Album Notes

The music of Adam Sweeney & the Jamboree is like “The Sound of Silence” after the band kicks in: all jangle and harmony, poppy yet literary, brooding and celebratory all at the same time. As a songwriter Sweeney has one foot planted firmly in the folk revivalist tradition, while the other seems to have landed somewhere a bit more edgy, a bit more indie, a bit more electric.

Sweeney’s songs are one part Dylan, one part Simon. Half the time they are poetic vignettes and character-driven narratives in the vein of Josh Ritter or Nebraska-era Springsteen, while the other half is obliquely imagistic and steeped in metaphor, with lyrics akin to those of Jeff Tweedy or Michael Stipe.

But it’s his backing band, The Jamboree, that lifts the music out of the folk singer-songwriter realm and plants it squarely on a rock foundation – with intricate lead guitar work by Jeremie Murfin; Brooklyn-to-Portland transplant Katie Sawicki on banjo and backing vocals; multi-instrumentalist David Fuller on accordion, percussion and atmospheric electrics; Zachary Pace on bass guitar; and Peter Van Dyck on drums.

Adam also has 3 solo records available through CD Baby: Wildest Rose (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/asweeney3), Technicolor Halo (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/asweeney2), and Places & Names (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/asweeney).