Anomoanon

Belonging to the melodiously gifted Oldham family, Ned Oldham completes the trio alongside brothers Will Oldham and Paul Oldham. He launched the Anomoanon in 1997, a project that maintains the family pattern of featuring a rotating roster of supporting musicians. While Will Oldham favors somber, confessional folk rock, Ned Oldham’s band centers on southern rock and country foundations. Its guitar-driven energy channels Neil Young’s southern rock approach and suits Ned’s own twangy, outgoing vocal style. The Anomoanon first appeared in 1998 with Mother Goose, a full-length country-rock treatment of the classic Mother Goose fairy tales that leaned too somber for children. Later that year the group released the seven-song EP The Summer Never Ends, both titles issued on the family label Palace Records. In 1999 they returned with Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, again following the children’s-poetry format of their debut album. Departing from that theme, the band delivered its self-titled album in early 2001.