Big Love Car Wash / Mike Hewlett and The Racket [Small Room-Downstairs]

LIKE THE MUSIC THEY PLAY, BIG LOVE CAR WASH IS FULL OF DICHOTOMIES: WHIMSICAL YET SERIOUS, FANCIFUL YET PRAGMATIC, FILLED WITH LOFTY DREAMS YET GROUNDED IN REALITY.

SOL CHASE, EVERETT WREN, DAVID RABINOWICZ AND TAYLOR TURNER DISCOVERED THAT MAGIC THE FIRST TIME THEY SHARED A STAGE TOGETHER, WHEN CHASE HIRED THEM ALL BY CHANCE FOR A BLUEGRASS GIG IN AUSTIN IN 2022. FROM THE FIRST COUPLE SONGS, THEY HAD WHAT MUSICIANS SOMETIMES CALL “STAGE TELEPATHY.”

LEANING INTO THEIR LOVE OF BLUEGRASS, FOLK, JAZZ, CELTIC AND ROCK IDIOMS, THEY HONED AN AMERICANA-ORIENTED, BLUEGRASS-STEEPED SOUND THAT’S BUILT ON RICH TRADITIONS, YET BOLDLY EXPLORATORY. THAT SOUND TAKES FLIGHT ON THEIR SELF-PRODUCED DEBUT ALBUM, DAYDREAM, RECORDED AT AUSTIN’S FABLED ARLYN STUDIOS — WHERE WILLIE NELSON’S INFLUENCE FILLS EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY, INSPIRING FOUR VIRTUOSOS TO GO WHERE THE MUSIC TOOK THEM. THE 16-TRACK ALBUM WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2025, WITH A RELEASE SHOW AT AUSTIN’S 04 CENTER AND A TOUR OF THE US TO FOLLOW.

THEIR PLAYFUL YET SOPHISTICATED SOUND IS ALSO EVIDENT IN THE FIRST OF THREE SETS OF DOUBLE-SIDED SINGLES, “DREAM JOURNAL” AND “JANNA (SHE’S STILL AT SEA),” GROUPED UNDER THE TITLE “VIGNETTES I: QUIET REVERIE.” WITH SOOTHING NOTES OF GENTLE BLUEGRASS-FOLK AND THEMES OF SELF REFLECTION, MOURNING, AND MOVING ON, EACH SONG OFFERS A DYNAMIC AND UNIQUE TAKE ON FAMILIAR STORIES AND SOUNDS.