Heavy Diamond Ring
Sarah Anderson and Paul DeHaven started writing songs together in 2004. After eleven years in Colorado twee-grass darlings Paper Bird, the pair embarked on something new, their platonic partnership bearing a name as weighty and symbolic as their creative well is deep and enduring: Heavy Diamond Ring. On October 16, 2026, they release Let Love Be Enough via Gitcha Records, a new five song EP that finds one of the state’s longest running creative partnerships restless, inspired, unsentimental about its own history, and still surprising itself.
The EP title comes from a late night around a tequila-fueled campfire after a show, the band talking honestly about their relationships. Everyone has been told that talking it through is how you fix things. That night they landed somewhere less tidy: sometimes talking it through only breeds more to talk about, “until our problems have got problems of their own.” Let Love Be Enough sits with the question is love enough to keep a partnership strong? Sometimes. Not always. The five songs herekeep circling it from different angles, and never quite settle the argument.
Surrounded by volumes of encyclopedias used as sound reinforcement, the EP was recorded across two sessions at The Library in Minneapolis and produced and mixed by Dan Rodriguez. The collection features a duet between Gregory Alan Isakov and Anderson on “TakeWhatever You Need,” plus guest fiddle from Jake Armerding, who joined the band's mid-tour impromptu recording session.Lead single “The One You Use” is the playful, soulful front door into the collection: warm harmonies, rootsy guitar and a loose Americana groove, with lyrical winks at Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and the Rolling Stones. Its argument is a generous one, borrowed in spirit from Bill Withers’ “Use Me.” You are going to need somebody, so "let me be the one you use."
Eight years in, Heavy Diamond Ring has landed on a sound that is intimate and expansive at once: approachable, honest, and slightly unorthodox in its folk rock, pulling equally from Americana, roots and rock. What binds the band together isn’t a formula. It’s a family.“We genuinely love and respect each other,” says Anderson. “That’s what keeps us glued together and still making music after all these years.” That chemistry is the loudest live. A Heavy Diamond Ring set can turn on a dime from heart wrenching intimacy to Anderson’s legendarily unhinged stage banter, and the room comes with it: dynamic, unpredictable, and never quite the same show twice. “We keep getting better with time,” she says. “There’s a lot of history between us, but we’re not stuck in the past. We’re still excited about where the music can go and what we can discover together.”
Rounding out the lineup are Blake Stepan (bass), Orion Tate Ignelzi (drums) and Mike Lang (keys), the band that turns Anderson and DeHaven’s songs into what CS Indy called "open road, long drive music,” with “a little bit of twang, and a whole lot of beef.”
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