Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Amy Papiransky, “Fine Print,” (featuring KT Tunstall)
Scottish singer/songwriter and Glasgow-based Amy Papiransky has found time between gigging and her day job as a high school music teacher to create some truly unique music. The introspective and melodic “Fine Print” (co-written by Boo Hewerdine) shares the intricate details of a relationship, and offers up a stunning vocal duet infused with spine-tingling harmonies.
“Roll On Buddy” written by Eric Bibb, Glen Scott and Chuck Anthony is a groove-laden, funked up ride through the dusty landscape of our collective consciousness asking the universal question “is it time to go?” The song’s featured on the upcoming album In The Real World (out October 18). “There’s a wholeness about In The Real World that deeply moves me,” Bibb reflects. “It feels like Glen Scott and I have reached a milestone on our collaborative journey. Musically, the album feels like a self-portrait because it truly represents my influences.”
Yasmin Williams, “Hummingbird” (featuring Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves)
The latest from Yasmin Williams’ Acadia (out October 4) is “Hummingbird,” featuring Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves. On writing “Hummingbird,” Williams says: “Being thrust into the folk genre has granted me several invitations to play at various folk and bluegrass festivals. This style of music is not one that I grew up with and is still relatively new to me; however, I can’t help but be somewhat influenced by the amazing musicianship of all the bluegrass, folk, and old-time musicians I’ve seen in the last few years. Although this wasn’t on my mind consciously when I wrote this tune, I assume these influences entered my subconscious.”
Lonesome Ace Stringband, “The Log Train”
The newest song from Lonesome Ace Stringband is a cover of a Hank Williams song. “The Log Train” is said to be the last song anyone ever heard Hank sing, and the demo of it was probably one of the last songs he recorded. It’s about his father, Lon, who worked as an engineer at a logging operation in Alabama. It’s a heartfelt story that must have mostly come from Hank’s imagination, as he hardly knew his dad and definitely wasn’t with him at that point in his life.
