Trousdale band from left are Georgia Greene, Quinn D’Andrea and Lauren Jones. Caity Krone photo

By now, most regular readers of On Music are well aware of my love of vocal harmony — the touchstone of what got me involved with music journalism in the first place. So when I hear about groups that are centered on good harmonies I make it a point to bring said artists to your attention.

CONCERT INFO

TROUSDALE
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
DATE: Saturday, Aug. 10
VENUE: Thompson’s Point
ADDRESS: 207 Thompsons Point, Portland
TICKETS: $65, $20 13 and younger
PHONE: 207-956-6000
WEBSITE: trousdalemusic.com

Such is the case with a trio of young women from Los Angeles who go by the name Trousdale (say trews-dale): Quinn D’Andrea, Georgia Greene and Lauren Jones. When I interviewed Cory Wong in February of last year, I saw three girls singing beautifully in one of his videos and went in search of who they might be. Long story short, I discovered Trousdale. Then I heard just few months ago that they were coming to Thompson’s Point on Saturday, Aug. 10, I requested a phone interview with a member of that group and on the 15th of July I called Lauren Jones in Los Angeles where they are based.

The conversation began with how Cory Wong was responsible for this current chat.
A: Yeah, we love Cory!

Q: Well, I love vocal harmonies so when I started digging into the wealth of videos you ladies have on YouTube I knew that I had to chat with one of you to see if you ever came to Maine, and here you are coming to Thompson’s Point as part of the Guster on the Ocean tour.
A: Well, I’m happy to be here and I totally feel you. I’m a big fan of the harmony, as well (chuckle).

Q: It’s something to have such harmonies as you three can generate and not be siblings. Sibling harmony is probably the purest form of it. But, by the same token, you sound so in sync that it’s nothing short of amazing.
A: Oh, thank you so much! Yeah, it’s really interesting, we get that comparison to family-blood harmony a lot. Yeah, I guess all of our speaking voices are somewhat similar. We have been singing together from like 10 years so I feel like that amount of time singing together we’ve all slowly started to sing more and more like each other which has been such an interesting process. I love singing with those guys, we are communicating in a way, it’s like a conversation almost.

Q: And discovering that you three have been doing this for a decade definitely explains the tightness and the cohesion that I hear in your music. Now, you’re an opening act on the 10th, do you do a lot of headlining gigs?
A: Yeah, we played about a week’s worth of headlining shows down the East Coast and into the mid-West with the last show a couple of weeks ago in Chicago.

Q: How about other tours you’ve been a part of — like this Guster tour?
A: Let’s see, we’ve been out about four or five times in the last year and a half on different tours and it’s been really fun to see the growth every time we come back to a city. We see new fans, new faces, and there’s more energy every time, so it’s really been such a privilege and a cool thing to see, to be connecting with people through the music is really amazing. But I don’t think we’ll be back on the road again until probably spring of next year because right now we’re focusing on making some new music.

Q: Oh, that’s really good news! Now when you perform at Thompson’s Point will it be with your backing musicians or just the three of you?
A: We will be a full band at Guster, we always like to play a full band when we do festivals because there’s usually a bigger space and it can really fill out the sound a little bit better.

Q: Understandable, but you can pull it off either way. Tthe live performances I’ve seen with just the three of you are great but it does add a little more texture and energy with the full band. Both ways your vocals are front-and-center, as it should be.
A: Thank you. It’s really fun to play trio, as well. We primarily played trio shows for a long time, until a couple of years ago, and honestly we don’t play trio really as much anymore, but it’s fun to be able to do both the live band and trio shows.

Q: When do you think you’ll be recording your new album? Will that be between now and in the spring like you mentioned earlier?
A: Yes, but we have actually already started, we’ve been working on a couple of songs with a really dear friend and co-producer, John Mark Nelson. We actually worked with him on a few songs on our first album, it’s been really fun to be back in the studio with him. We’ve been working on a batch of songs and then we’ll probably be going back in and writing a little bit more and recording the next batch in the next couple of months.

Q: Is there anything you’d like to pass on to the folks reading this article?
A: Umm, I guess that we have a deluxe version of our album, Out Of My Mind, that just came out which has a bunch of live tracks from shows based here in L.A. as well as a couple of songs that feature BAILEN on “Movie Star” and Ben Abraham on “Sometimes,” truly amazing artists that we got the chance to work with. And that we’re looking forward to that show at Thompson’s Point with so many other incredible artists.

Lucky Clark, a 2018 “Keeping the Blues Alive” Award winner, has spent more than 50 years writing about good music and the people who make it. He can be reached at luckyc@myfairpoint.net if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.