Felled Oak is the musical project of songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Brian Carroll.
After Spending years in the Boston and New England music community as a solo artist and sitting in with a multitude of friend’s bands, a move to Vermont found him stepping away from coffeehouses and songwriter nights to focus on playing upright bass in a 5 piece roots outFit in his new rural home. Years went by with more time spend behind a camera, engineering and Filming sessions/making portraits for other artists, found him yearning for more from his creative outlets. He is now stepping back into those old shoes, Working on both personal instrumental projects, as well as lyrical work, running the gamut from new-acoustic/bluegrass traditional to dust caked, melancholic folk. Felled Oak is the synthesis of personal creative projects and intimate collaborations that drive him forward as an artist.
Smoke on the Hillside is a collection of tunes birthed from time tapping trees in the sugarbush here in Vermont. In the dead silence of winter, alone in a cluster of skeletal maples hiking uphill, I found myself humming and whistling melodies to keep myself (and the winter birds) company. Some of those melodies stuck and I’d pull out my phone, make a quick voice recording and when I got home to the wood stove would transcribe them on the mandolin and octave mandolin. All of these tunes were recorded in luthier workshops and small, personal spaces around central Vermont and featuring my closest musical friends, its music to be shared and played together, to connect. Intimate, organic and honest.
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