Summer is here! We're looking forward to some upcoming Daisycutter gigs in the Northeast, so come on out for some musical adventure (including some live previews of new material we'll be heading into the studio to record soon!) The current record is now available for your streaming and interactive pleasure at last.fm, and MyRuralRadio.com.

First album review of the new year from Chronogram magazine:

www.chronogram.com/issue/2010/1/Music/CD-Review-Sara-Milonovich

Sara Milonovich
Daisycutter (Loonymusik Records, 2009)

On Daisycutter, her impressive solo debut, roots music veteran Sara Milonovich hits the ground running with the up-tempo, fiddle-fueled "Country Life," a powerhouse lament that takes on class, the plight of family farms, countryside gentrification, and the UK foot and mouth epidemic of 2001. Sound intense? It is, but as a bracing opener, it serves well, priming listeners for a deft mix of literate folk, plaintive Celtic-tinged balladry, and plenty of modern-day ass-kicking. Milonovich is a fiddler of much renown—with additional chops in the vocals and guitar department—and a life spent mostly on the road has yielded the skills to take on a wide range of material and a bevy of extremely talented friends. The high-profile pals adding to the bounty of Daisycutter include singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, who executes a gorgeous solo on her own beautiful ache of a love song, "Last Dance."

Even without the star turns, however, Milonovich emerges as both a gifted artist in her own right and an unpredictable song interpreter. The Monkees' "Pleasant Valley Sunday" becomes a zydeco raveup; KT Tunstall's wry but sweet “Under the Weather” is a deceptively simple ballad with tasty political overtones. The unexpected Peter Gabriel tune, "Here Comes the Flood," offers a nice slab of electric guitar while evincing Milonovich's penchant for the post-apocalyptic. But any lingering darkness is quickly dispersed by a rollicking take on "The Lake Arthur Stomp." These scene changes offer a chance to process the considerable depth of the material and most importantly, to dance.

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Read the CD review at Nippertown.

New review of the CD in Roll magazine!

Check out the review of the new record in the Hudson Valley's "Daily Freeman."

Check out live footage from a DaisyCutter CD release show at Club Passim in Boston (a 2-part medley!)

Part 1

Part 2