Discover the Best New Music of the Week!
We’ve pulled together some of the best new music we’ve heard lately — and you can hear it all on Fresh Cuts, my weekly radio hour. Tune in every Friday at 2pm ET / 11am PT on Folk Alley’s 24/7 stream — available on our website, mobile app, or your smart speaker too.
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In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at some exciting new music that’s caught our ears this week!
Bryan Sutton, “Grandfather’s Clock” (feat. Sierra Hull)
Recently, Bryan Sutton has been releasing some singles, including “Grandfather’s Clock” featuring Sierra Hull on guitar. Sutton shares “I’m so happy to have Sierra on this record,” he says. “We chose the song, ‘Grandfather’s Clock,’ just because it’s a classic, beautiful melody. A lot of people know what a great mandolin player Sierra is, but I’ve always known what a great guitar player she is. This song meant a lot to us, and in fact, I’m playing my grandfather’s old Martin 0-17 guitar on this track.”
Laurie Lewis, “Fair and Tender Ladies”
O California! is Laurie Lewis’ upcoming album featuring a very cool duet of “Fair and Tender Ladies” with her bassist Hasee Ciaccio. Lewis says “I have been singing this cautionary tale since I was a teen, and had always toyed working it out in a band, but it never happened until Hasee Ciaccio came up with the idea of splitting the verses and making it a duet. It opened the song up in ways I hadn’t previously imagined, making it both more delicate and stronger than I’d heard it before. These lyrics have been sung to at least three distinctly different melodies that I am aware of, but this is the first melody I had learned, and it remains my favorite.”
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon, “The Future”
“The Future” is a new song from Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon’s second collaborative album, Together Again. “The Future,” inspired by McCutcheon’s many appearances at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas—a launching ground for countless folk and bluegrass careers. He recalls seeing Alison Krauss as a teenager and Molly Tuttle in her early twenties, recognizing in both the promise of a bright future. For Paxton and McCutcheon—artists whose careers span over half a century—the song feels like a joyful passing of the torch.
Joy Oladokun, “I’d Miss the Birds” (feat. Sheryl Crow)
Joy Oladokun recently released an acoustic version of her track “I’d Miss the Birds” featuring Sheryl Crow. Of the collaboration, Oladokun shares, “I wrote ‘I’d Miss The Birds’ about the loneliness I feel doing this job….For the past two years, a balm to that loneliness has been the kindness and friendship of Sheryl Crow.”
More this week on Fresh Cuts!
Big Harp – “Boys Don’t Cry”
Carsie Blanton – “Little Flame”
Jeffrey Martin – “Out on the Weekend”
Jenna Nicholls – “Holy Moses”
Jesse Appelman – “Valley Springs”
John Craigie – “Fire Season”
Mary Chapin Carpenter – “Girl and Her Dog”
The Paper Kites – “Change of the Wind”
Ye Vagabonds – “Flood”
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