Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Kora Feder, “In a Young Person’s Body”
Some Kind of Truth is the second album from California-born songwriter Kora Feder, featuring “In a Young Person’s Body.” Of the track, she shares “John Prine died April 7, 2020, and that’s when I started writing this song. I was in lockdown in my small apartment in Philadelphia, feeling like I was aging a decade a minute.”
Morgan Toney, “Pjila’si Piskwa”
Based in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Mi’kmaq fiddler Morgan Toney who offers a fusion of Celtic fiddle with Mi’kmaq songs and traditions. “Pjila’si, Piskwa” are two Mi’kmaq words. “Pjila’si” (jill-ah-see) translates to “Welcome”, and “Piskwa” (bis-kwa) translates to “come in.”
Out today, Do It Myself is the new album from Brooklyn-based, West Virginia-born Olivia Ellen Lloyd. Of the song “You” she shares “I wrote this song in a School of Song workshop led by Courtney Marie Andrews, and I feel really indebted to her for the great songwriting advice and prompts she dispensed during that course,” explains Olivia Ellen Lloyd. “Mike Robinson and I finished it together in the studio and I think it is one of the best songs I’ve ever written.”
We’re All Gonna Live (out 4/18) is the debut solo album from Wood & Wire frontman Tony Kamel. He says, “Simply put, I was reflecting on adjusting to parenthood, both as a musician and in general,” he says earnestly of the song’s genesis. “It’s a lot of finagling and, kind of, barely figuring things out.”
