Among The Oak & Ash, started when two singer-songwriters - Josh Joplin and Garrison Starr - were looking to take a breath from their solo careers. The result is a startlingly beautiful collection of Appalachian murder ballads, with songs of death and hope, murder and love, lechery and splendor. Perhaps it is a result of living in a modern world that makes these songs instantly comforting and strikingly beautiful, because the melodies are simple and the themes timeless.
For Garrison, a modern-thinking sassy Southerner, she had her “I get it!”...
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