As The War and Treaty, Michael and Tanya Trotter serve up healing
and pain robbing with freewheeling joy on their new full-length album,
Healing Tide. Funky bass lines, keys, lap steel, acoustic strings, and
stripped-down percussion create a swampy Southern soul bed for the
couple’s transcendent vocals. A tour-de-force produced by Buddy
Miller, the collection swaggers with confidence only gained by artists
who are wholly, proudly, themselves. “You have to have a deep place
of love within yourself to be vulnerable,” Tanya says. “With
The War and Treaty, we allow people to see two people that are not
perfect. We get on stage. We sweat. We’re overweight. We yell. We
get ugly, we scream! My hair comes loose. We’re
vulnerable––naked––in front of people, and it’s a chain
reaction. It allows them to be vulnerable,
too.”The War and Treaty’s music and stories bring tears and
goosebumps, but ultimately, more is at work. “I want people to feel
like we care,” Michael says. “When you think about artists, you
don’t think about that.” He pauses and grins broadly. “But
that’s the way I want the world to feel about
The War and Treaty.”
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