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...

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.

currently smoothing over a sinus headache

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

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

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

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...

“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/...

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

“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

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:

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...

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

Another lovely feature on the story of our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book. “Mamaw didn’t make this music for vanity’s sake. When the tapes were so scratchy and grainy, the point for me was that it was sincere and so direct, straight into your heart.” richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-...

Great piece on my friends Kelly & Ethans efforts to release her grandmothers music. Thanks for the shout out guys! This beautiful LP/CD is now available through @spinstersounds.bsky.social Kelly & Ethan also produced a 2 CD set of these recordings, they might still have some copies left!

Sad that I have to use a VPN[1] to open the @styleweekly.com ‬ website. Oh, well. Nice article, nonetheless. [1] or @archive.org for that matter web.archive.org/web/20250615...

Lovely write up! A great record music, artwork and all.

The latest from @spinstersounds.bsky.social is great. More in the alt text

"Ella Hanshaw's Black Book is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a dedicated mother and wife who managed to find agency, identity, and power in her singing." Thank you to Songlines Magazine for the press & praise! Just one small but crucial edit ✍️: Ella was from ^WEST (best) Virginia :)

With her granddaughter's help, singer Ella Hanshaw's "lonesome housewife country" lives on.

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book gets mentioned here :) www.npr.org/sections/all...

i love this *so much*

Beautiful, thorough, and thoughtful feature on how Ella Hanshaw's Black Book came to be in @styleweekly.com!

ELLA HANSHAW’S BLACK BOOK, the album of c. 1960s-1980s home- & church-recorded original gospel & country songs by West Virginia musician Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) is out TODAY! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Richmond folks-- join album producers Kelly Kerney & Ethan Bullard at Small Friend Records this Friday at 7pm for a party celebrating the release of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book! The album compiles archival home and church recordings by WV country and gospel songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020).

"It’s only thanks to the efforts of a devoted granddaughter and Spinster that we now have an opportunity to hear this singular outsider artist, eccentric, original and forthright in her love of the lord." dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7856163...

“While many gospel quartets favored old hymns and gospel staples, Hanshaw wrote her own songs, vivid, unflinching compositions in which Satan was real and people were fallible,” writes Jennifer Kelly. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/7856163... @spinstersounds.bsky.social

Join us TONIGHT as we spin Ella Hanshaw's Black Book in full and share stories about the wonder that was Ella (pictured here on her porch in 1978) and how our first archival release came to be. RSVP: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...

THURSDAY! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...

The 3rd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “The Devil Gets Me Down & The Lord Picks Me Up” is out today! The original gospel song by WV songwriter Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) features her on lead vocals & acoustic guitar, backed by her Hallelujah Hill Quartet ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Next Thursday 6/5, we're hosting a preview listening party of Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, the forthcoming album of church and home recordings from West Virginia gospel and country songwriter Ella Hanshaw. Learn more and RSVP here! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/merch/ella-h...

#NowPlaying Rosali - No Medium rosali.bandcamp.com/album/no-med...

Great cover artwork!

"Gathered from both home and church tape recordings by Hanshaw’s granddaughter, and released by the fine folks at SPINSTER, Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book brings together 2 distinct collections of her work." varioussmallflames.co.uk/2025/04/28/w...

I love this song so much. “I know I’m not listed in your little black book, but I’m always in your kitchen when it’s time to cook/ I’m not the one in your dreams every night, though I’m bathing your babies to kiss them goodnight" I mean...damn! ❤️‍🔥

The 2nd single off Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book, “Little Black Book,” is out today on Bandcamp & streaming. With its quiet longing, earworm melody, Cinderella imagery, and cleverly brutal lines, the song could be a broken-hearted country gal instant classic. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/track/little...

Grateful to Smithsonian Folkways for inviting me to write a tribute to my friend, penpal & an all-time favorite artist Michael Hurley, who put his 1st album out on Folkways in 1964 and from there forged a path outside the constraints of the corporate music industry folkways.si.edu/news-and-pre...

"If you are a fan of the likes of Dolly Parton or Rosalie Sorrels or even the earnest home recordings and songwriting of someone like Connie Converse or Karen Dalton, this is an album to check out." recordcratesunited.com/2025/04/18/e...

just preordered this

@spinstersounds.bsky.social is releasing the first ever compilation of home recorded gospel and secular country songs by Ella Hanshaw, one of West Virginia’s best kept secrets. Check out my post about this moving collection of homespun tunes here: recordcratesunited.com/2025/04/18/e...

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book will be out June 13 on LP, CD, and digital, and you can pre-order it and listen to the first single "One More Hill" now on our Bandcamp. ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Songlines Magazine included Ella Hanshaw's Black Book (out 6/13) on their list of most anticipated albums of 2025. "The music we've heard, whether secular or sacred, is stunning & it's a testament to SPINSTER that they're putting so much energy into getting Ella Hanshaw's music out into the world."

We're excited to announce the 6/13 release of our 1st archival album, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, a stunning document of an Appalachian woman songwriter who, through her sacred & secular songs, battled darkness by turning it into light. Pre-order: ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

I'll let you in on a little secret--it's our first archival release!

Excited to announce our next release tomorrow!

Only 3 copies left of our Measure, Pour & Mixtape: Music for Cooking, which includes, among other delights, the previously unreleased song "Clatskanie" (Cook Fish, Bake Pie) by the dear and recently departed Michael Hurley 🧡🎣🥧 spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/album/measur...

In 2014, my friend & I interviewed Michael Hurley—via letter—for Lucky Peach, about what he eats on the road, the relationship between food & music, and just what is "the pie of by and by." Tho LP is no longer, you can still read it via @waybackmachine.bsky.social web.archive.org/web/20160813...

Big Ears scene report: @spinstersounds.bsky.social hat and Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline shirt at the Magic Tubers set

Celebrating Pauline Oliveros: I’ll be talking about this great composer on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday, alongside Annea Lockwood, @irenerevell.bsky.social, Maria Chavez and Stephanie Loveless. Join us on the airwaves!