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"That Sounds Lonesome"

"That Sounds Lonesome" serves as the perfect introduction to Pitney Meyer with John's solid banjo kick and roll throughout the track, coupled with Mo's well-loved lead vocal. John adds tenor and Nate Burie, who also plays mandolin, sings baritone. The band track is complete with award-winner Jenee Fleenor on fiddle and Blake Pitney on bass. The single is quintessential bluegrass in feel but with a fresh take on the lonesome theme:



Coon dogs bayin', Know what he's sayin'
Whistling winds a playin' through a weeping willow tree
Wood floors creakin', Tin roof is leakin'
The company I'm keepin' is the shadow of a dream

That sounds lonesome, That sounds lonesome
The sounds a little lonesome to me
That sounds lonesome, Low down and then some
That sounds a little lonesome to me

"My first introduction to being overjoyed with music is with Bluegrass," continues Mo. "Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice, Larry Sparks, Del McCoury. Now, it’s like the best of all worlds with John and I being able to come out here and have songs that we’ve written, stories that mean something to us, but sounds like the old joyful, child-like bluegrass that we grew up loving."

"This form of music is inherently nostalgic," John adds, "But it can’t only be nostalgia. There has to be something fresh, there has to be something from your heart. What’s your story? How do you tell that? I really think that’s what’s been happening with this music and that’s why it’s been resonating with us and with others."



PITNEY MEYER BIO:
Born of an enduring friendship and a love of traditional bluegrass music, Pitney Meyer is the musical brotherhood and songwriting collaboration of Mo Pitney and John Meyer.

Committed to capturing the human element at every level of the recording process, Pitney Meyer, alongside Serve Productions, built a completely analog recording studio in the heart of an 1837 hand-hewn log cabin, formerly owned by Johnny Cash, now the Storytellers Hideaway Farm in Bon Aqua, Tennessee.

Over a period of three days, Pitney Meyer produced and recorded its debut album, Cherokee Pioneer, featuring Nate Burie on mandolin, Ivy Phillips on Fiddle, Blake Pitney on Bass, and five-time CMA Musician of the Year Jenee Fleenor on Fiddle.

Pitney Meyer’s stand-alone debut single, “That Sounds Lonesome,” is set to release July 19, 2024, with the duo’s debut full-length album, Cherokee Pioneer, following in the Spring of 2025.