Buster Sledge releases “New Shoes'', a pioneer song in the genre of sci-fi sadgrass

“New Shoes'' is a pioneer song in the genre of sci-fi sadgrass. It consists of a stream of indie-inspired lyrics and features a melodic cross picked bluegrass-guitar outro to put a bow on it. The band functions as a tight-knit ensemble producing a folk-y undertow of textures in counterpoint to the vocals floating above.

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Buster Sledge is an acoustic sadgrass quartet of four voices, fiddle, banjo, guitar and contrabass fronted by a Californian living in Norway and backed by three Norwegians of diverse musical backgrounds, all with a shared love for traditional American music. With many musics as software and bluegrass music as hardware, the band creates a contemporary twist on a music steeped in tradition. The band presents an original repertoire of music that brings the structure and pop-esque clarity of American old-time fiddle music, the lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with modern harmony and lyric styles from rap, pop, jazz, or whatever happens to best serve the song. These are some of the ways the group engages with the age-old tradition of recycling paraphrased archetypes into a new generation of expressions.

Buster Sledge is: 

Michael Barrett Donovan: lead vocals, fiddle

Mikael Jonassen: banjo, vocals

Jakob Folke Ossum: guitar, vocals

Vidar Starheimsæter: bass, vocals