Hey yall! Your melancholy Christmas song has arrived. It's about letting go and trying to hang on to the beauty at the same time. The unreal feeling of Christmas time in California, almost like they're faking their way through the holiday. And sometimes I've felt like I had to fake my way through the holidays. Grief and heart ache don't take a Christmas vacation. And for most of us, they make themselves rather cozy, in fact, around the fire. It's ok to be a little melancholy in the winter. Tis a season.

MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE ON YOUTUBE 12:00pm ET Tuesday the 18th (tomorrow) Our latest single is called 'Always Leaving' and we filmed the official music video on our fall tour from NC out to Nashville for AmericanaFest, and down to SERFA in Austin, with gigs along the way. If you look closely you see at least one other FAI member featured in the video! It was a great run of shows and we met so many incredible people. Big thanks to Anna La Mare for putting the tour together with us, and to everyone who hosted us along the way. Can't wait to get back down to New Orleans for FAI, and for our next stops through Nashville, St. Louis, and Texas! This song is for anyone who might experience preemptive heartbreak, for the folks who have had to say goodbye when they really want to stay, for all your wandering hearts! Listen on Bandcamp: https://adifferentthread.bandcamp.com/track/always-leaving-2 Or on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4kzsB7h1dGi7aiAuFvmGLb?si=a305bced3a964027 Looking forward to the hellos and the see you soons y'all! Alicia and Robert P.S. I'll keep sharing singles as they come, the full album 'Over Again' is out May 1st 2026, so keep an ear out.

Not missing a beat since her last full-length release, Elexa Dawson unearths Stay Put. Reviving the ensemble who backed her on her 2019 debut, Music is Medicine, Stay Put delivers a hazy, classic sound with plenty of nostalgia and dirt under its nails.

“Stay Put is both a follow-up to Wanderlust and a sequel to Music is Medicine,” Dawson explains. “It takes me back to my roots as an acoustic player and collaborator and showcases the ensemble that made Music is Medicine a success, with the seasoned experience that came with all the electric experimentation that we did with Wanderlust. Peter Oviatt is one of the best producers working in our scene today, and his embellishments, whether it’s his signature banjo or exploration with polyphonic synths, are so tasty and original. Kelby on bass is like a security blanket, and Melissa’s vocals are always the perfect accompaniment to mine. I’m proud of this work and my team.”

From the opening reimagining of Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” as an Indigenous chant, Elexa stimulates the memory of civil rights issues of the ‘60s and reflects their relevance to present-day conflict. The title track, “Stay Put” is a songwriter’s song, a confession of a restless poet who leaves the comfort of indulgent love to chase inspiration. “Man Mountain” and “Cove” were written about and by, respectively, a mentor and a man who knows the value of a place that holds you close. In “Roots Grow”, a story about the way trees can teach us to live edifies the listener with an assurance of resilience in the face of adversity. “Baling Hay” is a tribute to Elexa’s Grandpa, a humble, hardworking soul whose tractor-greasy grace lives on in memory and song. Finally, “The Riddle Song” documents Elexa’s inherited rendition of a traditional Appalachian tune sung to her from the morning she was born by her Nana, who dubbed her an alto that day, and continues to support her from the other side of the soil.

Stay Put proves a deeply rooted and timely work sprouting from the grounding element of earth. With this viscerally personal release, Dawson anchors her message in the soil of memory, tradition, and identity. Building on her two preceding albums, Elexa continues to amplify the ancestors, infusing her voice with the grit of Oklahoma red dirt and wind-washed Kansas prairie. These are homesick songs, not just in the geographic sense, but in the spiritual and emotional sense of belonging in a world where we’re more detached from our nourishing roots every day. Stay Put is a call to remember and celebrate those roots. Elexa pays tribute to the places that raised her, the familial ties that shaped her story, and the Indigenous traditions that inform her sense of purpose and place in the world. Stay Put will make itself comfortable in the heart of anyone who has ever felt the gravity of home, the ache for grounding, and the power of not forgetting where you come from.

See you at NERFA 2025. Here’s a track from our new album released earlier this week on Spotify. Look out for us at the late night showcases and around the hall’s. Looking forward to meeting you. Lynn and Ken www.VeronneauMusic.com

Our latest single ‘Sweet and the Burn’ from our upcoming album ‘Over Again’ (out May 1st 2026) came out of Friday the 5th of September! Take a listen, let us know what you think! Lyrics: Have you seen the old town Itʼs like a record with the needle down You can think youʼre playing it The more you do the more it skips And youʼll be begging for another turn The sweet comes with the burn Instrumental Walking on a knife edge Wondering why Iʼm not dead yet “Cause itʼs something that you canʼt refuse I paid Charlie just to be excused And Iʼll be begging for another turn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the… Burn Instrumental If the liquor doesnʼt do me in It will hold me like an old friend Dancing with me all night And tell me that itʼs all right And Iʼm still begging for another turn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the… Burn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the burn Itʼs a lesson that I never learn, yeah The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the burn The sweet comes with the…