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The Moon and You \u2013 the Asheville-based wife and husband songwriter duo of Melissa Hyman and Ryan Fursternburg \u2013 has released four albums to date. But 2019 marks the addition of something very different to their body of work. Big Mystery<\/em>, an all-local-star effort led by The Moon and You, is a studio collection of lullabies for young children.<\/p>\n Around the time that Fisher Dolan celebrated his second birthday, his parents’ frustration reached the breaking point. His dad Gene brought his problem to his friend Melissa Hyman. \u201cThe music out there for babies is terrible!\u201d he said. \u201cI need you and Ryan to make a good album for babies. Please<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n Hyman says that the timing was perfect. She and husband Ryan Furstenberg \u201chad already been thinking about doing a couple of lullabies, so it really worked out.\u201d With Dolan’s financial support \u2013 he’s the project’s Executive Producer \u2013 the couple began work on what would become Big Mystery<\/i>.<\/p>\n Credited to The Moon and You and Friends, the new album builds upon the musical approach of the duo’s previous work, with Furstenberg’s acoustic guitar and Hyman’s cello as key ingredients in the instrumental mix. \u201cWe wanted every song on Big Mystery<\/i> to sound like a dreamscape,\u201d Hyman says. But for this project, they are joined by many of their friends from the Asheville musical community.<\/p>\n \u201cGene had a list of people whom he had already contacted,\u201d Furstenberg says. \u201cA lot of the guest artists are some of his very favorite Asheville all-stars, and ours too,\u201d Hyman says. \u201cIt was so cool to get that list and see how much it overlaps with people who we would always want to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n Hyman says that matching up singers with the songs \u2013 mostly originals with a few classics mixed in \u2013 was \u201ca fun game. I felt like Stephanie Morgan’s voice would be perfect for ‘Mystery.’ And Laura Blackley on ‘Local Bird’ \u2026 that felt like a no-brainer.\u201d Other guests on Big Mystery<\/i> include two of Hyman’s band mates from Cowboy Judy (Dulci Ellenberger and Amber Sankaran), Marisa Blake, River Whyless’ Daniel Shearin, Piece Edens, Debrissa McKinney, Ross Montsinger and Kevin Williams from Moves, Megan Drollinger, Josh Phillips, Jackson Dulaney and Alyse Baca.<\/p>\n The resulting album presents a variety of vocal styles, but the unifying characteristic is that the songs are designed to appeal to kids while not driving their parents crazy. \u201cSpeaking for myself, I\u2019ve always written pretty simple songs,\u201d Hyman says. So some of her existing material lent itself to the lullaby approach.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn’t sweat any of the arrangements,\u201d Furstenberg says. Big Mystery<\/i> is the third album on which he and Hyman have collaborated with friend and producer Ryan Lassiter. \u201cIt was just a continuation of that production process,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Hyman emphasizes that while making a lullaby album was a departure for The Moon and You, it wasn’t a radical one. \u201cIt felt like a nice, simple challenge to make something that just sounded soothing and beautiful and uncomplicated,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Some artists road-test new material before recording it. Hyman and Furstenberg did that for Big Mystery<\/i>‘s songs \u2026 sort of. \u201cA couple of them were already written for actual babies,\u201d Hyman says with a giggle. \u201cAnd the babies they were written for seemed to love them.\u201d<\/p>\n But grownups figure into the mix, too. \u201cGene was rumbling about the lack of music that adults could enjoy as well,\u201d Furstenberg says. \u201cSo we tried to make it a lulling album for anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Moon and You \u2013 the Asheville-based wife and husband songwriter duo of Melissa Hyman and Ryan Fursternburg \u2013 has released four albums to date. 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