I read on one of the comments under one of her videos that "Anaïs Mitchell was an acquired taste", don't know that I believe that. If it's true then I've acquired it. But I'm willing to bet that most of you will also "acquire" it.
Anaïs Mitchell has a delightful voice, kind of makes one feel happy and warm.
Our Lady of the Undeground
Dusty Wright presents singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell at her farm in Vermont. This is another wonderful song from her album Hadestown (A Folk Opera). Dusty Wright's One-Takes are a series of songs by artists you know, should know, or will know very soon.
Your Fonder Heart
Wilderland, Young Man In America
Anaïs Mitchell performing 'Wilderland/Young Man In America' a new, at that time, unreleased song at the Pleasance Theatre Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh, UK on 29th May 2011. It is on the new album “Young Man In America” which will be released on February 21.
Ships
Another great song from the forthcoming album, personally I can't wait.
Anaïs (uh-nay-is) Mitchell (aka Anais Mitchell), is a singer-songwriter from Vermont, USA, who attended Middlebury College. Anaïs’ voice is akin to Cyndi Lauper’s & song-writing / delivery’s inspired by the confessional styling of artists such as Ani Difranco.
In 2002, she released The Song They Sang… When Rome Fell. In 2003, she was a winner of the New Folk Competition, at the Kerrville Folk Festival. In 2004, her second album, Hymns for the Exiled, was released (Waterbug Records).
On 8 Dec 2006, Anaïs’ ‘folk opera’ “Hadestown” débuted (written / produced in collaboration with composer Michael Chorney & director Ben T. Matchstick). On 13 Feb 2007, her third album, The Brightness was released (Righteous Babe).
Hadestown, a concept album based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, was released on March 9, 2010. It features contributions from Justin Vernon as Orpheus, Ani Difranco as Persephone, Greg Brown as Hades, and Ben Knox Miller as Hermes; Anais herself sings the part of Eurydice. [LastFM]
