PRESENT: D. S. Moltz, Dan Mintzer, Dane Risch, Kelli Scarr, Joann Schornikow. PAST: Katerina Mattison, Fiore Tedesco III
Influences
faith healings, family, The Second Great Awakening, Gasper River, swamp frogs at dusk, thunder, fish fries, The National Peace Jubilee of 1869, heirloom garments, E.P. Weston, Turgenev, storms, Sylvester Graham, Sufi mystics, Rick Danko, Ebeneezer Phillips' Beach, Cane Ridge, the time before Brandywine Creek.
Sounds Like
Bo Diddley, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Exile On main Street, CSNY, The Band, Ali Farke Toure.
Watch live performance of "Swallowed A Pill" and interview with Salt & Samovar Wednesday, February 18, on the Sundance Channel program Spectacle.
Buy the debut Album: "Old Joy, New Joy":
Each one-at-a-time copy comes in a hand screen-printed package with 16-page illustrated hymnal of sheet music & lyrics accompanying the songs. Buy it here for $10.
"Swallowed A Pill" on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic 11/8/07:
Sundance Channel's "Discovered":
"This band immediately stood out to me...I was a fan from the first song. They put on one of the best live performances we've had on Morning Becomes Eclectic this year." --Nic Harcourt
"S&S very much yank their tunes from the topsoil of Walt Whitman's dreams, with Moltz's earthy, elegiac vocals bolstered by his bandmates' three-part harmony. A caravan of American roots music..." --The Village Voice
"A simply tansporting sund that will have you pining for the past" --Gothamist.com
"Passionate, intelligent, and occasionally explosive rock that felt like an unholy mix of '60's garage punk as played by a group that wrote their dissertation on Tolstoy while listening to 'Music from Big Pink'." --ADeeperShadeOfSoul.com
"Lots of hand clapping, foot stomping, piano tinkling, lovely full-throated boy-girl vocal harmonies and even some face-melting axework from lead singer/guitarist D.S. Moltz. But the extra ingredient is love." --SongByToad.com
"They are the scene's first honky tonk indie band. Call them indie tonk, if you will. S & S is a rip rowing, throw your hat into the air type of band. They're like The Doors or early Zepplin if they were a Alt-Country band." --MusicSnobbery.com
"They send out their CD in a hand-typed envelope, with a hand-made case, sealed up with sealing wax, and a quirky little booklet which reminds me of a John Phillip Sousa era imprint...it’s sort of like Walt Whitman meets the Grateful Dead" --Downstreamer.com
"Everything they played seemed to be coming from a familiar place, yet was fresh and new at the same time. It was like watching Dr. Dog cover the Allman Brothers or Bob Dylan’s cousin deciding the alt-country scenes wasn’t psychedelic enough." --UsedToBeCool.com
The guitar work… the harmonizing… damn. So yeah, I highly recommend checking them out.
Purchase a very fine handmade shirt from the band. Read the Village Voice review of "Old Joy, New Joy":
Listen to Salt & Samovar on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" archived 11/8/07 and 5/16/08.
Hello from England. I recently got your album through the post and it is truly a joy. The packaging as well is immaculate. One of the best things I've heard for a long time... SDF.
Hello guys, hope you are good, looks like things are working out nicely.. I would like to officially invite you all to come out, party and celebrate with me:)?!
Check out the KDVS in Davis Cool As Folk show archive or view the playlist for this week’s program HERE. I played a track in anticipation of your Sophia's show!
it was fun hanging out doing merch for little bit with you guys in sf. anytime your in san diego or san francisco and need food or fun let me know! -cassidy
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