In our review of Sarah Jane Scouten‘s 2017 album When The Bloom Falls From The Rose, Mike Davies opened “Sarah Jane Scouten is another sterling example of the top-grade Americana coming out of Canada. Steeped in old time country and Canadian folk-roots…blessed with a voice that can do both pure and sweet and raw and gritty…”
That top-grade talent managed to earn her yet another nomination in the Canadian Folk Music Award’s and there seems no let-up in her drive to deliver with her new album Confessions on the horizon (recorded in Toronto with veteran producer Andre Wahl). Those who have been eager to hear the new album will not be disappointed. Take a listen to her powerful new single ‘Ballad Of A Southern Midwife’, originally written for her first album 10 years ago.
Scouten called the single one of the most relevant songs she has written adding “It was written before #metoo, before Gian Ghomeshi, before repeals of abortion laws in the southern United States, including Alabama who made abortion categorically illegal in 2019, including cases of incest and rape. This song is about the overlap of religious intolerance and sexual oppression and a woman’s fight to live on her own terms, regardless of the consequences.”
https://soundcloud.com/light-organ/sarah-jane-scouten-ballad-of-a-southern-midwife/
Ballad Of A Southern Midwife is out today and can also be heard on Folk Radio UK’s ‘Regular Folk’ Spotify Playlist here.
Confessions is due for release later this year in November.
https://www.sarahjanescouten.com/