This Friday William Elliott Whitmore and Esmé Patterson will release s aplit 7" covering each other's work.
Titled Play Each Other's Songs, the 2-song single features Patterson performing "Not Feeling Any Pain" and Whitmore taking on "Elysium." The single releases tomorrow, Nov. 18 on Bloodshot Records, and is limited to 1000 copies. It is also available digitally.
When William Elliott Whitmore signed to Bloodshot, I thought it was a natural fit. I like Whitmore; I like the label. Win/win. But I also wondered how an artist I think of as more on the folk/bluegrass side fit with a label I think of as Americana/alt-country. Similar, for sure, but not quite there. These are silly semantics to worry … Read more
William Elliott Whitmore’s raspy folk pulls from diverse influences that are on full display over the span of 10 covers on Kilonova that don’t really sound like covers, putting his timeless and heartfelt stamp on songs originally recorded by Bad Religion, Magnetic Fields, Johnny Cash, and more. It’s an impressive feat, considering the nature of the cover song combined with that wide … Read more
William Elliott Whitmore’s Anti debut, Animals in the Dark, was something of an outlier in his discography—the bigger label release introduced more instrumentation and a more global lyrical scope than much of his earlier work. While an excellent album, it isn’t fully indicative of Whitmore’s strengths, and with Field Songs, he returns to his son of the soil theme, built … Read more
Josh Zanger (Bloodshot Records) SPB: The covers compilation for your 20th anniversary is rather extensive. When did you start work on gathering the cooperating artists? Zanger: Everyone on staff made lists of acts that we’d love to hear cover Bloodshot artists - past and present - back in late 2013. … Read more
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