{"id":18419,"date":"2020-03-29T05:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=18419"},"modified":"2020-02-21T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T02:40:13","slug":"fireside-collective-brings-it-on-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/fireside-collective-brings-it-on-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireside Collective Brings it on Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18420\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective_cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective_cd.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective_cd-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective_cd-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>This is the third of three short features on Asheville-based artists releasing new albums in March 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jesse Iaquinto released 2014&#8217;s <i>Shadows and Dreams<\/i> using the name Fireside Collective, but it wasn&#8217;t really a band project. \u201cIt was a solo album to kind of jump-start some of my original songs,\u201d he says. But by 2017 and the time of <i>Life Between the Lines<\/i>, Fireside Collective had taken form as a proper group, featuring guitarists Joe Cicero and Tommy Maher plus Carson White on upright bass alongside Iaquinto. And while he remains proud of that album, Iaquinto admits that it was made in a hurry, and sounds like it. \u201cIt was more like we had the charts, we went in, and played them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Things were very different for Fireside Collective as the band made <i>Elements<\/i> with Infamous Stringdusters bassist Travis Book producing. \u201cHe really pushed us on the pre-production side,\u201d Iaquinto says. \u201cAnd that allowed everybody to bring in their original ideas.\u201d <i>Elements<\/i> also features the band&#8217;s newest member, banjo player Alex Genova.<\/p>\n<p>Underscoring Iaquinto&#8217;s wide-encompassing musical style, he credits inspiration from some very un-bluegrass sources. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved the Beatles&#8217; and Pink Floyd\u2019s approach to albums,\u201d he says. \u201cThe thought and the flow of their albums, and what they put into it. On this album, we were able to do an intro and a reprise; we had a little bit more fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iaquinto notes that a larger, Kickstarter-funded budget helped as well. \u201cWe still went <i>over<\/i> budget, of course,\u201d he says with a chuckle. \u201cBut it allowed us to really stretch out in the studio, and it made such a huge difference just to give us a little bit more time and space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18421\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective1.jpg 550w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/fireside_collective1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third of three short features on Asheville-based artists releasing new albums in March 2020. 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