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The Mayflies : Sycamore Tree
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A now out-of-print EP of painterly Midwestern gothic story-songs... moody, uplifting, beautiful, and scary.
Genre: Rock: Americana
Release Date: 2001
Sycamore Tree Record Label: Feral Dachshund Records
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
I Don't Know 4:45 $0.99
Sycamore Tree 4:10 $0.99
Baltimore 6:07 $0.99
Caroline 8:37 $0.99
Nightingale 3:00 $0.99
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Album Notes

The Letterpress Opry are Iowa's answer to the surrealistic existence of genetically engineered pigs. Grown in the deep, black soil of the American Midwest, The Letterpress Opry sound like a Brechtian back-alley tractor race between Doc Watson, Camper Van Beethoven, The Band, Wilco, and Johnny Cash (on a bad hair day).


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"This wonderful, passionate roots band has brought a welcome new mix of old sounds to the local scene of late. Folk, gospel, country-rock, hillbilly music and echoes of The Band are all rounded up under the group's musical tent... Sycamore Tree (is) a rousing five-song debut EP that covers an amazing amount of turf in just over 26 exhilarating minutes."

-Jim Musser, Iowa City Press-Citizen

"Both sweet and startling, the music of this roots band delivers a
passionate and sometimes haunting slice of Americana."

-Ben Keiffer, WSUI

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REVIEWS

Amazing group
author: Eric Hand
This CD is in a word, wonderful. Every song is great. I Don't Know could easily be a huge hit on country radio or adult contemporary. The band is very impressive and so is the writing. Highly reccomend this CD. It's great to hear a young group playing this music with such passion, intensity, and talent
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author: Jason Warzecha
What a lovely CD . . . and I don't mean that in a cheesy way. There's a laid back, easy feeling that I get when I listen. If I had to catagorize the music on this CD, I would call it American music without leaning too country. Why "Baltimore" wasn't more of a break out song, I'll never understand.
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Relaxing music from a local band!
author: Brian Vakulskas
The songs on this CD, although few in number, are very powerful and with meaning. From the great violin part of I DON'T KNOW to the story told by CAROLINE, the Mayflies (now, the Letterpress Opry) proves itself to be a very creative and original band.
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