Penny & Sparrow Lefty Record Release Celebration at Grimey’s
Make plans to join us on Friday, January 31st at 4:00 PM to celebrate the release of Penny & Sparrow’s brand new album, Lefty! They’ll be performing a short, intimate set in the record shop and then signing copies of their album for event attendees* before they head out for their debut performance at The Grand Ole Opry: Opry 100 at 7:00! (Tickets are still available via The Opry plus you can always listen via WSM). *Wristband are required to participate in our signing and are free with preorder of the album on our site here. (Kids 12 & under do not need a wristband if attending with a wrist-band holding adult.) Space is limited and wristband guarantee entrance.
Lefty is a cross-genre double-album. Of the record they said, "We wanted to record a double album for the challenge of it, and also for the chance to be sonically rangy and eccentric. The idea of offering all sorts of sounds, structures, melodies, and lyrical approaches in 20 songs was creatively exciting to us, so we did it. Lefty is a long collection of both real and made up things. We wrote poetry, true stories, literary fan fiction, horror, erotica, slice-of-life vignettes, dream scenarios, saloon conversations, elegies, a toast, a few confessions and at least two love letters. All of them belong together because each one is an extension of us, of the things we love. We are the ties that bind Lefty.
Texas natives, Baxter and Jahnke first crossed paths at UT Austin, where they developed both a fast friendship and a deeply symbiotic musical connection. Jahnke was a gifted guitarist with an ear for melody, Baxter an erudite lyricist with a mesmerizing voice and crystalline falsetto, and the duo quickly found that their vocals blended together as if they’d been singing in harmony their whole lives. Beginning with 2013’s ‘Tenboom,’ the staunchly DIY pair released a series of critically lauded records that garnered comparisons to the hushed intimacy of Iron & Wine and the adventurous beauty of James Blake, building up a devoted fanbase along the way through relentless touring and word-of-mouth buzz. NPR praised the band’s songwriting as a “delicate dance between heartache and resolve,” while The World Café raved that they’ve “steadily built a sound as attentive to detail as Simon & Garfunkel and as open to the present day as Bon Iver,” and Rolling Stone hailed their catalog as “folk music for Sunday mornings, quiet evenings, and all the fragile moments in between.” In addition to the mountain of glowing reviews, the band also earned high profile fans—including The Civil Wars’ John Paul White, who produced 2015’s ‘Let A Lover Drown You’—and extensive tour dates with everyone from Josh Ritter and Johnnyswim to Drew Holcomb and Delta Rae.
We can’t wait to host Penny & Sparrow in the shop for this special occasion and hope you’ll be able to join in on the fun! See you soon, Nashville! Preorder your copy of Lefty in the record shop or on our site here.
Lefty by Penny & Sparrow