It isn’t every day that I get to work with a musician that I listened to before I started The Wild Honey Pie, so you can imagine my excitement when I got in touch with Nate Martinez of Thieving Irons.  With video equipment in hand, I headed to Manhattan’s Stuy Town to meet Nate and fellow singer-songwriter Josh Kaufman.  We quickly agreed upon a dimly lit staircase as our shooting location, which in hindsight, couldn’t have worked out any better.

The duo played three tracks, one which got it’s title during the video editing process.  Thieving Irons is currently on a mini tour with Josh Ritter in Colorado, Nebraska, Michigan, and Ohio, but will be back in New York in December.

The band’s debut LP, This Midnight Hum, is filled with beautiful arrangements, Conor Oberst-like vocals, and deadly honest, heartbreaking songwriting, and has quickly become my lullaby anthem of the fall.  You can purchase it here.

Special thanks to Melanie Steinway for the amazing art above.  For more of her work, click here.

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‘Buzzsessions’ is a live session series made by The Wild Honey Pie.  With each new episode, we travel with a different band to a different part of New York City and record sometimes-intimate/sometimes-wild versions of two or three songs which are given away for free.