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Wednesday Knudsen’s double LP ATRIUM it out today on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube! As equally as ATRIUM is an experience of presence, it also reinforces the power of art as resistance, distilling our attention in a language WK calls “the opening of the heart.” wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Wednesday Knudsen’s double LP ATRIUM it out today on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube! As equally as ATRIUM is an experience of presence, it also reinforces the power of art as resistance, distilling our attention in a language WK calls “the opening of the heart.” wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM...
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
A chance to listen to Wednesday Knudsen's masterful new double LP ATRIUM a couple weeks before it's officially released. RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A chance to listen to Wednesday Knudsen's masterful new double LP ATRIUM a couple weeks before it's officially released. RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...
Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
October 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24
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October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24
www.ravensingstheblues.com/wednesday-kn...
www.ravensingstheblues.com/wednesday-kn...
Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
September 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2
If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
If you know the songs of @lou-turner.bsky.social, you know she's a poet's songwriter. But she's also a songwriter's poet, a truth on beautiful display in her connective & inventive book of country music poems, Twin Lead Lines, coming in Sept. & up for pre-order now via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
"Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a dedicated mother and wife who managed to find agency, identity, and power in her singing."
Thank you to Songlines Magazine for the press & praise! Just one small but crucial edit ✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia :)
Thank you to Songlines Magazine for the press & praise! Just one small but crucial edit ✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia :)
June 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a dedicated mother and wife who managed to find agency, identity, and power in her singing."
Thank you to Songlines Magazine for the press & praise! Just one small but crucial edit ✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia :)
Thank you to Songlines Magazine for the press & praise! Just one small but crucial edit ✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia :)
Over seven years in the making, the archival record documents the previously private creative work of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred and secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. ✨🙏💔
June 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Over seven years in the making, the archival record documents the previously private creative work of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred and secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. ✨🙏💔
ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK, the album of c. 1960s-1980s home- & church-recorded original gospel & country songs by West Virginia musician Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) is out TODAY! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK, the album of c. 1960s-1980s home- & church-recorded original gospel & country songs by West Virginia musician Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) is out TODAY! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
Richmond folks-- join album producers Kelly Kerney & Ethan Bullard at Small Friend Records this Friday at 7pm for a party celebrating the release of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book! The album compiles archival home and church recordings by WV country and gospel songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020).
June 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Richmond folks-- join album producers Kelly Kerney & Ethan Bullard at Small Friend Records this Friday at 7pm for a party celebrating the release of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book! The album compiles archival home and church recordings by WV country and gospel songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020).
"It’s only thanks to the efforts of a devoted granddaughter and Spinster that we now have an opportunity to hear this singular outsider artist, eccentric, original and forthright in her love of the lord."
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June 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"It’s only thanks to the efforts of a devoted granddaughter and Spinster that we now have an opportunity to hear this singular outsider artist, eccentric, original and forthright in her love of the lord."
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Join us TONIGHT as we spin Ella Hanshaw's Black Book in full and share stories about the wonder that was Ella (pictured here on her porch in 1978) and how our first archival release came to be. RSVP: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...
June 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Join us TONIGHT as we spin Ella Hanshaw's Black Book in full and share stories about the wonder that was Ella (pictured here on her porch in 1978) and how our first archival release came to be. RSVP: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...
The 3rd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “The Devil Gets Me Down & The Lord Picks Me Up” is out today! The original gospel song by WV songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) features her on lead vocals & acoustic guitar, backed by her Hallelujah Hill Quartet ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
May 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The 3rd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “The Devil Gets Me Down & The Lord Picks Me Up” is out today! The original gospel song by WV songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) features her on lead vocals & acoustic guitar, backed by her Hallelujah Hill Quartet ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
Next Thursday 6/5, we're hosting a preview listening party of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, the forthcoming album of church and home recordings from West Virginia gospel and country songwriter Ella Hanshaw. Learn more and RSVP here! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...
May 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Next Thursday 6/5, we're hosting a preview listening party of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, the forthcoming album of church and home recordings from West Virginia gospel and country songwriter Ella Hanshaw. Learn more and RSVP here! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...
