Folk Alley Sessions at Studio 9: Taylor Ashton, "Pretenders"

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Folk Alley Sessions: Taylor Ashton performs "Pretenders" from his album, 'The Romantic.' With Kat McLevey - Bass and Steven Foster - Drums Captured live at S...

"'Pretenders" was one of the first songs I wrote for 'The Romantic', and it's a love song, maybe with a sort of modern twist of honesty. Melodically, it's influenced by "crooked" traditional old-time tunes - I'm so inspired by the way some of those old songs and fiddle tunes have secretly squirrelly musical sections -- there will be an extra beat here, or an "out" note there, but it's not there to stick out or sound weird, it's just there because that's how it goes. Traditional folk music has a way of covertly being more complex than it sounds, and I tried to emulate some of that in what's essentially a pop love song." - Taylor Ashton

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Dinty Child's Debut Solo Album 'Lucky Ones' Out Now!

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A HUGE congratulations to Dinty Child on the release of his first solo record, Lucky Ones, today! If you're unfamiliar with the name, I can promise you know his music.

Dinty is a Boston area roots/folk legend — a band member with Laurie Sargent, Asa Brebner, Dennis Brennan, and Jenifer Jackson since the '80s; a forty-year frontman for the twenty-piece SE Mass party/mayhem band The Funky White Honkies; a multi-instrumental sideman to many folkies (Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Rose Cousins, Ana Egge, Anais Mitchell…to name just a few); a twenty-year player with Chandler Travis Philharmonic; and has about forty shows opening for George Carlin under his belt. He's a founding member of Session Americana, and a co-founder of Miles of Music Camp, an international influence for the folk world.

Dinty has influenced every part of the folk music world in one way or another, and it's his time to shine. Congratulations, Dinty!

Make sure to listen where you stream and send Dinty so much love today!

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Taylor Ashton Releases Single "Nicole" off debut solo album out Feb 28th

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On January 14th, 2020, the second single from Taylor Ashton's solo debut, The Romantic will be released. "Nicole", Ashton says, "is a song about fantasizing that you can rewind time." The song starts with a slow, almost sultry groove before reaching a catchy pop chorus that stealthily sneaks up on you. Ashton continues, "I have vivid memories of a time when the internet only seemed like a good thing and a benefit to our lives, and it just feels too big to try to put it back into its old box, when it didn’t seem like such a source of distraction, lies, and division. The seal is broken, but we can only try to evolve forward. The same thing can happen in relationships - something breaks and you can’t go back to the same innocent place you were at before."

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Dinty Child Releases Third Single "I Made A Mistake" off debut solo album out Jan 17th

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Dinty Child just released his third and final single off his upcoming album, Lucky Ones, out Jan 17th — “I Made A Mistake".”

Read below to learn what Dinty has to say about the track, and click the buttons below to hear the song for yourself! Don’t forget — Lucky Ones is out Jan 17th!

“Laura Cortese and I sat down to write together and I had the title phrase in my notebook. We talked for a bit and at some point, she started telling me a story about a mutual friend of ours and a time they were both at a party in Edinburgh, Scotland. Our friend was having a breakup conversation with his girlfriend in the States and had gone outside. He was gone so long, the hosts thought he had left along with everyone else, so they locked the doors and turned out the lights. Unfortunately, he had left his shoes inside and had to walk across the city as the sky started brightening to get home. This isn’t the first, or last, time a situation like this had happened to our friend, so we were imagining what was going through his (and her) head.” — Dinty Child

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Support Dinty Child's debut solo album via Kickstarter!

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Dinty Child announces Kickstarter campaign to help fund debut solo album

Dinty Child just announced a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $9,000 to help fund the finishing touches of his debut solo album — including an all-star tour.

Where are most of the funds allocated? Bringing in the band who recorded on the album — dozens of musical friends from Rose Cousins, Isa Burke (of Lula Wiles), to singer/songwriter Josh Ritter and all of Dinty’s bandmates from Session Americana.

Dinty says, “Rose will be flying in from Nova Scotia, Isa from Toronto, and Lauren [Balthrop] from Nashville, and since its unlikely I’ll ever get this lineup together again, I’m hoping to do a video shoot of the Oberon show for posterity. Those plane tickets, musician’s pay, plus feeding and watering will cost a lot of money...far more than I can expect to take in at the door. That’s where you come in.”

To donate, click the button below. Good luck, Dinty!

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Dinty Child Releases Single "The Morning" off debut solo album out Jan 17th

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The amazingly incredible Dinty Child has released a second single off his upcoming album! Read below to learn what Dinty has to say about the track, and then head to this link: lnkfi.re/themorning to hear the song for yourself! "Lucky Ones' is out Jan 17th!

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Sometimes, life, love, and politics can seem overwhelming, but this rocker I wrote with Mark Erelli tells us that the world keeps turning, the sun keeps rising, and we will always get a chance to start over. It’s the lead-off track from my upcoming album ‘Lucky Ones’, can’t wait for you to hear it.

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