Back to the Valley, the new album from Appalachian folk-rockers Low Water Bridge Band, finds the Virginia sextet deepening their sense of home and sharpening their musical skillset with tight harmonies, well-crafted tunes, and ferocious instrumental breaks. A fitting follow-up to their last LP, Midnight in Virginia, this new ten-song collection represents the band’s graduation from barnstorming clubs in the Shenandoah Valley to playing festival stages along the East Coast.
“This song is about the struggle of an old soul in a new world,” says Low Water Bridge Band's Alex Kerns about their new single “Clarke County Clay.” Touching on karma, and in Kerns' words, “how it can all come back to you in the end,” the waltzing tune rides a snare drum pattern akin to a funeral march, through waves of pedal steel and precise stacks of background vocals. “'Clarke County Clay' came from a chord progression that found itself on my fingers one morning, this happened to be Christmas morning,” Kerns remembers.