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Great Divide by Piney Gir's Country Roadshow is SoundsXP's label debut
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written by A SoundsXP writer
Aug 10, 2006.
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Great Divide by Piney Gir's Country Roadshow is the first single on the Sounds eXPerience label, which was set up by SoundsXP to promote exciting new pop music with an edge.
Anyone who heard her Peakahokahoo album (2004) knows how Piney Gir can turn her hand to a variety of styles - electro, indie, pop to name but three – and wrap them around a strong melodic core. So it’s no surprise that she’s gone back to her roots for her inner-city-country debut as The Piney Gir Country Roadshow: “You can take the girl out of Kansas but you can’t take Kansas out of the girl” says London-based Piney.
Regardless of genre, Great Divide is one of Piney’s finest songs. “It’s based on a true story where I got in a car with a boy and went to Seattle on spring break. The car broke down on the Great Divide in the Rocky Mountains so we had to live in this town in Colorado for 2 weeks while we waited for a car part. We got jobs and lived this Jack Kerouac existence: it was the first time I ever drank beer and I wasn’t even 21! It was really, really good fun but more in hindsight than at the time I guess.” They never made it to Seattle and the experience didn’t bring the travellers closer together; in fact, they split up straightaway. But it did inspire this swinging tune that brings country to the city and adds some fine, sassy singing from Miss Piney plus a melody that gives you vertigo.
The Country Roadshow is Piney (vocals, accordion), Simon Byrt (guitar), David Fisher (drums), Dave Howell (bass) and Ian Kellett (pedal steel, banjo). The band formed for very practical reasons: “we got these gigs playing at workingmen’s clubs and it didn’t seem suitable to play our electro-pop-jazz-whatever songs and so we took our songwriting back to the basics and did a country version”. It’s proved so popular that Piney divides her time between her electro-Piney and country-Piney personas and has just completed an album by The Piney Gir Country Roadshow.
The AA-side, Trouble, was co-written with Robin Bennett from Goldrush and Dusty’s Sound System and the brains behind the Truck Festival. The sleeve, designed by Steven A Wood, is based on an illustration that Piney saw in a child’s cowboy annual. The single is available in 500 vinyl copies from the Sounds eXPerience website and as a download. You can hear the tracks at the label's Myspace page.
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