The Wainwright Sisters - Songs In The Dark
Martha Wainwright from Montreal, Canada and Lucy Wainwright Roche from Brooklyn, New York. Prairie midnight Folk. Simple in it’s approach, beautiful in it’s execution. Easy living farm communities. Dustbowl depression anthems. Unadorned lush vocal harmonies accompanied by warmhearted acoustic guitar. Intimate lullabies and songs inspired by and lifted from the sisters childhood. Imagery of better times to come, despair, life overwhelming. “This is the day we give babies away with a half a pound of tea.” Despairing campfire harmonica, plucked banjo, parlor piano. Hyperbolic imaginative tales told that feel lifted from village folklore. Wooden porches, wind blown fields and husbandry of the human condition. Pre-modern simplicity and a compassion for the mundane in life.
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