Escaping Pavement are speaking my language on their newest release UpRooted.

Recently finding myself UpRooted, you could say it was appropriate I received this record. Moving your family 2,300+ miles in any direction takes some serious adjustments.

Emily Burns and Aaron Markovitz met one night at a blues open mic and have been inseparable ever since. You could say this was meant to be.

“I saw Emily walk in with a Gretsch guitar, get up onstage with the band and play ‘Whipping post’ and ‘What is and What Should Never Be.’ I was impressed and went over and talked to her. I guess it all started at that moment,” Aaron recalls.

Splitting songwriting, singing, and playing duties equally, Emily and Aaron along with Niall Sullivan (bass and background vox) and Evan Profant (drums and background vox) create a sound that is refreshing, genuine, and alive!

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UpRooted is what would happen if The Black Crowes got into a bar fight with The Civil Wars. When the dust settled, Emmylou Harris would be there with a peace treaty and a vision. That vision is Escaping Pavement.

This Los Angeles Music Academy educated, Detroit, Michigan based quartet entered Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, MI to create this folk-rockin’-altercana master blend. Emily produced the album with the help of engineer Tony Hamera.

“If you listen to the lyrics of every song on the record, you can bring it all back to being uprooted in some way,” Aaron says. “It comes down to change, someone’s life changing in a way that’s out of their hands, like loss, or someone wanting to change themselves. Being uprooted in life happens to everyone,” Emily says.

Everything the band has been working on for the past several years has led up to this release and it is fine wine, folks.

Go grab UpRooted. Then connect with the band on Facebook or Twitter.