Watchhouse, Punch Brothers & Sarah Jarosz, Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies, live at Mountain Winery

Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange), Punch Brothers, and Sarah Jarosz play a cover of the traditional song "Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies" live in concert at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California on August 5, 2022. Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies is a traditional gospel tune attributed to songwriter William Golden. It is now a popular bluegrass standard covered by many over the years, including Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Stanley Brothers, Kitty Wells, Sierra Hull, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice.
Watchhouse is a folk duo from Chapel Hill, North Carolina consisting of Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin. Punch Brothers are a Grammy Award winning progressive bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (lead vocals, mandolin), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Paul Kowert (bass). Sarah Jarosz is a Grammy winning singer-songwriter from Wimberley, Texas. Joining them onstage were Clint Mullican (bass), Josh Oliver (guitar), and Nathaniel Smith (cello).
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Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies lyrics:
To Canaan's land, I'm on my way
Where the soul of man never dies
My darkest night will turn to day
Where the soul of man never dies
Dear friends there'll be no sad farewells
There'll be no tear dimmed eyes
Where all is peace and joy and love
And the soul of man never dies
The rose is blooming there for me
Where the soul of man never dies
And I will spend eternity
Where the soul of man never dies
Dear friends there'll be no sad farewells
There'll be no tear dimmed eyes
Where all is peace and joy and love
And the soul of man never dies
The love light beams across the foam
Where the soul of man never dies
It shines and lights the way to home
Where the soul of man never dies
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American Acoustic live tour dates (2022):
July 27 - Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
July 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre
July 31 - Portland, OR @ Pioneer Courthouse Square
Aug. 1 - Seattle, WA @ Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre
Aug. 3 - Jacksonville, OR @ Britt Festival Fairgrounds
Aug. 5 - Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery
Aug. 6 - Rohnert Park, CA @ Green Music Center
Aug. 7 - Los Angeles, CA @ Ford Amphitheatre
Aug. 17 - Northampton, MA @ Pines Theater
Aug. 18 - New Haven, CT@ Westville Music Bowl
Aug. 19 - Upper Salford Township, PA @ Philadelphia Folk Festival
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Watchhouse official bio:
By the time 2019 came to its fitful end, Andrew Marlin knew he was tired of touring. He was grateful, of course, for the ascendancy of Mandolin Orange, the duo he’d cofounded in North Carolina with fiddler Emily Frantz a decade earlier. With time, they had become new flagbearers of the contemporary folk world, sweetly singing soft songs about the hardest parts of our lives, both as people and as a people. Their rise-particularly crowds that grew first to fill small dives, then the Ryman, then amphitheaters the size of Red Rocks-humbled Emily and Andrew, who became parents to Ruby late in 2018. They’d made a life of this.
Still, every night, Andrew especially was paid to relive a lifetime of grievances and griefs onstage. After 2019’s Tides of a Teardrop, a tender accounting of his mother’s early death, the process became evermore arduous, even exhausting. What’s more, those tunes-and the band’s entire catalog, really-conflicted with the name Mandolin Orange, an early-20s holdover that never quite comported with the music they made. Nightly soundchecks, at least, provided temporary relief, as the band worked through a batch of guarded but hopeful songs written just after Ruby’s birth.
Those tunes are now Watchhouse, which would have been Mandolin Orange’s sixth album but is instead their first also under the name Watchhouse, a moniker inspired by Marlin’s place of childhood solace. The name, like the new record itself, represents their reinvention as a band at the regenerative edges of subtly experimental folk-rock.
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Punch Brothers official bio:
Punch Brothers are mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their accolades include a Grammy for best folk album for their 2018 release All Ashore.
Punch Brothers formed in 2006. Its first Nonesuch record, Punch, combined elements of the band’s many musical interests. In 2009, they began a residency at NYC’s intimate Lower East Side club The Living Room, trying out new songs and ultimately spawning Antifogmatic (2010). In 2012, the band released Who’s Feeling Young Now?, which Q praised for its ‘astonishing, envelope-pushing vision’, while Rolling Stone said, “The acoustic framework dazzles-wild virtuosity used for more than just virtuosity.” Their 2015 album, the T Bone Burnett-produced, The Phosphorescent Blues, addresses with straight-up poignancy and subversive humor, the power and the pitfalls of our super-connected world.

[@Jestak]

Fabulous cover, full of energy and love of the music.