the cedars

Four dissolutes from far apart stridin down your highway to take hold of your heart.



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SOME REVIEW EXTRACTS:

R2 (ROCK N' REEL) - Cover CD Feature - Issue 16 (July/August)

London-based Americana four-piece The Cedars recorded their debut album in California. This choice cut from a thoroughly juicy selection serves as a splendid introduction to a band currently at the forefront on the UK’s alt.country scene.



THE CEDARS – A BRIEF TESTIMONY - Nick Brown, Playwright

May I venture as many as four reasons to acquaint you with this combo?

• Of course their songs are pocket masterpieces of careless love and casual heartbreak.

• Of course their singer is possessed of a haunting melancholy masquerading as nonchalance and imbibed with, perhaps, one too many long dark nights of the soul.

• Of course the band is a taut lattice, effortlessly meshed and driving, leaving no toe untapped…

But this is mere detail.

The Cedars make music to remind you why your heart beats, and to let you forget (if only for a little while) all those times you doubted why it should bother



BLUES MATTERS - Issue 40 (October/November)

The Cedars like their Blues flavoured with a big dose of bluegrass, steel guitars and banjos, toiling away under Chantal Hill’s vocals. This London band certainly know how to play and they do a cracking job of evoking the spirit of the south (so good these songs would sit happily with period recordings).



MUSICMART

Shuffling, rootsy Americana 'n Country offset nicely by singer Chantal's beautifully silky, lilting voice - singing songs about "dirt and shame in that stony ground”. Live, the band take on a more raucous feel, like the soundtrack to a wild, liquor-fuelled hoe-down They're very clearly a class act; there are a whole raft of signed bands unfit to lick the shiny boots of The Cedars".



BLUES IN LONDON - Live Review of us playing with Alabama 3:

"The Cedars describe themselves as a 'bluesy Americana throwback' and jolly good they are at it too. Fronted by the charismatic Chantal Hill on vocals and with the stylish slide of Jason Moffat on guitar, their tales of murder and jilted love are finely wrought and their 'unplugged' approach makes a welcome change"



Read the rest at: http://www.bluesinlondon.com/live/a3.html



SMALLFISH-ONLINE

"The gig itself is a revelation. The three preceding groups playing this evening had regaled the assembled crowd but the Cedars did more than entertain. They grabbed the audience’s attention and enthralled them."



".at the end of the song, the crowd give hearty applause but it is tempered by the knowledge that they are soon to lose the band, and they throw themselves into howling for an encore. The band submit and finish off with The Colour. The whole venue is now transformed from a placid North London pub into a Texas hoedown, as people begin to clap along and put together worthy attempts to square dance. At the end of the song, everyone comes to their senses and wonders how they came to be locked arm in arm with a perfect stranger. Talking afterwards, the group seem unaware of the frenzy they brewed up."

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