Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert first met at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. That led to co-writing songs for Kane’s solo album Unguarded Moments and later collaborating on Gellert’s Workin’s Too Hard, which they also co-produced. In 2018 they released their first duo album, The Ledges, followed by When the Sun Goes Down in 2019. In 2022 they released The Flowers That Bloom in Spring, exploring minimalist writing and recording. Their fourth album is entitled Volume 4. Like their other duo albums, they recorded it themselves, live at home, and mixed it there. Kieran’s son Lucas played on a few tracks, Kieran painted the cover, and Rayna’s brother Jonah did the package design.

Kieran Kane’s work with The O’Kanes and Kane Welch Kaplin, and as co-founder of Dead Reckoning Records, helped shape contemporary Americana. A successful solo artist, collaborator, and songwriter (with songs recorded by Alan Jackson, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, and others), Kieran is described as a musician’s musician: his playing is understated, groove-oriented, and always serving the song.

Rayna Gellert is a gifted songwriter who turned to Appalachian old-time music early on, becoming a prodigious fiddler and helping lead a revival of American stringband music through her work with Uncle Earl. She has toured and recorded with artists such as Scott Miller, Abigail Washburn, Toubab Krewe, and Robyn Hitchcock. Fans of either artist will recognize their kindred-spirited, restrained, and roots-oriented approach to songs and arrangements.

Folk Alley describes them this way: “…together the two have found an interesting common ground that’s one part Woody Guthrie-esque ruminations on the modern world and one part transcendent stringband roots … New songs, old songs, fiddle tunes, it’s all tossed together here in an overarching quest to find an authentic expression from two traditional masters brought together.”

One fan proclaims: “Mind numbingly good. That harmony floored me from the start!”

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