On the 2004 debut release by Hope For Agoldensummer the troupe plays everything from traditional guitars to less frequent tools like cheese graters, singing saws and Coke bottles. This album was recorded to tape in Athens & Atlanta and was the beginning of our own Claire Campbell incorporating her field recordings into HFags studio work. The CD comes packaged in a case made of recycled paperboard that is screenprinted in Athens, GA. It features a 16 page recycled paper booklet of lyrics and plenty of pen & ink drawings by Page Campbell & Deb Davis.
Get it at...  http://www.hopeforagoldensummer.com/latest-releases/

11 Love Like A Chainsaw

10 Home Is The Place

03 Midwest

02 Love Like A Sailor

01 Heart Of Art

The 2007 sophomore release by this Athens, Georgia family band is tender, witty, grand, and understated. Claire Campbell, Page Campbell, and Deb Davis wrote and performed all 17 songs with accompaniment by Heather McIntosh (The Instruments, Circulatory System), John Fernandez (Elf Power, The Olivia Tremor Control), Madeline Adams, Amanda Kapasouz (Tin Cup Prophette), Liz Durrett, and many others. The CD comes packaged in a gorgeous, screenprinted felt pocket (the felt is made of recycled plastics in the USA!) with a 40 page booklet featuring the story of Ariadne & Theseus as writ by the Campbell sisters’ cousin, Wallace Cochran. Plus, all the lyrics & plenty of drawings by our own Page Campbell & Deb Davis.

16 Threads

17 Old Questions

14 New Whiskey River

13 Candy Dots

12 4th Night

Hope For Agoldensummer is a family band from the fine town of Athens, GA. For nearly 12 years they’ve traveled the USA creating rusty, angelic melodies with slide guitar, banjo, jangly percussion, glockenspiel, and a bowed handsaw, all overlaid with the sibling-soul-choir harmonies of Claire & Page Campbell.  They’ve won eight Flagpole Music awards, three Creative Loafing Reader’s Choice awards, and Claire was recently honored with the title of Notary Public in Clarke County, GA.  
Here’s a video link…
SHINY VIDEOS OF HOPE FOR AGOLDENSUMMER : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8BD3DE570FD079C6

And here's some good press...
Relish Magazine ::  The instrumentation is spare and unusual – banjo, bottles, accordion, cello, desk bell, acoustic guitar, slide whistle, clarinet, vibraphone, saw, drums and assorted doodads and noisemakers. The harmonies – sung by Claire and her sister, Page – are tight and siren-like. The sound that the band creates is as open and spooky as the sky on a starless night. It is the stuff of moonshine dreams and junkyard symphonies. If Tom Waits were a woman, stoned on peyote, lost in the deep woods and caught in the same scenario as The Blair Witch Project, this is the music that would play. This is dreamy music, hauntingly beautiful, evocatively barren, driven by poetic narratives that flit between story-song and stimulating imagery. It is transfixing and engaging, slow and gentle. Time stands still.

NPR’s All Songs Considered Blog  ::  Hope For Agoldensummer has a knack for crafting gorgeous and often complex refrains, supported by utterly captivating arrangements. When it comes down to it, the lilting, alto voices of the Campbell sisters bolster Hope For Agoldensummer’s sincere folk aesthetic. The group can craft folk songs that are truly unique and compelling, which can’t be said for so many bands, in a genre that so often produces formulaic, one-dimensional tunes.

Resonator Magazine ::  This is music that’s definitively southern, definitely rural, and reminiscent of a folk-art angel singing her heart out…  the territory tread by Hope For Agoldensummer is equal parts Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor with weaponry provided by Nick Cave-the sort of songs that hold knives behind their backs, lingering in sweetness just long enough to unveil the darkness lingering ‘neath…

Leicester Bangs :: This family band is almost too much (in a very positive way, obviously), and their music beguiles me. Listening to Hours [In The Attic] made me realize what a privilege it can be to see and listen to real artists, in an environment where the songs can reach out and wrap themselves around you so very tightly, and make the rest of the world disappear, whilst the magic of the music lingers on. The music is at once absorbing, beautiful, classic, delightful, eloquent.  I shall stop here before I have covered the whole alphabet; I’m sure you get the picture. This is a must-have album, and I don’t say that about many live ones.

Independent Weekly :: Hope for Agoldensummer puts the Southern soul of Page and Claire Campbell in rustic, ramshackle settings—call it impressionistic Americana.

Philadelphia City Paper  :: Claire and Page Campbell sing about God and heartbreak like they’re drunk on their own glorious harmonies and have all the time in the world.

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