Hold My Hand

It's a long way down to the bottom of the river.

And it's also been a long little while since I have posted on here. However, SURPRISE!! New year's resolution: 1 post a week!! So good thing I'm procrastinating and waiting until the 7th day of the new year to make my first post :)

Anyway, I discovered this band through a friend early this past December and I feel like you need to know about them:

This little sextet is known as Delta Rae. They started out as 3 siblings from North Carolina and added a childhood friend and then two others later on. They are an American folk rock band that encompasses so much soul and sound - touching on bluegrass, gospel, blues, pop, Southern melodies, west coast harmonies - that just tell such stories of passion. Delta Rae's influences include James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, and Paul Simon. They sound so beautiful together and you can just about feel what they feel in their songs by the inflection in their voices (if you don't already identify with their music; which if you don't, then you're probably not anywhere being an adult). If you want their full biography you can check it out here.

Now for the music! The first song I heard from these cats was a song that uses chains as an instrument. And daggumit if it ain't catchy!

Then the next song I heard was "Dance in the Graveyards":

And this is rather uplifting despite the seemingly morbid title. It's kinda like Delta Rae's version of YOLO or "We Are Young."

Other songs to note are: "Surrounded," "Hey, Hey, Hey," "Morning Comes," and "Holding On to Good."

You will fall in love with their voices and harmonies in 2.8 seconds. So please, if you haven't already listened, please do your ears a favor and get to list'nin'!!


All of these songs can be found on their debut album, Carry the Fire, which is out now and you can get it from iTunes here.

Happy 2013! Get ready for some great new music this year! Stay tuned ;)

"We only get so long on the earth, so all we can do is carry the fire."