Maybe not since the heyday of MTV’s Unplugged has an artist released two albums of the same material that are so diametrically opposed as Emily Wells. Last year the singer-songwriter released Mama, a ten-track collection that fused hip-hop beats with lush string arrangements and folkie guitar all set to Wells’ unique vocal style that is part sexy croon and part Joanna Newsom-esque weird-twee. On June 11, the songstress will release Mama Acoustic Recordings
via Partisan Records, a stark bare-bones re-recording of her debut that features just Wells playing the tunes on an acoustic guitar.
Let’s check out this live in-studio performance of the album’s lead single Darlin’…
Emily Wells will kick off the U.S. leg of her month-long world tour with a gig at The Echo in Los Angeles on June 13.
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hey, thanks for keeping me informed. And this ia a nice break from the stuff I normally track and something that might well have been overlooked had i not seen it here.
thank you for the post. This is something that would not normally have been on my radar and that’s the part of hidden track that I love