Escondido w/Austin Manuel and The Almanacks

Escondido is Nashville, TN based artists Jessica Maros and Tyler James. Recorded live in a single day, their 10-song debut album was released Feb 26, 2013. The pair met while James was recording their mutual friend at his home studio.  

Escondido’s songs range from the Tom Petty/Fleetwood Mac influenced pop numbers Cold October and Bad Without You, to the lovelorn country ballads Special Enough and Willow Tree.  “The record was an outlet for me,” says Maros. “Each song brings back where I was, what I drank when I was writing them.  It was a dark time and this album got me through it.”  The band’s heavy sentiment is balanced out by the playful twang of songs like Don’t Love Me Too Much and the Keep Walkin’.  “Music helps us forget the very conflict it grows out of,” says James. “But my favorite songs embrace that dissonance.”