SIDE A 1. Keep Me on Your Mind 2. Lover Take It Easy 3. I Know You Know 4. grinch / funeral 5. Old Dutch SIDE B 6. When I Was Younger 7. Waiting and Waiting 8. Hare and Hound 9. Rock the Cradle SIDE C 10. Singing to the Mandolin 11. The Clover 12. Into the O 13. Don’t Know Why You Move Me 14. Speak to Me Muse 15. think of the royalties, lads SIDE D 16. Tumblin Down 17. I Wanna Be Where You Are 18. Over the Pass 19. Your Arms (All the Time) 20. See You Free 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 its humanistic touchpoints, Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free was forged from a kind of unexplainable magic. SELLING POINTS Bonny Light Horseman is Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, the Shins), Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown); and Joshua Kaufman (The National, Bob Weir, Hiss Golden Messenger) Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free is the band’s third album and first with Jajaguwar. Their s/t debut was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album and Best American Root Performance for “Deep in Love” Extensive worldwide touring is planned throughout 2024 Previous press includes NPR, Paste, Pitchfork, Mojo, Uncut, Grammy.com, The Atlantic, American Songwriter, Exclaim! and many more Vinyl edition is a double-LP with gatefold, photos and lyrics; first vinyl pressing on limited-edition pink (LP1) and sky blue (LP2) vinyl.
