Punch Brothers continue the Southern swing of their US tour, following last night's show in Knoxville and a live Mountain Stage set that led the Charleston Gazette to say the band "can flat-out play music." Chris Thile spoke with Birmingham magazine's Carla Jean Whitley, who tells him: "Perhaps I'm reading too much in, but it just sounds like you're five guys having a great time creating music with friends." The band has just added new dates to their tour schedule in January.
Punch Brothers continue the Southern swing of their US tour, following last night's show at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a set in a sold-out live performance of Mountain Stage in Charleston, West Virginia, that led the Charleston Gazette to say the band "can flat-out play music."
The tour heads to the WorkPlay Theatre in Birmingham, tonight; the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta Friday; the Germantown Performing Arts Center back in Tennessee, outside of Memphis, on Saturday; and finally at George's Majestic in Fayetteville, Arkansas, before they have a couple of days off for Thanksgiving next week.
Punch Brothers have just added some new dates to their tour schedule, as well, including two shows in Massachusetts this January, at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on the 12th and at the Somerville Theater outside Boston on the 13th. For a complete list of tour dates with ticket links, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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Leading to tonight's show at the WorkPlay Theatre, Punch Brothers' Chris Thile spoke with Birmingham magazine's Carla Jean Whitley about bringing the songs of the band's recent Nonesuch release, Antifogmatic, to life on the album and in concert, and how they differ from those of the band's Nonesuch debut album, Punch.
"Going from Punch to Antifogmatic is in some ways a big change for Punch Brothers," Whitely suggests to Thile, "and yet it's also a natural extension of what you created on the first album. I think the band’s pop-rock interests show through more on Antifogmatic ... Perhaps I'm reading too much in, but it just sounds like you're five guys having a great time creating music with friends."
Read what Thile has to say in the interview at al.com.
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In a preview of last night's show, Thile spoke with Knoxville News Sentinel writer Wayne Bledsoe about the band's history and the making of Antifogmatic.
"I never wanted to be involved in something that wasn't getting better," Thile says. "The great thing for me in this band is that everyone is willing to push it."
You can read the article at knoxville.com.
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To pick up a copy of Antifogmatic or Punch, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders include high-quality, 320 kbps of the album at checkout.
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