Sallie Ford has an amazing voice, instantly recognizable and
yet channeling Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson with the
attitude of Patti Smith. Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside have a unique sound
and I love it, mixing Jazz, Blues, Rock, Folk and Swing into a modern incarnation,
it sounds old but is completely new and delicious.
Originally from Ashville, North Caroline she moved to
Portland Oregon in 2006 where she found her voice and her bandmate’s drummer
Ford Tennis and upright bassist Tyler Tornfelt, “I was blown away the first
time I heard Sallie sing,” admits guitarist Jeffrey Munger, who initially
crossed paths with her while busking during the monthly Last Thursday art walk
on Portland’s Alberta Street.“People in the music community have been really kind,
introducing themselves and offering to help out where they can,” says Sallie.
The Avett Brothers’ Seth Avett was so taken after seeing Sallie Ford & The
Sound Outside, he tapped them to open a pair of sold-out shows at Portland’s
Crystal Ballroom in summer 2009, and invited them to be their support act in
California and Colorado. New Year’s Eve found Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
performing at the 7,700-seat Asheville Civic Center with the Avetts and
Langhorn Slim.
Throughout 2010, the band recorded and refined Dirty Radio
with engineer Adam Selzer (Norfolk & Western), with a few additional tracks
overseen by Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, She & Him, Blitzen Trapper). “I knew
we would come up with something special, just because of the sound on the
records that I really liked that those guys had done, music that had a warm
tone to it,” says Sallie. They recorded to tape, and though the performances
aimed to capture the feel of the foursome’s live shows—“it would’ve felt weird
to record the songs any other way“
Listen to 'Dirty Radio'
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