Watchhouse, Old Ties And Companions (live), Mountain Winery, August 5, 2022 (4K)

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Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) play their song "Old Ties And Companions" live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 5, 2022. Old Ties And Companions appeared on the Mandolin Orange album Such Jubilee (2015). Watchhouse is a folk duo from Chapel Hill, North Carolina consisting of married couple Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin. Joining them onstage were Clint Mullican (bass), Josh Oliver (guitar), and Nathaniel Smith (cello). Watchhouse appeared at the Mountain Winery, along with Punch Brothers and Sarah Jarosz, as part of their American Acoustic concert tour.

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Old Ties And Companions lyrics:

Old man give me endless time
Never let these ties sever
It's breaking bottles in the yard
Never still my mind again

Mmm
Like old ties and companions
Just sitting on the fence

The tunes we've carried through the years will change
And man that's just enough
To keep these ghosts around those haunted fields

Mmm
Like old ties and companions
You and I were just passing through

It's a hundred thousand miles of lonely track
Holding back tomorrow
Someday I'll hop along and ride it home

Like old ties and companions
We never leave alone

So old man give me endless time never let these ties sever
So heaven knows and all this fooling around
These times won't last forever, after all

Written by Andrew Marlin

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Punch Brothers & Watchhouse - American Acoustic live tour dates (2022):

July 27 - Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
July 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
July 31 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square
Aug. 1 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
Aug. 3 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Fairgrounds
Aug. 5 - Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
Aug. 6 - Rohnert Park, CA @ Green Music Center
Aug. 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Ford Amphitheatre
Aug. 17 - Northampton, MA @ Pines Theater
Aug. 18 - New Haven, CT@ Westville Music Bowl
Aug. 19 - Upper Salford Township, PA @ Philadelphia Folk Festival

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Watchhouse official bio:

By the time 2019 came to its fitful end, Andrew Marlin knew he was tired of touring. He was grateful, of course, for the ascendancy of Mandolin Orange, the duo he’d cofounded in North Carolina with fiddler Emily Frantz a decade earlier. With time, they had become new flagbearers of the contemporary folk world, sweetly singing soft songs about the hardest parts of our lives, both as people and as a people. Their rise—particularly crowds that grew first to fill small dives, then the Ryman, then amphitheaters the size of Red Rocks—humbled Emily and Andrew, who became parents to Ruby late in 2018. They’d made a life of this.

Still, every night, Andrew especially was paid to relive a lifetime of grievances and griefs onstage. After 2019’s Tides of a Teardrop, a tender accounting of his mother’s early death, the process became evermore arduous, even exhausting. What’s more, those tunes—and the band’s entire catalogue, really—conflicted with the name Mandolin Orange, an early-20s holdover that never quite comported with the music they made. Nightly soundchecks, at least, provided temporary relief, as the band worked through a batch of guarded but hopeful songs written just after Ruby’s birth. They offered a new way to think about an established act.

Those tunes are now Watchhouse, which would have been Mandolin Orange’s sixth album but is instead their first also under the name Watchhouse, a moniker inspired by Marlin’s place of childhood solace. The name, like the new record itself, represents their reinvention as a band at the regenerative edges of subtly experimental folk-rock.















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Typo catcher: Watch House, Andrew Marlyn, Old Times And Companions