Bell Gardens covering one of our favorite Merle Haggard tunes. Available now on Burger Records benefit compilation "The Kitty Comp"!

Guest staring our good friends:
Brad Laner: Bass, Piano, drums, Backing Vocals
David Cuetter: Pedal Steel
Lauren Chipman: Violin, Backing Vocals

Today I Started Loving You Again (Merle Haggard cover)

Bell Gardens covers Guy Clarke / Townes Van Zandt 

Guest appearance by our friend Brad Laner on bass. 

Don't Let The Sunshine Fool Ya

Bell Gardens combines the musical visions of Kenneth James Gibson (formerly of Furry Things, now recording as [a]pendics.shuffle, dubLoner and Eight Frozen Modules) and Brian McBride (one half of Stars of the Lid) and began releasing music in 2010, beginning with an EP, Hangups Need Company on their own imprint Failed Better.

Their debut album Full Sundown Assembly (Southern / Burger Records) appeared in 2012 and, now signed to Rocket Girl in the UK, the band are set to release their second, Slow Dawns for Lost Conclusions, in October 2014.

Bell Gardens’ origins began arguably as more of an experiment than the duo’s current ‘experimental’ projects – McBride’s drone- and string-laden ambient symphonies, and Gibson’s ventures in dub and minimalist techno – as they sought to manifest their mutual reverence for folk, psychedelia and chamber pop in a traditional band structure without cannibalising any particular past genre. Bell Gardens’ sound is less reliant on effects and studio trickery than the pairs’ independent guises, laying bare as it does vocals and live instruments with emotional sincerity, and presenting songs imbued with an almost pastoral or gospel simplicity and timelessness.
