Volumes I & II

2014 album from the Hipster Folk band. Streets of Laredo is a sing-a-long collision of jangling harmonies, stomping percussion, horns, guitars, and more crazy instruments than you can shake a sampler at. Founded by close-knit family members Daniel, Dave and Sarah Jane Gibson and inspired by the fervour and madness of the 70's folk-rock circuit, the band was born out of trying to escape the mundane everyday working life. Refining their sound and songs one holiday weekend at a beach house on the New Zealand coast, the Gibson's started to fashion a sound that was equal parts folk storytelling and psychedelic madness. VOLUME I & II was inspired by their old life in NZ and their new life in NYC. The album was recorded in an old converted Auckland theatre where they locked down that distinctive Streets of Laredo sound.