Red River Dialect Premiere “My Friend” (Featuring Tara Jane O’Neil).
Featuring Tara Jane O’Neil (Rodan) on slide guitar, “My Friend” follows first single “Snowdon” (with Joan Shelley) and a solo performance video of album opener “Blue Sparks” that Red River Dialect‘s songwriter David Morris recorded at Gampo Abbey, the Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia where he resided after recording the new album. Abundance Welcoming Ghosts is out September 27th.
Raven Sings the Blues premiered the track with this excellent review (and apt John Martyn and Fairport Convention comparisons:
“Theres a shadow of Fairport on the new LP from Red River Dialect — knotted folk that seeps into harder forms and latches onto experimental moorings. It’s the most prominent shadow over Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, but on “My Friend” the specter of John Martyn seems to loom larger for just a moment. David Morris channels the furrowed lines and nimble grooves of the veteran UK folk icon, specifically finding his footing in the mode of Martyn’s seminal Solid Air. Like that record, the song saddles celebratory ripples with the burnt cedar smell of regret. Morris is aided in no small part by slide guitar from Tara Jane O’Neil, who is a welcome addition to the band for this track… This is Morris at his most focused, etching his tale in the rock and painting it across the walls with the pigment of earth and wood. He’s at his most pastoral, but also his most potent on this one.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6SSfWNJYw&list=PLGLGDT-9ZI4IEE4yMsT473IPZSCBB0LzG]
Morris has written some lines of verse to contextualize “My Friend,” which is now available to stream on your favorite digital platform:
When love turns heavy overcast
Holding back the winds won’t last
And when they come dispersing in
To feel the letting go begin
Is such relief, sad-joy descends
To trace again old rainbow friends
An old light passed through water bends
To whisper friendship also ends
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Recorded in rural Southwest Wales shortly before songwriter and singer David Morris moved to a remote Buddhist monastery in Nova Scotia, their fifth album captures the band finding fresh joy in their music, relaxing more deeply into a natural, playful confidence: tangling with the thickets, wading in the river, digging the peat, and disappearing into the mountains.
Photo by Jimmy Robertson. 
Photo by Alice Jackson 
Photo by Brian Robinson.
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