Roots music supergroup I’m With Her explore lost dreams in their new song ‘Standing on the Fault Line’. This is the latest single from their forthcoming album “Wild, Clear and Blue”.
Group member Sara Watkins reflects on the origins of the song,“‘Fault Line’ came from thinking about Los Angeles as a very transient place where many people feel a tension between whether to stick it out and stay or pack up and move on,” says Watkins, co-founder of Grammy-winning bluegrass powerhouse Nickel Creek. “Even if you’ve never been to L.A., I think a lot of people have had the experience of giving up on a dream and needing to pivot to something else.” Born from a melody brought in by O’Donovan, “Standing on the Fault Line” later evolved into a slow-building epic that reaches a thrilling intensity at the bridge, when I’m With Her’s harmonies achieve a spellbinding grandeur. “Initially we considered having me sing alone on the bridge, but it made the song feel so much smaller,” says Watkins. “Once Aoife and Jarosz took that section, it created this feeling of being supported by friends or ancestors or internal voices of encouragement—it’s like we subconsciously arranged the song in a way that aligns with all the lyrical themes of the album.”
The album was recorded in New York at both The Outlier Inn in the Catskills and The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, and produced by Josh Kaufman, a member of Bonny Light Horseman and multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger and producer who’s worked with Bob Weir and The National and mixed by D. James Goodwin.
The group will be in-store and signing at Rough Trade East on Wednesday 28th May at 7pm. I’m With Her will play a one-off London show at The Barbican on Thursday 29th May.
