Wired Artist Agency - David Jacobs-Strain

Hotels and Highways

photo by Eddy Vallante

After retreating to a cabin on a lake in New York in the fall of 2010 with the modest intention of writing songs together for 10 days, the trio unexpectedly produced "Lost River," a full-length album that evokes Fleetwood Mac, Fleet Foxes and Ryan Adams, and has been called a "gleeful blend of country, pop, and rock and roll…that sounds more like the product of a group that had been together for years rather than a mere week and a half," (Dan Bolles, Seven Days VT). Released in March 2011, that album garnered enough support from their fans to fund a 13,000-mile 7-week national tour and enough industry attention to land them a slot at the 2011 ASCAP South by Southwest Showcase alongside Grammy-winner Dan Wilson and fast-rising duo The Civil Wars.

Now, just months after the band's inception, "Lost River" is a 2011 Amazon.com Editor's Pick and is holding a steady spot on the Roots Radio charts. Ever true to their name, Hotels & Highways will hit the road again in the summer and fall, sharing their cabin-grown music with an ever-growing audience.

...stunners like 'Night Song' feature a number of relaxing, otherworldly sounds and vocals that will make you think you're listening to a performance by angels beneath a starry sky in the middle of Wyoming.
— Brian Palmer, Stereo Subversion

'Lost River' is a right old shin-dig of an album...[it] could easily be a favourite soundtrack a thousand summer road trips. The trio has captured whimsical folk in a glass bottle of dreams.
— Simon Smith, Higher Plain Music

Its so so so good. Polished but not pretentious. It sounds like the road if that makes sense. The album has a nice flow to it---highs and lows and just plain good. Really digging Soul.
— Chrystal Heinz, music supervisor for PBS' Roadtrip Nation