Eastern Mountain Time is a kinda-country band based out of Burlington, VT. The group, led by singer and songwriter Sean Hood (he/him), has released five full-length albums as well as a number of EPs and singles since their inception in 2013. Their most recent album, More Buses & Trains, was self-released digitally and on cassette on April 7, 2023.
From the roaring Waking Windows festival in Winooski, Vermont to a hushed art gallery on the secluded island of Monhegan, Maine, Eastern Mountain Time has toured the greater New England region extensively over these last ten years. Sometimes performing as a singer-songwriter in the tradition of American folk music circa-1960 and sometimes fronting a rowdy five-piece rock band, Hood re-imagines his original compositions in real time on a show-by-show basis. You just have to be there.
"Hood writes humble, honest tunes that offer a modern take on the Bakersfield sound while still honoring the genre, a combination that is Eastern Mountain Time's true strength. As ever, his style is far more Gram Parsons than Waylon Jennings — sensitive, wry and distinctly psychedelic around the edges. The refinement of that high, lonesome tone makes [More Buses & Trains] the band's most cohesive project yet."
-Justin Boland, Seven Days
https://www.easternmountaintime.com/