PRINCE OF CALGARY (SINGLE)

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“Prince of Calgary” was inspired by a beautiful stranger I encountered in Calgary, Alberta. I've been sitting on this song for a couple of years. To me, it explores the power of creating one's own reality in the face of societal ostracism.  When the opportunity to sing with Andrea came up, I immediately thought of this song because of her beautiful vocal nuances and delivery. 

BUTCHER HOLLER: A TRIBUTE TO LORETTA LYNN

For the first time, Butcher Holler is now available on deluxe vinyl, remastered and expanded with three brand new tracks and artwork.

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Butcher Holler is named for the little Kentucky town where Loretta Lynn was raised. On the tribute album of the same name, acclaimed singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell pays homage to Lynn’s humble roots and timeless, hard-hitting writing and performance style. For the first time, Butcher Holler is now available on vinyl, remastered and expanded with three brand new tracks. Jewell writes, “And so, a toast: to the woman with more banned songs than anyone can count; to that voice that reaches the very grain of the theater walls around her; to our national treasure. Gratitude is not enough, so I sing these songs for any who will listen.” The Boston Globe praised, “There's an irresistible snap to these songs- they're tight, deliciously twangy and rendered without orchestrated frills... [a] deft tribute." 

LOVE YOUR MIND

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On October 18th, Twisted Pine releases its joyous third LP, Love Your Mind, on Signature Sounds. The title represents the quartet landing after several years of touring, serious introspection, bouts of self-doubt, glorious bursts of creativity, and many after-hour festival jam sessions that had them pickin’ til dawn.

What started as a (semi-)traditional bluegrass band in the trenches of the storied Massachusetts’ Americana scene a decade ago has bloomed into an ensemble gleefully ready to race down any artistic detour. They can still pick with the best of them. But even the expansive “progressive bluegrass” label doesn’t come close to capturing the scope of Love Your Mind. The LP is full of buoyant pop and delicate folk, hootenanny twang and old-school r&b grooves, plus plenty of thoughtful, intense, and playful lyrics.

Co-produced by the band and longtime-collaborator Dan Cardinal at his studio Dimension Sound in Boston, the album is the sound of Twisted Pine now — experimental production, fearless songwriting featuring input from each member, finely-crafted collaborative arrangements, playing that is sometimes virtuosic, always visceral. The sound of a band that demands you Love Your Mind.

Twisted Pine is Kathleen Parks on fiddle and lead vocals, Dan Bui on mandolin, Chris Sartori on bass, and Anh Phung on flute. Everybody sings. 

CITY OF GLASS

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AJ Lee & Blue Summit are an award-winning, energetic, and technically jaw-dropping bluegrass band quickly rising on the national roots music scene. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the group met as teenagers, picking together as kids at local bluegrass festivals until one day, they decided they would be a band. Their Signature Sounds debut, City of Glass is a spellbinding collection of original songs and covers that’s just as much country soul and gritty, bluesy Americana as it is rock club and festival-ready string band fare, all framed through a California folk lens. City of Glass not only focuses on AJ Lee’s songwriting and once in a generation voice, but also features the Bakersfield sound of guitarist and second lead vocalist Scott Gates on three tracks along with the guitar wizardry and indie rock influence of Sullivan Tuttle, the younger brother of Bluegrass superstar Molly Tuttle.

TALES FROM CRITTERLAND

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Recorded live on Nov. 24, 2023 at The Shea Theater in Turners Falls, MA

"I adore live shows, so we recorded some songs. 2 unreleased folksongs ("Penny Evans" and "Hi Tone Dance") and 2 hard hitters ("The Arrangements" and "Critterland") we also recorded the STORIES behind them plus a ROWDY FUN CROWD in Turners Falls, MA." - Willi Carlisle

CRITTERLAND

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For folk singer Willi Carlisle, singing is healing. And by singing together, he believes we can begin to reckon with the inevitability of human suffering and grow in love. On his latest album, Critterland, Carlisle invites audiences to join him: “If we allow ourselves to sing together, there's a release of sadness, maybe even a communal one. And so for me personally, singing, like the literal act of thinking through suffering, is really freeing,” he says.

Rooted in the eclectic and collective world of his live shows, Carlisle’s third album and debut for Signature Sounds, Critterland takes up where his sophomore album, Peculiar, Missouri left off, transforming Peculiar’s big tent into a Critterland menagerie and letting loose the weirdos he gathered together. The album is a wild romp through the backwaters of his mind and America, lingering in the odd corners of human nature to visit obscure oddballs, dark secrets and complicated truths about the beauty and pain of life and love.

