Tall Tales & The Silver Lining

Southern California's <a href="spotify:artist:6WKdulgrl39E6wlWj4Uc5i">Trevor Beld-Jimenez</a> began his '60s folk-rock- and '70s pop/rock-influenced Tall Tales & the Silver Lining project in 2007. With a roster of collaborators fleshing out amiable, acoustic-guitar-centered tunes, his first full-length album, The Understanding, was released in 2008 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Beehouse+Records%22">Beehouse Records</a>. The following year, he recorded a second LP, Fall In, again using a full band that included guitar, lap steel, synthesizer, bass, drums, and percussion. Fall In was released in 2010, also on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Beehouse%22">Beehouse</a>, and Nice to Meet You Again followed in 2011. <a href="spotify:artist:6WKdulgrl39E6wlWj4Uc5i">Beld-Jimenez</a> and a rotating lineup of musicians (including his wife, Tania), toured throughout this period in California, opening for bands such as <a href="spotify:artist:099toTcKJoywTosZr2hHjy">Langhorne Slim</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:72XY3HrDdFfZXNZFCT9Zh1">Blitzen Trapper</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0CDUUM6KNRvgBFYIbWxJwV">Dawes</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5gspAQIAH8nJUrMYgXjCJ2">Kurt Vile</a>. He then decided to conduct a distribution experiment, releasing four seasonal EPs beginning in summer of 2011, each with a single, and each recorded at a different studio in the Los Angeles area. 2012 saw the prolific songwriter release Unknown Futures: Pt. 1, which consisted of self-recorded demos written over the prior year and a half, as well as his fifth full-length record, Short Songs, and finally in December, a 12-track eponymous album that collected the seasonal releases from 2011 and 2012. The latter was his first release on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Rocketship+Records%22">Rocketship Records</a>. An EP titled Besides was issued in early 2014, and later that year the band made its New York City debut at the CMJ Showcase. A seventh full-length album, the bright Tightropes, came in early 2015 on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Other+Music+Recording+Co%22">Other Music Recording Co</a>. label. ~ Marcy Donelson, Rovi