We heard from Bryan Simpson of Cadillac Sky, who shared what has been an eventful week for the C-Sky guys. First, the good news…

Their next album is being mastered now, and the band should be able to approve the master soon. Bryan expects that it will be out sometime in the Spring of ‘10, but couldn’t offer an exact date.

The band has also just signed a new management deal with Veritas Music Management, which consists of Evert Wilbrink, Bill McInnes, and Joseph Spence. Bryan said that it was an opportunity they couldn’t pass up.

“We were approached by Evert Wilbrink a few months back about working together in some capacity, just didn’t know exactly how – we started digging into Evert’s credentials (he has worked with Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, to name a few) and knew his experience and excitement for the band could be a potent combination. So this week’s signing was the fruition of that.”

And now for the bad news – I’ll let Bryan tell the tale…

“Okay now the events of last Saturday: you know we planned to leave Denver and Casselman’s on Friday night right after the show in order to get out ahead of a storm we had been warned about. Well, Grant Gordy (ridiculous guitarist from CO) came over to hang and that forced us to put our plans on the backburner and make a little music back in the green room.

Anyway, once we did leave, like 1 something, the roads were already too icy to keep going with tired eyes in tow. So we pulled over on the shoulder for a little shut eye. We fired it back up at daylight and a little ways down the road hit a patch of ice that spilled us off into the median, jack-knifing the trailer in the process, but no real damage done – we wiped off our brows and fired up ‘the Vault’ again.

We switched drivers (the names of who was driving during the moments under discussion are not necessary – Ross and Daniel already feel bad enough), and a few hours later we woke up to the ever-conspicuous phrase, ‘Here we go’… and once again we were sliding – from the right lane to the left and then back over, headed off a cliff on the Colorado-Kansas border. (more…)

The music video for Cadillac Sky’s version of I’ll Follow You into the Dark, their quirky cover of the Death Cab For Cutie hit, has been released online. The song is included on the band’s recent self-produced EP/CD, Weary Angel.

They shot the video at Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, TN – the home of the Bluegrass Underground radio show.

The video is being hosted by Paste Magazine online.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/cadsky-follow.flvC-Sky is running a special promotion on their web site where you can get a free copy of the Weary Angel CD when you buy a band T-shirt for $15.Such a deal!

We heard last week from Bryan Simpson of Cadillac Sky.

He sent along three tracks from the band’s current EP release, Weary Angel, for us to share with our readers. The EP is available from the C-Sky web site for only $5.00.

Here are the audio samples, along with a few comments from Bryan…

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“This is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written – easy to write, honestly… Me and my band mates have been the beneficiaries of many all-night, on-bended-knee vigils over the past few years, and this song was written and recorded with them in mind. David Mayfield’s recording debut with C-Sky…oh, and that’s Billy Cardine on the chanti rangi!”

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“A Death Cab for Cutie song that we have always loved and we had been singing in the show and  people seemed to be digging. Laid back and easy going. The alluring lilt of Jessica Lea Mayfield graces the chorus’. We will have the video for this available soon as well – directed by the great Roger Pistole – shot in The Cumberland Caverns (home of The Bluegrass Underground series).”

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“We ask ourselves why not? and then we did it anyway. Complete with air pumps and rain sticks and the vocal debut of ‘The Panda!’ “

The C-Sky boys are also stoked about their next full-length CD, which is scheduled to begin tracking on September 2.

“Can’t wait – trying to capture what we do onstage on tape will be the mountain we’re trying to climb – the gloves are coming off on this one.”

When we last spoke with Cadillac Sky’s Bryan Simpson, he was excited about the release of the band’s new 4-song EP, Weary Angel.

At that time, he mentioned that C-Sky was intending to start work on a new full length recording soon, and that the EP was the result of a spontaneous decision to give in to a sudden creative urge on the band’s part.

Just yesterday, Bryan got some news that had the guys in a whirl. Their next project will be produced by a critically acclaimed artist from the world of blues and rock music.

“We just signed on with The Black Keys guitar front man Dan Auerbach to produce our new record in the fall. We’re all big fans of The Black Keys so we are super stoked about the opportunity.

It all happened rather quickly. David Mayfield was out playing bass on the road with his sister Jessica Lea Mayfield, opening up shows for The Black Keys, and passed on a copy of our Gravity’s Our Enemy CD to him. I guess he heard something that intrigued him because he mentioned, to our surprise, that he would be interested in working with us.

As Dan’s new solo record, Keep it Hid, will attest, he obviously has a history with roots music and its branches, and we were in love with the rawness of the past records he has produced, not to mention his solo and Black Keys stuff. So it seemed like a perfect fit.

We’re gonna try and capture the ferocity and energy of our live show on a full length record for maybe the first time. I think that on our new EP we just put out, The Weary Angel EP, as it has been dubbed, you can hear and feel that. I know that Dan’s goal in the studio is to capture a ‘magical’ performance, which doesn’t necessarily mean a ‘perfect’ one. So we will be doing almost everything live.

We’re going to be recording up at his place in Kent, OH starting September 1st using the same board that The Band recorded most of their amazing records on – so we’re hoping some of their ‘transcendent musical magic’ will still be left in the machine.

We hear Dan’s excited about it, we’re excited about it… It’s definitely got us inspired to write, arrange, and record the best record that we’ve ever made for sure. It will be different, but, having heard a bunch of songs that we will be recording, I know it’s going to be, by far, the deepest and most original thing we’ve ever recorded.”

Bryan said that they won’t worry much about working with a record company at this point, though that may come into the mix before this next project is ready for release.

“We are just going to make a record and then see what happens – we aren’t opposed to doing a label deal, but just want it to be the right label for us. Our plan is to make the best record we can and let God put us where He wants us. Outside of that, we’re not interested.”