An exploration of the subjective bias of religious radicalism, Honor the Father explores the courtship of Diana Colly and Roman Bright, a couple united by mutual longing for spiritual enlightenment and escape from the modernizing world of the 1940s South.

A decade later, married and sequestered in the woods of Lexington, South Carolina, the couple's diverging literalistic interpretations of the Bible brew a violent confrontation, thrusting the reclusive Roman Bright into a public court trial. Lexington's devoutly Christian townsfolk, having misinterpreted the Brights' observance of obscure Biblical rituals as Paganism, are hungry for symbolic justice.

Crowded into a small county courtroom, the town awaits Roman's statement to the jury, and a judgement that affirms the righteousness of their god.

Produced by Stephen Russ, Daniel Machado
Engineered & mixed by Collin Derrick
Mastered by Tim Hall

The Old Ways (the 20th Century)

I'll Stay

Sweet Talker

There's Something In The Woods

Original instrumental score for Stephen Brown's Montgomery, premiered August 23, 2019 at Trustus Theatre in Columbia, SC.

Composed and recorded by Daniel Machado on fiddle and electric guitar.

The End

I'm Sorry

Larry Rides Again

Y'all Are Going To Go Right Now, Right... Dad?

Sheepshead County's Finest

He Will Fucking Rue The Fucking Day He Ever Crossed Us

The Restoration formed in Lexington, SC in 2007. They released Constance in 2010, described by Paste Magazine as a “historical-fiction concept album exploring the changing dynamics of race, religion, class and creativity in a fictionalized Reconstruction-era South.”

The album combines shape note singing and old-time ballads with chamber pop, rock drums and synth. Constance was added to the literature and history curriculum at Spartanburg Methodist College.

Honor the Father was released in 2012. It riffs on ragtime, early rock ’n’ roll, and torch songs to depict the perils of fundamentalism and patriarchy through the marriage of Diana and Roman Bright in 1950s Lexington, SC.

Between 2013 and 14 the band released New South Blues, an EP of standalone songs, and participated in the production of an Honor the Father short film. The film has received 80,000 views and was awarded "Best Local Grit" at Indie Grits Film Festival. The band closed out 2014 with shows at Asheville NC’s Bele Chere festival and the SC State Fair grandstand opening for Shovels & Rope.

For the next few years, members of The Restoration worked on a variety of outside projects, including performances on albums by Alexa Woodward and Those Lavender Whales. The band participated in a workshop staged musical version of Constance at Columbia SC's Trustus Theatre, developed into a full production in 2018.

In 2016 the band began rehearsing new material for West, a full-length album released in 2019.