Article Contributed by Sarah J Frost | Published on Saturday, February 27, 2021
Simon Flory’s music is suffused with the elements of his childhood – days spent in the fields, church songs, gravel roads. His new album,
Haul These Blues Away, out today, features compositions that are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated – like the locales that inspire them – with those among us who have few choices.
On
Haul These Blues Away, Flory’s sound evokes voices not much heard on radio airwaves, a stew of early country, gospel, and the best of classic Nashville. Even his guitar playing captures the rhythmic tumble of clawhammer banjo and Appalachian fiddle, and his vocal phrasing carries inflections from the Carter Family to Eddie Cochran to Hank Williams.
Simon Flory To Release Haul These Blues Away
His new album, Haul These Blues Away (Feb. 26) features compositions that are as much short-story sketches as they are songs.by TV News Desk
Born in rural Indiana shortly after his family moved west from southern Virginia to start a livestock feed store, Simon Flory s music is suffused with the elements of his childhood - days spent in the fields, church songs, gravel roads. His new album, Haul These Blues Away (Feb. 26) features compositions that are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated - like the locales that inspire them - with those among us who have few choices. The first single, Peter Mack Built A Semi Truck, is out today.