Driven by desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light. −Carson McCullers

In small corners of the wild some go burning like a forest under the darkening sky and redemptive sun, to stay or go or just to travel. Houndstooth writes music both sincere and desolate, sweet and sullied, warm and haunting, inspired by Tom Verlaine and the Everly Brothers, Sandy Denny’s sorrowful and ageless croon, Richard Thompson’s impossible guitar, and the iconic front woman and Telecaster shredder, Barbara Lynn. The songs are deeply felt regional narratives; sonic takes on William Eggleston’s arresting and luminous portraits, Robert Adams’ Summer Nights Walking, and Alice Munro’s humane tragedies. Their forthcoming LP (due in early spring) embodies pencil-sketched portraits of a town, true blue rock and roll, real and imagined histories of friends and strangers, inherited family legends, and a certain inescapable homesickness.

Houndstooth is Katie Bernstein and John Gnorski (songwriting, guitars, singing), Courtney Sheedy (bass), Mike Yun (organ, guitar) and Brette Marie Way (drums).