Sam Amidon shares his new single/video ‘I’m On My Journey Home’ and announces his forthcoming album ‘Salt River’, on which he continues his decades-long quest to recontextualise what it means to sing folk songs or make folk music.
Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions announce their new album Cold Blows the Rain, on which her vocals take centre stage as she sings traditional folk songs that she’s known all her life. Watch the accompanying 1940s archival footage video for ‘Lovely on the Water’.
Listen to our latest Mixtape featuring Karl Blau, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Tucker Zimmerman, AJ Woods, Johnny Coley, Devarrow, Anna McClellan, Scott Ballew, Joan Shelly, The Fynches, Yasmin Williams, Annarella & Django, Universal Light, Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker and more.
For her third album, Yasmin Williams hits the collaboration button and pulls in guests on eight of the nine songs–Acadia is a gift of a recording, a rural album of gorgeous tunes with smooth edges that seem only to wish you well.
On Jouer, Annarella and Django weave a dreamlike musical tapestry that pays homage to the griot tradition, encompassing West African melodies, spiritual jazz, Swedish folk tunes and spoken word…a genuinely inventive debut.
A collection of masterfully reworked versions, ‘The Shackleton Trio’ is a nostalgic blast from the past for longtime fans and a perfect, pocket-sized introduction for those yet to experience the pure magic of their storytelling.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces his new studio album ‘The Purple Bird’, made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians. Watch the video for their lead single ‘Our Home’, featuring Tim O’Brien.
Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz’s ‘Wall Dogs’ is an unfussy, downhome album with its roots deep in the musicians’ personal and musical heritages, played with unshowy skills and warmed by the fire of human connections, longings and lives lived.
Jeremie Albino’s Our Time In The Sun, his first for Dan Auerbach’s label Easy Eye Sound, is the stuff of jukebox diners, a singalong soundtrack to nights of pain and passion…it’s also huge on melodic pleasantries.
The Unthanks have announced a new double album, The Unthanks in Winter, due for release on November 29th. Listen to their lead single, Dear Companions, released today.
This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Tucker Zimmerman, Joshua Idehen, Snowgoose, Karl Blau, Samantha Crain, Agalisiga, Adrian Sherwood and Lee “Scratch” Perry, Joan Shelley, Clara Mann, Alabaster DePlume and more.
Karl Blau’s Vultures of Love is an album that deserves to be listened to all the way through: when taken together, the hectic elements that make up each individual song coalesce into something whole (and strangely wholesome), and that’s a beautiful thing to experience.
