Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside play Sunday, March 3, at the Sunset Tavern. LIZ DEVINE
Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside had a pretty good run. In the span of just a few years—from the late 2000s to the early 2010s—the band generated a bunch of buzz in Portland and beyond, toured big venues with the Avett Brothers (who were also big fans), signed a record deal with a respected indie label, and played Late Show with David Letterman. It was fun. It was also exhausting.
“I think everyone was pretty tired of being on the road. I was pretty tired of it, to be honest,” says Ford. “It’s hard. It’s really hard. You have these hopes of how it’s going to be. You spend all this money and use all this gas to go and play for like 10 people or something. It’s so hard.”