“Bones of Trees”, the new album by folk singer-songwriter Tim Grimm, is scheduled for release on 12th September 2025 on Cavalier Recordings. During his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Grimm has earned a reputation as a songwriter at the top of his form. In spring of 2024 he released the single, ‘Broken Truth’, a heartfelt ballad reflecting his anguish over current American politics. ‘Broken Truth’ finished 2024 as the no 1 most-played song on folk radio in the US.
While Grimm’s last album, “The Little In-Between” (2023) featured intensely personal, solitary songs, and production on the album was appropriately spare, for “Bones of Trees”, he switches his songwriting lens back outward, writing keen social observations in the voices of characters from his life, travels, and imagination.
“Bones of Trees” also finds Grimm surrounded by a robust new community, with harmony vocals on seven songs and rich, varied instrumentation provided by a group of his close friends and a variety of noted musicians from the US and the UK, including guitarist Sergio Webb’s electric guitar and dobro, Jono Manson’s rustic percussion, Scottish singer Beth Malcolm’s ethereal harmonies, and Dougie Pincock’s Scottish pipes.
In addition to ‘Broken Truth’ and eight other originals, “Bones of Trees” also includes two covers: Susan Werner’s ‘Barbed Wire Boys’, and John McCutcheon’s ‘Christmas in the Trenches’. These songs suit Grimm’s interpretive abilities and storytelling style; both are songs Grimm feels deeply connected to and has played live for years.
The pre-order link for “Bones Of Trees” can be found here. His website refers those interested in digital sales to their “usual sources“.
In the opening song, ‘Up in the Attic’, we meet an angel and her mysterious father. The album’s title is found here, in the lyrics; “There’s a chair and a table and a wooden box, and in the distant corner lies a broken clock. From the bones of trees in a craftsman’s hand, guitars and ships and mandolins.” You can see the video for ‘Up In The Attic’ below.
