Atlanta’s Book Club, a modern folk quintet founded by Robbie Horlick (of indie rockers Cassavetes), navigates today’s indie-folk sea with a rare honesty and classicism. The band honors the folk tradition, yet is unbound by it; every song is a fresh take on an old history. Anchored by the rich and sweetly-sung co-ed harmonies of Horlick and Leigh Anne Macquarrie, their arrangements range from that of a lone nylon guitar to songs thoughtfully embellished by cello, double bass, pedal steel, melodica, glockenspiel, saxophone, percussion, and more. Paying simultaneous homage to their traditional, and their modern, influences, Book Club draws easy comparisons to She & Him, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and The Dutchess and Duke one minute, and Patsy Cline, The Carter Family, and Fleetwood Mac the next.

Ghost, the band’s first LP, released digitally and on limited edition vinyl - and handmade bookmark - on August 2, 2011, sounds like what might result if Lou and Nico were from the South and grew up on Mermaid Avenue, or if Springsteen’s Nebraska were recorded in Nashville. Or, if by some crazy wrinkle in time, Johnny and June grew up listening to Tom Petty and Iron & Wine. The songs on Ghost are pretty and sad, and there is a magic to their orchestration, at times sparse and delicate, at times embellished and blissful. Carefully arranged and tied together by a simple narrative element - with nary a wasted note - Book Club’s Ghost is at once modern and hauntingly timeless.

I Can't Dance Just With Your Ghost

I Don't Need To Travel

Boomerangs And Bedroom Eyes

You Say It So Glacial

How Will You Know, Dear?

The Way It Seems

Mostly Lonely

Fallen Leaves

September, New York, 1973

However Can It Be?

Too Much Too Soon

Advance listen to Book Club's unreleased third album, "Dust of Morning", for your very special ears.

So Many Nights

I Heard A Distant Call

Book Club: Shapes On The Water (EP): 
Release Date: 11/13/12 
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Tracks 1-3 Recorded by L. Giarrano at The Cottage, Atlanta. 
Tracks 4-5 Recorded by J. Rosser & M. Hardage at Sanford Studios, Atlanta. 
All songs mixed and mastered by Joel Hatstat Audio in Athens, GA.

© 2012. All songs written by Robbie Horlick. 
All Songs performed by Book Club.

Robbie Horlick: Vocals, Guitar, Banjo, Sax, Glockenspiel, Melodica, Harmophone 
Matt Jarrard: Cello 
Todd Kerstetter: Bass 
Leigh Anne Macquarrie: Vocals, Melodica 
Joseph War: Drums/Percussion, Omnichord 
Featuring Pat Rusert on Pedal Steel and Ryan Gregory on Violin.

04 Your Navy And Your Nurse (Live at Sanford Studios)

There’s a wistful, unpretentious elegance to Book Club’s sound. At once urbane and downhome, this is modern pastoral pop music that—in sound and spirit—can trace a straight line back to the simple, unaffected roots of American storysong. It’s where Johnny and June meets Lou Reed & Nico, trading twilight songs born of vacant, mostly forgotten kudzu-covered city lots, the spare, arresting two-part harmonies echoing all the way from the Georgia Piedmont to Tin Pan Alley and back again.

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