Down On Copperline: In Conversation With Mountain Man
There’s always been an element of kismet to Mountain Man, the vocal trio of Molly Sarlé, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath. They first met while college students at Bennington in Vermont, when Meath overheard Sarlé singing, learned one of her songs and decided that her other friend Sauser-Monnig should team up with them.
From the start, the three women’s voices fit together perfectly, in a lovely blend on spare, often unadorned folk songs, evoking the feeling of singing around a campfire. In addition to performing as Mountain Man, they backed up acts including Feist and Decemberists. After a stretch of years when they were scattered across the country, they reconvened in the Triangle, where Meath had moved to form the Grammy-winning electronic duo Sylvan Esso with Nick Sanborn.