Just a short note this month, but it’s a really exciting one: today marks the release of the first single from Ocean Big & Wide, the debut album by Emily Ashberry - which will come out on Folkroom Records on October 23rd. You can pre-order your copy here today.
Folkroom doesn’t put out a lot of records, so I hope you’ll understand how passionate I am about the few that do come out on this little label. Emily is no exception - one of the first acts to really capture my heart after I moved the Folkroom operation to Nottingham, Emily’s voice - both as a singer and as a songwriter - is absolutely gorgeous.
Take the lead single from this album, which you can hear today on all good streaming services (and also Spotify). ‘The Bee Charmer’ is inspired by the 1980s novel and iconic slice of queer Americana, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Emily somehow captures everything she loves about the film’s central relationship, instilling the song with the warmth of the American South without losing her identity as a young British songwriter. It’s particularly fitting, given Ocean Big & Wide will explore the relationship between English folk and the music of Appalachia.1
I hope you’ll take a moment today to listen to ‘The Bee Charmer’ and, hopefully, pre-order Emily’s wonderful new album over on the Folkroom Records Bandcamp. If you’re based in Nottingham and want to catch Emily in person, she’ll be headlining a small gig in the Rescue Rooms bar tonight - I hope to see you there!
Explore all our upcoming gigs here
Fried Green Tomatoes is set in Alabama, and so straddles both the American South and Appalachia, before any of you geography nerds come at me.
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