“A violin-forward folk album about harm, escape, and the quiet courage it takes to walk through the door.”

The Open Door is a seven-song cycle expanded into a cinematic, progressive folk album—part story, part atmosphere, part aftermath.

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“A rare band doing something entirely original.”
— Vincent Harris

Greenville Jounral Review

The instrumentation stays close to the band’s core: violin and voice at the center, bouzouki shaping the harmony, bass grounding the floor, and Maddy Hendrix’s flute adding a new tone to the mix. As the album moves through its scenes—confrontation, memory, aftermath—the arrangements sit closer than ever to how the band sounds in a room together.

The stories behind the songs take different forms:

a confrontation held too long (Cold Blooded),

a smile that cuts both ways (The Hypocrite),

a moment that can’t be shaken (The Crash),

a haunting from the Lowcountry (Julia),

and a three-part look at what money can define affection (A Theodicy… / Income / Outcome).

The album closes with a familiar voice in a different room (Reprise), a loose echo of Saturday Nights that lands like a memory rather than an ending.

For listeners who’ve followed Wasted Wine over the years, The Open Door is both a culmination and a departure — a band stepping through its own open door and never looking back.