The 2nd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “Little Black Book,” is out today on Bandcamp & streaming. With its quiet longing, earworm melody, Cinderella imagery, and cleverly brutal lines, the song could be a broken-hearted country gal instant classic. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/track/little...
May 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The 2nd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “Little Black Book,” is out today on Bandcamp & streaming. With its quiet longing, earworm melody, Cinderella imagery, and cleverly brutal lines, the song could be a broken-hearted country gal instant classic. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/track/little...
Songlines Magazine included Ella Hanshaw's Black Book (out 6/13) on their list of most anticipated albums of 2025. "The music we've heard, whether secular or sacred, is stunning & it's a testament to SPINSTER that they're putting so much energy into getting Ella Hanshaw's music out into the world."
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Songlines Magazine included Ella Hanshaw's Black Book (out 6/13) on their list of most anticipated albums of 2025. "The music we've heard, whether secular or sacred, is stunning & it's a testament to SPINSTER that they're putting so much energy into getting Ella Hanshaw's music out into the world."
With original album art by Zoe van Buren and design by Sarah Bachman, the LP version features liner note essays by Ella's granddaughter Kelly Kerney, and folklorist & label co-owner @emhilly.bsky.social. Pre-order a CD, LP, or digital copy: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
April 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
With original album art by Zoe van Buren and design by Sarah Bachman, the LP version features liner note essays by Ella's granddaughter Kelly Kerney, and folklorist & label co-owner @emhilly.bsky.social. Pre-order a CD, LP, or digital copy: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
Named one of 2025's most anticipated releases by Songlines Magazine, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is a must have for fans of Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Lena Hughes, and country, gospel, and old-time private pressings.
April 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Named one of 2025's most anticipated releases by Songlines Magazine, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is a must have for fans of Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Lena Hughes, and country, gospel, and old-time private pressings.
When Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) first picked up the guitar as a 12-year-old girl in Procious, West Virginia, she dreamed of being a country star. But over the next 74 years, as she wrote hundreds of songs, her artistic goals slowly ascended to a higher realm. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
April 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) first picked up the guitar as a 12-year-old girl in Procious, West Virginia, she dreamed of being a country star. But over the next 74 years, as she wrote hundreds of songs, her artistic goals slowly ascended to a higher realm. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
We're excited to announce the 6/13 release of our 1st archival album, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, a stunning document of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred & secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. Pre-order: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
April 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We're excited to announce the 6/13 release of our 1st archival album, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, a stunning document of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred & secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. Pre-order: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...
Excited to announce our next release tomorrow!
April 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excited to announce our next release tomorrow!
Only 3 copies left of our Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking, which includes, among other delights, the previously unreleased song "Clatskanie" (Cook Fish, Bake Pie) by the dear and recently departed Michael Hurley 🧡🎣🥧 spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/album/measur...
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Only 3 copies left of our Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking, which includes, among other delights, the previously unreleased song "Clatskanie" (Cook Fish, Bake Pie) by the dear and recently departed Michael Hurley 🧡🎣🥧 spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/album/measur...
No new music today, but we'll be announcing our exciting 2025 releases soon. In the meantime, take a 20% discount off anything in our store—new embroidered hats, vinyl, cassettes, stickers, digital downloads, etc.—TODAY ONLY with the code happymarch20 Thx for yr support! spinstersounds.bandcamp.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
No new music today, but we'll be announcing our exciting 2025 releases soon. In the meantime, take a 20% discount off anything in our store—new embroidered hats, vinyl, cassettes, stickers, digital downloads, etc.—TODAY ONLY with the code happymarch20 Thx for yr support! spinstersounds.bandcamp.com
Happy 4th birthday to Yasmin Williams' Urban Driftwood ✨💙 It was a joy to usher this stunning record into the world, and watch Yasmin's career take off! We'll have the 6th LP pressing and more CDs available in the next few weeks. yasminwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/urban-...
January 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy 4th birthday to Yasmin Williams' Urban Driftwood ✨💙 It was a joy to usher this stunning record into the world, and watch Yasmin's career take off! We'll have the 6th LP pressing and more CDs available in the next few weeks. yasminwilliams.bandcamp.com/album/urban-...