The Dark Was Aglow, by Maggie Carson

The Dark Was Aglow

by Maggie Carson

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	1.	Your Ghost 03:07
	2.	From Here To Anywhere 02:37
	3.	In Time 03:51
	4.	What You Want 02:31
	5.	Here Among Us 02:41
	6.	This Time I Know 02:45
	7.	Tune Found You 02:55
	8.	A Step Asway 02:32
	9.	Waiting 03:19
	10.	Who Put A Name To All This 03:54

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After spending a decade on the road with Americana band Spirit Family Reunion, Maggie Carson debuts her first solo record, The Dark Was Aglow.

The Dark Was Aglow was recorded with Carson’s live band in Rockaway Beach before the pandemic reached NYC. Now, it finally sees the light of day. Carson retains the raw, vulnerable core of Appalachian music that makes singers like Ola Belle Reed so compelling. At the same time, this album represents a departure from Carson’s long tenure in traditional American music. The familiar sound of the banjo is transformed with sparse shimmering resonances, creating a new interpretation of the old-time instrument. The result is an expansive roots and rock n’ roll record, played in a surf-folk canyon.

Carson sings of the intricately entanglement of the past in the present. The forest that would become New York City, the fractured mind of a one hundred years old matriarch, the people who built the structures that shape our lives, the infinitesimal odds of existence.

Singer, songwriter and banjo player Maggie Carson was born and raised in New York City. Carson toured for a decade with her band, Spirit Family Reunion, and shared stages with Pete Seeger, Levon Helm, Sharon Jones, toured with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dr. Dog, The Felice Brothers, Alabama Shakes, The Deslondes, and Trampled By Turtles. Spirit Family Reunion has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, Central Park SummerStage, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Austin City Limits, Celebrate Brooklyn!, Tønder Festival, and Winnipeg Folk Festival, and was featured on Tiny Desk, and NPR Weekend Edition. While on tour, Carson began to develop her solo voice: throaty, unadorned, and more rock-n-roll. Combined with unorthodox banjo playing, her own blend of clawhammer and fingerpicking, her musical persona evolved into what one reviewer referred to as “its own center of gravity.” As a solo artist, Carson has shared stages with Nana Grizol and Wild Yaks. The Dark Was Aglow, her first solo album, is produced by Matt Walsh (The Forms) and drops on Open Ocean in June 2022.

The Dark Was Aglow is issued on vinyl and digital formats by Open Ocean, with jackets hand screen printed in Rockaway Beach, NYC.

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released June 24, 2022

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Singer, songwriter and banjo player Maggie Carson was born and raised in New York City. Carson toured for a decade with her band, Spirit Family Reunion. While on tour, Carson began to develop her solo voice: throaty, unadorned, and more rock-n-roll. Combined with unorthodox banjo playing; her own blend of clawhammer and fingerpicking. ... more

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