Adapting the name White Pines from a similarly titled 1900s Northern Michigan copper mine, the band moved from solo recording into full-fledged live solo performance. Scott sometimes augmented the band with a rhythm section for tours, but also continued to perform on his own on occasion. The project grew over the series of several recorded releases. The first of these was 2009's folky A Face Made of Wood, followed by 2010's full-length The Falls, which saw Scott diving deeper into more experimental tendencies and some of the loop-based songwriting that was characterizing the White Pines live experience at that time. In 2010 Scott packed up once again and moved to Akron, Ohio, where he lived between tours. The more tumultuous Plume of Ash EP, a five-song trek into an eerie folk wilderness with hidden echoey electronic murmurs throughout, was released in 2012. ~ Fred Thomas