For those unaware, this expanded version of Katie Powderly’s Live by the Song, Die by the Song contains the original 5 songs written for this album + 5 bonus tracks for a total of 10 songs.

These 5 bonus tracks include the Live at Mystery Ton Studios sessions filmed live with Chance Hurley on guitar and mandolin.

These magic moments captured at Katie’s favorite studio deserved to be immortalized on physical media and now they all are.

From the Appalachian mountains of Maryland, Katie Powderly announces her 2nd studio album: a stripped-down, acoustic, bluegrass-adjacent EP entitled Live by the Song, Die by the Song.

The 5-song collection serves as a portrait of Katie’s emotional landscape, informed by a carefree summer spent splashing in the Shenandoah River, falling in and out of love. Through a series of Appalachian ballads, the EP documents the journey of the artist coming to identify the bouquet of red flags she’d at first perceived as simply roses and their thorns.

“If you devote your life to songs, like I have, music becomes a default way of communicating,” Powderly said.

1. “Tobacco” (feat. Chance Hurley)
2. “My Mourning Dove” (feat. Chance Hurley)
3. “High Horse” (feat. Chance Hurley)
4. “Revolving Door”
5. “Love Me One More Time Before I Go”

Bonus Tracks on vinyl and CD pressing:
6. “Bankrupt” (Live at Mystery Ton Studios) (feat. Chance Hurley)
7. “Live & Learn” (Live at Mystery Ton Studios) (feat. Chance Hurley)
8. “My Mourning Dove” (Live at Mystery Ton Studios) (feat. Chance Hurley)
9. “Tobacco” (Live at Mystery Ton Studios) (feat. Chance Hurley
10. “Revolving Door” (Live at Mystery Ton Studios)

The revitalized recording opens on the gently rambunctious “Tobacco” (which, as do the first three tracks, feature Chance Hurley, and is itself a song that earned Powderly the title of semi-finalist in a national songwriting contest in February) and then we get the impassioned “My Mourning Dove” and the streamed flow that drives “High Horse,” and then we get the strident “Revolving Door” and then an aching yearn is found within “Love Me One More Time Before I Go.”

Up next amongst these sweet, and yet stinging ballads for the lover who betrayed her (all recorded live at Mystery Ton Studios, and save for the final cut, all feature Hurley) is the mid-tempo “Bankrupt” and then the emotive “Live & Learn,” the album rounding out on the stoically-sewn gossamer of “My Mourning Dove,” coming to a close on two live cuts of both “Tobacco” and “Revolving Door.”

Katie is an award-winning musician and songwriter, who has performed live on PBS & NPR stations, and has toured from New York to Colorado, Texas to Tennessee.

She has shared bills with Tony Rice, Del McCoury Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Steel Wheels, The Black Lillies, Lake Street Dive, Langhorne Slim, The David Mayfield Parade, and many others.

Musicians:
Katie Powderly - guitar, vocals
Chance Hurley - guitar, mandolin
Scott Matlock - fiddle
Colin Shultzaberger - Rhodes, snare

It will be available for pre-order through her website (digitally, CDs, and vinyl) as well as Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, and more.

Official Purchase Link

www.katiepowderly.com