Willow & the Embers

Rank #23 Seattle, WA Singer Songwriter / Folk / Rock

50% of sales go to the charity Sweet Relief.

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Members: Kevin Wood, Bob Congleton

Sounds Like: Aimee Mann, Jeff Buckley, Cowboy Junkies, Lana Del Rey, Gillian Welch

Label: indie

Bio: Folk-noir meets dreamy hush-pop in Willow & The Embers’ textural ambient rock, as Willow’s evocative crooning, introspective lyrics, and muse-like persona both soothe and stimulate the savage beast.

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Willow & the Embers has a show on 05/17/2013 at 09:00 PM @ Blue Moon in Seattle, WA http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/200424530 #concert

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“Willow Scrivner has seen a lot of the country from the back of an old 1970's station wagon. That's what happens when your father is a preacher and the call of God keeps you moving. "It was in a particular denomination when you are either done with what you were sent to do at that particular church they move you on or if what you feel your work there at that church isn't getting done then you move on," said the West Seattle-based singer-songwriter in an interview with Seattle Sounds. The soundtrack to all that moving was an AM radio, "either country or somebody talking about God," Scrivner said. That influence is evident throughout "Radio Sky," the new album from Willow and the Embers. It's a soulful, sometimes haunting collection of songs culled from a lifetime of putting down roots in small town after small town ”

— MyNorthwest.com

““She is a creative force, a singer-songwriter who pens darkly surreal lyrics and sings like a pixie in a trance ("think David Lynch goes to Lilith Fair”)” ~ Seattle Times”

— Seattle Times

““Willow & The Embers' new CD, 'Radio Sky,' features dreamy folk with a gothic quality. The daughter of a Protestant preacher, Willow Scrivner exchanged one life on the road for another as a touring musician. Seattle-based trio Willow & The Embers is nearing the end of its 16-show, 23-day ‘Daughter of a Preacher Man’ tour through the Southwest. The tour is in conjunction with the trio's new album, "Radio Sky," released earlier this year, and stops off at many of the cities where Scrivner's father pastored. Scrivner recalls a childhood spent in the back seat of her family's station wagon. She says her father had seven preaching positions. The new album reflects on Scrivner's childhood in the church, family wanderings and finding comfort in radio and her father's records. The recent recording combines dark, ambient rock, "folk-noir" and "hush-pop" arrangements with Scrivner's haunting, alto vocals; introspective, poetic lyrics; and low, rich bass lines.” ~ Ashland Tribune”

— Ashland Tribune

"Willow & the Embers, Radio Sky (out now, self-released, willowsmusic.com): West Seattle's Willow has a haunting and ethereal voice, and her songs can take on the same traits. This preacher's daughter makes delicate, ambient folk music, and for Radio Sky she adds a pair of musicians, Kevin Wood and Bob Congleton, who add gentle bass lines and well-placed guitar swells to provide just the right amount of texture. DL (Fri., May 11, Skylark)"

— DL, Seattle Weekly

“ “Willow’s dark, powerful songs make her the Flannery O’Connor of the local music scene” – The Seattle Times ”

— The Seattle Times

“ “Willow is anything but the standard girl with a guitar and a back catalog of Joni Mitchell covers. Her songs take on redemption and longing, destiny and death with a crystalline alto and an undertow of darkness that tugs the songs from below.” ~ The Stranger, ‘Drunk by Noon ”

— The Stranger

“ “This Seattle-based artist’s music lingers in a stark, blackly outlined winter landscape with shadowy, whispering instrumentation and fluid melody. The record hovers somewhere around folk, but with gothic tinges and bell-like guitars chiming throughout. Willow’s voice, reminiscent of Natalie Merchant and The Sundays’ Harriet Wheeler, is as warm, lilting, and alluring as they come. Sweet Dark Demon is haunted and haunting, shot throughout with a deep, glimmering liquidity.” ~ Performing Songwriter ”

— Performing Songwriter

“ “What is it with preternatural musical savants and the dark side? Willow, like Jad Fair and Jandek before her, picked up a guitar one day in 1992 and started to write, formal training be damned. But instead of Fair’s childhood-imp-of-the-perverse or Jandek’s just plain creepiness, Willow belongs to a more formalist goth lineage, like a female Nick Cave (or at least the one who isn’t PJ Harvey). Daughter of a preacher man and former hard-core Bible student, she also brings to mind Sixteen Horsepower’s David Eugene Edwards, the son of a minister, who likewise straddles the line between sin and redemption, reveling in the fire-and-brimstone of it all. But unlike both Cave and Edwards, Willow’s music is imbued with a gentle lyricismf ull of swirling strings alternating with hushed moments of pure voicethat suggests redemption might be possible after all” – Seattle Weekly ”

— Seattle Weekly

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