Canadian powerhouse folk duo The Small Glories, aka Cara Luft and JD Edwards, are touring for their critically acclaimed Red House Records debut, Assiniboine* [uh-sin-uh-boin] & The Red - and they are starting off in Milton Keynes.
The album has been Top 10 on the Folk Radio Charts for months and they’ve gotten great press so far.
Featuring stirring harmonies, clawhammer banjo and songs that capture a sense of mood and place, the duo’s high-energy live shows and song craft have drawn comparisons to Shovels and Rope, the Civil Wars, Mandolin Orange and others.
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The album title refers to the two rivers that intersect in their home base of Winnipeg, Manitoba and the entire album has a sprawling feel of openness and wide-open spaces that evokes the vast Canadian Prairies.
Stand-out tracks include “Alberta” (a love song to Cara Luft’s home province), "Johnson Slide” (sung from the point of view of a person who died in the Johnson's Landing mudslide in BC, Canada) and the single, "Oh My Love,” an upbeat song that’s actually about opening your heart to someone and realizing the feeling isn’t reciprocated (a full-on heartbreaker).
The Small Glories begin their UK tour on Friday, November 29 in Stage 2.
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