Zoe & Cloyd - Songs of Our Grandfathers

Zoe & Cloyd - Songs of Our Grandfathers

Songs of Our Grandfathers highlights the musical heritage of duo Zoe & Cloyd and their unique take on modern roots music. It's inspired by their grandfathers’ musical histories in bluegrass and klezmer music. Natalya’s grandfather, David…
Zoe & Cloyd - "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"

Zoe & Cloyd - "We'll Meet Again Sweetheart"

"This classic bluegrass number was one of four sides my grandfather Jim Shumate recorded with Flatt & Scruggs for the Mercury label in 1948. That early lineup of the Foggy Mountain Boys featuring Jim, Mac Wiseman, Cedric Rainwater, Lester…
Zoe & Cloyd - "Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn"

Zoe & Cloyd - "Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn"

“Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn" was originally written in 1932 by composer Sholom Secunda and lyricist Jacob Jacobs for the Yiddish theater. The title means “To Me You Are Beautiful." The Andrews Sisters recorded the English version in 1937 and the…
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Zoe & Cloyd - "Bulgar Sigansky"

"’Bulgar Sigansky’ is an obscure klezmer tune that I found in my grandfather, David Weinstein's, handwritten music notebooks,” says Natalya Zoe Weinstein of husband-wife duo Zoe & Cloyd. “David was a professional musician who played…
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Zoe & Cloyd - "Rainbow of My Dreams"

“'Rainbow of my Dreams' is a rare Tommy Scott composition that bluegrass fans may recognize from a live 1948 Flatt & Scruggs recording on the WCYB Farm & Fun Time program,” says John Cloyd Miller of husband-wife duo, Zoe & Cloyd.…
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Zoe & Cloyd - Rebuild

Though Rebuild, the new collection from Organic Records’ Zoe & Cloyd—Natalya Zoe Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller—is full of songs that relate to the unprecedented upheaval of a world-wide pandemic, the duo and their ace band (Bennett…
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Zoe & Cloyd Embrace Transformation on 'Rebuild,' Oct. 8, 2021

Though Rebuild, the new collection from Organic Records’ Zoe & Cloyd—Natalya Zoe Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller—is full of songs that relate to the unprecedented upheaval of a world-wide pandemic, the duo and their ace band (Bennett…
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Label Clients Earn Memorable Week on the Charts

Wrapping Week 24 of 2021 (June 6-12), Syntax Creative label clients Mountain Home Music Company, Organic Records, Horizon Records, Sonlite Records (all part of Crossroads Label Group), Pinecastle Records, and Mountain Fever Records reached multiple…
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Zoe & Cloyd - "Chestnut Mountain"

Despite its distinctive flavor, the appeal of bluegrass music is broad enough to have gained fans literally the world over. Still, direct, personal ties to the music and the communities in which it originated can lend an extra dimension to a…
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Bluegrass at the Crossroads - "Lonesome is the Price I Pay"

Co-written and sung by mandolinist Darren Nicholson of the award-winning Balsam Range quintet, this song is archetypal bluegrass—a happy-sounding song with miserable lyrics. In this case, the lyric’s narrative is built around a “get out…
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Zoe & Cloyd - "Paper Crowns"

Following the exuberant, traditional bluegrass of their last single, Organic Records’ Zoe & Cloyd return with a sweet, original take on another kind of tradition: the enduring theme of a parent’s love. Written and sung by the semi-eponymous…

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