What do you do if you are a musician and your dream of releasing a new record is put on hold or altered by a pandemic the likes of which haven’t been seen in 100 years?
If you are sisters Amelia Jacobs, Rosalie Graber and Rachel Graber of Call Me Spinster, you convert one of your bedrooms into a recording studio and get back to work. If you are Todd and Scott Smith of Smith & Wesley, or Dan “Danimal” Pinson, Clay Maselle, Tyler Martelli and Eric “Crispy” Crisp of Strung Like a Horse, you put things on hold for a bit and then go ahead and release the project you’d already spent months creating.
All three are area bands, and all three have or will have new products on the market this year. How they got there, and how they will proceed, offers a look into the current music world.
Strung Like a Horse have added to their fanbase through clever social media campaigns and live virtual shows. Smith & Wesley have traveled the country performing, doing lots of in-person radio and industry conference appearances, as well as consistently releasing singles for radio. Call Me Spinster have played mostly in the local area.
The sisters will release their self-titled five-song EP on Dec. 11. Smith & Wesley released their third album, “Land of Y’all,” in September, and Strung released their major-label debut, “WHOA!,” Oct. 30.