LIVE SPECIAL! Spotlight On: BIG THIEF
A SHEROES Live Special Event from Levon Helm Studios
This week, we are thrilled to bring you our first ever special event brought to you by 4AD and Beggars Group. Big Thief, Live from Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock - an intimate performance & conversation. In this hour, we take you on a sonic journey with Big Thief, captured in the hallowed space of Levon Helm's barn in the woods of Woodstock, New York. You’ll hear live performances of four songs from their fifth album Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and deep conversation recorded as we sat in a circle by the hearth of Levon’s giant stone fireplace. Led by guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Adrianne Lenker, along with her bandmates - guitarist Buck Meek, drummer James Krivchenia, and bassist Max Oleartchik.
Big Thief emerged in 2016 with their debut Masterpiece. Their second studio album, Capacity, followed in 2017, and in 2019, the band signed to 4AD and released two studio albums that same year: U.F.O.F. and Two Hands. Both albums received critical acclaim, garnering three Grammy nominations between them. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You is easily their most ambitious work thus far and is already the stuff of mythical legend - a double album recorded during the pandemic in 2020 over five months in four separate locations: the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York, California’s Topanga Canyon, the Colorado Rockies, and the desert of Arizona. This hour is a not-to-miss sonic journey with one of today’s most revered and beloved bands.
Credits:
Filmed & Recorded on location at Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock NY
Sponsored by 4AD & Beggars Group
Produced by Ellena Osis, Carmel Holt & Marisa Gesualdi
Interview edited by Carmel Holt and mixed by Marisa Gesualdi
Video by Slopehouse
Cinematography by Adam Gundersheimer
Camera Operators: Adam Gundersheimer, V Haddad
Edited by V Haddad
Additional Editing by Adam Gundersheimer
Engineered and Mixed by Alice Wilder
Mixing Engineer and Video editor - Marisa Gesualdi
Mastered by Philip Weinrobe
Camera Operators: Matt Phillips, Dino Davaros.
Levon Helm Studios - Production: Brendan McDonough
Levon Helm Studios - Studio Manager: Drew Frankel
Levon Helm Studios - Operations Manager: Christy Newman