Hudson Records Listening Club – Hannah Read – Way Out I’ll Wander
On Sunday 14th June – 4.30pm (BST) UK, 10.30am (CDT) Nashville, 11.30am (EDT) New York
This week’s listening club has changed times to accommodate some of Hannah’s band Jefferson Hamer, Jeff Picker & Charlie Van Kirk who all live in the US. For regular UK listening club listeners that will mean you’ll need to prepare your Gin and Tonics for 4.30pm whilst US listeners may wish to stick to Tea and Coffee for the club in the morning depending on where you live!
‘Way Out I’ll Wander’ (reviewed here), by Hannah Read, was produced in New Hampshire and upstate New York by Charlie Van Kirk and features a cast of musicians including Jefferson Hamer (Anais Mitchell), Jeff Picker and Sarah Jarosz.
The recordings pair Hannah’s formidable songwriting with intimate arrangements, reflecting her background in traditional Scottish and English folk while also calling to mind the ice-cool delivery of Mary Lorson or Nina Nastasia. The songs set characters in a finely-drawn geography of wooded slopes and crisp, clean air – city lights flickering on the horizon – to explore time and place from Hannah’s migrant perspective.
Hannah spent her youth playing fiddle and singing in the rich traditional music scenes of Edinburgh and on the Isle of Eigg, a remote Island off the west coast of Scotland. With musical training at The City of Edinburgh Music School, The American School of Modern Music in Paris and the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Hannah gathered the musical tools, vocabulary and experience that propelled her into the thriving Brooklyn music scene. In 2017 as part of the Songs of Separation project, Hannah won the BBC Folk Award for Best Album.
Join us to listen to ’Way Out I’ll Wander’ in its entirety on Sunday morning with commentary and insights from Hannah and some her amazing band and producer including Jeff Picker, Jefferson Hamer and Charlie Van Kirk. Join the guys online to chat and discuss the album throughout the listening club, say hello in the comments area. You can watch the live stream on Hudson Records and Folk Radio’s Facebook pages or Hudson Records YouTube, subscribe, like and follow to receive a notification just before the broadcast.
Hudson Records Listening Club – Hannah Read – Way Out I’ll Wander
Sunday 14th June – 4.30pm (BST) UK, 10.30am (CDT) Nashville, 11.30am (EDT) New York
Streaming Links:
Hudson Records YouTube Channel | Hudson Records Facebook
You can see the previous Listening Clubs from Sam Sweeney, Salt House, Rowan Rheingans, The Lost Words Spells Songs, Karine Polwart, Martin Simpson, The Furrow Collective, Neil McSweeney, Sam Carter, Northern Flyway & Jon Boden here – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPaOuwxBK4LSEa2SmBp4S2GEkhyqSFUTi