House and Land / Across the Field
Album: Across the Field   Collection:General
Artist:House and Land   Added:Feb 2020
Label:!K7  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2022-02-26 Pull Date: 2022-04-30
Week Ending: Apr 17 Apr 10 Mar 20 Mar 13
Airplays: 1 2 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Apr 22, 2023: Music Casserole
Carolina Lady
4. Apr 08, 2022: Virtually Happy (rebroadcast from Mar 8, 2022)
Precious Jewels
2. May 14, 2022: Music Casserole
Rainbow 'mid Life's Willows
5. Apr 08, 2022: Traditions
Cursed Soldier
3. Apr 16, 2022: Music Casserole
Carolina Lady
6. Mar 19, 2022: Music Casserole
Two Sisters, Carolina Lady

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2020-02-23
CONTEMPORARY FOLK

This second album from House and Land, a duo from Asheville, NC, offers an intriguing update of traditional folksongs and Appalachian old-time music with revised (more ‘woke’ acceptable) lyrics and mixed acoustic & electric instruments. You could call it experimental old time. Both Sarah Louise Henson and Sally Anne Morgan are multi-instrumentalists and vocalists. You’ll hear banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitars, & more… and excellent singing.

No FCC issues

1 * Mid-tempo. An old murder ballad, ‘Twa Sisters,’ with banjo & elec guitar. (5:07)
2 ** Slow. Celtic-style singing & lovely accompaniment. Goosebumps gorgeous. (5:33)
3 * Mid-tempo. Traditional doomed-soldier ballad with strong banjo playing. (3:13)
4 Very slow. Tragically somber with droning strings (cello?) and pipes. Tough going. (4:56)
5 *** Slow instrumental. Distorted elec guitar and fiddle. Really extraordinary. (7:46)
6 * Mid-fast. Bluegrass(-ish) style with banjo, fiddle, and that high lonesome sound. (2:45)
7 Slow. 18C Scottish folksong. Banjo, fiddle, pipes, contrapuntal singing. (5:13)

Track Listing
1. Two Sisters   4. Blacksmith
2. Rainbow 'mid Life's Willows   5. Carolina Lady
3. Cursed Soldier   6. Precious Jewels
  7. Ca the Yowes