Kevin Bronson on January 28th, 2014

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A big part of the allure of Tall Tales & the Silver Lining is that the L.A. ensemble doesn’t try reinvent folk music, or play dress-up so you know what they’re all about. There’s a sweetness and purity to what songwriter Trevor Beld-Jimenez and his gang of (as many as) nine bring to the table on their new EP, “Besides,” which is out today. On the new release and on their 2012 self-titled full-length, the Ventura-bred band sorts through the foibles of love, friendship and disconnectedness while conjuring up a great lineage of California folkies and, in their harder moments, vintage rock ’n’ rollers. People come and go in your life, and as long as you can sort out the keepers, Beld-Jimenez reasons, “It Don’t Worry Me.”

||| Stream: “It Don’t Worry Me”

||| Also: Stream all of “Besides” here.

||| Live: Tall Tales & the Silver Lining wind up their January residency tonight at Los Globos.

Photo of Tall Tales from this month’s FOMO festival by Carl Pocket