The Wildwoods - Dear Meadowlark (2025)
BAND/ARTIST: The Wildwoods
- Title: Dear Meadowlark
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: The Wildwoods
- Genre: Folk, Pop, Americana
- Quality: mp3 320 kbps / flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:37:41
- Total Size: 87 / 226 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Meadowlark
02. Sweet Niobrara
03. Poster Child
04. Hideaway
05. I Will Follow You to Willow
06. Dear Stranger
07. Under the Rug
08. I'm in Sandusky
09. Footprints on the Floor
10. Rabbit Hill
11. Postcards from Somewhere (Bonus)
This is a bit left of centre for me; but I’m really glad that I’ve persevered over the last few weeks.
When the download first arrived I skimmed through as I was logging it onto the RMHQ system, and while the harmonies were stupendously fabulous, my brain automatically filed it under ‘Trad Folk’ … which it sort of is and sort of isn’t!
The Wildwoods proudly come from Nebraska and still live there, yet still manage to tour constantly in support of their three previous full-length efforts Sweet Nostalgia (2017), Across a Midwest Sky (2019), and Foxfield Saint John (2023).
The stunning a ‘Capella Meadowlark not just opens the album but introduces us to the three part harmonies that are the mainstay of the songs that follow.
Next up is Sweet Niobara, an ode to the village in Knox County, Nebraska which is more of a ‘band/trio’ effort and features Chloe Gose on lead vocals while her husband Noah Gose adding harmonies and acoustic as longtime friend Andrew Vaggalis supplies vocals and upright bass.
What’s drawn me back to this album is undoubtedly Chloe Gose’s voice which is really quite remarkable, with hints of Laurel Canyon and Sandy Dennyish sensibility to it; while the Wildwoods themselves manage to sound like a Modern English Folk ensemble and a contemporary Bluegrass/Hill Country trio with added Canadian gracefulness all at once; without any overly obvious influences, all at the same time.
Every song here is written by Noah Gose and it’s fair to say that he has a rare talent that deserves a much wider international audience; with the intensely hooky Dear Stranger and Hideaway; ‘about the need to find our inner retreat after we have performed on life’s stage’ holding the listener’s attention from start to finish.
Even after playing the album and reading the accompanying notes; several songs still haven’t quite unravelled for me yet; but that hasn’t stopped me thoroughly enjoying Under The Rug, with its delicious harmonies and occasional fiddle flourishes from Chloe and the haunting Poster Child too.
There’s another love song to a Nebraskan town too; I Will Follow You To Willow which made me unconsciously smile as Chloe unfurls a love song that is charm personified, and heartbreaking at the same time.
Even Mrs Magpie has been known to tap her feet to these songs; so The Wildwoods must be doing something right; which brings me to my choice of Favourite song … which is a toss of a coin between the majestic Footprints on the floor where the roles are reversed with Noah taking the lead and Chloe providing honeyed harmonies on sensitively fragile song that needs your complete concentration; and the other being the ‘Bonus Track’ and one time standalone Single; Postcards From Somewhere which somehow gently squeezes your heartstrings until you can’t breathe until the last notes filter into the ether.
Mrs Magpie, unprompted has selected the eerie Rabbit Hill as her own Favourite; and coincidentally these three songs happen to be the last three on the album … ‘keeping the best for last’? You decide.
Albums like this from The Wildwoods are the reason that I started The Rocking Magpie all those years ago. Perhaps they have a huge war chest for advertising across mainstream media to promote their music; but I somehow doubt it; so it’s left to minions like us to ‘fly the flag’ for defiantly Indie acts that you’d probably never hear of without us’ and that would be a huge shame.
01. Meadowlark
02. Sweet Niobrara
03. Poster Child
04. Hideaway
05. I Will Follow You to Willow
06. Dear Stranger
07. Under the Rug
08. I'm in Sandusky
09. Footprints on the Floor
10. Rabbit Hill
11. Postcards from Somewhere (Bonus)
This is a bit left of centre for me; but I’m really glad that I’ve persevered over the last few weeks.
When the download first arrived I skimmed through as I was logging it onto the RMHQ system, and while the harmonies were stupendously fabulous, my brain automatically filed it under ‘Trad Folk’ … which it sort of is and sort of isn’t!
The Wildwoods proudly come from Nebraska and still live there, yet still manage to tour constantly in support of their three previous full-length efforts Sweet Nostalgia (2017), Across a Midwest Sky (2019), and Foxfield Saint John (2023).
The stunning a ‘Capella Meadowlark not just opens the album but introduces us to the three part harmonies that are the mainstay of the songs that follow.
Next up is Sweet Niobara, an ode to the village in Knox County, Nebraska which is more of a ‘band/trio’ effort and features Chloe Gose on lead vocals while her husband Noah Gose adding harmonies and acoustic as longtime friend Andrew Vaggalis supplies vocals and upright bass.
What’s drawn me back to this album is undoubtedly Chloe Gose’s voice which is really quite remarkable, with hints of Laurel Canyon and Sandy Dennyish sensibility to it; while the Wildwoods themselves manage to sound like a Modern English Folk ensemble and a contemporary Bluegrass/Hill Country trio with added Canadian gracefulness all at once; without any overly obvious influences, all at the same time.
Every song here is written by Noah Gose and it’s fair to say that he has a rare talent that deserves a much wider international audience; with the intensely hooky Dear Stranger and Hideaway; ‘about the need to find our inner retreat after we have performed on life’s stage’ holding the listener’s attention from start to finish.
Even after playing the album and reading the accompanying notes; several songs still haven’t quite unravelled for me yet; but that hasn’t stopped me thoroughly enjoying Under The Rug, with its delicious harmonies and occasional fiddle flourishes from Chloe and the haunting Poster Child too.
There’s another love song to a Nebraskan town too; I Will Follow You To Willow which made me unconsciously smile as Chloe unfurls a love song that is charm personified, and heartbreaking at the same time.
Even Mrs Magpie has been known to tap her feet to these songs; so The Wildwoods must be doing something right; which brings me to my choice of Favourite song … which is a toss of a coin between the majestic Footprints on the floor where the roles are reversed with Noah taking the lead and Chloe providing honeyed harmonies on sensitively fragile song that needs your complete concentration; and the other being the ‘Bonus Track’ and one time standalone Single; Postcards From Somewhere which somehow gently squeezes your heartstrings until you can’t breathe until the last notes filter into the ether.
Mrs Magpie, unprompted has selected the eerie Rabbit Hill as her own Favourite; and coincidentally these three songs happen to be the last three on the album … ‘keeping the best for last’? You decide.
Albums like this from The Wildwoods are the reason that I started The Rocking Magpie all those years ago. Perhaps they have a huge war chest for advertising across mainstream media to promote their music; but I somehow doubt it; so it’s left to minions like us to ‘fly the flag’ for defiantly Indie acts that you’d probably never hear of without us’ and that would be a huge shame.
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