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Black Prairie is a back-porch string band from Portland, Oregon, made up of three fifths of indie lit-rock group, The Decemberists. (Chris Funk on dobro, Jenny Conlee on accordion and Nate Query on bass - plus violinist/singer Annalisa Tornfelt and guitarist Jon Neufeld). The group came together a few years ago over living room jam sessions - and the result, 2010's Feast of the Hunter's Moon, was a homey, collaborative affair.

The band's follow-up, A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart, (produced by Tucker Martine) is a collection of barnbusters, string-rich instrumentals -- and sweet country-pop tracks, like "Nowhere, Massachusetts."

I asked Annalisa Tornfelt about the song, which sounds like a summation of life on the road -- when your place in the world is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Turns out, that's precisely what she had in mind:

"I was at a gas station, trying to squeeze in a private conversation with my boyfriend on the phone before getting back into the van with the band. (We were both touring at the time). I asked him where he was and he said 'somewhere in nowhere Massachusetts.'"

A Tear In The Eye Is A Wound In The Heart is out on September 18th on Sugar Hill. Watch Black Prairie performing another new album track, "How Do You Ruin Me," below: