Release Date: 21 January 2022
Label: Red House Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 033651032328
Genres: Americana Alt.Country
Release Date: 17 February 2023
Label: Red House Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 033651032816
Genres: Americana Alt.Country
Description
The Whitmore Sisters are real life sisters Eleanor Whitmore (The Mastersons, Steve Earle, Tanya Tucker) and Bonnie Whitmore (Hayes Carll, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock).
Sisters Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music's most accomplished songwriter/instrumentalist/vocalists, are releasing their first album together as The Whitmore Sisters. Titled 'Ghost Stories', it's inspired by the loss of family, friends, ex-boyfriends and - on the title track - people who died by police violence. These "ghosts" chose to appear right as Covid became entrenched - when live music evaporated and people were isolated from each other.
Bonnie, whose four solo albums are all state-of-a-real-woman's-heart jewels, decided to join sister Eleanor and her husband Chris Masterson in their Los Angeles closed circle for a break. Chris, who's recorded four albums with his wife as The Mastersons, saw the visit as an opportunity to issue a mandate: If Bonnie was coming, it was time for the sisters to make a record.
Not just an album, but "the album" - the musical inevitability that's been simmering since a 22-year-old Eleanor was protecting her curly-headed 15-year-old sister at gigs in local bars. The Whitmore Sisters' original songs, along with two covers - a song by their pal Aaron Lee Tasjan ("Big Heart Sick Mind" and "On the Wings of a Nightingale" (written by Paul McCartney for iconic siblings The Everly Brothers) - was produced by Chris Masterson and completes 'GHost Stories' , their debut album.
Description
Sisters Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music's most accomplished songwriter/instrumentalist/vocalists, released their first album together as The Whitmore Sisters in 2022.
Titled 'Ghost Stories', inspired by the loss of family, friends, ex-boyfriends and - on the title track- people who died by police violence. These ghosts chose to appear right as Covid became entrenched -when live music evaporated, and people were isolated from each other.
Bonnie, whose four solo albums are all state-of-a-real-woman's-heart jewels, decided to join sister Eleanor and her husband Chris Masterson in their Los Angeles closed circle for a break. Chris, who's recorded four albums with his wife as The Mastersons, saw the visit as an opportunity to issue a mandate: If Bonnie was coming, it was time for the sisters to make a record.
Not just an album, but "the album" - the musical inevitability that's been simmering since a 22-year-old Eleanor was protecting her curly-headed 15-year-old sister at gigs in local bars. The Whitmore Sisters' original songs, along with two covers - a song by their pal Aaron Lee Tasjan ("Big Heart Sick Mind" and "On the Wings of a Nightingale" (written by Paul McCartney for iconic siblings The Everly Brothers) - was produced by Chris Masterson and completes 'Ghost Stories'.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Eliza Gilkyson
David Bromberg
Loudon Wainwright III
The Mastersons
The Whitmore Sisters
David Bromberg
Davina And The Vagabonds
Eliza Gilkyson
