Sugarloaf Mountain Records is proud to introduce
Rhododendron Road and "Rising Tide," their new CD!

Rhododendron Road is a unique blend of musicians of different ages, experiences, and musical backgrounds, who all share a love for the new Rhododendron Road  sound that they have created together. This group of musicians, ranging in age from 18 to 59, first came together as a studio band to record a few of singer-songwriter Jim Choukas-Bradley’s original compositions as demos to be placed with other singers. The musicians were put together by guitar maestro Jesse Daumit, one of the Washington-Baltimore region’s leading guitar stylists and teachers. Soon Jim and Jesse and the other musicians – bassist Jeff Reed, drummer Mike Kuhl, vocalist Amanda Joy Olsavsky, and guitar prodigy Jesse Choukas-Bradley – were having so much fun, and were so pleased with the sound and the chemistry the group was creating, that they decided to form a permanent group, expand their recording sessions to create a full CD, and to start playing out.

People hear many influences in the songs and the music. Bob Dylan, The Band, Neil Young. Tom Petty, Jerry Garcia, and Warren Zevon are names often mentioned.

The songs are for the most part “story songs.” They have something to say. The title tune of the first CD, Rising Tide, is about Hurricane Katrina and the abandonment of the people of New Orleans, for example, and it tells the story as it happened, with a power that builds like the flood itself.

Click here to connect to uTube and Rhododendron Road's "Still (The Soldier's Song)."

Click here to purchase Rising Tide through Amazon.

Rhododendron Road is now building its website, and we hope you will visit us soon! There you will find and enjoy the words, stories and music for all the songs of "Rising Tide."