songs came out on Verve Forecast and was produced with long time Bob Dylan sideman Larry Campbell.