DATE: FEBRUARY 12, 2026

FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER / ANDREA FAULK, SRO PR

SOUNDING ARROW—
THE SOLO PROJECT OF SCOTT KINNEBREW (TRUTH AND SALVAGE CO)—
SHARE THE FREEWHEELING “LUCKY SHAMAN” VIDEO
FROM THEIR UPCOMING ALBUM ‘SKYMAN’
OUT APRIL 10 ON BLACKBIRD RECORD LABEL/INDIE AM GOLD

WATCH THE ANIMATED “LUCKY SHAMAN” VIDEO HERE
AND PRE-SAVE THE SINGLE,
OUT THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, HERE

SOUNDING ARROW—the indie solo project of veteran recording artist and touring musician Scott Kinnebrew (Truth and Salvage Co)—continue to light up the world with music that’s fresh, positive, and mind-opening. Today (February 12), they share “Lucky Shaman.” It’s the latest single/video from the singer, songwriter and guitarist’s second album SKYMAN, out April 10 via Blackbird Record Label/Indie AM Gold.

The track’s freewheeling musical brew comprising indie, blues, psychedelia, garage rock, and even ‘60s AM pop is matched with lyrics inspired by the time that Kinnebrew lived for four months in the Ecuadorian Amazon and his experience at a plant medicine ceremony (ayahuasca) there. Watch the colorful animated video HERE and pre-save the single, out this Friday, February 13, HERE.

In the Q&A below with Kinnebrew, he talks about the song’s wide range of influences and the animated video as well as the knowledge he received while living in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

The SKYMAN album was co-produced with Kinnebrew by Gary Jules (“Mad World” from the Donnie Darko soundtrack) and mixed by Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses, The Avett Brothers’ Emotionalism). It weaves a vivid sonic landscape rich with the textures of rock, folk, country, blues, British invasion, R&B, and pop. It’s a brew that resists classification, as it lands somewhere between tradition and invention—what Kinnebrew thinks of as “sonic impressionism.”

SKYMAN follows SOUNDING ARROW 2017 debut album LOVING IS BREATHING. This past September (2025), SKYMAN’s warm and radiant title track—both heady and light as a feather, a perfect tonic for these times—was unveiled as the first single/video. Watch the video—directed by Doug Frerichs and filmed in Kinnebrew’s adopted hometown of Asheville, North Carolina—HERE.

“Skyman” was followed last month (January) by the uplifting “Zero Gravity” single. The video was also directed by Doug Frerichs and filmed around various Southern California locations including the San Fernando Valley, 6thand Broadway in DTLA, Frogtown, and Calabasas. It ends with scenes of Kinnebrew up in space floating above civilization below and illuminating the song’s lyrics about escaping from an increasingly heavy world. Listen to the track HERE and watch the video HERE. Read the press release HERE.

Q&A With SOUNDING ARROW
About “Lucky Shaman”

“Lucky Shaman” is impressively wide-ranging and upbeat with elements of indie, psychedelia, garage rock, bluesy jam vibes, and even ‘60s AM pop. Quite a brew! Can you talk about what inspired the song, the recording of it, and the mood you wanted to evoke?

Believe it or not this is the first “Blues” song I’ve ever written, at least I’ve not written very many, if any. That being said, I love good Blues. Especially Brit Blues, (most), like blues through the filter of The Kinks, or The Faces, The Rolling Stones of course. And I love that their influence came back over the pond to inspire some sweet Velvet Underground jams. Blues does have the precarious tendency to veer towards Blues Daddy, which is to be avoided at all costs. Hence the Blues dilemma, should I or shouldn’t I play the Blues?

Lucky Shaman is a perfect approach to the Blues dilemma. Though feeling upbeat, it’s actually slow AF. It’s easy to count it off too fast, but when it’s right, it’s sooo groovy.

As far as the song coming to me, I guess I had finally digested enough of the classics to be able to write my own Blues jam without it sounding contrived. I guess it was just my moment. I wanted it to definitely nod at all those rad tunes and contain their quirk and swagger—just my own take on it.

Who is the “Lucky Shaman”? Is he going to save the world? 

This can have a couple of answers. If you are talking about the hero in the “Lucky Shaman” video, the little sun head plant buddy, well that little dude is plant wisdom personified. And it’s definitely healing the world.

The original subject of the tune was my friend and mentor Don Cesareo of the Seikopai Peoples of Amazonian Ecuador/Peru. I was fortunate to be able to study abroad my junior year of college.  And after meeting students who invited me to join them on a trip to the jungle, I found myself living with Don Cesareo and his wife Doña Juaquina for almost four months in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This was 1994. Don Cesaereo was old then, in his 70’s, but stronger than an ox. He was a taita (shaman), but you’d never know it because he was always cracking jokes and laughing at the sound of his farts.

I guess a more appropriate title would have been “Silly Shaman” but it really didn’t have the same ring as “lucky.” I went back in 2018 to pay him and his family a visit. He was 102 years old. But he remembered me. The entire time I lived with him my name was Gringo, but I discovered on my return I actually had been given a nickname Ñase Køwu- “Beak Of The Toucan”.

In the early 90’s in the Amazon “Ayahuasca Tourism” was not a thing. In fact, because of Evangelical influence, plant ceremony was discouraged. After much persistence, Cesareo and I did partake in ceremony, but under his wife’s insistence it was a very weak brew.

It wasn’t until decades later when I was truly ready to receive the knowledge, and it was revelational, and harrowing.

In Seikopai belief [Seikopai is a mindset and means ‘cup of success’), there are 9 dimensions. In the 9th dimension, a taita, shaman, teacher, can transcend and heal anyone in the world from right there on the banks of the Aguarico. So yes, they are healing the world!

What led you to create a colorful, animated video? Tell us all about it and the musicians who appear in it with you. 

Some stories are better to tell animated right? Have you seen “Common Side Effects” on Adult Swim? Could you imagine that as a live action? It would never work.

That was my reasoning with the animated video. I knew it would be a huge undertaking, but I knew when I met animator Sophie Caswell that she would crush it. We met at a music video festival in Asheville; we both had videos that were accepted into the event. Her work was stop-motion, fantastical, and super gory. I was like, “I love your work, you would be perfect for this video, but please, NO BLOOD.” I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

The band is my West Coast band, and always down to clown! The keyboardist in the video is the Illustrious Lady Tigra, from Tigra & Bunny fame and their hit “Cars With The Boom” (“we like the cars, the cars that go BOOM!”)

SKYMAN Album Cover Art (download)

Scott Kinnebrew
Photo Credit: Sandlin Gaither

ABOUT SCOTT KINNEBREW:

Over some 30 years, Scott Kinnebrew has shared the stage with a long list of renowned artists he admires, including The Black Crowes, The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, Sturgill Simpson, Dawes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lissie, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Blind Melon, Steve Miller Band, Gov’t Mule, and The Doobie Brothers. His former band, Truth & Salvage Co., released two records on Sony’s Megaforce label, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, toured Iraq to perform for U.S. troops in 2009, turned down a gig with Phil Lesh for reasons unknown, and racked up 250,000 road miles in five years.

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