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Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic dissonant country-folk that is reminiscent of the Carter Family .
Freakwater lives! Their 2016 release, Scheherazade, has enjoyed universal critical praise, and ranks #63 on Metacritic's list of the best albums from that year. Not too shabby! Buy the record from Bloodshot now. A 7" of a track from the record, "The Asp and the Albatross", with a non-album B-side, "The Allegory of the Cave", is also available.
DAVID WAYNE GAY, aka "The Undertaker", is Freakwater's long-time bassist, and has lived in Asheville, North Carolina since 1998. Onstage, his cigarette continually burning, Dave maintains a quiet, cool, and professional stance. His full contribution to the group will probably always be underestimated and never fully understood by folks on the ...
1994.07.24 FW play with Dolly Varden at the Double Door, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 1994 Catherine appears, briefly, in the "cult music roadmovie" Half-Cocked. You can watch the entire film here. The band is profiled in a Rolling Stone article about up-and-comers, alongside Shudder to Think and Guided by Voices.
Feb 4, 2016 · February 4, 2016. The darkly austere alt-country group Freakwater has kept their simple, gothic sound consistent through the years, but on their eighth album they overhaul it almost completely. It ...
Nov 29, 2006 · Album available for purchase: http://thrilljockey.com/thrill/Freakwater/Feels-Like-The-Third-Time#.UuwHQIWfsdQFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freakw...
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Nov 29, 2006 · "Hero/Heroine" is from the album Old Paint by Freakwater, on Thrill Jockey.Freakwater on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freakwater/112342798780173T...
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