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  • From: Mark Holland <mark.applesauce.holland AT gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Applesauce on the road and our first review is in
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:35:30 -0400

Hey All,
Pete and I are journeying forth in 2 weeks for a mini-run from DC to
Columbia as we support our new record, *The New, New Country Blues of
Applesauce*. We do not have these online yet (there is some label interest
that we are exploring). However, we have a limited run of CDs.and are
selling them at shows. I have listed our dates below. Please come out and
say hey!
I also have our first review pasted below by Chuck Hicks, a freelance
writer, fan and friend.

Sep 15 2010 8:00PSt. Elmo's Coffee
Pub<http://events.myspace.com/Event/5071509/St-Elmos-Coffee-Pub>Alexandria/Del
Ray, VA Sep 16 2010 7:30PRA Fountain General
Store<http://events.myspace.com/Event/5125705/RA-Fountain>Fountain,
North Carolina Sep 17 2010 8:00PSoapbox Laundro
Lounge<http://events.myspace.com/Event/5329036/Soapbox-Laundro-Lounge>Wilmington,
North Carolina Sep 18 2010 7:00PThe White
Mule<http://events.myspace.com/Event/7104959/The-White-Mule>Columbia,
South Caro
Sep 26 2010 3:00PArmadillo
Grill<http://events.myspace.com/Event/6633352/Carrboro-Music-Festival>Carrboro,
NC

*Applesauce -- The New, New Country Blues of Applesauce*



Over the ‘90s and early ‘00s Mark Holland was one half of Chapel Hill’s
Jennyanykind. Of late he has plumbed the murky waters of country blues.
With Pete Waggoner he formed Applesauce, and *The New, New Country Blues* is
the duo's first recording. I’ve suspected that Holland had a record like
this in him for a long time, and here he goes straight to the source –
Charley Patton (1891? – 1934) – for inspiration. The minimalism creates
exactly the kind one lane dirt road at midnight kind of experience one
associates with the idiom. On tracks like “Frankie and Albert” the layered
vocals capture the ghostly effect found on Patton’s Paramount sides. One
doesn’t normally associate the mandolin with the blues, but Waggoner shows
why some of Son House’s best field recordings included that (or a fiddle).
“Searchin’ for Willie Brown” is as unhurried as a Sunflower County sheriff’s
deputy. And “Ride the White Swan” harkens to the versatility required
of the bluesman as popular songster and ragtime artist (and occasionally
even gospel singer) at social gatherings. My younger son and I saw
Applesauce perform at the Evening Muse in Charlotte in July, and the
occasion provided a most gratifying blues fix. Give Messrs. Holland and
Waggoner an A+ for this effort. Anyone with even a passing interest in
roots music shouldn’t pass this up.






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All the best,

Mark Holland



  • Applesauce on the road and our first review is in, Mark Holland, 09/01/2010

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