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Chatham Rabbits

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Graham Craycraft “All I Want From You” is the first album of North Carolina duo Chatham Rabbits. Sarah and Austin McCombie decided to leave the safety and security of day time careers and step out into the world of full time, no backup, this better work, musicians. Their debut album released on January 11, 2019 consists of ten songs at forty minutes and is a genre mixture of country, bluegrass, old time and others. Chatham Rabbits pulls immediate sounds from groups like Mandolin Orange, Gillian Welch, and even a bit of Old Crow Medicine Show on song “The Fire.” Austin and Sarah take different songs to lead the vocals, but they all carry an enchanting thread through its entirety. You could put on this album and just lay back in a quasi dream state. Many of the songs on this album have classic themes or subject matter seen in this genre and others. Love, longing, hard living, etc. What is most impressive in this album is the ability to take these classic subject matters and tell the...