Vermont based artist Lily Seabird recently hit the road with her band for a month long tour. Between their two Ohio gigs, they pulled up to the Union Schoolhouse for the very first studio session recorded in the new WYSO headquarters. The band chatted about touring and the story behind their latest album Trash Mountain with Midday Music host Evan Miller.
"Trash Mountain is like low key the name of this hippie co-op that I lived at in Burlington. There was like so many little articles when the record came out. They were like,'Trash mountain- it's this bohemia of artists.' It's really not." said Lily Seabird.
Parts of downtown Burlington, Vermont were built on top of filled in ravines and old city dumps from the late 19th and early 20th century. Lily Seabird says that this is the actual story behind the title of her latest album.
"I just called the record Trash Mountain because I wrote the songs at Trash Mountain. But I think the name comes from the fact that behind it was like a dump 60 years ago. That whole edge of town where that house was is along this street called Riverside. That part of town is about to fall off into the trash hole, basically. It's eroding. It's a big issue, because no one's doing anything about it."
One of the main reasons Lily Seabird says she wanted the tour to go through Cincinnati was so she could hit up one of her favorite record stores Feel It Records.
"I bought this shirt from them last month and I was like,'I came here to go to your record store.' And they're like,'From Vermont?' And then I had to do the weird thing where I said I'm a musician and I felt awkward but they were really nice."
To keep up with tour dates and new music from Lily Seabird follow her on Instagram. Stream and purchase her latest album Trash Mountain on bandcamp.
