The Mallett Brothers Band Takes Historic Logging Shanties & Make It There Own

"We probably owe it to the Portland music scene as an entity, mostly, you know, we all knew each other. It's a tight, tight-knit scene. It's a very supportive scene. There were a lot of great clubs that we all knew when we were getting started and we'd all been playing in the clubs and working in the clubs and spending every free second in places like Big Easy. So the scene was a great place to pull from. So when we started, we ended one project and we started writing songs. Me and Will and Nick, originally on our, on our couch with me and Nick were roommates. Within like a couple of weeks, Nick kind of took it upon himself. He was the one who said, I'm gonna put a band together, and he started going out and talking to people. And we were playing shows in 2009. Our first you know, our first couple shows happened real fast. We had a bunch of songs, and we were kind of ready to go really fast," said Luke Mallett.

The Mallett Brothers Band grew very fast when they started back in 2009. They have dabbled into many times of music including rock and roll and country but they will also have their own theme, their own style.

"I mean, I think it's kind of amorphous. And I think that maybe one thing about this band that I liked the most is our lack of like, real strict genre stylings. I think the music changes on the regular, I think it's like the songs never seem to stay the same for long, we spent so much time on stage. A lot of stuff happens on stage. So we can come in here and we can knock out a record but we make our living playing shows. And we you know, when we can be we're out on the road, like 200 days a year. So when you're on stage, stuff just happens. And sometimes it's for the better. And sometimes it's for the worst, but it's kind of we like to experiment, we'd like to change it up. I feel like every record has been a little bit different stylistically to notably show the Falling Of The Pine is kind of, I mean, we had, we had like a real kind of vision in an image of what we wanted those songs to sound like because they weren't our songs. We were trying to take traditional folk ideas and make them suit us and make them fit us. So it was, you know, it was a cool experiment in really sticking to the theme, I think," said Luke.

The Falling of the Pine was quite the hit album as it brought out the band's true native roots -- the Maine woods.

"Luke and I grew up in the logging Maine rather than lobster Maine. You know, Brian's from Westbrook originally close to Portland and Nick, ocean guy, Andrews an ocean guy, but the thing was, was that all the loggers were they all lived or there's somebody lived to tell this tale about somebody dying. So all these songs are about somebody dying, whereas it was right there on the page where there wasn't really that way with the ocean," said Will.

Tune in to learn more about the Mallett Brothers Band their history, style, shows, and the creation behind the Falling of the Pine.

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