iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/fathom-lane/id564658215
Bandcamp: https://michaelferrier.bandcamp.com/

Perfect Day (Lou Reed cover)

From the self-titled second album, released 10.22.2013.

Waltzing Blue Jesus

"Fathom Lane’s self-titled second record is a tremendous step forward. Their last, 'Down By Half', was a quite remarkable damn thing, a record of elegiac beauty that sounded like a cross between the Cowboy Junkies and, you know, someone less boring than the Cowboy Junkies, a Johnny Cash or someone with a touch of murder in his soul. This one, though, is 3/4 to Jimmy Webb-land — full of complex melodies, jazzy harmonies (courtesy the phenomenal Ashleigh Still) wrapped around a country heart and unexpected arrangement touches that jump out of nowhere. It’s another example of how quiet works marvelously — an album full of magnificent songs and gorgeous, hushed, echoey arrangements." JON HUNT, l'etoile Magazine

Sugardown

For an upcoming Jason Molina Tribute Album
Michael Ferrier: Vocals and Guitar
Ashleigh Still: Vocals and Piano
Shane Akers: Dobro and Lap Steel

Produced by Michael Ferrier with Kevin Bowe
Engineered and Mixed by Kevin Bowe at Mastermix in Minneapolis, MN

I've Been Riding With The Ghost (Jason Molina Cover)

This is a little holiday ditty with a ton of local shout-outs that Michael Ferrier recorded with Ashleigh Still for the annual Holiday Local Show on 89.3 The Current.

"Hark The Local Show" Holiday Greeting Song

From the album 'Down By Half', download it at iTunes or michaelferrier.bandcamp.com

Moving

Hope You Never (Tom Petty cover)

She, naked in the grass.
He, bravely moving past.
Sideways walker, careful talker,
She, naked in the grass.

He, dreaming on a hill.
She thinks he never will.
Blameless exile, drowsy sleep smile,
He, dreaming on a hill. 

Bridge down
Moon shine
Bright on
Fault lines
Come round
Put Back 
Bridge down
He lacks
She

She doesn't run and hide.
He lay down at her side.
Sun kissed.
None asked.
Wet, drenched. 
Die cast, 
She, naked in the grass.

She, naked in the grass.

Naked In The Grass

ALBUM NOTES:

All songs written by MICHAEL FERRIER, except 'Hung Up & Overdue' By Tom Petty (Gone Gator Music) and 'Take Me Home Country Roads' by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver (Reservoir Music). 

MICHAEL FERRIER
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Tambourine, Shakers, Fender Rhodes

ASHLEIGH STILL
Vocals, Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes

MATT PATRICK
Electric Guitar, Mellotron, Bass Guitar, Tambourine, Triangle, Shakers, Timpani, Tomtoms, Cymbals, Fender Rhodes, Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells, Theremin, Vocals

SHANE AKERS
Lap Steel Guitar

PAUL BOBLETT
Electric Bass

ALEX YOUNG
Drum Set, Percussion, Shakers, Maestro Rhythm King

CHARLIE PETERSON
Piano, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Fender Rhodes, Celeste

WITH
JOHN MUNSON Upright Bass on 'Zero'
JOHN MARK NELSON Accordion on 'Zero'
BEN GLAROS Additional Guitar on 'Hung Up & Overdue'

LAURELS STRING QUARTET
JOSH MISNER First Violins
JESSE PETERSON Second Violins
ERICA BURTON Violas
CORY GROSSMAN Cellos

PRODUCED BY MATT PATRICK & MICHAEL FERRIER
ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MATT PATRICK

Recorded at The Library Recording Studio, Minneapolis MN

String arrangements on 'Sarafina', 'Disaster Bird', and 'It Could Be' by 
CORY GROSSMAN

MASTERED BY HUNTLEY MILLER, HM MASTERING, MINNEAPOLIS MN

Layout and package design by MICHAEL FERRIER
Front cover Polaroid photograph by ROMMELL PECSON
Back cover, inside photographs by MICHAEL FERRIER

Asilomar

Country Roads (John Denver cover)

PRE ORDER MARCH 31 ON ITUNES AND BANDCAMP

ALBUM NOTES:

All songs written by MICHAEL FERRIER, except 'Hung Up & Overdue' By Tom Petty (Gone Gator Music) and 'Take Me Home Country Roads' by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver (Reservoir Music).

