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"Where has this guy been hiding? In the library maybe." - NPR'S Folk Alley

Nels is a master carver, an artist patient and obsessed enough to turn
a whale of an idea into something delicate and beautiful from any
angle. Anais Mitchell

Although he was born by the sea, it wasn't until he moved to the desert
that Nels Andrews began writing songs. He sang them alone in a house
constructed of mud and tires on the sage-brushed mesas of Taos, New
Mexico where he spent his 20's, airing them occasionally around
campfires. Eventually he found his voice as a crooner of literary
narratives and increasingly impressionistic story songs.

Nels has toured nationally and internationally since 2002 and has won
prestigious songwriting awards from Kerrville, Telluride, and Mountain
Stage. His international travels include sessions with the BBC's Bob
Harris, who named Nels' debut album one of the best of that year.

Folk Radio UK says: (Nels) combines deft storytelling with a warmth of
tone and gentleness of pace .. awash with layers, metaphors and echoes
woven into subtle, contemplative contemporary song. Like finding a
seashell at the back of a dusty cupboard, putting it to your ear and
hearing the ocean.

Now, happily stationed by the sea again in Santa Cruz, Andrews has
gracefully woven the morning fog, redwoods, and oceanside into his
forthcoming record Pigeon and The Crow, produced by traditional Irish
flutist Nuala Kennedy (Gerry O'Conner, Will Oldham). A songwriter's
record in the spirit of Van Morrison's Veedon Fleece with a breath of
the texture, rhythm, and longing of Milton Nascimento's Club De Esquina
, Pigeon and The Crow brims with literary wordplay, mixed with some
sway, some shimmer, and some sand between your toes.

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