Cara Beth Satalino - Little Green

So much upheaval after fifteen years of a predictable lifestyle led to the
creation of Little Green, a bold, stripped-back, ten-song distillation of identity out April 2024 on UK label Worried Songs. Born in upstate
New York, the breeding ground for America’s rich history of folk and settler traditions, Cara Beth was steeped in acoustic sounds from a
young age. Her father, an accomplished instrumentalist, colored her childhood with the vibrations of fiddle, banjo, guitars, and
mandolin. Though she had spent much of her indie rock career rarely allowing these influences to show, the unravelling of her life
seemed like a perfect time to be honest about her musical framework- what shaped her, what built her. As “Warmth of A Golden Sun”
opens Little Green with what feels like a folk-rock dirge over Casio drum machine beats- Cara Beth offers a sonic analogy about her
move from weird city life into warm analog intimacy. “Dandelion Weed” plants the listener firmly into her ecosystem of pedal steel and
close-microphoned acoustic guitar, but with succinct rock drumming that gives the song’s spaciousness a sturdy foundation. Though
the influences of Fairport Convention, James Taylor and Sandy Denny are all opaquely present throughout the record, surprising twists
like the Velvet Underground electricity of “Little Green” and the classic 70s country shuffle on “Time”, broaden the scope out of upstate
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New York into the eclectic artist she has become