Way Out I'll Wander

Hannah Read's Way Out I’ll Wander was produced in New Hampshire and upstate New York by Charlie Van Kirk. It features a cast of musicians including Jefferson Hamer (Anais Mitchell), Jeff Picker, and Sarah Jarosz.

The recordings capture Read’s formidable songwriting in intimate arrangements that reflect her background in traditional Scottish and English folk. They also call to mind the ice-cool delivery of Mary Lorson or Nina Nastasia.

The songs in the album set characters in a finely-drawn geography of wooded slopes and crisp, clean air. They depict city lights flickering on the horizon while exploring time and place from Hannah’s migrant perspective.

Hannah spent her youth playing fiddle and singing in the rich traditional music scenes of Edinburgh and on the Isle of Eigg, a remote Island off the west coast of Scotland. She received musical training at The City of Edinburgh Music School, The American School of Modern Music in Paris, and the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. This diverse background equipped her with the tools, vocabulary, and experience that propelled her into the thriving Brooklyn music scene.

For fans of Songs of Separation, Nadia Reid, Julie Fowlis, Mary Lorson, and Nina Nastasia.