Buffalo Rose & Tom Paxton Announce Collaborative 'Rabbit' EP

Pittsburgh-based collective Buffalo Rose, chosen as a 2022 SXSW Official Showcase band, has announced their forthcoming EP Rabbit, due out on February 22nd.

The band joined forces with GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award winner and folk legend Tom Paxton to write and record the EP's four tracks. Today, they release the lead single "Runaway," a song with all the energy and anxiety of new love, fear and excitement of the unknown, and the electric push and pull of hope and hesitation.

Rabbit follows Paxton's 2019 release Live! (with The DonJuans) and Buffalo Rose's 2020 release Borrowed & Blue: Live Around One Microphone. The EP, a perfect release for the last gasp of winter, combines Paxton's honed writing skills with the instrumental prowess of Buffalo Rose. It's about how sweet, wild, and precious the present is when it is all you have.

The world is strange and dangerous for a rabbit, but even so, a rabbit knows how to take pleasure- in green grass, a safe burrow, or the warmth of another body. Rabbit's themes are derived from the hope of doing all we can do to find what we're looking for. In this EP, these seven musicians explore answers to many questions and have some serious fun in the process.

Buffalo Rose is a wildly charismatic six-piece modern folk/Americana band from Pittsburgh that will change your entire perspective on acoustic music. They take the singer-songwriter tradition to a new level by crafting original songs which are emotive, meticulously arranged, and inspired by a world of idiosyncratic influences that never let a dull or predictable moment creep in.

In 2018, the band released their debut album, The Soil and the Seed and established themselves as a vocal, instrumental, and creative force. Since then, Buffalo Rose has dropped two EPs, 2019's Big Stampede and 2020's Borrowed and Blue, opened for the Wood Brothers, Mipso, Pokey LaFarge, Tyler Childers, Infamous Stringdusters, and shared a festival stage with the legendary Sam Bush. The band's upward trajectory will continue into 2022 with the release of Rabbit, followed by a new full-length LP later in the year.

Buffalo Rose's lineup of Lucy Clabby (vocals), Margot Jezerc (vocals), Bryce Rabideau (mandolin), Malcolm Inglis (dobro), Jason Rafalak (upright bass), and Shane McLaughlin (guitar, vocals) pushes itself and each other far beyond their perceived limits and blends their diverse and atypical approach to songwriting with the desire to see how unique a song can get and still feel like home. They use powerful vocal harmonies, strong playing, and an original vision to operate at every possible emotional level and put on dynamic live shows that are unforgettable experiences. They go from up and moving to sad and sweet and back again, bringing the entire audience along.

This combination of artistry and enthusiasm makes Buffalo Rose one of the most vital and important groups working today. Rather than play the folk music of the past, the band gleefully combines genres and ideas together to move acoustic music forward to a new, contemporary place without ever losing sight of its roots. Fans of Lake Street Dive, Nickel Creek, and Punch Brothers will find much to like in this crew. Anyone seeking compelling new acoustic music needs to join Buffalo Rose in the future right now.

Listen to the new single here:

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