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Genre: Americana, indie-folk 

Colorado’s Elephant Revival spring from a state full of amazing string bands and they are among the very finest. Folk music is serious business around the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest and those areas are a veritable hotbed of forward-looking, traditionally rooted, string musicians who break boundaries between types of folk music, thereby creating new hybrids continually.
Elephant Revival is one such group, a band of virtuosic musicians — you can’t really be anything else in bluegrass/folk as there’s nothing to hide behind — that are rooted in both Celtic and American folk, but bring in elements of African music, reggae. classic jazz and bluegrass.
When Elephant Revival took to the studio in Maine to record their fourth LP – Petals (Thirty Tigers), with Josh Ritter’s long time collaborator and producer Sam Kassirer, it would be the first time doing so without founding member and singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sage Cook.  It would also be the band’s studio introduction of Charlie Rose who stepped in Sage Cook’s place following his departure.
Bonnie Paine (vocals, stompboard, washboard, djembe, musical saw) tells PopMatters that she enjoys “a song can be interpreted very differently from one person to the next. Noticing the endlessly varying ways of experiencing the same thing is indeed part of the influence behind Petals. In some ways the song is a search to recognize how we identify ourselves and each other while setting aside preconceived ideas of who we are and how we should or should not be — to connect with the world around us in a way that does not confine but encourages.”


01 - Hello You Who
02 - Peace Tonight
03 - Petals
04 - On and On
05 - Raindrops
06 - Season Song
07 - Furthest Shore
08 - Sea Monster
09 - When I Fall
10 - Home in Your Heart
11 - Close as Can Be

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