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Bovine Social Club Trades Bar Gigs for Benefits

Sara Bauer
Americana band Bovine Social Club has launched Chords4Carrots in conjunction with their debut full-length recording produced by Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone. Following a June 7th international web-exclusive release, the band set out from their base in Delaware Water Gap, PA for a summer tour of festivals and benefits in support of the sustainable food movement.
Samuel Saint Thomas, songwriter, vocalist, and co-founder of the band, has been an advocate of locally grown whole food for many years. He says, “Fusing tasty food and organic music came as a natural.” In their first summer on the road, BSC has managed to trade the grind of late night bar gigs for the reward of attentive audiences. “In many ways, we are re-inventing what others say it takes for a band to succeed,” says Saint Thomas.
Their performance in Saratoga Springs, NY, secured them a place in the Caffe Lena Library of Congress Folk History Project alongside Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, EmmyLou Harris, Ani DeFranco and many others. Already sharing line-ups with Government Mule, Buckwheat Zydeco, Dark Star Orchestra, and Railroad Earth, Bovine Social Club is using their success to collaborate with local farming associations and food alliances to merge great music with sustainable causes.
In speaking of the band’s sound, Saint Thomas credits producer Tim Carbone with eliminating cliché and suggesting possibilities that the band would not have discovered on their own. “Working with BSC was a unique pleasure. They were always up for an adventure and that sense of adventure is totally evident in their music,” says Carbone, who mined BSC’s nearly 100 years of combined musicality, building on their celtic, bluegrass, gospel, Juju, and rock vocabularies. These sounds fertilize their uncommon songs of loving, lying, picnicking, gardening, and making the days go really slow.
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