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The Weather Station & Jennifer Castle: Collaboration Session #3 (PoB-052)

Two of the greatest working songwriters and poetic voices in Canada have recorded a miraculous, magical pair of songs together. The Weather Station’s “I Tried to Wear the World (feat. Jennifer Castle)” and Jennifer Castle’s “Midas Touch (feat. The Weather Station),” two sides of the same tarnished gold coin of sorrowfully sweet sentiments, represent their first-ever studio collaboration and the third edition of the Polaris Collaboration Sessions.

Jennifer Castle Tours the EU.

This fall Jennifer Castle will be playing a string of solo dates across the EU and in the UK, including shows with Eleanor Friedberger, Andy Shauf, and Hater. This is her first tour overseas since the release of Angels of Death—don’t miss it. 

Hear the Nathan Bowles Trio Get “Fresh & Fairly So.”

Nathan Bowles has shared another track from his heady forthcoming album Plainly Mistaken (Out Oct. 5). The indelibly careening melody of “Fresh & Fairly So”—a staple of recent live sets—could be an old-time standard of the type Bowles might explore with the Black Twig Pickers, but here it’s given the kinetic trio treatment. Join the trio at their release show at Nightlight in Chapel Hill, NC on Sept. 29.

Nathan Bowles Shares “Now If You Remember” via Stereogum.

After announcing his album Plainly Mistaken and premiering “The Road Reversed” through NPR Music, Nathan is now sharing his cover of the Julie Tippetts song “Now If You Remember” via Stereogum. Bowles’s ethereal rendering represents a departure from his previous recordings; his placidly plaintive singing has been stripped of its otherwise genial, ursine gruffness, and the brief song floats by on the sedative ebb tide of banjo and pianos.

Nathan Bowles Announces Plainly Mistaken via NPR Music.

On his playfully subversive fourth solo album, Nathan Bowles extends his acclaimed banjo and percussion practice into the full-band realm for the first time, showcasing both delicate solo meditations and smoldering, swinging ensemble explorations. Hear “The Road Reversed” via NPR Music and read Bill Callahan’s thoughts on dolphins. “Like Coltrane, Bowles tears open a tiny piece of fabric in the folk music continuum to let in the cosmic debris.” – NPR