Rising Appalachia is a post-apocalyptic sister duo of indie-freak-folk, old-time mountain tunes, fiddle banjo duets, experimental percussion, and piercing vocal harmonies. They enchant the crowd and continue to propel their traditional musical heritage further with genre-bending lyrical prowess.

Sisters Leah and Chloe Smith grew up in the bosom of the Southern Appalachian music renaissance. Born to a fiddlin' mother and a folk-sculptor father, they were raised with old-time mountain melodies as their lullabies. But, having also grown up amidst the underground hip hop and spoken word movements of the urban South, the group has heavy influences in indie-folk, vintage jazz, political hip hop, and roots music from around the world.

Rising Appalachia's eerie banjo originals, gritty lyrics and effortless sister harmonies are compared to that of Ani Difranco, Gillian Welch and even Bjork.

Playing a fiddle and banjo, kalimba, boudrhan, djembe, snare, spoons, jawharp, washboard, and even the bones, the group Rising Appalachia offers a fresh, raw approach to a beautiful old tradition.

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  I`m a PINK FLOYD kind of guy, but I reconize good music when I hear it. You have a very beautiful sound. Excellent old world feel. Keep up the EXCELLENT work !!! Signed Codey " NOBODY" Borger

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• Hey Ho
• Aint Gonna Work
• Lonesome John

• Tuli Tuli  (Blues)
• Lonesome John  (Blues)
• chitlin cookin' time in cheatham...  (Blues)
• hey ho  (Blues)
• honey baby blues  (Blues)
• Aint Gonna Work  (Blues)
• Ducks on the Pond  (Blues)
• Colemans March  (Blues)
• Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss  (Blues)
• Maid of Culmore  (Blues)
• Say Darlin' Say  (Blues)
• Nobodys Fault  (Blues)
• Camp Meeting on the fourth of july  (Blues)
• Greasy Coat  (Blues)
• gone fishin  ()
• unraveled  ()
• old fashioned morphine  ()
• whiskey blues  ()
• when its golden  ()
• sandy boys  ()
• the blackest crow  ()
• nikola  ()
• honey baby blues  ()
• castle to the barracks  ()
• scale down  ()
• sail away ladies  ()
• calculated footsteps/raleigh and...  ()

band members:

Chloe, Leah, and fabulous alternating third member including Forrest Kelly and/or John Bass.

influences:

Ani Difranco, Tom Waits, Michael Franti, The Be Good Tanyas, Hope for agoldensummer, Tom Robbins, Walt Whitman, Sunni Patterson,Bjork, Nina Simone, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Zap Mama, Nick Drake, The Duhks, Joanna Newsome, The Roots, De La Soul, The Fugees, father Smith, Ben Harper, Yo Mammas Big Fat Booty Band, Anticon, Mos Def, Lila Downs, Buena Vista Social Club, Kila, Band of Horses, Smog, Utah Phllips, Dirk Powell, Bruce Molskey, Tommy Jarell, Buju Banton, Marta Sebestyen, Ali Farka Toure, The Sevens, Muddy Waters, Ray, Louie Armstrong, Hair of the Dog, Lost Bayou Ramblers, John Boutte, Moira Smiley, Elise Witt, Crooked Still, various un-named mountain and swamp fiddler extraordinaries, and a million others....

sounds like:

The Duhks, Ani Difranco, Tom Waits, The Be Good Tanyas, Hope for agoldensummer

links:

www.myspace.com/risingappalachia
www.risingappalachia.com
www.cdbaby.com
www.sonicbids.com
www.democracynow.org
www.SOAW.org
www.blueridgebiofuels.com...

• americana
• freak folk
• fusion
• traditional folk