Keep Me on Your Mind/ See You Free

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Over the years, Bonny Light Horseman has accumulated many

miles on the collective odometer of life. The band's core trio -

Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman - has amassed an

incomparable collected resume. Mitchell is a celebrated solo artist

as well as the playwright and songwriter behind the hit Broadway

musical Hadestown, which notched eight Tony Awards and a

Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. Johnson is best known as

the mind behind beloved indie mainstays Fruit Bats, as a longtime

collaborator with The Shins, and as a film score composer. And

Kaufman is a multi-hyphenate extraordinaire: songwriter, producer,

and position player, having recorded and performed with artists

ranging from Bob Weir to The War on Drugs to Taylor Swift, Hiss

Golden Messenger and The Hold Steady. As a group, Bonny Light

Horseman's debut album received a Grammy nomination for Best

Folk Album, and the track "Deep in Love" was nominated for Best

American Roots Performance.

More important than any of this, though, they've also lived a big ol'

messy and tangled up pile of life, and all that living permeates their

music with the wisdom, humor, and depth that underlies the

accolades. Theirs is the stuff that defines folk music as a genre: love

and loss, hope and sorrow, community and family, change and time.

The Big Stuff, with the stakes sky high.

At the center of Bonny Light Horseman is, always, the singular

combination of three powerful and tender artists, artists who

expertly dodge superlatives but are quick to acknowledge that their

bond makes each one better, braver and more vulnerable than

they'd be on their own. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the

force of their voices together, which work with complete trust in

one another through the gentlest moments and the most ruthless

wails.

Bonny Light Horseman's new album, Keep Me on Your Mind/See

You Free, is an ode to the blessed mess of our humanity. Confident

and generous, it is an unvarnished offering that puts every feeling

and supposed flaw out in the open. The themes are stacked high

and staked even higher: love and loss, hope and sorrow, community

and family, change and time all permeate Bonny Light Horseman's

most vulnerable and bounteous offering to date. Yet for all of it's

humanistic touchpoints, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free was

forged from a kind of unexplainable magic.