Album Notes

While this album isn't available as a CD at the moment, you can get it on Itunes. Thanks for listening - A & P

Story So Far > Polly Fiveash & Anand Nayak have sung together for years. Starting in their college dorm stairwell, they've since performed on streets and stages throughout New England. The Road the Wheels & the Ride represents the years of living life together, getting to know each other as musicians, making forays into song-writing, learning how to record. Written and recorded mostly in their Northampton, MA apartment (between the buzzing of prop planes from the local airfield), and mainly gentle in sound, the album covers a range of styles and moods, eras and stories. It's an album they are both proud of, and hopefully the first of many.


Album > "The Road the Wheels & the Ride"

Album Notes:

1. Two Leaves - A silent, dust-in-the-sun moment viewed thorugh old-timey film.
Vocals - Polly & Anand
Guitar, Mandolin & Bass - Anand

2. Happy Ever After - A strange and silly story about an ageless dream
Vocals - Anand & Polly
Guitar, Mandolin & Bass - Anand

3. Instead - Light rain, a visitor from the past, some questions.
Vocal - Polly
Guitar - Anand

4. Brambles & Rain - "I covered my scars with moons and stars and walked away"
Vocal - Polly
Guitars, Bass - Anand
Drums - Sturgis Cunningham

5. Pebble - A sweet lullaby and/or love song
Vocals - Polly & Anand
Guitar, Slide, Bass - Anand
Cajon, Cymbal - Scott Kessel
Banjo - Rose Sinclair

6. Pale Moon - An existential wolf plays the blues
Vocal, Resophonic Guitar - Anand

7. Granddaughter's Wedding Day - A simple, Seeger-esque request for sanity.
Vocals - Polly & Anand
Guitars, Bass, Farfisa - Anand

8. Alone - A picture within a picture... waves
Vocal - Polly
Guitar - Anand

9. The Road the Wheels & the Ride - Clarity, if not sobriety (at 3am)
Vocals - Anand & Polly
Guitars, Bass, Shakers - Anand
Drums - Sturgis Cunningham

10. A Little Different - Lover's blues.
Vocal - Polly
Guitars, Bass, Keyboard - Anand

11. In Between - An Etta-esque, done-wrong-but-still-strong number.
Vocal - Polly
Guitars, Bass - Anand
Drums - Scott Kessel
Piano - Sam Bigelow

12. Last Slow Dance - A waltz for a perfect summer evening.
Vocals - Polly & Anand
Guitars, Mandolin, Bass - Anand
Fiddle - Rani Arbo

13. Song for Sheila - The endless aftermath of relationships.
Vocals - Polly & Anand
Guitars, Bass - Anand
Drums - Scott Kessel

Tracks 1-3, 8 & 13 mixed by Mark Alan Miller
Tracks 4-7 & 9-11 mixed by Huck Bennert
mastered at Sound/Mirror