Featuring the unforgettable voice of Gabrielle Schafer and evocative songwriting of Aaron Rester, Chicago’s The Long Farewells craft dark, folky Americana that will be enjoyed by fans of acts like Cowboy Junkies, Patty Griffin, and The Decemberists.
On their 2019 debut album, Only the Stars—fittingly named after a line from a 1918 Carl Sandburg poem—Schafer and Rester use their trademark style of unearthing the beauty in tragedy to create a haunting portrait of America at a time of creative destruction that echoes our own. Inspired by historical events in the 1910s and deeply rooted in the band’s Midwestern home, the songs on Only the Stars are starkly rendered snapshots of characters both familiar and strange.
Praise for Only the Stars:
“The songs and recordings are fabulous.” – Murry Hammond of The Old 97’s
“Amazing.” – Chicago Acoustic Underground
“A fine album with lyrics to pique your interest and imagination… pleasingly literate songs with stories to tell.” – AmericanaUK
“Proper old-fashioned folk… they’re trying to keep something alive, and I think they’re doing it well.” – You Haven’t Heard This Music
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