Join the legendary Bob Harris for the Episode 6 of The Whispering Bobcast!
One of the country’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters, Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums of extraordinary songs that have earned four Grammy Awards and 12 nominations, as well as 21 top-40 hits, including 11 chart-topping singles. She Remembers Everything—her latest release—is a poetic, lush, and soulful collection of songs that reckon with a flawed and intricate world. It follows her triple Grammy-winning 2014 album The River & the Thread and marks a return to more personal songwriting after a trio of albums that explored her southern roots and family heritage. Cash is also an author whose four books include the best-selling memoir Composed, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Oxford American, The Nation, and many more print and online publications. A new book, Bird on a Blade, was recently published by UT Press, combining images by acclaimed artist Dan Rizzie with strands of lyrics from a variety of Cash’s songs.
Jonny Morgan is a Bath-based indie folk Singer/Songwriter with an unashamed passion for ambient, emotive music - taking inspiration from artists such as The National, The Lumineers, Hiss Golden Messenger & David Ramirez. Growing up in the South West of England and spending a lot of time over in the states, Jonny’s transatlantic sound is unmistakably influenced by his love for country/roots music. He continues to portray his vulnerability wrapped up in his Americana-inflected folk songs. Jonny made his debut at Glastonbury 2019 and has supported the likes of Wildwood Kin, Turin Brakes & Robert Vincent. Since then, he has released his debut EP in 2020 “A Brief Introduction” which landed him on the radar of the likes of Mahogany, Alex Rainbird and Sofar Sounds. - "Every now and again comes a musician who has an indefinable something that makes them special. Call it the X factor or star quality. Whatever it is, Jonny has got it!" - Whispering Bob Harris (BBC R2)
High up in the Catskills, Woodstock in winter is so snow-padded and soft “it sounds like someone put the world on mute”, explains AJ. This was where The Wandering Hearts – AJ Dean-Revington, Chess Whiffin and Tara Wilcox – recorded their self-titled album early on in 2020. “It was on the Ashokan trail and had the most incredible views,” Chess says of the intimate studio where they recorded their sophomore album. The eerie-beautiful landscape of statuesque hemlocks heaving over a frosty lake made it look “Tolkein-like and magical”, says Tara. It was within that hallowed musical space, a sacred ground on which musical history was made, that the band created what we now hear today – an album which captures the essence, spirituality and vitality of the surroundings in which it was made. The twangs of a 1930s Recording King tenor guitar, loaned by the local whose mountainside clapboard farmhouse the band would jam in after daily recording sessions, dapples through the 12 tracks.
Rosanne Cash
The Wandering Hearts
Jonny Morgan
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