NPR & CBC Premiere Sera Cahoone's New Album

NPR Music in the United States and CBC in Canada, two of the largest music media outlets in both countries are premiering the new album from Sera Cahoone in full! You can hear Sera's return to her Americana roots with From Where I Started, and let these lovely songs and melodies sweep you away! The new album drops March 24, with a March 20 radio add date.
NPR MUSIC FIRST LISTEN:

"Sera Cahoone has specialized in shy folk music, but 'From Where I Started' marks a shift toward putting more of herself into her warm storytelling." -NPR Music
CBC MUSIC FIRST PLAY
(geo-locked to Canada)

"There is a gentle, dusty sway to the album — it’s hard not to just lean back and daydream while listening."
-CBC Music
Sera Cahoone Spring Tour
* - with Gregory Alan Isakov
# - with Son Volt
4/19 - Lawrence, KS / Liberty Hall *
4/20 - Tulsa, OK / The Shrine *
4/22 - Sante Fe, NM / Meow Wolf *
4/23 - Flagstaff, AZ / The Orpheum Theatre *
4/24 - Tucson, AZ / Rialto Theatre *
4/26 - Santa Barbara, CA / Lobero Theatre *
4/27 - Santa Cruz, CA / The Catalyst *
4/28 - Petaluma, CA / McNear's Mystic Theatre *
4/29 - Sacramento, CA / Crest Theatre *
4/30 - Arcata, CA / Humboldt Brews *
5/1 - Eugene, OR / HiFi Music Hall *
5/3 - Vancouver, BC / The Imperial SOLD OUT *
5/4 - Vancouver, BC / The Imperial *
5/5 - Calgary, AB / Commonwealth Bar & Stage *
5/6 - Billings, MT / Pub Station Ballroom *
5/7 - Laramie, WY / Gryphon Theatre *
5/9 -  Boise, ID / The Olympic #
5/10 - SLC, UT / State Theatre #
5/11 - Fort Collins, CO / The Armory #
5/12 - Denver, CO / Bluebird #
5/13 - Boulder, CO / Fox Theatre #
MORE INFO ABOUT THE ALBUM
The world of American roots music is no stranger to Seattle songwriter Sera Cahoone. Even though her last three albums were on Sub Pop Records and she spent years at the top of the indie charts, she’s always had a streak of Americana that ran through her music, a love of the humble folk song that bolstered her art. She’s returning now to these earliest influences with her new album, From Where I Started (to be released March 24, 2017). Growing up, Cahoone first found her voice in Colorado dive bars, backing up old blues musicians at age 12 on the drums. Her father, a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, took the family along to mining conferences and old honky-tonks in the state. The sounds she heard there—the twang of country crooners, cowboy boots on peanut shells—have stayed with her all the way to Seattle, where she lives now, and the seminal indie rock bands she’s been a part of in the city (Carissa’s Weird, Band of Horses).
To make From Where I Started, her first new album since 2012’s Dear Creek Canyon, Cahoone traveled south to Portland to work with producer John Askew (Neko Case, Laura Gibson, Alela Diane). Askew brought together key Portland musicians like Rob Berger (Iron and Wine, Lucinda Williams), Dave Depper (Death Cab For Cutie) and Annalisa Tornfelt (Black Prairie) with Cahoone’s Seattle bandmates - Jeff Fielder (Mark Lanegan, Amy Ray) and Jason Kardong (Son Volt, Jay Farrar). The band lays a deep bedrock beneath Cahoone’s songs, supporting her arcing vocals and innovative guitar and banjo playing. The album is driven by a strong rhythmic sensibility, owed to Cahoone’s background as a drummer for indie rock bands. “A lot of my songs start as a beat, I add guitar, then lyrics at the end,” she says. “When I write songs I usually sit at my drum kit playing both drums and guitar at the same time.”
From Where I Started plays on the rougher, darker edges of the traditional love song. Like any good country album, the songs here deal with love and loss, but Cahoone also knows how to surround loss with hope, to temper a sad song with a turn in the major key. The optimism of the love song “Up To Me,” buoyed by fingerpicked guitar and banjo, gives way to the weary resignation of “Taken Its Toll,” with its plaintive pedal steel and echoing vocal harmonies. “Ladybug,” is a poignant song that followed the tragic death of Cahoone’s cousin Tawnee.
From Where I Started represents a refocusing for Sera Cahoone. It positions her as a songwriter beholden to the old country sounds she grew up with, a songwriter who’s always been able to deftly translate a personal perspective into a universal view. It’s an album about falling in and out of love, finding new hope, and learning that the best way to move forward is to remember where you began.