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Out now! New single from Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings: “Shenandoah,” from the forthcoming album Love Is The Only Thing out August 12 on Righteous Babe Records.

“Nobody wrote this song, and nobody has ever recorded it. It’s hardly even a song- it’s a region, an ecosystem, a frequency. It’s deeply rooted in the American soul: wild and weird, rustic and deceptively complex, and of course also it is a fever dream of the colonizer, and yet and yet and yet… it’s a sequoia, a thunderstorm… it’s the wide Missouri. We offer our humble tributary, which took our whole lives to learn.” – Mulvey

“Mulvey’s rugged yet calming vocals combine with warm acoustic guitar and the rich strings to create a mood that is intimate and reflective.” – Glide Magazine

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Out now! Righteous Babe Records presents the new double single from Zoe Boekbinder (ft. Gracie and Rachel) “I Am Yesterday” / “Cut My Heart In Two.” Boekbinder shares, “I have been writing about forgiveness and accountability and these songs are rooted in my belief that we are capable of keeping our communities whole while addressing harm… and you thought they were just broken hearted love songs.”

“awesome collaboration here between Zoe Boekbinder and Gracie and Rachel. the result is melodic and haunting. after collaborating with Zoe on the prison music project, I’m happy to continue to support their original music on righteous babe.” -Ani DiFranco

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Announcing the new single “Temporary Letdown” by Liv Slingerland OUT NOW on Righteous Babe Records!

This single, written by Liv Slingerland and Grey Goon, is about not feeling like yourself in the context of a relationship and thinking you’ve let the other person and yourself down because of that. This song also serves as a reminder that you can always find a way back to the place you want to be despite whatever chaos you might find yourself in in the moment. Forthcoming LP Hey You is out August 5th and available for pre-order.

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Righteous Babe Records presents “Old Men Drinking Seagram’s,” a new single by Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings from their forthcoming album Love is the Only Thing. Peter Mulvey exposes the bleakness of a generic American town with lyrics such as “nobody keeps a garden, they’ve got big white lawns” and “lord help the smart kid, the one who’s clearly getting gone.” An acoustic portrait of small-town America, “Old Men Drinking Seagram’s” is a song for “this summer, right here right now, for sure.” (Americana Highways).

“John Statz and I parked on the dike in the West of the Netherlands that separates the North Sea from the Zuiderzee. We sketched this portrait of a few American towns we’ve had the dubious pleasure of knowing. Some of the meanest things I’ve ever said get said in this town. Often, our daily life is a search for the optimal balance between honesty and kindness. In art, sometimes the gloves come off. All the noise in the background is Chauntee and Nathan.” – Peter Mulvey

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Announcing the new record from Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings, Love Is The Only Thing, out August 12 on Righteous Babe Records. A self-proclaimed anti-fascist record, Love Is The Only Thing keeps kindness and compassion in the foreground, with the first single “You and (Everyone Else)” out today addressing the pandemic loneliness and fear for others’ safety. This is the second record SistaStrings — cellist-vocalist Monique Ross and violinist-vocalist Chauntee Ross — and Mulvey have made together, after 2020’s Live At The Cafe Carpe (also out on Righteous Babe).
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