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We hope you had a great holiday! Here’s to a fabulous 2016!
Listen to Folkstar’s new album Treelines and Skylines at http://folkstar.bandcamp.com.
If you’re on the east coast like we are, you’re probably enjoying weather that is in no way indicative of late December, with Christmas just a week away. Our temperatures here have been in the 70s, which makes it a little harder to get into the festive mood. We’d like to help, as we once again share some Christmas spirit with you in the form of our video for “Alone on Christmas.” It’s hard to believe that we filmed this gem three years ago!
Also, just in time for those last-minute gifts, we have Treelines and Skylines Art Prints available in the Folkstar store! These high quality reproductions of Sue Cag’s original painting also include a full description of the meaning behind the art and are a great gift for family, friends, or that blank spot on your own wall! Of course we have all kinds of other cool stuff in the online store, including custom guitar pic necklaces, t-shirts, and CDs. If you haven’t gotten your copy of Treelines and Skylines yet, be sure to send Santa a link to our online store or let him know he can also swing by Gravity Records or Old Books on Front St in Wilmington, NC. Merry Christmas! 
This is a collection of clips from our California tree trips, complete with embarrassing dancing! You’re looking at the giant sequoias of the southern Sierras and later on, the coast redwoods of Northern California. Footage was taken at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.
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It’s official release day! Treelines and Skylines is finally here, and we are beyond excited!! You can purchase physical copies through our store and CDbaby, and digital copies from iTunes and Amazon! If you’re a Wilmington, NC local you can also pick up a copy at Gravity Records!
Treelines and Skylines was inspired by considerable time spent in the small pockets of true forest that remain out west: the sequoias, redwoods, douglas firs, spruce, and cedars. There’s no place where life feels more in balance than in an ancient forest. “Treeline” was conceived while standing on top of a rock face while looking across at a grove of giant sequoias in the distance. “Song for Joyce Kilmer” tells the story from the tree’s point of view. “Into the Trees” explores the disunion between nature and man and the virtues of life in balance. In contrast, “Skyline” exposes the fallacies of city life and human self-importance. In between are songs about aging and our medical culture, freedom and travel, love and renewal, a musician’s hard choices, death with dignity, racism and war, and losing a parent. The album concludes with an instrumental inspired by author and soundtracker Gordon Hempton, played entirely on a single acoustic guitar.
The sound of Treelines and Skylines emerges from the contributions of rocker Sue Cag and folker Kim Dicso. The album contains more softer material than Folkstar’s previous album with a lot of acoustic lead from Cag. Blues, alternative, pop, hard rock, classic rock, funk, singer-songwriter, and southern style genres influenced the production. Songwriting is of prime importance to the duo and is split evenly between them.
