Biography

Channeling Gram Parsons through a wall of Elephant 6 sound, San Francisco’s Beulah created pure, heartfelt pop, jangly folk tales with a singing cowboy lilt. Miles Kurofsky and Bill Swan met in a corporate mailroom in 1994; talk led to shared musical inspirations and ambitions and a collaboration, the result of which attracted Apples in Stereo’s like-minded Robert Schneider who oversaw HANDSOME WESTERN STATES. The duo grew to a loosely structured band with a layered sound built on fulsome indie rock rich with piano flourishes and wandering horns. However, with 2003’s YOKO, fueled by a flurry of sad separations, Beulah returned to simplicity on a record recorded in one day in one room with few overdubs, emerging with their most exquisite record. And then they were done.

Top Tracks

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• A Good Man Is Easy To Kill

• Calm Go The Wild Seas

• Disco: The Secretaries Blues

• Emma Blowgun's Last Stand

• I Love John, She Loves Paul

• I'll Be Your Lampshade

• Landslide Baby

• Me And Jesus Don't Talk Anymore

• Popular Mechanics For Lovers

• Queen Of The Populists

• Silver Lining

• Sunday Under Glass

• Your Mother Loves You Son

Discography

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• Yoko

  Velocette Records

  2003

• The Coast Is Never Clear

  Velocette Records

  2001

• When Your Heartstrings Break

  Sugar Free

  1999

• Handsome Western States

  Cargo

  1997