Joy Kills Sorrow

Joy Kills Sorrow is poised to make its mark with a new lineup of some of the country's finest young talent. Founding member Matthew Arcara, a subtle and expressive guitarist, was the 2006 winner of Winfield's National Flat picking Championship and has performed with such luminaries as Darol Anger. Mandolin virtuoso Jacob Jolliff, is Berklee's first full-scholarship mandolin student and a veteran performer, having toured professionally since age eleven and shared the stage with mandolin legends David Grisman and Mike Marshall. Wesley Corbett, a banjoist of uncommon facility and grace, was featured in the August 2008 issue of Banjo Newsletter and has toured nationally with Crooked Still and The Biscuit Burners. Emma Beaton, the 2008 Canadian Folk Music Awards' Young Performer of the Year, adds an earthy, powerful presence to the band as its newly minted vocalist. And bassist Bridget Kearney, winner of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, is largely responsible for Joy Kills Sorrow's inimitable sound, thanks to her impeccable musicality and distinctive songwriting style.

Joy Kills Sorrow's second album (their first for Signature Sounds) effortlessly merges influences as diverse as bluegrass, jazz, indie rock, folk, R&B, and Celtic traditions. The music that emerges is dark and often funny, ruminating on modern life and love with eloquence and wit. Darkness Sure Becomes This City presents a radical new strain of folk music, one that bravely breaks with tradition even as it salutes the past. The Boston-based string band brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into elegant arrangements and well-crafted songs. While the group pays due homage to its Bluegrass roots--its name is taken from WJKS, a radio station that broadcasted the Monroe brothers' show in the 1930s--the band truly excels in its rich and textured treatment of more contemporary material(http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Sure-Becomes-This-City/dp/product-description/B0031P6WZS/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1308099973&sr=1-1).

Darkness Sure Becomes This City - 2010

1. Kill My Sorrow
2. Books
3. New Shoes
4. Send Me a Letter
5. Thinking of You and Such
6. Get Up and Go
7. We Will Have Our Day
8. All the Buildings
9. You Will Change Me
10. If It’s Rainin’
11. You Make Me Feel Drunk

Good Music!