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Moonsville Collective has become the string band the members always wanted it to be. Five years after their last release and following a lineup change, the Southern California–bred folk band feels a renewed connection to its roots in old-time music circles, bolstered by the sharpened musical and songwriting skills that come with more experience.

“We had to recalibrate,” says Corey Adams, the band’s co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Ahead of recording their new album, A Hundred Highways, Moonsville Collective, he says, “went back to writing songs on the acoustic guitar and banjo, and not visualizing such big arrangements,” like those on the series of EP’s it released in 2018.

“That’s kind of how we started: banjo music and mandolins and fiddles and really classic Americana, country, jug band, blues songs,” Adams continues. “We re-found ourselves by just sitting in a circle and playing music again in a way that felt really organic and natural to us.”

Adams dialed into what he wanted to say as a songwriter, and a refreshed lineup — vocalist, banjo and fiddle player, and songwriter Phillip Glenn; mandolin player and songwriter Matthew McQueen; vocalist, and dobro and guitar player “Dobro Dan” Richardson; and double bassist Seth Richardson, Dan’s son — encouraged growth.

When A Hundred Highways arrives on April 12th, 2024, via Rock Ridge Music, listeners will “get to know us a little better, even though we’ve been metaphorically partying in your backyard for 10 years,” Adams promises.

Moonsville Collective recorded A Hundred Highways, its fourth full-length album and first since 2015, live at Jazz Cats Studio in Long Beach, California, and produced the record as a band. “When you come see us live, we’re playing on our one little microphone,” Adams explains, and the band members’ choices in the studio mimic their live setup. “We didn’t want to hide behind anything,” he adds. “You can go down the road of hustling to make a record sound bigger than you are for the sake of success, but we’re at the phase of our lives where that’s not the most important thing that we value. We wanted this one to be really authentic and true, to reflect who we really are, what we really do.”

1. Ain’t Got A Home
2. Helen Highway
3. A Hundred Songs
4. Red Rocking Chair
5. Long Gone
6. Mission Control
7. Done Wrong
8. Don’t Know Why
9. You Go Your Way
10. I Like Drinking Beer
11. Relax Your Mind

This magnificently-sculpted and harmoniously-hued new recording opens on the ______________ Ain’t Got A Home and the first single Helen Highway and they are followed by the _________ of A Hundred Songs, the _____________________ of the traditional Red Rocking Chair, and the __________ of Long Gone.

Along next is the ___________________ of Mission Control and the __________ of Done Wrong, and they are in turn backed with the _______ Don’t Know Why, and complete with extended instrumental jams, the ______________ of You Go Your Way, and then we get the _________ of I Like Drinking Beer, the album closing on the __________ of the Lead Belly song (featuring Dan Richardson on vocals) Relax Your Mind.

Moonsville Collective Tour Schedule:
March 2 – Ojai, CA | Ojai Bluegrass Festival
March 29 – Mariposa, CA | The Grove House
April 5 – Vista, CA | Booze Brother (record release show)
April 20 – Hollywood, CA | Hotel Café (main stage, record release show)
April 27 – San Diego, CA | Grande Ole BBQ (record release show)
May 17-19 – Guerneville, CA | Cosmico 2024