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Steve Black (left) and Dave Meredith ankle-deep in the Brandywine.
‘Brandywine’ Meets Norway
Black Moss Meredith’s thoroughly modern
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that life can never be completely understood or predicted. “The central message is that this is a group of older gentlemen who realize where they are in life and are all facing a great unknown,” Meredith says. “We’re wiser than we were 20 year ago. We’ve been through divorce, through heartaches and experiences. This is about the virtual handprints we leave on the wall.”
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Steve Black and Dave Meredith. over 60. It’s also a response to COVID-19
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in front of an audience. “I love playing with those guys,” Moss admits.
Then he thinks about listeners in Norway.
Throughout 2022, the three musicians who comprise Black Moss Meredith
have created music in a very 21st-century manner. Instead of convening in a studio and working with an engineer to assemble an album, they trade files back and forth via computer, working on lyrics during Zoom meetings and distributing tracks through streaming services. Not that they had
much of a choice, with Meredith living in Wilmington, Black in Chester County and Moss on a farm in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
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