10 String Symphony, released in 2016 on the duo's own imprint, is the debut album by 10 String Symphony, the Nashville two-fiddle project of Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer. The pair built the group around a then-novel pairing of two five-string fiddles tuned an octave apart — hence the name — with both singers trading lead. The set blends Appalachian-leaning originals like Baiman's "Recession Birthday" with literary outliers such as a setting of Sylvia Plath's "Mad Girl's Love Song," all carried on twin fiddles and close harmony. Baiman and Sedelmyer were both working Nashville sidemen at the time — Sedelmyer with Jerry Douglas — and the record marked their first sustained statement as bandleaders. The aesthetic is spare, vocal-forward, and unaccompanied beyond the two fiddles.
Tracklist
- 1 Prettiest Girl Source Recording 2:58
- 2 I'll Be Here in the Morning 4:34
- 3 I Lost My Love / Recession Birthday / Kilmartin Glen Campsite 3:30
- 4 Peggy-O alt version 3:17
- 5 Deacon Waltz 3:10
- 6 Mad Girl's Love Song 3:26
- 7 Rocky Pallet 2:12
- 8 New Paint 3:02
