Who was it who said, “what is old is new again?” Probably several people – maybe at least one every generation. A kind-of-similar situation exists with music. Sometimes new releases rely on old motifs and themes and riffs – making these all sound new and fresh again. So today on Routes & Branches & Beyond I’m featuring seven releases that are relatively new to this world.
I’ll play the Quebec trad maturity of Genticorum, the bootstrap philosophy and folksy blues of Chris Coole, the pure drop Irish soul of the Jeremiahs, the Cape Breton winter swamp music of Lookout Tower, the whimsical pandemic-inspired liminal ballads of Kate Weekes, the intricately-frenetic Irish rhythms of John Doyle & Mick McAuley, and the starkly scenic Highland palette of Assynt. Dust off those snapping fingers, and join me.
