{"id":16970,"date":"2019-07-14T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:19:29","slug":"amanda-anne-platt-the-honeycutters-get-what-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/14\/amanda-anne-platt-the-honeycutters-get-what-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters: Get What You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Amanda Anne Platt launched her recording career with 2009’s Irene<\/i>. A decade later \u2013 after countless live shows and three more albums of original material \u2013 she’s ready to revisit some of the songs on her debut release. \u201cI wanted [Live at the Grey Eagle<\/i>] to be kind of a career survey,\u201d she says. \u201cI like that term. There are a few songs on it that we don\u2019t do very often in our live set, but we keep most of the old stuff alive.\u201d She says that the band is sometimes ready to pull something out of its back catalog if it’s requested. And that mindset helped determine the set list for shows at Asheville’s Grey Eagle, recorded on two consecutive nights last November. \u201cI had actually done a little survey on Facebook about what people wanted to hear on that album,\u201d Platt says. \u201cSo I tried to represent that as best I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now a decade older and presumably wiser, Platt nonetheless says that she still recognizes the young songwriter who wrote songs like \u201cBetter Woman\u201d from Irene<\/i> and \u201cGetting Good at Waiting\u201d from 2012’s When Bitter Met Sweet<\/i>. \u201cI still find more meaning from a lot of the songs that I wrote when I was in my late teens and early 20s,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery time I sing them, I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah. I didn’t even …\u201d<\/p>\n

Platt does concede that today the songs don’t all sound exactly the way they might have ten years ago. \u201cThere are definitely little differences in instrumentation, just as the band has grown and changed a little bit,\u201d she says. \u201cBut above all, I\u2019ve just gotten more comfortable in my voice. I don\u2019t sound like such a shaky kid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Live at the Grey Eagle<\/i> isn’t just a \u201cgreatest hits onstage\u201d collection; the Honeycutters serve up three previously unreleased songs. \u201c’18 Wheels,’ ‘The Low Road’ and ‘Holy Wall’ are all brand new,\u201d Platt says. And the band reinvents some older songs \u2013 \u201cCarolina,\u201d from its 2015 album Me Oh My<\/i> for example \u2013 giving them new and different arrangements. And though the live recording showcases Platt’s heartfelt, classic country-influenced songwriting, a pair of left-field covers make the album an even more varied set.<\/p>\n

Platt says that the Bee Gees’ \u201cTo Love Somebody\u201d \u2013 a hit single from the Gibb brothers’ pre-disco days \u2013 is \u201ca song that we had been covering on the road a lot last year. It just felt like something I wanted to record because I like singing it. And the band appends its reading of Platt’s \u201cDiamond in the Rough\u201d (originally on the group’s self-titled 2017 album) with a cover of the Rolling Stones’ \u201cYou Can’t Always Get What You Want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Platt explains how the medley came about. \u201cThe first time I ever played ‘Diamond in the Rough’ for my buddy Kevin Smith, he started poking fun at me, because the chords are basically the same. He said, ‘You know<\/i> what you gotta do…’ But for a long time we didn’t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The occasion of recording the Honeycutters’ first live album seemed like a perfect opportunity. \u201cYou can’t do it better than the Stones,\u201d Platt admits, \u201cbut it’s kind of funny: ‘Here’s the same chords!’ It’s a fun thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Honeycutters are hometown music scene boosters; as the group tours, other acts associated with Asheville are often booked as openers; locals Tina and Her Pony, Zoe & Cloyd and Pierce Edens are on bills with the band this summer. And for several years now, touring is a big part of what it means to be Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters. The live album gives listeners at home a taste of that.<\/p>\n

As enjoyable as the band’s previous albums are, Live at the Grey Eagle<\/i> manages to document something that a studio recording can’t capture: the musicians’ rapport with the audience. \u201cWhatever all the crazy, stressful, annoying parts of doing music for a living are,\u201d Platt says, \u201cit\u2019s still a privilege to get to do that. And I remind myself before each show: ‘I chose to be here. I\u2019m glad to be here. This is what I love to do.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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