Hey friends, happy to check in with some news and tour dates. It’s been six months since my solo effort Alameda hit the American bodegas, and with a little help from my friends at BloodyGreatPR we’ve been getting some nice BBC airplay and quips from overseas. Here’s one from esteemed statesperson Mike Davies for Folking.com: “Addressing those …
“Alameda,” the title track on Hamer’s album, is a rock ballad with crispy guitar licks and geographic lyrics about a wandering worker, who is maybe the author, but maybe not. In the way that it talks about a long search for work, it reminds me of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River song series, or maybe the …
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/bestmusic2013/2013/12/21/255266029/the-top-10-folk-and-americana-albums-of-2013 Child Ballads by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer is named one of the top-10 Folk and Americana releases of 2013 by NPR music.
I don’t know if it’s really hard-to-find, or if I was just looking in all the wrong places. But finally coming upon a UK vinyl pressing of American folk singer-songwriters Jefferson Hamer and Anaïs Mitchell’s Child Ballads, released just four months ago and apparently vanishing about 20 minutes later, definitely ranks among the highlights of my record-buying year so far…