{"id":2446997,"date":"2019-07-31T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=865692"},"modified":"2019-07-31T09:18:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:18:20","slug":"new-folk-supergroup-bonny-light-horseman-unveil-debut-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/new-folk-supergroup-bonny-light-horseman-unveil-debut-single\/","title":{"rendered":"New Folk Supergroup Bonny Light Horseman Unveil Debut Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Bonny-Light-Horseman-1-by-D-James-Goodwin-HI-RES.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/broadway-hadestown-best-musical-tony-anais-mitchell-842447\/\">her play&nbsp;<em>Hadestown<\/em><\/a> took home the most awards at this year\u2019s Tony Awards, singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/anais-mitchell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anais-mitchell\" data-tag=\"anais-mitchell\">Anais Mitchell<\/a> has announced her latest project Bonny Light Horseman, a folk supergroup of sorts with multi-instrumentalist\/producer Josh Kaufman (The National, Hiss Golden Messenger) and Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats).<\/p>\n<p>In advance of their forthcoming debut album, the trio released their lead single, a mercurial, down-tempo rendition of \u201cBonny Light Horseman,\u201d an English-Irish broadside ballad that dates back to the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Mitchell sings lead on the song, which also features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aaron-dessner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aaron-dessner\" data-tag=\"aaron-dessner\">Aaron Dessner<\/a> on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a song about a handsome soldier who may or may not ever come home. And we named our band after [the song] not because it sounds kind of cool, but because it\u2019s somewhat emblematic of what we\u2019re trying to d here,\u201d Johnson said in a statement. \u201cSing you ancient love songs of timeless humanity and heartbreak. Songs that are gonna make you feel something no matter what century you\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, Bonny Light Horseman performed one of their first shows (\u201cour fourth or five,\u201d Johnson approximated) to a packed crowd at Newport Folk Festival. The group first formed in 2018 during a residency at Justin Vernon\u2019s Eaux Claires Festival. Bonny Light Horseman will go on the road with Mandolin Orange next month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anais-mitchell-bonny-light-horseman-865692\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after her play&nbsp;Hadestown took home the most awards at this year\u2019s Tony Awards, singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell has announced her latest project Bonny Light Horseman, a folk supergroup of sorts with multi-instrumentalist\/producer Josh Kaufman (The National, Hiss Golden Messenger) and Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats). In advance of their forthcoming debut album, the trio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 13:22:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}