Old Hills, Young Mountain (Kickstarter campaign)

I have never written about any kickstarter project, even though I think they are a great way to fund albums. Country & folk compilation Old Hills, Young Mountain is a good reason to start writing, because I can fully support this project. The idea is to make a one of kind compilation by bringing folk musicians from all over the states to one studio in Michigan to record live to old reel to reel equipment. Artist list contain two big heroes of mine, Hezekiah Jones and Small Houses (Jeremy Quentin from Small Houses is also a producer in this project). The rest of the artists are new to me, because of my limited knowledge to folk music. However, based on that video on the Kickstarter page, I think I’m gonna check them out even before this beautiful compilation is out and available.

Check out more information about the project on the Old Hills, Young Mountain Kickstarter page.

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Video of the Day #93: Frontier Ruckus

Another one for today. Frontier Ruckus also unveiled their new music video. Mona and Emmy is an outtake from their Way Upstate & the Crippled Summer, pt. 2 EP that came out last year. Me and Frontier Ruckus are still in the state of getting to know each other, but I think I already have a major crush. I can only hope the feeling is mutual. After falling for artists/bands like Chris Bathgate, Small Houses and Hezekiah Jones, dating Michigan-based folk group Frontier Ruckus felt like I logical next step and I bought the excellent Deadmalls & Nightfalls album couple weeks back and now it certainly looks like I might end up buying everything they’ve ever done during the next few weeks. This is Mona and Emmy.

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And here’s a beautiful older field recording from 2008. The song is Dark Autumn Hour from the Orion Songbook.

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