Chaparelle bring their buzzy brand of ‘Western Pleasure' to Mass.
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'There were maybe 400 people at our little tent at Newport,' he said. 'Everywhere we'd go it was like: Where do these people come from? We don't have any music out. It kind of shows that internet metrics and all that stuff doesn't accurately portray what the public feels about a band.'
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Woods and Day are romantic partners as well as musical ones, and both relationships came about more or less simultaneously. Each had an established solo career, and it was one of Woods's records that brought them together.
'He came out with a record in 2021 called 'Wimberley,'' Day recalled. 'I was on tour at the time. I remember being in the tour van and we had 'Wimberley' on and everyone was like, 'Man, you and that Jesse Woods would sound really good singing together.''
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So she reached out to him to gauge his interest in collaborating: 'I had no idea what his background was, where he lived, if he was alive or dead,' Day said.
They managed to connect and decided to get together for a writing session, which produced some 'weird experimental music,' Woods said. But it also sparked their relationship; as Day put it, 'That first writing session was the origin story for our love story.' Serious talk about collaborating came a few months later.
'That's when we started talking a lot about blood harmony and country music and George [Jones] and Tammy [Wynette] and Gram [Parsons] and Emmylou [Harris] and started to just listen to a lot of that music together,' Woods said.
With Chaparelle's direction established, the pair invited producer and multi-instrumentalist Beau Bedford to join the collaboration, intending to add a third voice to the proceedings — what Woods calls a 'tiebreaker.' It was hard to write music as a couple, explained Day.
'It's deeply personal; it was also very early on in our relationship,' she said. 'You're trying to lay the groundwork of a relationship, how you communicate to one another, then you add in the music and the creative element. It's just a very vulnerable environment to put yourself in.'
With Bedford on board, the three wrote half of what would become their debut record in four days. 'That first week, we just really knew we were onto something,' Woods recalled.
They started booking a few dates so they could try out the songs live and see what the dynamic of the three of them playing with a rhythm section would be like. The response to those shows was great, Woods said, even though he noted that people weren't sure exactly what Chaparelle was.
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'Is this a duet? Is this a three-piece band? Is this a band? Is Zella the lead? And we were like, 'We don't need to make that decision,'' he said.
From the beginning, added Woods, their intent was to put on a show, and their live appearances demonstrate that in spades, particularly in the interplay between the pair — Woods manning the stage like a tall drink of water, Day prowling around him, oozing sexuality.
'Zella has this superpower on stage,' her partner observes. 'A lot of Western music or Americana music is very shoegaze-y. We want to get people moving, we want to just give it on stage.'
When they went into the recording studio to make their debut record — 'Western Pleasure,' which came out this spring — they were going for what Woods labelled a classic sound with modern fidelity. As Day put it, 'we're just trying to make classic American music that, yes, is rooted in country, but also a little bit of everything.'
For all that, 'Western Pleasures' certainly represents as country; that
'classic sound with modern fidelity,' as well as its genre fluidity, reminds at times of what the Mavericks have so famously accomplished with their music. The record's lone cover, a smoldering, Phil Spector-esque reinvention of Whitney Houston's '
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Said Day, 'I think that's the attitude, you know? We really did distill what our characters are on this album and how we were going to speak to each other and about each other, and for it to never be too serious, always a little longing, maybe sometimes a little funny, a little tongue in cheek, but rooted in poetry.'
CHAPARELLE
At Levitate Backyard, 1871 Ocean St., Marshfield, June 21, 8 p.m.
At Green River Music Festival, Franklin County Fairgrounds, 89 Wisdom Way, Greenfield, June 22, 12:45 p.m.
Stuart Munro can be reached as sj.munro@verizon.net.
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