“Even confirmed cynics might be persuaded to hold out for true love,” says lead singer Kristen Grainger, True North’s chief songwriter about the brand new single from Kristen Grainger & True North, “The Avalanche.” A joyful, medium-tempo love song with folk-pop sensibilities, “The Avalanche” features interlocked mandolin and guitar interplay, soaring solo vocals, and a fresh, heartwarming message: “Of all the beauty I have seen / Wide awake or in my dreams / Nothing moves me like you do.”
With their new single, “Extraordinary Grace,” Americana-bluegrass quartet Kristen Grainger & True North truly deliver on their reputation as “poets who can pick.” Introspective and wistful, with soulful vocals and evocative lyrics haunted by feelings of helplessness in troubled times, this powerful song features two and three-part vocal harmonies and the graceful fingerstyle guitar, emotive mandolin, fiddle and acoustic bass for which Grainger and her band of champion multi-instrumentalists are becoming known.