Melbourne duo The Weeping Willows have a beautiful and evocative new lyric video (by Anita Lester) for their song ‘Singin’ The Blues‘, and to celebrate they’re heading out on tour (see below).

The song, taken from last year’s You Reap What You Sow album, is one of those devastating slow waltz ballads, unspooling at the world-weary tempo of a heart abandoned and left to beat alone in the wilderness.

An earthy acoustic plaint, it’s a tune reminiscent of a dustbowl ballad—or Hank Williams at his mournful, haunted best.  A study in heartache scored by squeezebox and languid dreadnought guitar, ‘Singin’ the Blues’ finds Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth harmonising as only lovers can, as the celebrated storytellers and scholars of outrageous fortune grapple with the geography, meteorology and all-pervading desolation of a great love lost to the wind.

The 3 x CMAA Golden Guitar, Australian Folk Music and Music Victoria Award Winners are playing dates in VIC, NSW and QLD through October and into early November.

TOUR DATES:
Sat 7 Oct: Lauriston Hall, Lauriston, VIC
Sun 8 Oct: Wahgunyah School Of Arts Hall, Wahgunyah, VIC*
Tue 10 Oct: Victorian Folk Music Club – Ringwood Uniting Church Hall, Ringwood, VIC†
Fri 13–Sun 15 Oct: Wingham Music Festival, Wingham, NSW
Fri 20–Sun 22 Oct: Groundwater Country Music Festival, Broadbeach, QLD
Fri 3–Sun 5 Nov: Molesworth Bluegrass & Country Music Festival, Molesworth, VIC

Tickets: http://www.theweepingwillows.com.au/gigs

Supported by Mieke Bosland / † Supported by Chris Stack