Worried Songs Presents:
Sally Anne Morgan (full band)
Josh Kimbrough
Cameron Knowler
Adeline Hotel
Worried Songs is a record label based in New Brighton, UK focusing on the American underground. Their catalog includes releases from: Edsel Axle, Ralph White, Josh Kimbrough, Cameron Knowler, and Joseph Allred. On the occasion of Cameron Knowler’s ‘CMK’ release, Worried Songs has hopped the pond and jumped in the car with Cameron to tour the east coast. Carrboro, North Carolina is their final celebratory stop.
Sally Anne Morgan plays haunting psychedelic Appalachian folk drone that invokes the rhododendron thickets, creeks and mountains of her local landscape in Western North Carolina. Sally plays with the Black Twig Pickers and House and Land, dedicated practitioners of traditional music re-cast by appreciation of modern improvisation, minimalism, microtonality and drone from across the globe. Her latest ‘Second Circle the Horizon’ is set to be released June 20th on Thrill Jockey.
Josh Kimbrough is a fingerstyle guitarist from Chapel Hill. Patient melodic phrasing and precise-but-pliable grooves are trademarks of Kimbrough’s compositions. His debut album ‘Slither, Soar & Disappear’ brings to mind a host of artists from Jansch, Drake, and Fahey, to the Penguin Café Orchestra and Mike Hurley.
Cameron Knowler brandishes a post-modern perspective on American traditional music. Folk Radio UK describes his compositions as “Western sound-painting.” His new instrumental album ‘CMK’ (with guests: Dylan Day, Jordan Tice, and Rayna Gellert) features delightful and adventurous flat picking forays as well as tranquil and introspective fingerstyle moments.
Adeline Hotel is the musical outlet of multi-instrumentalist Dan Knishkowy, the co-founder of Ruination Records. Knishkowy’s story-rich songs, serene fingerpicking, and hushed vocals all beckon you to lean in for a closer listen. And when you do, you enter into a gripping and gorgeous sonic universe. Pitchfork’s Sam Sodomsky describes Knishkowy’s music as “the aural equivalent of tracing your fingers through cool sand at sunrise”.
