Cinder Well

Watch the recent Tiny Desk Concert by Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well – “This is folk music with a widescreen vision and a gothic flourish.” Read our interview and don’t miss her tour of Ireland this month.

Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well (our current Artist of the Month), has shared a live video for Overgrown which features on her new album ‘Cadence’. The session was captured at last year’s Quiet Lights Festival in Cork, Ireland by the magic eye of Myles O’Reilly.

Amelia Baker, the singer, musician and writer behind Cinder Well, is disarmingly honest. But behind that honesty lies an intriguing depth and complexity. We chat with her about her new album ‘Cadence’; her Southern California roots and living in Ireland; and her influences and tastes, from Joni Mitchell to Lankum and Haruki Murakami.

Cinder Well’s ‘Cadence’ is something of a journey. Meandering, non-linear, but full of care and wisdom, it is an astonishingly powerful piece of work that seems to have been conceived in uncertainty but realised with the supreme assurance of one of the most consummate songwriters around.

“A Scorched Lament” is the new single from Cinder Well which features a brand-new and haunting music video shot by Irish videographer Ruth Clinton of the band Landless. It’s also our Song of the Day.

Cinder Well announces her forthcoming new album ‘Cadence’ which features a number of contributions, including strings from Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum. Watch her video for the first single ‘Two Heads, Grey Mare’, also our Song of the Day.

Our EP of the Week is a joint collaboration between Cinder Well and Jim Ghedi who are also on tour together through March 2022. The songs are both haunting and emotionally stirring at the same time…”it’s as if the song chose them”.

Jim Ghedi announces a full-band tour for March and April 2022, during which he will be joined by Cinder Well. It’s a tour you don’t want to miss and it’s certainly not one you’ll forget.

Watch Cinder Well performing ‘From Behind the Curtain’ live at Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield, a beautiful collaboration with filmmaker Jordan Carroll which captures the magic of place and song perfectly.

Dark and yet cleansing, while the skies that Cinder well sings of may be overcast, there is a light that shines through this album that warms the chill in the soul.

Listen to Cinder Well’s ‘Wandering Boy’, a song she first heard sung by Kentucky singer, banjo player, and guitarist Roscoe Holcomb…the new high lonesome for a modern era.

Cinder Well, the brainchild of singer and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, returns on July 24th with ‘No Summer’ – throughout, her remarkable voice cuts to the bone like some ghostly ballad singer bound to sing these words from here to eternity.