Biography
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Years Active
2011 – 2014 (3 years)
In less than six months, Boston indie rock/folk band Tales of Olde has gone from playing private house shows to sharing stages with national acts in front of hundreds of fans and racking up over 50,000 YouTube views of their Justin Timberlake cover “Pusher Love Girl”.
It all started when two husband and wife teams – Lucas (lead vocals) and Evelyn Cortazio (background vocals) and Ellen (fiddle) and Drew Story (guitar) – met in the summer of 2011. Two years later, they added a rhythm section with Jeff Kinsey (bass) and Al Cleveland (drums) and Tales of Olde was born, bursting onto the Boston scene with a “pure, unadulterated folk based sound… with breezy melodies and inspiring lyrics that make the band quite easy to enjoy” (Music Box Pete).
Now, the band is getting ready to release their debut EP early next year and is offering a sneak peek with two songs that capture their roots as an acoustic folk band. “Little Bird” and “This Place” both make mellifluous use of the band’s signature male-female harmonies that are as soulful as they are dynamic, building from intimate near-whispers to a full choir’s worth of anthemic sing-along sound. Meanwhile, the simple yet colorful imagery and realistic storytelling in the lyrics perfectly match the warm, natural tones of layered percussion, guitars, and violins. The end result pays tribute to influences like Of Monsters and Men, Andrew Bird, and Kings of Leon while adding enough indie rock ferociousness to forge new musical territory.
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