Music

The new album from Daring Coyotes ventures into epic new territory, building upon the production and arrangement tools first wielded on The Aftermath to create vast soundscapes embedded within psychedelic bluegrass songs. The songs, written and performed nearly in full by David Clark Carroll and featuring Ryan Seiler on bass, were almost all written in the winter of 2024 and cover topics ranging from life in the happy valley, ecology, geological time, buddhism and politics. The newer song Outlandish Times came about in February 2025 while recording and producing the album and struggling with how to describe the state of the world with this project. It grounds the other material in the moment and provides and acknowledgement of the reality we’re suffering through.

While working on a new full length album, David got completely distracted by the state of the world as January of 2025 came on strong. In an attempt to regain focus by working on a looser freer feeling project the idea of reworking some of the instrumental melodies from Odyssey of the Far West for mandola turned into an exciting exploration of the potentials of the Electro-Harmonix Mandola Orchestra. Every sound on this record was made by David on his 2006 Weber Gallatin mandolin, Martin D-16 mahogany backed dreadnought guitar, and an Eastman MDA315 mandola. With profound assistance from an Electro-Harmonix pitchfork pedal to craft the bizarre low cello like tones that appear all over this record.

Apple Cider Sessions started in mid August of 2024, when a friend issued a challenge to his musical friends – release a new song on his birthday. September 6th. Well, after a few years back east David Clark Carroll had collected a fair number of new instrumental tunes, and after a few weekends busy recording, and a hectic week mixing and mastering a new album debuted on BandCamp Friday, September 6th 2024.

Uploaded just before midnight due to a gig taking place smack dab in the middle of release day, the album is an eccentric combination of mandolin, guitar, and mandola. Many songs have multiple layers of mandolin and guitar as well, although every note was played by David Clark Carroll on those three instruments. Evoking the scent of fresh apple cider donuts, enjoyed on a bench in an orchard on a crisp fall afternoon, it is a true homecoming album almost entirely composed over the last two years in Easthampton, MA.

No Clue At All What’s To Come is the sound of turning forty. Written during the tumultuous (tbh they’ve all been tumultuous for a minute) months of summer, 2023 this fairly psychedelic folk tune took on a new meaning a year later as Biden dropped out of the race for president and it became abundantly clear as the refrain notes that “I’ve got no clue at all what’s to come” but potentially that could be a good thing. Composed with an entirely instrumental bridge that highlights David’s Harwood mandolin, built by luthier William Tobin in Oroville California in 2008, it never fails to turn heads when folks hear the opening line “I just keep growing older, as life keeps getting weirder, I’ve got no clue at all what’s to come”.

Odyssey of the Far West

Inspired by mandolin/guitar duet albums such as Shady Grove, Blake & Rice and Doc & Dawg this collection of original songs by David Clark Carroll is filtered through traditional sensibilities and based on progressive songwriting and hard driving instrumentals. Recorded in December of 2020 as a farewell letter to California before David bundled all his instruments into an RV and drove across the country. The homespun feel and sound is a reflection of the era, slight rough edges and all. It was released November 19, 2021  with everything written, performed and produced by David Clark Carroll

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