Check out this duo of Park Slope singer/songwriters. I heard about them on Lucid Culture.
Here’s how they describe themselves:
Sweet Bitters is a harmony-based acoustic duo serving up tasty, flavorful folk-pop. Or pop-folk. Whatever. Sweet Bitters was created by two Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters, Sharon and Nina, who started blending their voices and said to themselves, “This harmony thing is fun.” Sharon liked singing on Nina’s songs and Nina liked singing on Sharon’s songs. And they sounded sweet — but not too sweet. A little bit of bitter thrown in was just right.
Their influences are The Roches, Aimee Mann, The Indigo Girls, Elliott Smith, R.E.M., Girlyman, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, Squeeze, CC Railroad, Molly Pitcher, Aimee van Dyne Band, Allison Krauss, Eliza Gilkyson.
Not bad.
They have a song called “Falling Into Place” that’s about a late afternoon walk up Seventh Avenue in the winter. It’s real pretty. One of the few songs I know about Seventh Avenue.
Cool. They played at Perch over the weekend. Sorry I didn’t make it.
Hi from Sharon of Sweet Bitters! Thanks so much for the mention here…I’m glad you figured out I was talking about the 7th Avenue in Park Slope and not in Manhattan…:)
We had fun at Perch and we’ll be playing at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg on Saturday, April 5 at 8 p.m. Then hopefully we’ll be back in Park Slope later in the spring.
See you soon! Sharon
Thanks for the introduction to Sweet Bitters, they sound great! I’m hoping I can make it to the show at Pete’s. My wife and I grew up in Brooklyn, but don’t make it back there often nowadays…
I just wrote a blog post about Sweet Bitter (or rather Pete’s Candy Store “customer service”), and linked to this post.
http://www.opticality.com/blog/2008/03/24/snarky-customer-service/