For over fifteen years, Swift Silver has “spread the gospel” of Southern sound across the region and abroad.
Directly influenced by the redemptive strains of gospel, the drawling tremolo of rhythm and blues, and the raw twang of bluegrass and old-time music, the duo conjures up the pain and pleasure of calloused hands, tilled earth, and the hunger to right a few wrongs.
“This is poetry set to the sounds of traditional Southern music. It’s a smoky barroom and spending the day at the creek after church, wrapped into one intelligently woven song. The way you expect poetry-or scripture- to be. It’s good music to get immersed in, or meditate to (if that’s your thing). Either way, you’re provoked to think and feel and find out what it means to you. Kinda like when your pastor would say that “The Lord put this in my heart and mind today because He knew someone needed to hear it this morning”, but it was something that could apply to anyone in just about any aspect of life. Difference is, this is way more fun than the Bible (sorry, Jesus) and you don’t feel like you’re going to hell. If only Swift Silver wrote hymns…”
— Mercedes Boulton, Unsung Appalachia