Ocean Carolina - All The Way Home

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"In the vein of The Cowboy Junkies and Tarnation this is a superb cache of spartan, atmospheric melodies lurking behind Michael Simone's soulfully pining vocals." — Baron Lane, editor-in-chief of Twangnation.com and Official Grammys blogger for the Americana/Folk genre at Grammy.com

All The Way Home fits in with the best alt-country music being made right now and is a great companion piece to records like Ryan Adams's Ashes and Fire and Jason Isbell's Southeastern.' — Katie Darby Mullins

Ocean Carolina's well-received first LP All The Way Home is what happens when a life-long musician stops questioning himself and lets the music unfold on its own. Michael Simone, the songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist behind the band, has been playing music in some form or another since he was 12 years old. Influenced early on by innovative artists such as Prince, Simone honed his ear for melody by learning how to pick out notes on a Fisher Jam Box and keyboard.

Although Ocean Carolina is a New York-based band now, Simone started his musical career in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which was a generative and buzzing scene. "We had Superchunk, COC, Archers of Loaf, Dillon Fence, The Connells, and a band called The Veldt that was my favorite," Simone says, listing several bands that had national success. After chasing Peele Wimberley (of The Connells) down and convincing him to drum on some of his music, Simone started developing more of his own original material. After recording with Wimberley and a bassist named Des White, who was the soundman for The Veldt, Simone wound up playing bass and guitar for The Veldt.

It took another artist, who hired Simone to produce her music, to bring him back to the basics of song writing and construction. Though she decided after completing their album, not to continue on in music, she'd had a massive impact on Simone, who had started listening to classic musicians and acquired a "newfound love of all this music [he'd] never taken the time to listen to-Bruce, Willie, Merle, Waylon, etc." Those musicians and their indelible voices convinced him it was time to make a record that was true — and in 2009, Simone began writing and producing under Ocean Carolina with that in mind.

Musicians:
Michael Simone - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Alex Cox - Bass
Jon Graboff - Pedal Steel
Caitlin Cary - Backing Vocals, Violin
Chris Buckle - Guitar
Peele Wimberley - Drums

1. Don’t Break Your Promise

2. Should I

3. Women And Wine

4. Love Don’t You Haunt Me

5. Radio Song

6. I Might Break

7. Drink You Back Again

8. Do What I Do, Love Come Down

9. Tryin’ to Get Over You

10. This Time

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