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The album can, in fact, be treated as a concept album about the capacity for change that lies at the heart of even the most hard-boiled and unsympathetic of men, the kind we meet straight away on âAinât Niceâ and âToadâ. When âInto The Sunâ introduces us to a similar figure having a Damascene moment in which he realises the damage he has caused, we realise that we are, in fact, following a single flawed protagonist: an aging huckster who loves nothing but his dog, his drugs and himself. Travelling with this self-sabotaging antihero though his highs and lows, his relapses and revelations, as he rises above his basest impulses to pursue love and a life of peace is a hell of a journey in itself. ....
Fife-based genius James Yorkston pairs with old friend Karl-Jonas Winqvistâs Second Hand Orchestra for a vodka-splashed voyage down lifeâs wild, wide river. From Ella Mary Leather (regretted only on âcertain days of the yearâ) and To Soothe Her Wee Bit Sorrowsâ study of pacification - he has flair for characterisation, painting a world within the skeleton of a song. But the music! Itâs contagious joy to hear players with such abandon and intuition, braiding their lines together: brass, brushed drums, the lyric of a singing fiddle. âChoices Like Wide Riversâ flows gentle to its destination (âSemaphore Your Love ); Struggleâs optimistic look to lifeâs choppy bits weighs up whatâs worth it and isnât. ....
3 months ago James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra, recently released a video for “Ella Mary Leather.” The track is of their forthcoming release The Wide, Wide River available January 22, 2021 via Domino Records. “Ella Mary Leather” is titled after a Herefordshire based folk song collector in the early 20th Century, James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s song is not about her. Yorkston explains: “No, it’s not about Ella Mary Leather. I am just using her lyrical name as a mask, to protect the innocent…” Over a wealth of percussion, violin, and nyckelharpa, Yorkston plays buoyant piano as he sings us a story about a friend from many years ago. ....
DJ Dolphin Boy. James Yorkston & The Second Hand Orchestra have kindly unveiled a second song from their forthcoming album ‘The Wide, Wide River’, due January 22nd. ‘Ella Mary Leather’ opens with a good old piano vamp which leads us into a soaring and melancholy song about a friendship past, full of shoe-horned rhymes and buoyant instrumentation. Ella Mary Leather herself was a Herefordshire-based folk song collector in the early 20th Century, but James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s song is not about her. Yorkston explains: “No, it’s not about Ella Mary Leather. I am just using her lyrical name as a mask, to protect the innocent…” The sublime album was recorded ....
9 Best Songs of the Last Two Weeks: HAIM, Little Dragon and Moses Sumney, Taylor Swift, and More Plus Julia Jacklin, The Besnard Lakes, Anna Burch, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone) Little Dragon Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. This week we have quite a few holiday songs, as well as some reworked versions of previous songs. ....