"Don't mistake me for a Wildwood / A place to run and hide," go the first lines of Chatham County Line's new album Wildwood. In the life of the North Carolina acoustic band, these words ring especially true. Running and hiding are the last things you'll find them doing. On Wildwood, their fifth studio release and the first they've self-produced, the band is putting themselves out there like never before. Following the creative and critical catharsis of their fourth album IV and now fully comfortable in their musical skin, CCL's classically American songwriting shines like never before. Songs like the instant classic sing-a-long "Crop Comes In," title-track "Wildwood" and ballad "Alone in New York" are some of the best songs in the band's estimable canon, and with sold out international tours and festivals aplenty, it's clear the quartet have no intentions of slowing down now.
