Mandolin Orange, writes Ashleigh Phillips of Independent Weekly, crafts "simple songs that go beyond chord progressions and vocal harmonies, leading somehow toward something pure. Using acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and a hand-me-down fiddle, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz allure with a heartworn sensibility." This North Carolina duo has shared stages with Rosanne Cash, Chatham County Line, the Steep Canyon Rangers and Abigail Washburn," and they made a splash at the 2015 Ann Arbor Folk Festival. Mandolin Orange's original songs are drenched in a mastery of classic country, blues, and rock, but they are both personal and contemporary. It takes genius to be simple, and this young duo has that kind of genius. They come to Michigan with a new release, "Blindfaller."