Maple Street by Henry Grant

As a young person, Henry regularly traveled from his NYC home to visit his grandmother in a small town in Western New York. It was during these familial trips that he would spend time with family friend and "Maple Street" collaborator Fred Kentner. Henry knew Fred as many things—carpenter, EMS tech, his father’s schoolmate, conscientious objector—but when they would play music together at Henry’s grandmother’s house, Fred became something else: a mystical, expressive, and inspired lead guitarist.

On "Maple Street", Henry explores a lifetime of family and friendships through themes of love and kinship, addiction, recovery, and loss, while fusing a cut-and-paste collage of roots acoustic sound in a post-psychedelic alchemy that is at once old and new, pop and experimental, clear-eyed and hazy. Recorded at Electric Wilburland Studio—a converted church near Ithaca, NY—and rooted in the mystical Americana of Western New York, Maple Street is infused with decades of musical connection, friendship and joy, reminding us to ignite the everyday into transcendence when we play music with someone we love.

Singer-songwriter from New York City