After working together for eight years, slogging around the country in their van, unloading their tuba and accordion and upright bass for scheduled gigs at rock clubs to choruses of: “Are you guys in the right place?”, DeVotchKa’s four classically trained musicians caught a break. Two first-time filmmakers heard one of the underground band’s songs on an LA radio show, and felt like they were hearing the sound of their movie, Little Miss Sunshine. They hired DeVotchKa to score the soundtrack, which was later nominated for a Grammy. How fitting that the little film that won America’s heart was the story of messed-up family full of loveable characters packed into a van.
Here’s the Songlines podcast on their phenomenal new record, A Mad and Faithful Telling.
See DeVotchKa playing “Along the Way” live at SXSW 2008:
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