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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 17h

Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
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Atrium Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen

Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen.

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Jeffrey Alexander @lidders.bsky.social · 6d

We've got another Heavy Lidders live one for ya - available today on the most excellent Eiderdown ! Limited plastic shelled magnetic tape, my preferred format ! Guest sax from Wednesday Knudsen (we are not worthy!) and while yr at it, go buy her new LP on @spinstersounds.bsky.social too ! Autumnal !

Eiderdown Records @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social · 6d

Peer thru da fog of taper action with two exquisite live tracks from Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders @lidders.bsky.social shredding at legendary Tubby's with special guest Wednesday Knudsen on saxophone! Awesome art by Aubrey Nehring too...
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Live At Tubby's, by Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders

2 track album

eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 6d

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

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 8d

"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...

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 10d

We also learned that she was a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them)!

Listen, rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 10d

We kick off Season 2 w/ the late great Karen Dalton! We chat about who and how she was “in her own time”: a sublime, confident folk musician & interpreter who made everything she played sound like a Karen Dalton song.

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S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton

Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 10d

Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 10d

"Fair Aegis" turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in Knudsen's upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains. bit.ly/3VFZgm0

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 13d

ATRIUM will be out October 24 on double LP, CD, and digitally from SPINSTER and FEEDING TUBE RECORDS. You can pre-order the record on our Bandcamp now: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Atrium, by Wednesday Knudsen

11 track album

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 13d

Today we share the video for "Fair Aegis," the 1st single off Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP, ATRIUM. Shot, produced & edited by Knudsen, the video is an homage to the leaf-light and light-ways of her home's hillside setting in NY's Taconic Mountains 🍃⛅🍂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5hc...

Wednesday Knudsen - "Fair Aegis" (Official Video)

YouTube video by SPINSTER

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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 15d

This is appalling. But if turns some more people onto Yasmin Williams's extraordinary music, it will have done some good. Go buy her albums. They are the perfect accompaniment to the arrival of autumn.

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Music is medicine! Especially Wednesday's. Feel better!

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · Sep 5

currently smoothing over a sinus headache

S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Soft Abuse @softabuse.bsky.social · Sep 5

New solo Wednesday whopper! Check it out / grab a copy for your home —

S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 11

Us too! <3

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thanks for listening! ✨

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 9

We can only imagine how tickled Ella would have been to know her songs and story were being aired across the hills and hollers of her beloved home state of West Virginia 📻🎶💚

wvpublic.org/story/arts-c...

Five Years After Her Death, W.Va. Singer-Songwriter Gets Her Due - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Ella Hanshaw was a singer and songwriter who grew up and lived in West Virginia before moving to Ohio. She passed away in 2020. The collection Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book came about in part because of H...

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Across faded tape hiss and the incidental noise of daily life, [Ella Hanshaw’s] voice remains steady and luminous honoring tradition with self-made testimony.”

www.newcommute.net/feed/2025/8/...

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book — New Commute

Black Book chronicles Maysel, West Virginia folksinger Ella Hanshaw’s musical life with an understated clarity, threading her homespun recordings together into a moving patchwork of country sorrow a...

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The Modern Folk @themodernfolk.bandcamp.com · Jul 11

Dusted writer's mid-year lists. Tons of great albums already in 2025. mine below, mine + everyone's in the article

Sadie Siskin — Sadie Siskin (Drongo Tapes)
David Ivan Neil — I Hope Yer Ok (Perpetual Doom)
Playboi Carti — I Am Music (Interscope )
John Swanke — Horizon Lines (Bud Tapes)
Aux Meadows — Draw Near (Eiderdown)
Jerry David DeCicca — Cardiac Country (Sophomore Lounge)
Free Water Shrew Ensemble — Bounty of the Floe Edge (Drongo Tapes)
Daniel Bachman — Moving Through Light (self released)
Midwestern Medicine — Ripped Headline (self released)
Austin Potter — New Romantic (Cruel Nature/Liquid Library)
Ella Hanshaw — Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book (Spinster Records)
Joseph Allred — Old Time Fantasias (Scissor Tail Records)
Ernie Francestine — Alternate Place (WarHen Records)
Bantam Draper — Inversion Therapy (Funny/Not Funny Records)
Barry Walker Unit — At The 13th Moon Gravity Well (Jean Sandwich Records)

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Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social · Jul 15

“Her sweet clear twang, in harmony with the others, hit like sunshine.”

—After discovering recordings made by her little-known gospel-singing grandmother, Ella Hanshaw, Kelly Kerney worked to preserve and share them for the very first time.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/3HFZv

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Rosy Overdrive @rosyoverdrive.com · Jun 30

New blog post! Wrote about new albums from Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw @spinstersounds.bsky.social, City Planners, and The Whimbrels @therealjimsanto.bsky.social @matthewhunter.bsky.social @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social:

Pressing Concerns: Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw, City Planners, The Whimbrels

Hey there! It may be a holiday week, but I’m planning on making it a full one nonetheless, and we’re beginning with a Pressing Concerns featuring new albums from Abe Savas, City Planner…

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, of previously unheard music by West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw, in
@oxfordamerican.bsky.social! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social · Jul 15

“Her sweet clear twang, in harmony with the others, hit like sunshine.”

—After discovering recordings made by her little-known gospel-singing grandmother, Ella Hanshaw, Kelly Kerney worked to preserve and share them for the very first time.

🔗: https://shorturl.at/3HFZv

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Jul 1

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is "a remarkable unearthing." Thanks @rosyoverdrive.com!

Rosy Overdrive @rosyoverdrive.com · Jun 30

New blog post! Wrote about new albums from Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw @spinstersounds.bsky.social, City Planners, and The Whimbrels @therealjimsanto.bsky.social @matthewhunter.bsky.social @sugarblastmusic.bsky.social:

Pressing Concerns: Abe Savas, Ella Hanshaw, City Planners, The Whimbrels

Hey there! It may be a holiday week, but I’m planning on making it a full one nonetheless, and we’re beginning with a Pressing Concerns featuring new albums from Abe Savas, City Planner…

rosyoverdrive.com

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