What a song we have to start the week – Margo Cilker’s new album ‘Valley Of Heart’s Delight,’ (15th September) just gives and gives with songs drip-fed as singles that are so perfect in every way. And the latest, ‘With the Middle‘ is no exception – the playing is just spot on and the lyrics are a perfect storm of heartbreak. From the waking up and making coffee – and leaving half, just in case – to the end of the day wine to let oblivion finally come there’s a palpable absence. And between that kick-start and the wind down there are hours and hours and hours to fill – and with what?
'Valley Of Heart's Delight' is the new album from which the single 'Lowland Trail' is taken. It's a richly warm and fundamentally optimistic folk song which uses a cattle drive as a metaphor for finding a positive route to an easier future: "cattle pushing high up the canyon side /…
Margo Cilker is set to return with her highly anticipated sophomore LP 'Valley Of Heart’s Delight' on September 15th via Fluff & Gravy Records or our dear friends at Loose here in the UK, and she's now released into the wilds the album’s second single 'Keep It On A Burner'…
A second wonderful instalment of Southern country storytelling from an emerging star. ‘Valley Of Heart’s Delight’ is the follow up to Margo Cilker’s 2021 debut record, the barely pronounceable ‘Pohorylle’. The debut was a massive critical success and this second release sees Cilker double down on the sound that created…
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
