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Posted By Jolene Dixon,
Sunday, December 7, 2025
Updated: Monday, December 8, 2025
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.
"Patch of Blue" is Wattle & Daub's fourth album and includes the help of several Chicago area musicians. The tracks are a mixture of a subtle commentary on these times and a sense of hope that might be offered. The album is available for streaming and downloading at all the usual places. Several of the twelve tracks are starting to get some much appreciated airplay. All songs are originals.
1. If I Were a Tree
2. Jimmy Carter Hammer Song
3. Back Too Soon
4. Washington, Illinois
5. Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
6. Winds of 1933
7. What Do They See?
8. Don’t Pursue a Kangaroo (A Cautionary Tale)
9. To the Field
10. Patch of Blue
11. What Good Is a Prayer?
12. St. Adalbert
Posted By Larry Lesser,
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Updated: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
This past weekend, I released my 3rd album (https://larrylesser1.bandcamp.com/album/night-will-end), NIGHT WILL END, which has timely songs such as a particular October 7 experience of the family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin in "Held". This coming weekend, a music video made of my Crypto-Jewish song "Lights Lead Home" from my 2020 album SPARKS (which was a Finalist for Best Album at the 2021 New Mexico Music Awards) is being screened as an Official Selection of the Silver City Community Music Festival (see story at https://www.nmjewishjournal.com/carrasco-crypto-judaic-themed-music-video-an-official-selection-for-the-silver-city-film-festival-in-october/
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…
Posted By Elexa Dawson,
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Updated: Friday, July 25, 2025
A heartfelt ballad that honors the quiet dignity of rural life and the memory of a loved one gone too soon, “Baling Hay” provides the lead single from Elexa Dawson's third studio album, Stay Put. “Baling Hay” is a tribute to Elexa’s Grandpa, a humble, hardworking soul whose tractor-greasy grace lives on in memory and song. With vivid pastoral imagery and an intimate vocal delivery, rooted in folk tradition and country soul, it’s a song that will be memorable for any music lover from rural North America.
Posted By Erica Glenn,
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2025
We are excited to share a bold, empowering new single from Essence and Gold Country—an independent Americana artist whose fresh voice approaches folk music with honesty and soul.
“Free” is an anthem of liberation and self-respect—a song for anyone who’s ever had to claw their way out of a relationship that dimmed their light. It’s raw and triumphant, feminine and fierce, blending the storytelling heart of classic Americana with the emotion and musicianship of original folk music.
Co-written by Essence Goldman with Merkley, Rachel Hoiem, and Roman Weingartner, “Free” pulses with a full band, is rich with personality of leading lady Essence Goldman and has some depth with the universal message: You don’t have to shrink to survive. You don’t have to sacrifice your joy to stay in someone else’s version of your life. Essence sings this truth loud, proud, and barefoot—to dance is to heal.
This is the first single from her upcoming album Father’s Daughter, produced by David Simon-Baker (Jackie Greene, ALO). Essence’s past work was featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, and she’s currently a producer on the upcoming feature film about her journey with Bernie and the Believers—in partnership with John Legend and Paramount.
Thanks for supporting women in Americana and independent music. Essence is available for interviews in person (Bay Area) and virtually. Upcoming tour dates include select venues in the SF Bay Area, Pacific Northwest (WA, OR), Nashville and more TBA.
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