Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Dolly Parton, “Smoky Mountain DNA”
Dolly Parton’s latest, a bluegrass record, comes out on November 15. The title track, “Smoky Mountain DNA,” is a rousing celebration of the power of family, faith, and fables — written deep in generations of one family’s DNA and done here in a bluegrass arrangement. Bluegrass music and Dolly have a long connection.
Edie Carey & Sarah Sample, “I’m Here”
Today marks the release of Edie Carey & Sarah Sample’s second collaborative album — Lantern In The Dark: Lullabies and Songs of Comfort. They share: “‘I’m Here’ was written by our incredibly talented longtime friends Kathrin Shorr (Sweet Talk Radio) and Kyler England. It’s the first song on the new record and it embodies the inherent message in all the songs we chose: ‘I’m always here if you need me, and you’re not alone.'”
Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham, “Crystal”
Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham’s top-to-bottom cover album of the 1973 cult classic, Buckingham Nicks, is out today. Cunningham shares: “Ever since knowing and playing with Andrew, I’ve wanted to join forces with him independently of our own projects. He’s one of my favorite artists alive and one of the deepest musical collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to have. This buried Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham record found us in a place where we were trying to figure out what we could do together. Unfamiliar with it, but excited by its scarcity on streaming platforms, we decided to take it on from front to back, in our own way.”
Liv Greene, “Made it Mine Too”
Deep Feeler, Liv Greene’s second album, is release today featuring “Made it Mine Too.” Just 24 years old at the time, Greene produced Deep Feeler herself, in collaboration with engineer Matt Andrews (Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, O Brother, Where Art Thou?). Greene took her time. “There were lots of points in the process where it could have been done,” she says. “The vision for it changed shape a bunch of times, but the commitment to trying to get the songs right––the production of each individual song––was always at the center, alongside keeping the guitar and voice as the record’s heartbeat.”
