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03 Folded Map is a folk song with a duration of 3 minutes and 11 seconds.
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Release Date: March 11
Contact: bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com
Label: Kingswood Records
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After being named a 2012 Bostonian of the Year and releasing her debut album Where the Artists Go, Massachusetts’ own teen sensation Hayley Reardon returns in 2014 with her new EP Wayfindings.
In a time when adolescents with dreams of record deals and fame dancing inside their maturing heads are encouraged to wait in long lines for days in a cattle call for the likes of The Voice and American Idol, Reardon’s journey began as organically as the local New England music scene wherein she finds her inspiration and creative home.
“I live in a suburb 20 miles out of Boston,” the 17-year-old explains. “In terms of finding the music community I now call home, we couldn’t have been in more fertile ground. I remember when I first started writing songs, my parents weren’t really sure what to do with me, but thought ‘Hey maybe we should take her to see someone who does this for real.’ They brought me in to see a show at Club Passim in Cambridge (the successor to Club 47) and that was my introduction to the New England folk, singer/songwriter scene.”
What’s more, the award winning documentary on the fabled club, For the Love of the Music: the Club 47 Folk Revival, (set for release on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 1, 2014) places her as the current “one to watch” in a rich continuum of women in folk starting with Joan Baez to Tracy Chapman on through to such modern greats as Beth Orton, Josephine Foster and fellow New Englander Erin McKeown.
Wayfindings, which comes out March 11, 2014, is remarkable in its mature approach coming from an artist barely old enough to drive herself to gigs. An emotional and creative leap forward from her 2012 debut Where The Artists Go, such highlights as “Numb and Blue”, a wryly sincere kiss-off to an ex with lines like “It’s the way you drive and all the Bob Dylan you pretend to like” and an excellent cover of the Henry Thomas folk standard “Fishin’ Blues” have far more in common with Patty Griffin or Lucinda Williams than many of today’s young pop singer/songwriters, boasting a lyrical and melodic weight far beyond Reardon’s years.
“When I made Artists, I was fifteen and my goal was to record my ‘debut’ album. We sought out Lorne Entress to produce it and together we created something that I still feel perfectly marked who I was at that time. With Wayfindings though, there wasn’t as much planning. We really just set out to get down some newer songs and mark this explorative place between where I was with Artists and where ever it is I’m going next. I’d call the songs on Wayfindings quirkier, more personal, and a bit braver than the rest. I think the more that I grow and evolve, the more my songs do too. And I’ve definitely grown a lot since Where the Artists Go. Musically, this new project isn’t completely “stripped down” but it is more acoustic and I would say more intimate than anything else I’ve made.”
This new EP also showcases an edgier sense of adventurousness in where Reardon allows the music to take her songs. Bolstered by the time she spent at Folk Alliance International 2013 in Toronto, Canada, the songwriter sought out new means of sonic accompaniment.
“I left Folk Alliance last year with a plan to explore a trio sound of myself, percussion and cello,” she states in regards to the array of new instrumentation integrated into these seven new songs, which also include Moog, National slide guitar, dobro and transistor organs. “That percussion morphed into tabla, which I fell in love with. So the cello/tabla/acoustic guitar sound is pretty prominent on the EP.”
Clearly this is a girl with no desire to have her rising star compartmentalized or boxed into a sellable commodity for the likes of Simon Cowell. There is no street cred in that, really, especially in the circles of alt-country and modern folk where Hayley’s music fits most comfortably. Yet as the key target market of such promotional transgressions, Reardon was indeed enamored by such hit-making divas.
“I started writing songs when I was eleven…and when I say writing I mean writing two to three songs per day, and throughout those first few years, that Taylor Swift-type image was what attracted me. I knew that I loved songwriting, but it’s a little hard to be twelve and feel like you have anything important to say. So I wrote about what I thought songs were supposed to be about. Especially songs by young, long haired girls with acoustic guitars.”
Beyond music, Hayley continues to work as a peer spokesperson for PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center. For the past four years, she has traveled to schools across the country performing a program she created in middle school, entitled “Find Your Voice.” Focused around empowerment and identity, this collection of songs, stories, and songwriting workshops is designed to help others seek the courage to become active creative members of their own communities. And while she does not want the topic of anti-bullying to define who she is as an artist, Reardon has utilized the impact she’s experienced as an agent of change to reflect upon the gravity of her burgeoning role in the public eye.
“One of the parts of folk music that I am most influenced and inspired by is the idea of using music for social change,” she believes. “I am young, and am so grateful to have figured out early that the best way for me to connect with people and do work that I can be proud of is to not be afraid to write about what I know, and not be afraid to write and speak out about what it feels like to be a young person, because I am one and there is so much to be said about that. Bullying is an issue that belongs to young people, so it makes sense that it worked its way into my life and my music (through an experience a friend went through my 7th grade year). Bullying, however, will not be my issue forever, and I think my generation will end up with some even greater issues on its hands in the future. I know that I want to be an artist who is involved and using my music to promote change and positivity. And, for now, empowerment is the message I am most passionate about spreading.” -Ron Hart
