JOAN SHELLEY

One of the reasons I love stalking around the t'interweb is coming across new music, new artists and things I didn't know before. So you can imagine I can spend a heck of a time wandering wondering as there is such a lot to find! This wonderful singer songwriter Joan Shelley I found over at the wonderful Aquarium Drunkard blog

Joan Shelley was recorded with Jeff Tweedy at the Loft in Chicago. Shelley plays guitar, Dobro, baritone ukulele and sings, backed by her longtime guitarist Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington on piano, Dobro, and organ, Tweedy on bass and guitar, and his son, Spencer Tweedy, on drums and percussion. Together, they play sparse and deliberately. Even when things veer toward rocking — like on the Fairport Convention and Pentangle recalling “If the Storms Never Came” or the foreboding “I Got What I Wanted” — the band focuses on accentuating the richness of Shelley’s words and song-craft. They share a vocabulary of Appalachian and English folk elements, interweaving careful but engaging accompaniment into the nooks and corners of Shelley’s songs.

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