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Guitar mage Tom Carter (@wholly_carter) of Charalambides on @wednesdayknudsen’s forthcoming double LP ATRIUM: “Months of woodshedding have opened the gates for Wednesday’s heaviest opus to date, a significant leap from the up-clos
Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 6pm ET for a Bandcamp Listening Party and exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM (Out 10/24 on @spinstersounds and @feedingtuberecords_rozztoxart)! @wednesdayknudsen will
Today we release the 2nd single off @wednesdayknudsen’s double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep and expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view on the horizon from within a v
“As the piece builds, it turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in her upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, e
We’re thrilled to announce the October 24th joint release with @spinstersounds x @feedingtuberecords_rozztoxart of Wednesday Knudsen’s, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork and her first double LP. Channeling the “atmosphere of presence&rd
If you know the songs of @lou__turner, you know that she’s a poet’s songwriter. But she’s also a songwriter’s poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective and inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, for
Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, our recently released album of lost original gospel & country songs by West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020), was recently the subject of a radio story by @wvpublic, airing on @inappalachia and West Vi
“This is a woman who shirked the prospect of fame in order to preserve the essence of pure praise in her music. In that, she was the ultimate, uncompromising artist.” Read the story of our latest release, ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK
We’re truly touched by all the positive response to Ella Hanshaw’s inspired gospel and “lonesome housewife country” music. Thank you to @richmondmag for another lovely feature on ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK. ♥️📓 &
Thank you to Don Harrison of @wtjuradio for the wonderful @styleweekly feature on ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK, detailing Ella’s granddaughter Kelly Kerney’s efforts to preserve and share her grandmother’s music. “’
Thank you to @songlinesmagazine and @nprmusic for the recent praise and press for Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, out now on LP, CD, and digital (Bandcamp 🔗⬆️) Just one small but crucial edit✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia 🙂 “Ella
ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK, the album of c. 1960s-1980s home- and church-recorded gospel and country songs by West Virginia musician Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) is out TODAY! Over seven years in the making, the archival record documents the previou
“Hanshaw is a mystic, perhaps, but one whose feet touch the dirt, whose skin feels the sun.” ☀️ “Hanshaw died in 2020, and her music could easily have dropped from view. It’s only thanks to the efforts of a devoted granddaug
Join Ella Hanshaw’s granddaughter Kelly Kerney, grandson-in-law Ethan Bullard (@buffle_head) and SPINSTER co-owners Michelle Dove (@doversions) and Emily Hilliard (@hey_emhilly) this Thursday, 6/5 at 7:30pm ET for a listening party and exclusiv
The third and final single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “The Devil Gets Me Down and The Lord Picks Me Up” is out today on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. The original gospel song by Clay County, West Virginia songwriter Ella
“If you are a fan of the likes of Dolly Parton or Rosalie Sorrels or even the earnest home recordings and songwriting of someone like Connie Converse or Karen Dalton, this is an album to check out.” Some recent press and playlists from @
The second single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “Little Black Book”—one of Ella’s lonesome housewife country songs—is out today on Bandcamp and streaming platforms. Ever since she was a teenager, Ella wrote secu
“One More Hill,” the first single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, was written by Ella for the Hallelujah Hill Quartet, a group she formed in 1983 in celebration of the opening of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, in Clay County, Wes
Earlier this year, @songlinesmagazine included our forthcoming release, Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, on their list of the most anticipated albums of 2025, alongside albums by Rhiannon Giddens, Femi Kuti, and other greats. They write, “The
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