Spoonshine

http://spoonshine.com

Hailing from Anacortes and Seattle Washington, Spoonshine features the songwriting collaboration between Jacob Navarro (mandolin, guitar, vocals) and William Cook (upright bass, guitar, vocals). This album added guest musicians George Schwindt of Flogging Molly and Denali Williams of the Tacoma Symphony on drums, as well as Jakob Breitbach of the Blackberry Bushes on fiddle.
Spoonshine songs often reflect on life between the farm, the sea, and the mountains that surround their Northwest home. The title track, “Song of the Sockeye,” is shaped from a poem found in an abandoned fishing cannery in Northern B.C., written by a gill-netter in 1940. It tells the tale of hard working fishermen and a dwindling run of once plentiful salmon: “So if life to you is worth something, then take it from me my friend, spending your days atop rolling waves can ruin you in the end. The sockeye don’t return to Rivers Inlet anymore, the grizzly bears are hungry the fisherman are poor….”
With impassioned harmonies, powerful rhythms, and virtuosic guitar and mandolin, Spoonshine’s new album brings what fans have already discovered at their dance-your-ass-off live shows to a finely produced collection of well crafted songs.