Where She Will Go, by Austin Stambaugh

Where She Will Go

by Austin Stambaugh

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1.	Holding Nothing Almost Free 03:57	info	buy track
2.	Everyday Brings a Rose 03:06	info	buy track
3.	Until I Was to Blame 03:50	info	buy track
4.	Singers Blues 03:08	info	buy track
5.	Can't Sleep for Dreaming 03:57	info	buy track
6.	Blood in My Mouth 04:04	info	buy track
7.	Between Two Trains 04:34	info	buy track
8.	Could Be Reward 04:34	info	buy track
9.	Where She Will Go 06:07	info	buy track
10.	Throwing My Heart Around 03:51	info	buy track

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Singer, guitarist, poet, songwriter - Austin Stambaugh has one of the most versatile sounds in American music. He creates a spin of blues, country, and folk music in his first solo album, Where She Will Go, that embraces individualism, gives life advice, and tells of working class life.

This is a modern folk album that parades on primitivism. Where She Will Go is mainly composed of 6-string acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitar. The inspiration came from a video he saw of Bert Jansch and Red Rhodes recording together for the 1974 album L.A. Turnaround. Austin used these instruments to create a limitless sound with a wide sonic field that surrounds a tenor voice. This 10-song tracklist is lonesome and daring as well as endearingly sincere offering new poetic expressions and images to the American songbook.

All of Where She Will Go was written alone and features no co-writes. The album starts with the dissonant blues and eastern idealism of "Holding Nothing Almost Free", and then turns into the Spanish waltz of resolved optimism, "Everyday Brings a Rose". The album contains elements of 1960's soul and "Between Two Trains", with its industrial drum track, evokes the rain-soaked nightmare sounds of a late seventies Tom Waits.

Austin Stambaugh is a guitarist and poet songwriter from northeast Ohio. He is enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen and has supported national artists Joe Ely and Kinky Friedman. He lives in Nashville, TN.
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"As he laments in “Blood In My Mouth”, Austin Stambaugh doesn’t “learn by being told”. He must fully fling himself into life, his melody as the compass. Timeless and nuanced, starkly sad and a little funny ...enjoy with the lights low." - Lilly Hiatt

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released October 31, 2019

Produced by: Austin Stambaugh & Al Backstrom
Cover Photo by: Louis Haas
6 String Guitars by: Austin Stambaugh
Pedal Steel by: Stephen "Tebbs" Karney
Bass Guitar by: Al Backstrom
Engineered by: Austin Stambaugh & Al Backstrom

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Austin Stambaugh Nashville, Tennessee

Ohio Balladeer & Story Writer: Austin Stambaugh is enriched with an authenticity magnetically keen. A modern pioneer of folk music storytelling, his work has been called “Timeless and nuanced,” by Lilly Hiatt. Tim Easton wrote, “Austin Stambaugh is the best flatpicking songwriter you’ve never heard of, and I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in my Redwing boots and say it.” ... more

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