Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Ink of the Rosy Morning: A Sampling of Folk Songs from Britain and North America (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:11 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Country
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What an exquisite album! Beautiful voices that harmonise to perfection, superlative instrumental work, and songs both new and old yet all somehow familiar and timeless. Ink of the Rosy Morning: A Sampling of Folk Songs from Britain and North America is a lockdown album that captures the spontaneity that few of us felt during that dark time.
Emerging in 2016 with Before the Sun, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage – self-described “children of the folk clubs” – met in a Cambridge folk club doing floor spots, she having returned from America, he from a tour with The Willows. The chance encounter marked the beginning of a journey which drew from their shared well of folk music. Their third album was mixed and ready to go when the world stopped turning, so they decided to seize the moment and retreat to an old Hastings schoolhouse where they lit a fire, opened a bottle or two, and set about recording whatever they fancied. No going “hard down the rabbit hole”, but rather doing what came naturally: “We’ve known a lot of these songs for a very long time and when you’ve known songs for that long, you don’t think about it, you just play them.”
Tracklist:
01. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – A Winter’s Night (03:26)
02. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Polly O Polly (02:55)
03. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – When First I Came to Caledonia (04:09)
04. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Lovely Joan (04:18)
05. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – False True Love (03:39)
06. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – A-Life A-Lie (04:00)
07. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Sweet Nightingale (04:11)
08. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Earl Richard (04:11)
09. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – Lark in the Morning (02:26)
10. Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – River Don’t Run (04:52)
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