MICHAEL FERRIER
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Tambourine, Shakers, Fender Rhodes

ASHLEIGH STILL
Vocals, Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes

MATT PATRICK
Electric Guitar, Mellotron, Bass Guitar, Tambourine, Triangle, Shakers, Timpani, Tomtoms, Cymbals, Fender Rhodes, Glockenspiel, Tubular Bells, Theremin, Vocals

SHANE AKERS
Lap Steel Guitar

PAUL BOBLETT
Electric Bass

ALEX YOUNG
Drum Set, Percussion, Shakers, Maestro Rhythm King

CHARLIE PETERSON
Piano, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Fender Rhodes, Celeste

WITH
JOHN MUNSON Upright Bass on 'Zero'
JOHN MARK NELSON Accordion on 'Zero'
BEN GLAROS Additional Guitar on 'Hung Up & Overdue'

LAURELS STRING QUARTET
JOSH MISNER First Violins
JESSE PETERSON Second Violins
ERICA BURTON Violas
CORY GROSSMAN Cellos

PRODUCED BY MATT PATRICK & MICHAEL FERRIER
ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MATT PATRICK

Recorded at The Library Recording Studio, Minneapolis MN

String arrangements on 'Sarafina', 'Disaster Bird', and 'It Could Be' by 
CORY GROSSMAN

MASTERED BY HUNTLEY MILLER, HM MASTERING, MINNEAPOLIS MN

Layout and package design by MICHAEL FERRIER
Front cover Polaroid photograph by ROMMELL PECSON
Back cover, inside photographs by MICHAEL FERRIER

Fingers And Toes

The Queen Of All Hearts

Over the span of three critically acclaimed full length albums (2017's Asilomar, 2013's Fathom Lane and 2012's Down By Half) Fathom Lane has been getting international attention for their wonderfully indefinable sound. Michael Ferrier's songs are at once accessible and memorable, but are also sneaky with their quietly innovative touches. Ferrier cites classic touchstones such as The Velvet Underground, Tom Petty, Gram Parson's Cosmic American Music, and the Laurel Canyon songwriters, but even with these influences Fathom Lane manages a contemporary sound. The blend of Ferrier's steady and simple tenor with fellow singer Ashleigh Still's more mellifluous soul is a main feature of the rich sound Fathom Lane brews; the band invite their listeners in and then delight them with audio surprises.

"Fathom Lane captures the full range of emotions on Asilomar, from the despair of broken relationships to the joy of the big, blue ocean." ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

"On Fathom Lane's new album, Asilomar, its clear that Farrier's patience paid off. The album is one that's worth sitting quietly and listening to, with the songs taking listeners on a journey through a wide range of life experiences." 89.3 THE CURRENT

"It is their distinctive sound which most catches your attention. With songs ranging from biting to calm, yet never cloying, the combined vocals of Michael Ferrier and Ashleigh Still intersect, diverge, then unite again to alight somewhere transcendent." SEVEN MAGAZINE

"With two gorgeous albums in two years, Fathom Lane have quickly emerged as one of the brightest new artists in the Twin Cities...Finding some kind of unlikely common ground between alt-country and floaty prog rock, the band achieves a timeless quality, as on single 'Sugardown' or their breathtaking (and prescient) cover of Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day', released just weeks before his death." Jim McGuinn, 89.3 The Current

Fathom Lane is Michael Ferrier: vocals, guitar, Rhodes, percussion; with Ashleigh Still: vocals and piano; Matt Patrick: electric guitar; Shane Akers: lap steel and dobro; Paul Boblett bass; and Alex Young: drums and percussion.

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