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Margo Cilker - "Lowland Trail" from the 2023 album Valley of Heart\'s Delight from Fluff & Gravy
\\nFor today\'s Song of the Day, Goldendale, WA-based singer/songwriter\\xa0Margo Cilker shares an early listen of her sophomore LP\\xa0Valley Of Heart\\u2019s Delight, slated for a\\xa0September 15th release via Fluff & Gravy Records. The album was produced by long-time KEXP fave\\xa0Sera Cahoone, and recorded with guest musicians from The Decemberists, Band Of Horses, and Beirut. She says of the new album:
\\nI wrote these songs surrounded by the wild landscapes of the Northwest, but I was leaning toward the place I\\u2019d come from. I felt cut off from my family and the valley that held them. I spent hours thinking about my sense of belonging. I\\u2019d traveled through many places and then, when the travel stopped, I ruminated on where I had ended up. Where were you when the music stopped? I was in Enterprise, OR. And there in Enterprise, my mind drifted back to the Valley of Heart\\u2019s Delight.
\\nI wrote about family \\u2014 about death and rebirth, and the arcs of love and art through a family line. There are songs that hint at missteps and redemption. There are songs about trees: in orchard rows, family trees, redwoods. And water: agricultural runoff, wild rivers, dammed rivers, baptismal flows. And there\\u2019s a [cover] song about a fish, cause it\\u2019s a damn good song and I wanted to record it.
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