Maya de Vitry's “Go Tell a Bird” does everything a folk song is supposed to do—and does it exceptionally well. It is both simple and complex, digestible and impossible, distilling some of the most seemingly complicated, urgent and timeless human debates down to 35 words in fewer than four minutes. Its instrumentation is collaborative and swelling, like the cooperation between a pair of wings and a good hard gust.
Hear "The Fox," the first single from Peter Mulvey's upcoming album, There Is Another World, due out on February 15th on Righteous Babe Records.
“Fenceline” focuses on the impulse humans have had across generations and societies, to build walls in an effort to keep unwanted people out. Tivel found herself wondering: What is at the core of this need to construct barriers between ourselves and others?
Twisted Pine's Rachel Sumner shares her lead single, "Bred In the Bone," from her upcoming solo EP, Anything Worth Doing.
Throughout their eponymous debut, Hush Kids weave a gorgeous melodic web with varying threads of toughness and texture. On the sparsely populated “Goodbye Rain,” they apply their delicately dulcet tones with a light touch that recalls one of 2017's most magical and memorable tracks, “Forces of Decay” by Rogue + Jaye. It's like the spoonful of musical sugar that helps the medicine of heartache go down.
Another master of musical melancholy is, undeniably, Lucy Wainwright Roche. On her new album, Little Beast, she churns out lyrical impossibilities time and again, each conveying so much with so little.
Hear "Giving Up" by the Edinburgh, Scotland duo, The Jellyman's Daughter, from their new album, Dead Reckoning.
Listen to the premiere of “Leaf by Niggle," by Mile Twelve mandolinist David Benedict - the first single from his upcoming solo release, The Golden Angle, due on October 26th.
Listen to the premiere of "Fields of Brooklyn," the gorgeous instrumental medley from Kittel & Co.'s upcoming release, Whorls, out June 29th on Compass Records.
Listen to the premiere of "Long Chain Charlie and Moundsville" from The Slocan Ramblers upcoming release, Queen City Jubilee.
