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Bonny Light Horseman â Rolling Golden Holy (37d03d)
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The first self-titled Bonny Light Horseman album stole in unexpectedly in the dead season (at least for musical releases) of January 2020. AnaĂŻs Mitchell was already famous for a folk career and Hadestown, but she would become much more so. Eric Johnson was medium-well known for his work in the Fruit Bats. And Josh Kaufman was the one I had to look up, but he too, had a track record as a producer and collaborator with bands including the National, Josh Ritter and others. But even so, fair to say, that no one was expecting the haunted, spidery grace of Bonny Light Horsemanâs first album, with its spare, melancholic title track, its swelling, billowing choruses in âBlackwaterside,â its strident harmonies, its careful extrapolations from folk picked tradition. In my review for Dusted, I wrote, âHaunting denatured harmonies fill the spaces between rickety porch folk tunes, and itâs not hard to hear the influence of Justin Vernon in the swell and spectral auras.â The album was nominated for two Grammys.Â
 Two and a half years â and a global pandemic â later, the trio is back, making the case that Bonny Light Horseman is a band, not a one-off meeting of sensibilities. Written and recorded in upstate New York in the spring of 2021, Rolling Golden Holy is more comfortable and assured than its predecessor, but not as eerily evocative. If the self-titled was a twilight vista full of mist and longing, the follow-up ambles through sunny backroads. It has a bit more Johnson, a bit less Mitchell in its mix, though the two artists find intriguing common ground on multiple occasions.Â
âExileâ slouches deep in the pocket, the plunk of banjo underlining Johnsonâs blues falsetto runs. Mitchell joins for harmonies, sliding her brash, expressive alto under Johnsonâs lead. The song isâhow to put this?âexceptionally well behaved. It stays within the lines, every note clear, every instrumental flourish legible. âCaliforniaâ veers further into twang, a bent blues line intersecting with jangling acoustic and more staccato banjo. Itâs another one where Johnson sings lead, and it sounds, mainly, like the Fruit Bats, which is not a bad thing, but not the alchemy that fans of the self-titled will look for. âSummer Dream,â the other of three focus tracks, is more contemplative than either and centered on Mitchellâs quizzical delivery. It is also very clean, fuller and more expansive. You can get lost in its soft, velvety folds. Â
There are, again, some bright, sprightly takes on folk, âFair Annieâ for one, which rattles and rambles in a pleasing, bucolic way, and âSweetbread,â with its nimble banjo line and dreamy drifts of saxophone. But these cuts, by and large, take the sting out of country folk, the chill that deathâs proximity stirs into the most affecting traditional songs. Itâs interesting, in a way, that Bonny Light Horsemanâs music got lighter and bouncier as the world got darker, and maybe thereâs a story there, but if you came for the shadowy frisson of the first album, itâs not here.Â
If 2020 was the most surreal year in recent memory, 2021 was the runner-up.  A rollercoaster of emotion was supplanted by a mountain of malaise.  And yet, many artists broke through with the finest albums of their careers.  Some of these were direct responses to the world as it was, while others were simply written in unprecedented conditions.  Some composers offered comfort, others reflection,âŚ
This year, we reviewed more modern composition albums than those in any other genre ~ not because more were submitted, but because their overall quality was so high.  We read this trend early in our Spring Music Preview, and it continued throughout the year.  The backstories were intriguing as well, from Australian wildfires to the passing of a friend.  Could it be that the break from touring andâŚ
2018 | Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine Jagjaguwar, 37d03d #bigredmachine #aarondessner #justinvernon #jagjaguwar #37d03d @bigredmachineadjv @aarondessner @ivernonjustin @jagjaguwar @37d03d Just a couple of days ago, found this gem in FB Group. Never heard of them. But. As a huge fan of The National & Bon Iver Iâm nearly speechless that I didnât know, this collaboration between Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, exist. Nevertheless. Got it. Bandcamp: âIn 2008, Aaron sent Justin an instrumental sketch of a song called âBig Red Machineâ for Dark Was The Night. This was before they had met in person. Justin wrote a song to it, interpreting the Big Red Machine title as a heart. 10 years of friendship later, there are 10 more songs. Big Red Machine. Each song includes a large number of collaborators via the PEOPLE platform and the record was produced by Justin and Aaron with longtime collaborator Brad Cook and engineered by Jonathan Low primarily at Aaronâs studio Long Pond in Upper Hudson Valley, NY.â https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRCCD9MEJI/?utm_medium=tumblr
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