"Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help." - Mahalia Jackson
04 September 2009
SMOKE FAiRiES
Smoke Fairies aka Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire, are a progressive/retrospective UK mashup of classic english folk and deep american blues streams with breaths of high lonesome country musics. Formed as girlhood friends and realized while living in New Orleans and sponging the blues vibe found via creeping backwoods roadtrips and Hwy day drives, Smoke Fairies cross-breed lilting, eerie, and gorgeous dark english harmonies with textures of atmospheric fiddle, sinister slide and strummed acoustic guitar, banjo, and the occasional minimalist drums to form a sound wholly new, ancient, moody, beguiling, fresh and utterly haunting.
Smoke Fairies new Frozen Heart ep is available at Amazon and iTUNES
Sorry friends- Smoke Fairies manager has requested I take these tracks down even tho I advised them that i'd be posting 3 tracks when I requested a copy of the ep. Best of luck to them anyway. Please give them your money via tunes or Amazon. You'll be glad you did.Cheers y'all.
Smoke Fairies- Living With Ghosts
Smoke Fairies- Fences
Smoke Fairies- Frozen Heart
"...and what makes it so good is that everybody is original, everybody has their own taste of the blues. Their own feeling of the blues. Their own form of the blues. Told in that way, that's what makes it historical - it will never die."
We're actually up to about 1200 friends on FB, which is really cool. Thx y'all!
Watch This Space!
The Cure for The Purist.
WATCH iT!
Bad Luck & Trouble as Travelogue Webcast! W/ yr hosts Jeff Konkel & Roger Stolle, and an array of Who's Who in hard blues!
Truth.
"...authenticity without evolution isn't authenticity, but mimicry. And not terribly authentic or interesting at all." -Ted Drozdowski
Via Folio Weekly Magazine
My 15 Minutes..14...13...
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
"My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song." -Junior Kimbrough
Got this yet? You need two.
Broke & Hungry Records 5 year Retrospective! Must Own.
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