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Chris Thile presents a truly solo album,
Laysongs, on which his voice and mandolin are the sole contributors. Released by Nonesuch Records, the album contains six originals, including “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” a three-part suite inspired by C.S. Lewis’
The Screwtape Letters, and three covers and was co-produced by Thile’s wife, Claire Coffee. “[Coffee] has incredible taste and narrative intuition,” Thile said. “She was able to help me weave the original and non-original material together.” Engineer Jody Elff recorded
Laysongs with Thile at Future-Past, a recording studio in Upstate New York built inside an old church. The album’s content was informed by Thile’s Christian upbringing, spurred by Nonesuch’s Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz, who told Thile he, “should do a God-themed record of some kind, it’s all over [Thile’s] work.”
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Aoife OâDonovan might have grown up in Boston, but these days, the singer/songwriter is feeling a strong passion for Western Massachusetts, too.
âThe Berkshires, when youâre from Eastern Mass., I think the Berkshires are these magical hills to the west,â said OâDonovan, speaking from Florida. âYou get on the âPike and you drive until almost the end and youâre just kind of on a different planet.
âI love the access to nature that the Berkshires offer. I love all the incredible trails and mountains. But, culturally, Tanglewood, Jacobâs Pillow, Hancock-Shaker Village, Mass MoCA up in North Adams. Thereâs not really any other place in America, a region with so much access to nature that has so much to offer culturally.â