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Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.

Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...

ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

A chance to listen to Wednesday Knudsen's masterful new double LP ATRIUM a couple weeks before it's officially released. RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...

Atrium Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen.

Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
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We've got another Heavy Lidders live one for ya - available today on the most excellent Eiderdown ! Limited plastic shelled magnetic tape, my preferred format ! Guest sax from Wednesday Knudsen (we are not worthy!) and while yr at it, go buy her new LP on @spinstersounds.bsky.social too ! Autumnal !

Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24

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We also learned that she was a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them)!

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Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Atrium, by Wednesday Knudsen 11 track album

ATRIUM will be out October 24 on double LP, CD, and digitally from SPINSTER and FEEDING TUBE RECORDS. You can pre-order the record on our Bandcamp now: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

YouTube video by SPINSTER Wednesday Knudsen - "Fair Aegis" (Official Video)

Today we share the video for "Fair Aegis," the 1st single off Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP, ATRIUM. Shot, produced & edited by Knudsen, the video is an homage to the leaf-light and light-ways of her home's hillside setting in NY's Taconic Mountains 🍃⛅🍂

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Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

This is appalling. But if turns some more people onto Yasmin Williams's extraordinary music, it will have done some good. Go buy her albums. They are the perfect accompaniment to the arrival of autumn.

Music is medicine! Especially Wednesday's. Feel better!

currently smoothing over a sinus headache

New solo Wednesday whopper! Check it out / grab a copy for your home —

Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social

Us too! <3

Thanks for listening! ✨

Five Years After Her Death, W.Va. Singer-Songwriter Gets Her Due - West Virginia Public Broadcasting Ella Hanshaw was a singer and songwriter who grew up and lived in West Virginia before moving to Ohio. She passed away in 2020. The collection Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book came about in part because of H...

We can only imagine how tickled Ella would have been to know her songs and story were being aired across the hills and hollers of her beloved home state of West Virginia 📻🎶💚

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Ella Hanshaw's Black Book — New Commute Black Book chronicles Maysel, West Virginia folksinger Ella Hanshaw’s musical life with an understated clarity, threading her homespun recordings together into a moving patchwork of country sorrow a...

“Across faded tape hiss and the incidental noise of daily life, [Ella Hanshaw’s] voice remains steady and luminous honoring tradition with self-made testimony.”

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Dusted writer's mid-year lists. Tons of great albums already in 2025. mine below, mine + everyone's in the article

“Her sweet clear twang, in harmony with the others, hit like sunshine.”

—After discovering recordings made by her little-known gospel-singing grandmother, Ella Hanshaw, Kelly Kerney worked to preserve and share them for the very first time.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/3HFZv

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Pressing Concerns: Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw, City Planners, The Whimbrels Hey there! It may be a holiday week, but I’m planning on making it a full one nonetheless, and we’re beginning with a Pressing Concerns featuring new albums from Abe Savas, City Planner…

New blog post! Wrote about new albums from Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw @spinstersounds.bsky.social, City Planners, and The Whimbrels @therealjimsanto.bsky.social @matthewhunter.bsky.social @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social:

Our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, of previously unheard music by West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw, in
@oxfordamerican.bsky.social! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is "a remarkable unearthing." Thanks @rosyoverdrive.com!

Mamaw’s Music A grandmother’s decades-old cassette recordings are the basis of a new album.

Another lovely feature on the story of our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book. “Mamaw didn’t make this music for vanity’s sake. When the tapes were so scratchy and grainy, the point for me was that it was sincere and so direct, straight into your heart.” richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-...

Mamaw’s Music A grandmother’s decades-old cassette recordings are the basis of a new album.

Great piece on my friends Kelly & Ethans efforts to release her grandmothers music. Thanks for the shout out guys! This beautiful LP/CD is now available through @spinstersounds.bsky.social Kelly & Ethan also produced a 2 CD set of these recordings, they might still have some copies left!