NEFESH MOUNTAIN RELEASES SECOND TRACK AND VIDEO FROM UPCOMING SONGS FOR THE SPARROWS ALBUM

“Somewhere On This Mountain” premieres today as the second song and video from Nefesh Mountain’s upcoming Songs For The Sparrows album. The track features award-winning musician Jerry Douglas as special guest.

Throughout Songs for the Sparrows, Nefesh Mountain illuminates its gift for imbuing old-soul wisdom into songs with a potent sense of urgency. On “Somewhere On This Mountain,” written by the bands’ founders Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, they deliver a confessional performance that precisely captures the anxiety so endemic to modern times, but in the end provides some much-needed solace—thanks in no small part to the track’s softly shimmering tones and soul-soothing harmonies.  


“The song is a duet, and since we are also husband and wife, it is somewhat autobiographical in nature,” says Lindberg. “But it also speaks to any two people who are trying to connect in a world where it is all too difficult and seemingly impossible. The idea is that even if we disagree, don’t see eye to eye, or can’t even physically see each other, we still all have to coexist on the ‘mountain.’”

So I don’t mind the days

I’m on the uphill climb

Or when I’m lost

Among the mist and the trees

Or when I lie awake

Under a lonesome sky

If you’re somewhere on this mountain with me

Zasloff adds, “We’ve had the amazing privilege of collaborating with some of our very favorite musicians for this album, and Jerry Douglas is not only a long-time hero of ours, but has also become a very dear friend over the years, as well. “Somewhere On This Mountain” begins with Eric playing one the song's central themes; a hypnotic, looping, cross-picking guitar part, while Jerry paints these broad strokes in the background evoking images of forests, rivers, and clouds passing by. I think people will see that visual come to life in the video."


L-R Doni Zasloff, Jerry Douglas, Eric Lindberg
L-R Alan Grubner, Eric Lindberg, Jerry Douglas
ABOUT NEFESH MOUNTAIN:
Since their arrival on the scene in 2015, Nefesh Mountain has been hailed as one of today’s formative boundary-pushing bluegrass Americana bands. They're among the first to truly give voice and openly represent Jewish American culture, tradition, values and spirituality in the world of American roots music. Songs For The Sparrows is the follow-up to their widely beloved Beneath the Open Sky—an album praised by No Depression as “one of the finest, wholly bluegrass records one will hear in not only 2018, but as a touchstone moving forward.” The band weaves together its unique blend of bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, and American roots with its own background as Jewish Americans. Creators, band leaders, and husband-and-wife team Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are the heart of this eclectic offering, alongside longtime bandmate and fiddle player Alan Grubner, David Goldenberg on mandolin, and Max Johnson on bass. This quintet is adept with a string virtuosity that is reflected in their arrangements of modern folk/bluegrass, combined with songs of the heart and a sense of oneness and purpose that inspires all of their work. The band has been called “Refreshingly Eclectic” by Rolling Stone, “Crisp, clear, and magical” by No Depression, and “Refined, timeless bluegrass” by The Bluegrass Situation. They have recorded and shared the stage with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, Tony Trischka, David Grier, Mark Schatz, John Doyle, and Mike McGoldrick, among others.
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