Produced by the GRAMMY Award-nominated Darrell Scott and to be released Jan. 26, 2024 by Signature Sounds, Critterland considers where we come from and where we are going. On the album, he takes on human suffering through stories about forbidden love, loss, generational trauma, addiction, and suicide, believing that by processing the traits and trauma we inherit, he can reach a deeper understanding of what it means to succeed and to exist.

SHIT TOWN (SINGLE)

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“This song was written after a road trip out west found me at a truck stop diner that was well and truly in the middle of nowhere.  I wrote this song to commemorate the experience, and everything in it is pretty much true.  When I say "shit town", I say it with fondness.  I tried recording this first on my album Common Nation of Sorrow as a honkey tonk number, but it never quite felt right.  With Nick' s help and the influence of his vocal, I was able to reimagine it in a more cinematic way, which felt more true to my voice and the message I wanted to convey.” 

PISS & VINEGAR (SINGLE)

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Alt-Americana singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman's second collaboration with Caroline Spence is out today. "Piss & Vinegar" is the B-side to their previously released single “Throw Away The Moon”

Spence writes, “I’m so grateful that Rachel could imagine a brand new life for this song from the depths of my back catalogue. I’ve often found inspiration in examining and deconstructing colloquial phrases and that’s where this one started, with the title phrase. It’s a playfully subversive song about our conditioned expectations of women and the language we use to reinforce power dynamics.” 

The single with Spence is part of a new "A Side/B Side" collaboration series that Baiman will be putting out over the coming year.  “The idea is to write and record two songs, a digital A Side and B Side, to create a kind of “short story” musical offering. The process of exploring what each collaboration holds in terms of songwriting and performance possibility has been endlessly inspiring,” Baiman writes. 

THROW AWAY THE MOON (SINGLE)

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Alt-Americana singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman has announced a new collaboration with Caroline Spence. Their first single “Throw Away The Moon” is out April 19.

Baiman writes, “Caroline and I were roommates in a small rental house in north Nashville when we wrote this song back in 2015. It’s about the promise of the new and shiny, and what we lose in that never ending chase. Ironically, the house in which we wrote this song has now been demolished and turned into very expensive condos that musicians could never afford.”

The single with Spence is part of a new "A Side/B Side" collaboration series that Baiman will be putting out over the coming year. “The idea is to write and record two songs, a digital A Side and B Side, to create a kind of “short story” musical offering. The process of exploring what each collaboration holds in terms of songwriting and performance possibility has been endlessly inspiring,” Baiman writes.

Baiman’s first songs from the “A Side/B Side '' series were collaborations with Pony Bradshaw, released in February. Future releases will include collaborations with Nicholas Jamerson and more. For this series, Baiman recorded in Nashville with producer Clare Reynolds ("Lollies"), which she says is “another kind of collaboration in which I'm finding a lot of musical growth.”

Baiman continues, “After years of recording and touring my own music, I’m reveling in the opportunity to find new inspiration in writing, singing, and arranging with other songwriters that I admire.”

EQUINE ELVIS (SINGLE)

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The second single from Rachel Baiman’s A Side/B Side collaboration series,

“Equine Elvis” is about a real horse in the American military who earned his nickname and became famous when he was found alive after the Battle of Little Bighorn.  “Comanche was a walking, breathing ghost among the dead, riddled with bullet holes. He recovered and was lauded as a war hero, and given the nickname Equine Elvis because of his inability to die.”

“When I wrote “Equine Elvis”, I was thinking about how we project our needs and morals onto these animals that truly do not care. My song is from the horse’s perspective, the poor guy didn’t care at all about the war effort, and probably just wanted to chill.”  

Bad Self Portraits Deluxe 10th Anniversary Limited-Edition LP (red or blue vinyl)

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To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of their acclaimed breakthrough album, Bad Self Portraits, Signature Sounds is re-releasing a deluxe vinyl version. The limited-edition album is fully re-mastered with alternative art work and features 2 bonus tracks: “Wedding Band” and “What I’m Doing Here.”

When Bad Self Portraits was released in 2014 Rolling Stone deemed Lake Street Dive “The year’s best new band” and the album debuted at #18 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Their television performances have included The Late Show With David Letterman, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Today Show. Over the years, they’ve captivated massive audiences at such esteemed festivals as Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Toronto Jazz Festival, in addition to headlining tours all across the globe and sharing stages with acts like Brandi Carlile and Sheryl Crow.