{"id":2661,"date":"2010-03-25T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T23:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2010-04-22T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:35:45","slug":"gimme-five-nathan-tarr-of-wood-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2010\/03\/gimme-five-nathan-tarr-of-wood-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Five! Nathan Tarr of Wood Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/natetarr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2662\" title=\"natetarr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/natetarr-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/natetarr-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/natetarr-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/natetarr.jpg 1495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Nathan Tarr was a stranger in Pittsburgh.\u00c2\u00a0 Moving there from Greensboro in 2002 had meant not only losing his comfort, but also leaving behind two bands.\u00c2\u00a0 The uneasiness inspired him to put pen to paper, melody to guitar and churn out a string of songs that, though he kept them quiet for a while, ended up as the initial blast of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/woodear\">Wood Ear<\/a>.  With a sound that tiptoes on the edges alt.country, Wood Ear nods in the direction of bands like Uncle Tupelo&#8217;s world weary nouveau traditionalism, but strays from their melancholic restraints. Combining straightforward licks, Tarr&#8217;s gnawing vocal, and lyrics obsessed with the ticking clock of time, Wood Ear&#8217;s music is a battle between apathy and ardor.<\/p>\n<p>With only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indyweek.com\/gyrobase\/Content?oid=oid%3A168918\">6 song EP<\/a> to its record (released in 2006), it&#8217;s hard to tell where Wood Ear will go in the future, but with Tarr and his steady crew of accomplices (Nathan Golub [of Fontana, the Rosewood Bluff, etc], Frank Andolina [of Fontana], <a href=\"www.nicbrown.net\">Nic Brown<\/a> [Longwave,  Skeleton Key, Snuzz],  and Krystal Black [of Dirty Version,  Killing Frost, Vireo]) to back him up, it promises to be an entertaining ride.  Check in to hear how Wood Ear&#8217;s evolving on Thursday, April 8th at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepinhook.com\/events.htm\">The Pinhook<\/a> where they&#8217;ll be joined by (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2010\/02\/gimme-five-josh-kimbrough-of-butterflies\/\">our friends<\/a>) Butterflies and Cassis Orange.<\/p>\n<p>Now just five little ole bitty questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. If your band  were one of The Golden Girls, which would it be?<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Dorothy_Zbornak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2672 alignright\" title=\"Dorothy_Zbornak\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Dorothy_Zbornak-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Dorothy_Zbornak-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Dorothy_Zbornak.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say Sofia, but  Dorothy is probably most accurate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. When  can listeners expect a new Wood Ear record? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rather than releasing a proper  record, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to release a series of singles on the website (soon  to come). I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have two new songs out by May and four or five more  by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Describe your feelings  about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153alt.country.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could take it or leave it.\u00c2\u00a0  People know what sound you are describing when you use it but it seems  pretty ridiculous in this day and age with the lines between genre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  being blurred as much as they are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Who\/what might be a few  inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve listened to a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badbrains.com\"> Bad Brains<\/a> and <a href=\"www.myspace.com\/bornagainstisfuckingdead\">Born Against<\/a> in my time.\u00c2\u00a0 Lately I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop  listening to <a href=\"www.myspace.com\/converge\">Converge<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I also really like Carole King.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hr0Vto0n5DA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hr0Vto0n5DA&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. What did you dream of  being when you were a kid? (How \u00e2\u20ac\u2122d that turn out?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember having strong  ambitions for being anything as a kid but when asked I think I said  biologist or rock star.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess it turned out all right since  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a biologist and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure to be a rock star after this interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Walk on over to The Pinhook on April 8th to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/woodear\">Wood Ear<\/a> for yourself and come on back around these parts next week for the newest installment of five.\u00c2\u00a0  And by all means, be sure to give Nathan a high five when you see him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Tarr was a stranger in Pittsburgh.\u00c2\u00a0 Moving there from Greensboro in 2002 had meant not only losing his comfort, but also leaving behind two bands.\u00c2\u00a0 The uneasiness inspired him to put pen to paper, melody to guitar and churn out a string of songs that, though he kept them quiet for a while, ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-gimme-five"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}