Mandolin Orange Makes Harmony Grounded In Grief On New Album
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd talks with the North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange about their new album "Tides of a Teardrop."
The new album “Tides of a Teardrop” is the sixth by North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange.
The band has played the Newport Folk Festival, South by Southwest and Bonnaroo, and their music has gotten 50 million streams on Spotify. The people behind the music are songwriter Andrew Marlin, who plays the mandolin, guitar and banjo, and vocalist Emily Frantz, who also plays the violin and guitar.
Marlin tells ‘s Peter O’Dowd that part of the album’s inspiration came from “ironing out some old, deep feelings” about the death of his mother when he was 18 years old, which comes
