- 2025-05-12
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MUSIC
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Sourwood Releases Debut Song “On The Road”
Waterloo-based bluegrass band Sourwood, consisting of Lucas Last (vocals/guitar), Liam Lewis (mandolin), Olivia Bridenthal (fiddle), Patrick Dinnen (upright bass) and Larry Johnston (banjo), released their debut song “On The Road” on April 29, 2025.
The song is a driving and introspective anthem that reckons with the myth of the open road and the dreams of freedom that defined an entire generation.
The track was written by Liam Lewis, Lucas Last, Olivia Breidenthal, and Patrick Dinnen. Produced by Lucas Last and Roman Marcone.
The band lead singer Lucas Last said of the song, “'On the Road' is my way of finding closure with that 'beatnik' mythology-the Kerouac, Easy Rider, even Into the Wild kind of dream-that so deeply influenced my growing up. It's coming to terms with the fact that what was sold to us as an aspirational way of life was, in many ways, a fantasy in a world that has gotten so small.”- He continued, “It really stems from growing up in Virginia during that adolescent phase where you just know you need to be somewhere else. A lot of the art I was consuming then just poured gas on that fire. It kicked off a decades-long journey searching for a place to belong. On the Road is almost a caricature of that journey, hitting the key emotional beats of leaving and searching. It felt like it really set the stage for who we are musically.”
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He said of the recording process, “We met just two days before recording, and by Thursday, we had the first track cut. The moment we decided to chop off the last bar of the hook and nailed it in one take summed up the session-no egos, just a group of near-strangers making it work. It forced us to trust the process and discover the sound together, right then and there.” - source : Apple Music
