Edge Of The World weaves together cinematic soundscapes with folk, pop, rock, and country inflections. Ellis’s signature tenor guitar and mountain dulcimer are the foundation, layered with lush arrangements and haunting melodies. It’s the title song from her new album, Edge of the World.
The title track features a breathtaking guest appearance from Daniel Lanois, legendary producer for U2, Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris. Lanois contributes piano and pedal steel on the track, imbuing it with a haunting, woodwind-like atmosphere. “It was a dream come true,” Ellis says. “Listening to him talk about music is a master class.”
Born in Savannah, Georgia, currently living in Los Angeles. Tawny is known for her thought provoking lyrics and musical compositions. Her work has a distinctive elegance and dimension indicative of an artist who has created an identity of her own. Mastering diverse instruments such as lap steel and mountain dulcimer creating layers in her magical compositions. Her work has a distinctive quality rooted in sweet Southern folk indicative of Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris but most noteworthy, Ellis' voice.
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Greta Gaines is excited to announce the August 29th release of her new album. Bird Before Light. To get the party started, she has released the first single, “What Do You Want.” About the single Greta stated, “This song is about this time of life, transition time: into being the youngest of the old people ;) When the kids leave, it’s a huge time of reckoning that begs the questions” what do I want now? What’s still possible for me? Am I too old to keep putting out records? Is it too late to start over?” I DO want a second shot and the last laugh. The song is sung to myself as a reminder just to keep writing and recording.”
According to Gaines, the new album, Bird Before Light, is about getting out of one's comfort zone as a songwriter, one who typically writes alone and in solitude." She explains, “It explores certain themes that I find myself wrestling with in midlife — empty nesting, newfound anxiety, resistance to change, grief, and betrayal — while also pursuing faith, finding the simple joy that comes with sharing time with old friends, and immersing myself in the beauty of nature and the natural world.”
The album, produced by Jim Reilley, mixed by Eric Fritsch and Mill Logan, and was recorded at Ken Coomer’s Cartoon Moon and Eastwood Studios in East Nashville. In addition to Greta playing guitar, the album features drummer Ken Coomer (Wilco), Jim Reilley on bass, Eric Fritsch (Marty Stuart) on electric guitar, piano, keyboards, Grammy winner Tim O’Brien on fiddle and harmony vocals, Adam Ollendorff (Kasey Musgraves) on pedal steel, Kevin Roentgen (Buckcherry) on electric guitar, and Raul Malo (The Mavericks), and Dan Bern (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.)
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Singer-songwriter Gregory Page’s positively charged album ‘One Hell Of A Memory’, which features his good friend & co-producer on the album Jason Mraz singing on several tracks, has just had a UK & Ireland release. A highlight from ‘One Hell Of A Memory’ is ‘Right Now Not Tomorrow’, a rousing anthem, combining both Americana and traditional folk elements, for getting up, seizing the day and letting the good times roll. Alongside the album release, Gregory has also now dropped a beautiful live performance video of ‘Right Now Not Tomorrow’.
‘One Hell Of A Memory’ imparts a message of optimism and urgency, complete with catchy melodies, beautiful harmonies and an array of special arrangements performed on Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin and Irish Uilleann pipes by the likes of Dennis Caplinger (Eric Clapton) and Eric Rigler (Braveheart, The Titanic). While the sounds are reminiscent of yesteryear, the lyrics get us on our feet and dancing toward a brighter tomorrow. Page's wordplay and compositions weave tradition with change, blending yesterday with the future and delivering us an uplifting album with all the feels, right now.
You hear it more and more, the phrase “these are strange times.” We wonder what lies ahead and what shape “normality” might take if and when life begins to sink back into a more relaxed pace, free from all of the anxiety. They say good can always come from adversity, of the anxiety. They say good can always come from adversity, and that’s how it’s been for Gregory Page, with time to pause, reflect and reassess much of what went before and hopefully look forward to brighter, less angst-filled days ahead.
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Today, critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Josienne Clarke has announced she will release her new album, Far From Nowhere, on October 17th via her own label, Corduroy Punk. Alongside the announcement of the album's release date, she is sharing new single 'What Do I Do?'.
The album will be accompanied by a short film titled Deluded, directed by Alec Bowman_Clarke, offering a candid, behind-the-scenes portrait of the album’s creation. Currently screening at festivals, the film will be shown throughout Clarke’s UK tour this October - full dates now announced - before its general release on November 30th.
Following the release of the haunting ‘Tiny Bird’s Lament’, new single 'What Do I Do?' asks the question: if anything is possible, where do you even contemplate beginning? With a chugging chord progression and puttering drum machine, the track channels a twitchy, conflicted restlessness. It could be about creativity, motherhood, partnership, relationships — and all of these at once. The beauty of Clarke’s writing is in its openness: there’s an assurance in letting ambiguity sit and trusting the listener to meet it on their own terms.
There’s an irony that cuts to the bone on Far From Nowhere, the new album from the critically acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Josienne Clarke. Long admired for her crystalline voice and unflinching lyrical gaze, Clarke has always had an ability to evoke a communal melancholy. But with this LP, recorded at a remote Scottish cabin, she’s achieved the feat of stripping away the barriers between artist and listener. What emerges is a record of remarkable intimacy and integrity as Clarke embraces stillness and vulnerability. She sought total isolation but ended up creating something even more profoundly connective.
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