Weary Angel, The Cadillac Sky EP we posted about last week is now available for $5 from the C-Sky web site, where you can also hear 3 tracks from the mini-CD. The music does show a new sound for the band, just as mandolinist/vocalist Bryan Simpson described in his recent interview.

C-Sky guitarist David Mayfield will be on WAMU’s Bluegrass Country this evening (6/10) to preview some tracks from Weary Angel, and perform a few songs live from his own upcoming solo project as well. His interview with Jen Hitt will run on The Free For All with Echo Propp at 7:00 p.m.

You can catch Bluegrass Country’s live audio stream online at www.bluegrasscountry.org. WAMU’s broadcast signal can be heard over the air at 88.5 HD2 or 105.5 FM in the DC metro area.

Cadillac Sky is putting the finishing touches on a new CD, an EP release called The Weary Angel. It will include four tracks featuring the C-Sky boys and a couple of guest artists.

Two of the songs are C-Sky remakes of pop hits (I Will Follow You Into The Dark and Video Killed The Radio Star) and the others are two versions of the title track, a new song from the band’s mandolinist and lead vocalist, Bryan Simpson. A video has also been created for I Will Follow You Into The Dark, shot by Roger Pistole, who did the band’s video for Born Lonesome.

Bryan fills us in on how the new mini-release came to be…

“The Weary Angel will bridge the gap between our last full length release and a new project we hope to start working on in the fall. But the EP was necessary to satisfy our creative itch and to leave an artifact of who the band is right now – which is far different than the one that recorded Gravity’s Our Enemy… far different. The live show has evolved into new creative territory, and due to the great work God is performing in our group we are very inspired musicians – musically, spiritually – which is definitely making for some great honest conversation between the groups which blows the door open on the depth a band can go to musically…..the EP will be a quick peek behind that creative curtain

But the EP and the new video were never the plan. We actually did a show in the Cumberland Caverns (Bluegrass Underground) and, just the whole day – sound check and everything – was very emotional for us. Maybe it was where we were spiritually as a band when we played it but something was going on for sure. Coupled with the fact we had been wanting to put some more recent stuff on YouTube, we thought we would just shoot a live performance of us playing a song that we had been playing in our live shows (I Will follow…) that people seemed to dig next time we were around The Cumberland Caverns. So we did. But when we got in there it just seemed like we should do it all for real. So that very night around 10pm after Roger finished shooting the band in the cave playing it live, with one camera btw, we decided to go record the song in the studio – thought the song and the video deserved it. So in order to get our bearings, we went to downtown Nashville and had some sushi, then at midnight (to our engineer’s dismay) we started recording. We got in there and decided we wanted to record a few more things…and the EP was born.”

The Weary Heart will be a self-produced project, offered for sale from the band directly at shows, from their web site and on iTunes and other digital audio distributors. It marks their first recording since leaving the Skaggs Family Records stable after two successful projects there, and Simpson is grateful for the experience.

“At the end of 2008, it became very clear that Skaggs Family and Cadillac Sky were headed in two different directions. We are a better band, not to mention better men, for our time spent under Ricky’s tutelage.”

We’ll post again when more details about the EP and video release is available.

Cadillac Sky has posted a new music video, for the song Inside Joke, featured on their latest Skaggs Family CD, Gravity’s Our Enemy.

C-Sky’s Bryan Simpson says that a impromptu rehearsal in his dad’s garage turned into a video shoot.

Shot in Papa Simpson’s garage, the video, put together by the great Eric Maxwell, was thought to be lost forever until recently when it re-emerged…the world can breathe a deep sigh of relief now…..enjoy!

Video features include: an appearance by our legendary sound man, Daniel “DJ Dirty” Rice and some of Papa Simpson’s antique guns.”

This is the second music video that Eric Maxwell has created for the band.

Cadillac Sky will be the featured guests on a special Saturday edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX tomorrow (1/24).

The show will also include a performance from Chris West and Keith Garrett, the creative locus – and singing/songwriting power team – of Blue Moon Rising.

WDVX broadcasts from Knoxville, TN on 102.9 FM and can also be heard live online via audio streaming.

Blue Plate Special typically airs at noon during the week, but this Saturday edition is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. (EST).