The White Pines

When Michigan singer/songwriter Joseph Scott's main band, Canada, went into an extended (eventually permanent) hiatus at the beginning of 2009, Scott relocated from Michigan to Brooklyn and began working on solo recordings in a makeshift home studio. Adapting the name White Pines from a similarly titled 1900s Northern Michigan copper mine, the band moved from solo recording into full-fledged live solo performance. Scott sometimes augmented the band with a rhythm section for tours, but also continued to perform on his own on occasion. The project grew over the series of several...